The culprit, based in Sydney, conspired with another individual from the US to steal the log-ins and passwords of streaming service customers and then sold them online at a cheaper rate. The AFP began investigating the matter in May 2018, after it was tipped by the FBI about a now-defunct account generator website called WickedGen.com. WickedGen was a website that sold stolen account details for online subscription services, including Netflix, Spotify, and Hulu....

For a couple of generations of scientists contemplating AI, the question of whether “true” or “human” intelligence could be achieved was always an important part of the work. AI may now be at a turning point where such questions matter less and less to most people. The emergence of something called industrial AI in recent years may signal an end to such lofty preoccupations. AI has more capability today than at any time in the 66 years since the term AI was first coined by computer scientist John McCarthy....

G square and Vetamer Capital Management also joined the round, alongside existing investors 1835i Ventures (formerly ANZi), DST Global, Salesforce Ventures, and Sequoia Capital China. In a statement, Airwallex said it plans to use the additional funds to further its global expansion plans, which entail scaling up its presence globally and growing its sales and commercial teams, and developing new products and services. “From the start, our vision has been to build a global financial operating system that will allow modern businesses to operate without borders,” co-founder and CEO Jack Zhang said....

The move makes sense given the competition from other smart home players. Samsung leverages its devices, TVs and appliances to create a smart home technology stack. Apple has HomeKit and devices to connect. Google has its own connective smart home tissue. Simply put, the Fire TV lineup is about ecosystem as much as entertainment.

Global fintech investments dropped from $111.2 billion in the second half of last year, with 2,980 deals inked in the first half of 2022, according to KPMG’s latest Pulse of Fintech report. The figures comprised venture capital, private equity, and merger and acquisition (M&A) deals. The Americas drew in $39.4 billion of overall investments, down from $59.7 billion in the second half of last year, while EMEA raked in $26....

The Bill is currently awaiting to be signed by South Korean President Moon Jae-In before it goes into effect. The new law is an amendment to South Korea’s Telecommunications Business Act, and will ban app store marketplaces from unreasonably delaying the approval of apps or deleting them from the marketplace. The Bill will also ban app marketplaces from forcing developers to use their in-app purchase systems, with developers in South Korea now able to choose alternatives or create their own marketplaces while still being allowed to operate in existing app stores....

More specifically, that number that you can see if you head over to Settings > Battery > Battery Health. If your iPhone is new, then you expect this figure to be at 100%. And you probably expect this number to tick down as your iPhone – and the battery it contains – gets older. But what if I told you that number was meaningless? What if I went further and said that there’s nothing that you can do to keep your battery at 100% ?...

The bug comes down to the MacOS Big Sur installer not checking if the Mac has the required free space available to carry out an upgrade. The upgrade runs into problems, and if that isn’t bad enough, if the user’s Mac was encrypted using FileVault, then the user is locked out of their data. Pretty scary stuff. Check this out: Apple: Please stop this nonsense The bug has been explored extensively by Mr....

We know that an iPhone 14 and an Apple Watch Series 8 are pretty much guaranteed to land this fall, but we’re also expecting to see an updated iPad Pro and iPad Air, as well as a whole batch of Macs. And if you bought a new Mac in the past couple of years, even one powered by Apple Silicon, then get ready for it to start to feel old as Apple pushes out new chips....

While this article is pitting Apple’s latest with Garmin’s best GPS sports watch, the Enduro 2, I’ve reviewed enough of Garmin’s less expensive but very capable watches to recommend them for your consideration, too. For now, and from specs and features alone, here are the clear and distinct reasons to purchase one wearable over the other. More: Apple Watch Ultra: Everything you need to know about Apple’s rugged watch...

Orion separated from the SLS upper stage a few hours after liftoff and commenced an 18-minute trans-lunar injection burn that propelled it to the Moon. Once separated, it began flying with the European Space Agency’s (ESA) service module. At 9:32am on Wednesday, November 16, flight controllers in the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston conducted the first outbound trajectory correction burn using ESA’s service module. “The burn tested Orion’s main engine for the first time and adjusted the spacecraft’s course toward the Moon,” NASA notes in a blogpost....

