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Analysis of employment data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics by CompTIA found that employer job postings for tech roles reached “a record high” in May, led by new hiring in IT services and software development. Across all markets, job postings for tech positions totalled 623,627 in May and nearly 2.2 million year-to-date. This represents a 52% increase versus the same period of the previous year. Tech sector companies added 22,800 new workers last month, while the total number of job advertisements for software developers and engineers hit 204,084....

When the pandemic originally hit, many people scrambled to set up whatever ad-hoc work-from-home environment they could to get the job done. But as weeks have become months, and months have become years, some folks have decided to stay working at home, some businesses have become more virtual than in-person, and society’s style of working has become more individual and custom than it’s been since we were a mostly agrarian society....

Demand for DevOps skills seems to have skyrocketed over the past five years. Consultancy Bain & Company in September reported DevOps job postings grew 443% between 2015 and 2019, which is comparable to postings for machine learning, but way faster than postings for data science (167%) and software engineering (69%). DevOps has been popularized over the past decade around the idea that software development can be fast, deliver business results and produce stable IT operations....

From March 2018 to April 2019, the Vocus-owned telcos claimed to provide certain internet download speeds on their respective websites despite not having reasonable grounds to make those representations. The misleading speeds listed on the websites were for the “busy evening period”, from 7pm to 11pm, with Dodo promising 11 Mbps for 12/1Mbps NBN plan, 24 Mbps for 25/5Mbps plan, and at one point 47 Mbps for its 50/20Mbps plan....

EducationSuperHighway was originally focused on closing the connectivity gap in K-12 classrooms across the country. The group was able to solve the issue and planned to sunset the organization in August 2020, CEO Evan Marwell told ZDNet. In 2012, just 10% of the students in America had broadband that was good enough that they could use technology in their classroom, and seven years later, the number was at 99.6%. But then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and thousands of school districts, governors and federal lawmakers came to them looking for help with getting millions of families connected to the internet so that 50 million children could continue to attend school....

To begin rolling out as a new consumer payment option before Christmas, eQR has been described by Eftpos CEO Stephen Benton as a system that will become the “QR equivalent” of the company’s tap and pay feature on its debit cards. “The eQR platform aims to provide better experiences for consumers and merchants through added security, loyalty, offers and digital receipts, no matter where they choose to shop – online, on their mobile or at the checkout,” he said....

“We need Starship to work and to fly frequently, or Starlink 2.0 will be stuck on the ground,” the tech billionaire told YouTube show Everyday Astronaut. He explained that sending Starlink 2.0 into orbit with the company’s Falcon 9 rockets, which were used to send the first generation of Starlink satellites into space, is not plausible. “Falcon has neither the volume nor the mass to orbit capability required for Starlink 2....

“Twitter usage is at an all-time high lol,” Musk wrote, adding that, “I just hope the servers don’t melt!” Musk also tweeted out a chart showing Twitter’s monetisable daily active users (mDAU) has been growing rapidly – up from 240 to 255 million since July, while US mDAU is up by three million. The Financial Times on Monday reported Twitter had sent an email to advertisers with the claim that Twitter user growth is “accelerating” and had hit “all-time highs” during Musk’s first week as captain....

The 5G and Edge Technology Development Center effectively serves as a production-ready interconnection “sandbox” environment from the radio network to the cloud. It includes a fully-operational non-standalone 5G network from Nokia. The center should help service providers and network operators assess the infrastructure needed to build 5G and edge applications. “As companies develop new 5G technologies and services, they need a real-world environment to test and bring their concepts to life,” Equinix CTO Justin Dustzadeh said in a statement....

CryoBoost is the name of ESR’s design that is optimized to reduce the heat produced by wireless charging. The products are designed to provide ample airflow through the product and onto your device through an internal fan system. Also: The 8 best iPhone models: Which is right for you? ESR HaloLock Wireless Car Charger with CryoBoost While I don’t spend much time in a car while at home, when I travel for work I spend many hours in rental cars traveling between job sites....

