The deal will set Capgemini back around AU$233 million, based on a AU$1.35 consideration of 160,301,595 ordinary shares on issue, plus 12,575,751 converted performance rights. Capgemini said the acquisition will strengthen its capabilities in cloud and data across Australia and New Zealand, specifically with Empired’s Microsoft focus. “Empired is enabling organisations to transform and achieve more thanks to the depth and breadth of its capabilities across the entire Microsoft platform,” Capgemini said in a statement, adding this is “highly complementary” to its own partnership with Microsoft....

The welcome bonus is in addition to the $200 annual cash bonus cardholders can earn every year they spend $200,000 or more with the card. The Spark Cash Plus has a $150 annual fee and earns an unlimited 2% cash back for every purchase. If cardholders spend $50,000 in the first six months, that would equate to $1,000 in rewards from the card’s 2% cash back rate. Combined with the welcome bonus, the total cash rewards earned would be $4,000....

Celonis recently raised $1 billion in venture capital to scale out its Execution Management System (EMS). The Series D round valued Celonis at more than $11 billion. EMS manages and optimizes business processes across multiple systems, devices and edge applications. Celonis has systems for Salesforce and SAP as well as tailored platforms for accounts payable and receivable, procurement and order and inventory management. Customers include AXA, Cisco, Deloitte, Hitachi and Whirlpool to name a few....

There’s also been much written about the drawbacks of the system including its production of outright falsehoods in published articles. The journal Nature reports that the program does not meet the criteria for authorship of scholarly articles “because they cannot take responsibility for the content and integrity of scientific papers,” meaning, the programs. Also: ChatGPT is ’not particularly innovative,’ and ’nothing revolutionary’, says Meta’s chief AI scientist There is another, more subtle limitation to ChatGPT that some scholars are discovering: its output can tend to have a banal, overly general, uninformative quality even when the program is not inaccurate....

Multinational corporations (MNCs) that move personal information out of the country also will have to obtain certification on data protection from professional institutions, according to the PIPL. The legislation was passed in August, after it went through a couple of revisions since it was first pitched in October last year. Effective from November 1, the new law was necessary to address the “chaos” data had created, with online platforms over-collecting personal data, the Chinese government then said....

The Professional Chrome OS Administrator certification will launch in the fall, a Chrome spokesperson confirmed to ZDNet. It will replace the Chrome OS admin certification, which is currently offline. “Like all certifications, this exam is meant to showcase to the market an individual’s extensive skill set in a certain area,” Leah Coleman, who works on partner training and enablement for Chrome OS, told ZDNet. Certifications in computer science are offered by a variety of organizations and are typically test-based measures of your proficiency in a certain skill or tool....

This has resulted, however, in piles and piles of Chromebooks that need their data securely wiped, either to put them back into service or to allow them to be disposed. But sanitizing the data on Chromebooks can be a pain. Until now. Blancco has announced that Blancco Drive Eraser now supports Chromebook data sanitization. The new support allows a wide range of organizations – enterprises, IT Asset Disposition service providers, academic institutions, etc....

The Internxt - 2TB Decentralized Cloud Storage: 1-Year Subscription that is currently available for just $9.99 offers zero-knowledge decentralized cloud storage with end-to-end encryption that provides uncompromising security. It encrypts your uploaded files and then divides them into fragments on your end so that you’re the only one with the decryption key that is required to retrieve them. However, in spite of its complex power, Internxt is very easy to use....

That meant that even with the correct usernames and passwords, the attackers couldn’t access accounts and no systems were compromised. According to cybersecurity researchers at Cloudflare who analysed the attack, it was a sophisticated attack targeting employees and systems “in such a way that we believe most organizations would be likely to be breached”. Cloudflare has detailed what happened because they believe the culprit is still out there targeting multiple organisations....

Cloudify enables you to trade online with your customers while fully integrating orders, pricing, product, and stock data with a range of enterprise resource planning (ERP) such as SAP. It also works with warehouse and accounting back office systems. Using plugins, you can also use your existing toolchains such as Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, and Kubernetes for even more advanced automation capabilities. Put it all together, and you get what Cloudify calls ‘Environment As A Service’ (EaaS)....

