Launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare flight, EnduroSat succeeded in getting the first of nine upcoming shared missions in orbit – a nanosatellite called the SPARTAN. The missions aim to showcase software solutions that will provide the company’s customers with easy access to space data, while also representing the next-gen space technologies. SPARTAN’s mission is a joint effort with Kuwait, which also launched its first-ever space mission on June 30....

Now the hype cycle report from Gartner is always good for debate. But the hype cycle is even better for tech buyers who need to know what buzzword bingo they’re about to receive from vendors. Gartner’s emerging technology hype cycle distills more than 1,500 technologies into a list of must know tools. Without further ado, here’s the hype cycle chart. A few takeaways worth pondering: Artificial intelligence’s impact on generating code, augmenting design and innovation is all 5- to 10-years away....

Staying current can be a complex task, however. Infosec4TC is built to address the need for cutting-edge cybersecurity knowledge, in formats easily used by busy people. Founded to fill a need for security training that’s accessible from anywhere, Infosec4TC has over 120,000 students from over 180 countries. The school is designed around self-paced certification courses with the necessary materials provided, and constantly updated questions and study data with CPE credit included....

Start from scratch with the hands-on “Raspberry Pi for Beginners: Complete Course” and “Arduino for Beginners: Complete Course”. Former students loved both courses, awarding them 4.7 out of 5 stars ratings. Those courses will give you the foundation you need for “Arduino OOP (Object-Oriented Programming)”. The courses after these do require at least a little coding knowledge, but that’s no problem since the bundle has coding classes that can jumpstart a career all by themselves....

Even if it’s almost impossible to make time to read for pleasure, you are doing yourself a disservice if you don’t keep up with books to aid in professional advancement or help you in other ways. The 12min Premium Micro Book Library offers you hundreds of non-fiction titles that cover everything from health to finance and productivity, but they are synthesized into concise micro books you can consume in short bursts of time....

The multi-stage security training program – run by Women in Cybersecurity (WiCys) and the SANS Institute – is designed to help women advance their careers in cybersecurity by learning fundamental cybersecurity concepts and skills. The end goal of the program is to get participants employed in cybersecurity within the next 1.5 years. Google originally teamed up with WiCys and the SANS Institute last year to create the program as a way to address the lack of female representation in the cybersecurity industry....

According to cybersecurity researchers at Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), government-backed hackers from Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, as well as various unattributed groups and cyber-criminal gangs, are using various themes related to the war in Ukraine to lure people into becoming victims of cyberattacks. In just the last two weeks alone, Google has seen several hacking groups looking to take advantage of the war to fulfil their malicious aims, whether that’s stealing information, stealing money, or something else....

To help with this, Google announced it has trained its systems to detect when a topic is rapidly evolving and a range of sources are yet to weigh in. Google Search will now display a notice indicating that it may be best to check back later when more information from a wider range of sources might be available. “Accessing timely, relevant and reliable information is increasingly important in our current environment,” Google wrote in a blog announcing the new feature....

The general availability release includes a new TPU embedding API, which Google Cloud claims can accelerate large-scale, ML-based ranking and recommendation workloads Google Cloud said embedding acceleration with Cloud TPU can help businesses lower cost associated with ranking and recommendation use-cases which commonly rely on deeply neural network-based algorithms that can be costly to run. “They tend to use large amounts of data and can be difficult and expensive to train and deploy with traditional ML infrastructure,” Google Cloud said in a blog post....

Over the past year, a series of external events – like the Covid-19 pandemic, climate-related disasters and the blockage in the Suez Canal – have underscored the vulnerability of global supply chains. As companies race to improve their resiliency, Google is pitching better supply chain visibility. The Supply Chain Twin should help companies bring together data from a variety of sources, including enterprise business systems like ERPs, supplier and partner systems, and public sources such as weather data....

Kicked off in August, the experiment randomly assigned users to test whether it could help users spot phishing sites. “Delete simplified domain experiment,” Google engineer Emily Stark wrote in a Chromium commit. “This experiment didn’t move relevant security metrics, so we’re not going to launch it. :(” Starting with Chrome 90, if a user did not specify the protocol to be used when accessing a site, Chrome would try first using HTTPS, before falling back to HTTP....

