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Parliamentary Service’s new TechnologyOne SaaS system went live in early February and comes off the back of the procurement framework arrangement, announced in April 2021, between TechnologyOne and the New Zealand Minister of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE). According to the agency’s chief financial officer Jade Goddard, the “ability to work anywhere, anytime, and from any device was a major selling feature”. “We were using an ad-hoc collection of applications that didn’t talk to each other....

Review: I put the Apple Watch Ultra through a Tough Mudder Apple offers silicone bands, fabric bands, leather, and stainless steel options. The sport bands are $49, leather bands run from $99 to $539, and the stainless steel link bracelet is priced at $349. Apple’s bands are high quality products, but there are more affordable options available from third parties. Nomad offers a range of band options with FKM fluoroelastomer rubber, Horween leather, and titanium materials....

On Friday, British newspaper The Telegraph reported that the company had been facing two days of outages related to email systems and tools used by developers. “We are investigating an incident. Our business and commercial activities continue uninterrupted. We are still working to evaluate the nature and scope of the event and don’t have any additional information to share at this time,” an NVIDIA spokesperson said on Friday. The spokesperson did not respond to follow up questions about the scope of the attack and whether it was a ransomware incident....

It makes sense. The newspaper has long been known for its iconic crossword puzzles and already maintains a stable of mostly word-based games. The surprising and meteoric rise of a new game right in its wheelhouse was likely too much to resist. Wordle was created by Brooklyn software engineer Josh Wardle and released to the public in October 2021. It provides users with six daily tries to guess a five-letter word....

The deal will cover 2,312 towers and rooftop sites, with Optus signing a long-term lease with ATN as well as being the anchor tenant for 565 sites to be built over the next three years as part of the telco’s 5G rollout. The initial lease term is 20 years with options thereafter. “The sale of these assets positions Optus well for the future as it provides capital to support core business growth while importantly allowing us to maintain the competitive advantage of our network’s active elements which continue to top independent reports on speed and quality of our network,” Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin said....

More than half of all respondents have held anti-phishing training among employees, and 49% had perimeter defenses in place when they were attacked. Nearly 25% of all survey respondents said their ransomware attacks started through phishing, and of those victims, 65% had conducted anti-phishing training sessions. For enterprises with fewer than 500 employees, 41% said their attacks started with phishing. About one-third of all victims said their public cloud was the entry point ransomware groups used to attack them....

With most companies landing somewhere in the field of hybrid work, that means some people will be doing meetings the old way in a meeting room, but they will likely have to include those clients or coworkers who are not in the same place. Whether its Zoom, Teams, Webex, whatever Google’s option is called this month, or the next hyped solution, the video conference as a normal part of work life will remain....

The report sent Pinterest shares soaring by 25% in late trading. CEO and co-founder Ben Silbermann remarked that the company “took important steps in 2021 with the launch of our foundational technology to deliver a video-first publishing platform.” Added Silbermann, “I’m proud to say that for the first time, we surpassed $2 billion in revenue for the year — growing 52% over the previous year — and reached our first full year of GAAP profitability....

That’s one option that will be available to major brands – including Circle K, General Mills, and Johnson & Johnson – in a series of new partnerships with Pensa Systems, which is developing autonomous technologies, including drones, that use computer vision and artificial intelligence for retail in-store data and analytics. Pensa is also celebrating an $11 million in Series A, bringing total funding to $28 million. “We are thrilled to see increased uptake of our approach to detecting stockouts and optimizing the store shelf in the new omnichannel world, and we are excited to leverage our latest funding round to scale our go-to-market efforts to meet rising global demand,” says Pensa president and CEO Richard Schwartz....

PlayStation Plus doesn’t just give you access to online gameplay, though that’s one of its coolest features. You also get two free games every month. These are games like Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning and Knockout City. The titles you might have bought anyway can be added straight to your game library. And that library will expand every single month, so you’ll always have something new to play. Games you may have already been thinking of buying can suddenly be yours for free....