This newly open-sourced program, part of the company’s TuxCare security services, scans Linux servers for out-of-date libraries both on disk and in memory. Unlike other such tools, it can also find false negatives by reporting on vulnerable libraries running in memory that might be missed by other scanners. It works with all modern Linux server distros and is licensed under the GPLv2. UChecker, which is an abbreviation for “userspace checker,” works with all modern Linux distributions, not just the RHEL family....

No dead spots. That’s what owning a satellite phone offers. And a weird rumor is circulating that the next iPhone could connect to a constellation of satellites orbiting the earth, freeing you from the tyranny – and sometimes awfulness – of terrestrial cellular providers. But all that is unlikely, and to top it all off, the reality of satellite phones differs a great deal from the non-stop action portrayed in the movies....

When Stanford professors opened Coursera in 2012 –– before schools embraced remote learning –– Coursera made headlines for its free online courses. News outlets projected that Coursera would revolutionize higher education. The online education company now offers thousands of courses from more than 300 universities and companies. Coursera serves students in North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. It offers 20 degrees and 17 MasterTrack certificates, a program that allows online learners to earn credits toward a graduate degree....

According to the report [PDF], over 7.6 million Australians registered for COVIDSafe. As at 31 December 2020, the ABS has Australia’s population at just under 25.7 million people. For the period 26 April 2020 to 15 May 2021, 779 COVIDSafe users, who tested positive for COVID-19, consented to having their data uploaded to the National COVIDSafe Data Store (NCDS). This saw over 1.65 million digital handshakes uploaded to the NCDS, and the identification of 2,827 potential close contacts from 37,668 encounters....

This article and the accompanying video are part of ZDNet’s 3D Printing Discovery Series. In addition to testing 3D printers, we also explore maker and smart home technology, stress-test servers, fly drones, and regularly dive deep into advanced geekery for fun and profit. Today, as shown in the video, we’re assembling and testing the Creality Sermoon D1. This is a very nice printer, but there are a few issues in the setup and design that you should be aware of before you scoop one of these up....

“The committee received compelling evidence that the complexity and frequency of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure is increasing globally. Australia is not immune and there is clear recognition from government and industry that we need to do more to protect our nation against sophisticated cyber threats, particularly against our critical infrastructure,” committee chair Senator James Paterson said. The Bill in question, the Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill 2020, as currently drafted seeks to provide government with powers to step in and provide “assistance” to entities in response to significant cyber attacks on Australian systems, create enhanced cybersecurity obligations for those entities most important to the nations, and introduce sector-specific positive security obligations (PSO) for critical infrastructure entities....

One of the biggest benefits of Chromebooks is you can reset them to factory fresh with a couple of mouse-clicks. So you could keep this in the office and if someone forgot their notebook, you could hook them up to their accounts in minutes. But the real value of this notebook is it’s really inexpensive for a powerfully functional gift. Also: Best Chromebooks

Dubbed Vermilion Strike, Intezer said on Tuesday that the new variation leans on Cobalt Strike functionality, including its command-and-control (C2) protocol, its remote access functionality, and its ability to run shell instructions. Cobalt Strike is a legitimate penetration testing tool for Windows systems. Released in 2012, the tool has been constantly abused by threat actors including advanced persistent threat (APT) groups such as Cozy Bear and campaigns designed to spread Trickbot and the Qbot/Qakbot banking Trojan....

Supply chain component strains are affecting all industries right now, but one supply chain problem that pre-existed the pandemic is the mismatch between supply and demand for cybersecurity staff. ENISA, the EU’s transnational cybersecurity agency, has now raised a flag about the enduring labor market supply problem and says it won’t be resolved despite a doubling of the number of graduates in the next two years. See also: Managers aren’t worried about keeping their IT workers happy....

The mission’s goal was first to successfully hit the asteroid, which we know was a smashing success due to the live feed of the collision. The second measure of success was determining whether the kinetic impact actually caused the asteroid to move. On Tuesday, we found out it did. In a media briefing, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said triumphantly: “And so today, NASA confirms that DART successfully changed the target asteroid’s trajectory....