“We’re investing in helping developers solve problems that don’t always necessarily differentiate their products, like building backend infrastructure and scaling it, things like security, or having to integrate with third-party APIs,” Firebase Product Lead Francis Ma said to ZDNet. That way, he said, developers can stay focused on what they “need to do to keep pace with consumer expectations and to reach users where they are.” The updates, announced at the Google I/O conference on Wednesday, largely focus on making Firebase work better with some of Google’s most popular developer products, as well as with a broader open ecosystem of tools....

According to 9to5Google, a new job listing for a senior engineering manager posted by the tech company hints at Google’s renewed focus on tablets. The listing points to growing out the “Android Tablet App Experience.” “We believe that the future of computing is shifting towards more powerful and capable tablets,” Google’s job listing reads. “We are working to deliver the next chapter of computing and input by launching seamless support across our platforms and hero experiences that unlock new and better ways of being productive and creative....

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said in an email to staff that, while over the past two years the company had seen periods of dramatic growth, “To match and fuel that growth, we hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today.” “This will mean saying goodbye to some incredibly talented people we worked hard to hire and have loved working with. I’m deeply sorry for that....

These plasma-confining devices, called tokamaks, are formed using a series of high-power magnetic coils to create a vessel in which plasma is controlled at temperatures as hot as the sun’s core. Correctly confined plasma can allow nuclear fusion to occur between hydrogen atoms and is being studied as a sustainable method of generating electricity. Researchers from DeepMind and EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center (SPC) detail in a new paper in Nature how they helped create a set of DeepMind AI algorithms capable of controlling the shape of plasma inside the vessel....

Internal documents seen by CNBC indicate Google is urgently working on an answer to Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In Depth: These experts are racing to protect AI from hackers. Time is running out The Google chatbot “Apprentice Bard” offers similar prompt and response functionality to ChatGPT, but would one-up the OpenAI chatbot by offering responses about recent events. OpenAI acknowledges that ChatGPT “has limited knowledge of world and events after 2021” because of its training data and the fact that it is not connected to the internet....

According to research by cybersecurity company Cymulate, 39% of companies were hit by cybercrime over the past 12 months – and of those, two-thirds were hit more than once. Of those hit more than once, one in 10 fell victim to further cyberattacks 10 or more times. “It wasn’t one and done – in fact, if you were hit, you had much more chance of being hit a second time or multiple times,” Dave Klein, director of cyber evangelism at Cymulate told ZDNet....

Little wonder, then, that criminals are turning to cheap GPS jamming devices to ransack the cargo on roads and at sea, a problem that’s getting worse but may be ameliorated with a new generation of safety technology designed to overcome threats from jamming. In case you aren’t a master criminal or a secret agent, here’s some background. The core problem for any system using GPS is that the signals are extremely weak, an inevitable byproduct of the vast distances those signals need to travel....

These initiatives would aim to lower the barriers of entry, including reducing the total cost of ownership, the partners said in a joint statement Tuesday. The alliance would include Hyundai’s affiliate Kia. Citing a 2020 survey of its drivers, Grab said costs, lack of charging locations, and long wait times to charge vehicles were top concerns that pulled drivers back from adopting electric vehicles. It added that its partnership with Hyundai would aim to address some of these issues through pilots of new service offerings, such as leasing electric vehicles on a car-as-a-service model and electric vehicle financing....

LifeLong Medical Care, a California health center, is sending letters to about 115 000 people about a ransomware attack that took place on November 24, 2020. The letter does not say which ransomware group was involved but said Netgain, a third-party vendor that provides services to LifeLong Medical Care, “discovered anomalous network activity” and only determined it was a ransomware attack by February 25, 2021. It took until August 9, 2021, for Netgain and LifeLong Medical Care to complete their investigation, and the companies eventually found that full names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, patient cardholder numbers, treatment and diagnosis information were “accessed and/or acquired” during the attacks....