CVE-2021-38305 allows attackers to bypass existing protections and run arbitrary Python code by manipulating the schema file provided as input to Yamale, according to the JFrog security research team. A 23andMe spokesperson told ZDNet that 23andMe Security was notified of a workaround to a patch made to Yamale, the open-source library created by the company to verify that YAML files are in the right format and have all the correct fields....

Also: Need cutting blades for your workshop? Forget metal and go ceramic The three chemicals I’ll discuss below have numerous uses, from cleaning circuit boards, wiping the print bed of your 3D printer, and removing sticky labels. Safety first Before I introduce the chemicals, here are a few safety precautions I strongly recommend you follow: Keep away from naked flamesWear protective glovesAvoid spills (and mop up any spillages promptly)Work in a well-ventilated areaKeep chemicals away from children...

The additive manufacturing business has been busy selling off non-core assets to focus on these two markets and reported positive operating cash flow in Q2 of $13.5 million to support ongoing strategic investments. The company’s Q2 non-GAAP earnings per share came to 12 cents on revenue $162.6 million, an increase of 44.1 percent compared to the same period last year. Revenue increased 59.3 percent when excluding businesses divested in 2020 and 2021....

Also: ChatGPT lies about scientific results, needs open-source alternatives, say researchers It seems like ChatGPT can do anything. But it can’t. In this article, we’ll explore the many things ChatGPT won’t or can’t do. Stay tuned to the end, because we’ll look at some of the implications and what these limits mean for future growth in generative AI. As I’ve done in my other ChatGPT articles, my writing is in plain and bold text, while any ChatGPT answers will be displayed in italic text....

Out of the almost 2,600 victims listed on ransomware data leak sites, 740 of them were named in Q2 2021, representing a 47% increase compared to Q1. The report chronicles the quarter’s major events, which included the DarkSide attack on Colonial Pipeline, the attack on global meat processor JBS, and increased law enforcement action from US and European agencies. But Digital Shadows’ Photon Research Team found that under the surface, other ransomware trends were emerging....

Executive background Wu came to FTX from Lightspeed, a major investor in FTX, where she served as a partner and the company’s top VC focused on gaming. She described herself during our talk as a lifelong gamer, and someone that continues to be passionate about gaming. While her personal passion for the media category certainly played an important part in Lightspeed’s, and subsequently FTX’s, respective initiatives, she and FTX’s senior leadership agreed that gaming was simply too big and too attractive of a venue for FTX’s technologies to be ignored, even if there were certain risks involved....

It’s a fascinating drama, tracing the development of moonbases, space stations, nuclear space craft, and now in the third season, competing missions to Mars as commercial space travel adds itself to the rivalry between the USA and Russia. It’s an interesting premise, looking at a history where the continuing space race meant the Cold War continued into the 90s, and where cheap energy from the moon has restructured the global economy....

A few weeks ago, the US finally loosened travel restrictions on those overseas and vaccinated. United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby claims he can foresee normality blooming by January of next year. So business travel might truly begin in earnest? The expens(iv)e lunch will make its return? Perhaps. But it’s wise to be prepared for a few kinks and hiccups along the way. It’s wise, too, to wonder what hotels are putting on their websites these days....

They insert them whenever they leave a building, or even before. They don’t want to be on a street and actually hear what’s going on. Why, 17% of people claim they keep them on while they’re having sex. Since their launch, there have also been several tales of how people fell asleep with them in and discovered they’ve accidentally swallowed one. One can be forgiven for such mishaps, of course....

“At the moment, we’re actually going through an internal review of how we can be more aggressive in cyber, and it may mean a mini restructure internally for us to really have what we would call a cyber offensive operation of the AFP, which would actually conduct disruption operations on these individuals,” he said Kershaw said this process has included talking with the Five Eyes alliance about the growth of cyberthreats....