Sheikh Mohammed and Princess Haya are locked in a custody battle over their two children and the ruler ordered agents from the UAE to hack into his ex-wife’s devices using Pegasus, the NSO Group’s widely-criticized spyware. The ruler even ordered her British lawyers’ phones hacked as well, drawing outrage from UK court officials who called the hacks “serial breaches of domestic criminal law,” “in violation of fundamental common law and ECHR rights,” and an “abuse of power” by a head of state....

The increases were driven by MacTel’s cloud services and government segment, which saw revenue increase 21% to AU$131.5 million and EBITDA jump 25% to AU$36 million. Data centres contributed AU$39 million in revenue, up 10%, and had a 12% increase in EBITDA to AU$19 million. MacTel’s traditional telecom sector experienced drops in sales and profitability, with revenue down 3% to AU$135 million and EBITDA down by the same percentage to AU$18....

Among these notable changes are the fact that Comcast once again detected the downstream traffic on its networks is increasing at a faster rate than upstream traffic, with an 11% rise in downstream occurring during 2021, compared to only a 5% increase in upstream traffic. This could point at fewer students and employees working from home, using upstream-heavy apps like video chat solutions and making fewer cloud storage uploads. In a similar vein, Comcast also recorded peak usage times once again shifting towards the evening for home users....

Also: Live blog: The best early Cyber Monday deals 2022 in real time Wi-Fi mesh networking fixes that problem. By placing a number of Wi-Fi mesh routers and repeaters throughout your space, you can create a mesh of overlapping networking goodness that provides coverage where previously there was merely frustration. Google has sold Wi-Fi mesh routers for a number of years now, with the version we’re spotlighting here being the second generation....

A global study of 1,100 cybersecurity professionals by Mimecast found that one-third are considering leaving their role in the next two years due to stress and burnout. The report found that rising rates of cybercrime and mounting media attention around cyberattacks are placing intense pressure on cybersecurity teams, with many fearing their will lose their jobs as a result of a cyberattack and others struggling to cope with the growing strain....

Included with the offer are all the standard Surfshark perks, like app support on iOS and Android, access to over 3,200 servers in 65+ countries, and a feature that sets the service apart from the rest: Unlimited device support. That means with one account, you can take advantage of the VPN service through multiple devices (phone, laptop, tablet, etc.) at once. To learn more about Surfshark and how the service works, check out ZDNet’s David Gewirtz guide here....

Gato, as DeepMind’s program is called, was unveiled this week as a so-called multimodal program, one that can play video games, chat, write compositions, caption pictures, and control a robotic arm stacking blocks. It is one neural network that can work with multiple kinds of data to perform multiple kinds of tasks. “With a single set of weights, Gato can engage in dialogue, caption images, stack blocks with a real robot arm, outperform humans at playing Atari games, navigate in simulated 3D environments, follow instructions, and more,” write lead author Scott Reed and colleagues in their paper, “A Generalist Agent,” posted on the Arxiv preprint server....

One answer to the problem is good documentation, providing developers with regularly updated information, delivering that as part of the build process for a library or for an API. If documentation isn’t ready, then a build must fail; code should never be released without documentation. SEE: How to build a successful developer career (free PDF) Another is delivering self-paced training, embedding coding tools and test suites into training programs. That’s the approach taken by services like Microsoft Learn, using its documentation as a source of training but offering in-line code scratchpads where you can try out what you’ve just learnt....

1. Digital fluency First and foremost, workers need to possess a basic level of digital fluency in order to successfully implement digital transformation. Depending on the industry, digital fluency can range from a basic knowledge of Microsoft Suite to an understanding of cloud computing. This necessity of this skill is company-wide; Harvard Business School Professor Tsedel Neeley points out that digital fluency adheres to a basic tenet of linguistics. “I often reference the 30% rule; borrowed from the study of languages, when applied to digital fluency, it dictates that the entire company needs to be, at least, at a 30% fluency baseline in order to move in a new digital direction effectively....

The controversial crease has been a point of concern for foldable shoppers, particularly with Samsung’s Z Fold and Z Flip lines, whose hinges create a tight enough bend at the center to present a visual and textural interference. Hold either Galaxy foldable at an angle and you’ll immediately notice a stream of shadow and light refracting from the centerline of the devices. For some, this aspect of the design can be shrugged off....