This laptop is available with AMD and Intel processors, and I was sent a review unit with a top-end AMD Ryzen R9-5900HX processor, discrete Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 graphics, 32GB of RAM and 2TB of SSD storage. This configuration costs £2,499 (inc. VAT; £2,082.50 ex. VAT). In the US, the ProArt Studiobook 16 OLED (H5600, AMD Ryzen 5000 series) starts at $1,999.99 for a model with a Ryzen R9-5900HX CPU, GeForce RTX 3060 GPU, 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD....

AT&T and IBM launched the collaboration in late 2020 and have since opened up co-innovation sites at two other locations. IBM Yorktown, the headquarters for IBM Research, is now enabled with AT&T 5G, enabling customers to work with researchers, designers and consultants from both companies. AT&T and IBM are also co-innovating at the AT&T 5G Innovation Studio in Plano, Texas to apply AI and machine learning for network insights. “One of the challenges that enterprises have to face when you think about 5G, cloud and edge computing is that it’s accelerating pretty fast,” William Stovall, AT&T’s VP of mobility & IoT, said to ZDNet....

The end result is the telco reporting revenue up 84% to AU$350 million, and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) prior to AU$1.5 million in IPO expenses growing five-fold to AU$19 million. In the fourth quarter alone, the company reported revenue of AU$100 million. All up, Aussie Broadband ended the year by closing last year’s AU$12.3 million loss into a AU$4.2 million loss. By segment, residential was responsible for AU$305 million in revenue, up 84%, and EBITDA jumping from basically flat to AU$12....

These factors were lack of skilled persons within the business, unsuitable internet speed, insufficient knowledge of IT, and uncertainty around the cost of IT and its benefits. It was the first time the annual survey questioned Australian businesses about this. Another first-time question that was introduced to the survey looked at what type of IT businesses used during the financial year. According to the survey, cloud technology was the most popular type of IT technology, which was used by 57% of all businesses, followed by cybersecurity software with 26%....

“Machine learning has a proof of concept to production gap,” explained Andrew Ng, founder of DeepLearning.AI and a top instructor on Coursera. The specialization is designed to help developers take a model from a prototype on a laptop to the cloud. “There’s just so much stuff to be done when going from 10 users to 1 million,” added Ng. Bratin Saha, vice president and general manager of machine learning services at AWS, said customers have gone from deploying a handful of models to millions in just a few years....

Touting the agreement as the “first of its kind” for AWS in Asia, the US cloud vendor said in a post Wednesday the partnership would support Singapore’s efforts to explore the potential of space as a new industry for economic growth and technology development. Set up in 2013, OSTIn is responsible for the development of space technologies to support national goals and build a regulatory environment for Singapore’s space activities....

C6a instances feature always-on memory encryption with AMD Transparent Single Key Memory Encryption (TSME) and support new AVX2 instructions for accelerating encryption and decryption algorithms. Just last month, AWS released Hpc6a instances, featuring AMD Milan chips, for HPC workloads. Back in November, the company announced the GA of Milan-powered M6a instances for general-purpose workloads. The widespread adoption of AMD’s EPYC processor contributed to AMD’s strong 2021 results. The company reported earlier this month that it had record annual revenue and profitability in 2021, thanks in part to data center revenues doubling....

While cybersecurity companies often err on the side of caution when it comes to the attribution of threat groups, Mandiant says that it has “high confidence” that Ghostwriter, also linked to UNC115 activities, is a cybercriminal outfit potentially working on behalf of the country’s government. Sanctions were placed on Belarus earlier this year after the forced diversion of a commercial plane into Belarus airspace to arrest a passenger, a dissident journalist called Roman Protasevich....

Smartphones and wireless cellular services are now essential for businesses to compete in today’s market and broad coverage is an expectation. After T-Mobile’s recent acquisition of Sprint, the US market is dominated by Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T. Each of these carriers offers various plan options for businesses of all sizes. 5G continues to roll out across the US, but reliable LTE service is still essential to getting work done. The pricing for business service is competitive, and as someone who has been in the industry for decades, it is amazing to see the reasonable pricing for such fast service that reaches across the nation....