If you’re in the active, tech-savvy community known as makers, you know that the future has been here for some time. Thanks to 3D printers, artists and techies alike can create models on the screen and turn them into real objects with the press of a button. They’re the ultimate creative tool, and the price has been the only thing keeping them out of the hands of curious kids – until now....

“We’re now at the point where we’re standardizing all of our workloads on PyTorch,” said the AI team’s CTO, Mike Schroepfer, in a press conference. In a kind of battle of the researchers versus devs, the decision happened only after Schroepfer and team came around to the thinking of Facebook AI’s head of research, Yann LeCun, according to Schroepfer. “I had this knock-out, drag-out debate with Yann LeCun for a long time,” explained Schroepfer....

One thing that has always bugged me about some browsers is how extensions are accessed and displayed on the toolbar. Pin too many extensions to the interface and it can get very cluttered. Pin too few extensions to the toolbar and you might find them a challenge to access. I’ve experienced both situations and neither is ideal for an efficient workflow or a clean interface. So, when Mozilla announced the Unified Extensions button for Firefox 109, I was, sight unseen, all in....

If you installed and used third-party apps on your Fitbit Sense, don’t look for them in the Sense 2. The Sense 2 is basically a watch version of other Fitbit devices like the Inspire 3 with added health and wellness features like the EDA scan (electrodermal activity) and integrated GPS. Google Assistant was available on the Sense after an update, but the Sense 2 launched without it. It may never arrive on the Sense 2, but there is advertised support for Google Wallet and Google Maps....

Stoke Talent is an all-in-one solution that provides companies with a platform to onboard and pay freelancers while also tracking budgets for projects and more. Fiverr said it was making the acquisition because it wanted to provide more tools to larger businesses. Also: Upwork vs. Fiverr: Which freelance job site is best? Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman said the move “supports Fiverr’s move upmarket” and would allow the company to engage with a new set of customers....

When people download the file and open it, a malicious winlogin.exe is dropped and executed. “The purpose of the malware is simple. If the victim tries to add money to their anon-bitcoin wallet by copying and pasting the wallet address, the malware overwrites the victim’s wallet address on the clipboard with its own, resulting in the money potentially going to the attacker,” the researchers explained. According to FortiGuard Labs, the malware watches a user’s clipboard to search for text that is 54 characters long – the length of a cryptocurrency wallet address – and other criteria that indicate the text is related to cryptocurrency....

The digital world has its conveniences: apps, 4K entertainment, high-quality cameras that fit in our pockets, and the like. However, one of the most frustrating things that come with them is the space they consume on our hard drives. Deleting files to make space for more can feel like a chore, especially if they were pictures, videos, or notes with sentimental value. Fortunately, cloud storage providers like Koofr help solve that, and they’re offering 1TB lifetime plans for a limited time....

Complete novices can start with “Linux for Beginners,” which covers the OS’s basic operations and graphical user interface. Then “Linux Command Line” teaches you how to accomplish a broader range of tasks, and you’ll learn even more of the powerful functions behind the graphical UI in “Becoming a Linux Power User.” Then make life easier by learning how to automate tasks with “Linux Shell Scripting: Basics” and “Linux Shell Scripting: Advanced....

CVE-2017-11882 is the holder of the dubious honour, and it is due to a stack buffer overflow in the equation editor of Microsoft Office, which can lead to remote code execution (RCE). It is an exploit that vendors have been banging on about for years already. The quartet of agencies said on Wednesday that the easiest way to fix this hole, and the 29 others listed, would be to patch systems....

When it comes to processing power and storage, nothing fits the bill like a desktop. Unfortunately, the chip shortage has led to higher prices on new PC parts, and the increased demand certainly doesn’t help. The prices are starting to fall, but if you simply need an affordable machine that’ll get the job done, you might want to consider a refurbished model. Case in point: This like-new Dell OptiPlex 7020 is on sale for $259....