That’s what Luis Sevilla, Dygma CEO and a former eSports coach of the two-time LEC champions Fnatic, set out to resolve when he turned his career-inspired passion project into an ergonomic solution for the masses in 2017. Over the past two weeks, I had the opportunity to test out Sevilla’s latest keyboard – the Dygma Raise – which was designed to relieve common pain points such as carpal tunnel, ulnar deviation, and extension....

Today Edge Impulse is announcing $34 million in Series B funding led by Coatue, tripling its 2022 market valuation and growth forecast. Coatue joins existing investors, Canaan Partners, Acrew Capital, Fika Ventures, Momenta Ventures, and Knollwood Investment Advisory to cap off what the team dubs “an incredible year”. Since its launch in 2019, nearly 30,000 developers from thousands of enterprises have created nearly 55,000 custom machine learning projects using Edge Impulse, building smarter industrial, logistics, consumer and health solutions with customers including Oura, Polycom, Advantech and NASA....

Three-year-old Optimyze, whose official listing in databases such as FactSet lists it as being based in Zürich, Switzerland, although the company tells ZDNet that it is “not based anywere” but is “legally incorporated in Delaware,” makes a tool called Prodfiler that is meant to tell IT how efficient fleets of machines are in terms of CPU usage. “Optimyze’s software allows unprecedented visibility into ‘which line of code is consuming how much CPU’ across fleets of thousands of machines,” the company claims....

Celona.io, the two-year-old enterprise 5G networking vendor profiled by ZDNet in November, on Monday announced it had received $60 million in venture funding in a Series C round, bringing its total funding to date to $100 million. The new money comes with what appears to be momentum among some very large customers in the automotive and retail markets. “We are getting some pretty specific validation points,” Celona’s CEO and co-founder, Rajeev Shah, told ZDNet regarding what he sees as his company’s leadership in the still-young enterprise 5G market, speaking in an interview by phone....

In explaining the resolution, the European Parliament said the use of AI by law enforcement currently poses various risks spanning opaque decision-making, discrimination, privacy intrusion, challenges to the protection of personal data, human dignity, and the freedom of expression and information. “These potential risks are aggravated in the sector of law enforcement and criminal justice, as they may affect the presumption of innocence, the fundamental rights to liberty and security of the individual and to an effective remedy and fair trial,” the European Parliament said....

Facebook also recently imposed a new policy requiring anyone coming into work at its US offices to be vaccinated. Additionally, all employees in the office must wear a mask, regardless of their vaccination status. “Data, not dates, is what drives our approach for returning to the office,” Facebook spokesperson Tracy Clayton said in a statement. “Given the recent health data showing rising Covid cases based on the Delta variant, our teams in the US will not be required to go back to the office until January 2022....

Virtual meeting tools like Microsoft Teams and Zoom were the big winners of video during the pandemic. And where users go, unfortunately the scammers follow. BEC usually relies on fake, spoofed or compromised email domains to relay messages to targets with the aim of fooling them into making a wire transfer. The scams are technically simple but are often peppered with a carefully constructed backstory conducted via email that fools even well-trained employees....

The FBI said its forensic analysis showed that the exploitation of the zero-day vulnerability in the FatPipe WARP, MPVPN, and IPVPN software, by an advanced persistent threat (APT) group, went back to at least May 2021. It did not provide any further information about the identity of the group. The vulnerability allowed the attackers to gain access to an unrestricted file upload function to drop a webshell for exploitation activity with root access, leading to elevated privileges and potential follow-on activity, the FBI said, noting: “Exploitation of this vulnerability then served as a jumping-off point into other infrastructure for the APT actors....

Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) swapping is an old trick, but the FBI has issued a new alert about it because of a massive leap in reported cases in 2021 compared to previous years. Smartphones are critical tools for authenticating to online services, such as banks that use SMS for sign-in codes. It is a serious problem – if crooks can gain control of these services, they can access the victim’s bank, email, social media, and bank accounts....

Earnings for the quarter came to .09 cents on revenue of $248 million, an increase of $2 million compared to the first quarter of 2021. Wall Street was expecting earnings of $0.09 per share on revenue of $249.07 million. The report sent FireEye shares down 10.75% in late trading. FireEye sold its FireEye Products business to a consortium led by Symphony Technology Group for $1.2 billion on June 2, dramatically changing the company’s outlook....