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To learn more about how corporate purpose can guide companies and intensify employee engagement in philanthropy in a time of multiple crises, Harvard Business Review Analytic Services surveyed executives at 168 companies that place a high priority on corporate purpose and have integrated that purpose into their strategy. The survey defined corporate purpose as “the chief objective(s)” – that is, the overarching, overriding goal – “pursued by a business organization for the benefit of stakeholders, including shareholders, customers, employees, and the community(ies) that the organization serves....

PyTorch has become one of the more important Python libraries for people working in data science and AI. Microsoft recently added enterprise support for PyTorch deep learning on Azure. PyTorch has also become the standard for AI workloads at Facebook. Google’s TensorFlow and PyTorch integrate with important Python add-ons like NumPy and data-science tasks that require faster GPU processing. SEE: Hiring Kit: Python developer (TechRepublic Premium) The PyTorch linear algebra module torch....

The data has been gathered by Trellix – formerly McAfee Enterprise and FireEye – from detected attacks between July and September 2021, a period when some of the most high-profile ransomware attacks of the past year happened. According to detections by Trellix, banking and finance was the most common target for ransomware during the reporting period, accounting for 22% of detected attacks. That’s followed by 20% of attacks targeting the utilities sector and 16% of attacks targeting retailers....

As reported by Source NM, the Metropolitan Detention Center in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, went into lockdown on January 5, 2022, after cyberattackers infiltrated Bernalillo County systems and deployed malware. Local government systems were impacted by the cyberattack, including those used to manage the prison. Inmates were made to stay in their cells as the ransomware outbreak reportedly not only knocked out the establishment’s internet but also locked staff out of data management servers and security camera networks....

It’s also launching a mounted version of the Pi High Quality Camera. Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3 succeeds the 2016 Camera Module 2, but now comes with a 11.9 megapixel (MP) Sony sensor rather than the former model’s 8.1 MP Sony sensor. The Camera Module 3 also comes in four variants: the standard Field of View (FoV); wide FoV; NoIR (infrared sensitive), and NoIR Wide FoV. The standard FoV variants maintain the $25 entry level price but offers a wider 66° horizontal FoV versus to the Module 2’s 62° horizontal FoV....

Pricing The Razer DeathAdder V2 retails for $69.99 (£69.99, AU$139.95, CA$99.99, €79.99), which puts it in the same price range as the Logitech G502 hero ($79.99), Corsair Ironclaw ($59.99), and SteelSeries Rival 5 ($59.99). The cost is on the higher end of tolerable for a more basic gaming mouse, but Razer has always been known for their higher prices, which means you’re mostly paying for brand recognition, but there is some top-notch tech and engineering that helps to justify the $70....

The construction robot market is expected to reach $166.4M by 2023, up from $76.6M in 2018. Contractors and developers are leaning into robotic technology as it becomes more commonplace, and they see an increased need for enhanced productivity, quality, and safety due to continued urbanization. Adoption will speed amid massive new infrastructure spending, including in areas like design and final inspection and repetitive tasks on the job site. I connected with Raffi Holzer, co-founder and CEO of Avvir, a software platform operating in this space, to discuss how automation is reshaping how project owners and contractors manage construction progress and introduce new efficiencies into old processes....

This new release passed a battery of tests and checks to ensure it meets the stringent standards to be included in RHEL. Updates posted to Stream are identical to those posted to the unreleased minor version of RHEL. “The aim?” said Rich Bowen, Red Hat’s CentOS Manager, “For CentOS Stream to be as fundamentally stable as RHEL itself.” To achieve this stability, CentOS Stream starts from a stable release of Fedora Linux....

Late on February 5, Reddit became aware of the phishing campaign that targeted its employees. The attacker sent out “plausible-sounding prompts”, pointing employees to a website that cloned the behavior of its intranet gateway, in an attempt to steal credentials and second-factor tokens. After obtaining a single employee’s credentials, the attacker gained access to some documents and code, as well as some internal dashboards and business systems. Also: Phishing attacks are getting scarily sophisticated....

That’s the opinion of the majority of 1,325 chiefs of global firms interviewed in KPMG’s 2022 CEO Outlook check on their “mindset, strategies and planning tactics”. While they’ve reaped rewards from a geographically unbounded hiring pool, better collaboration and improved productivity, CEOs largely want staff back in the office. So, Elon Musk is not alone in his demand that Tesla workers be at the office 40 hours a week. Also: Hybrid workers don’t want to return to the office....

The company said the $8.6 billion represents a 30% increase in money laundering activity over 2020 but is dwarfed by 2019, which saw at least $10.9 billion laundered. Chainalysis said cybercriminals had laundered $33 billion worth of cryptocurrency since 2017. Chainalysis explained that these figures only represent funds derived from “cryptocurrency-native” crime, meaning cybercriminal activity such as darknet market sales or ransomware attacks in which profits are almost always derived in cryptocurrency rather than fiat currency....

“Even a minimal cell requires 2 billion atoms,” Zaida Luthey-Schulten, chemistry professor and co-director of the university’s Center for the Physics of Living Cells, said in a statement. “You cannot do a 3D model like this in a realistic human time scale without GPUs.” The simulation replicated a minimal cell’s physical and chemical characteristics at a particle scale. A minimal cell only has the minimal set of genes necessary for the cell to survive, function and replicate....

On Thursday, ASX detailed that a rise in technology and data products secured a 10% increase to AU$108.6 million on the prior half and contributed to 22% of total revenue. Information services and technical services made up 13% and 9%, respectively, in the company’s technology and data business. “Our technology and data business achieved a pleasing increase in revenue,” CEO Dominic Stevens said. “On the data side there was consistent growth across almost all parts of the business leading to a more than 12....

But every so often, a developer or team of developers takes Fedora to yet another level of usability. Such is the case with RisiOS, which is a Seattle-based Linux distribution that adds just enough “extra” to make this a special kind of distribution. First off, RisiOS uses the GNOME desktop, and, for the most part, it’s pretty vanilla. You won’t find a Dash To Dock extension installed to modify the default desktop UI....

At the very end of the event, the device maker brought executives onstage from Qualcomm and Google. The trio then announced… something. Apparently none of the companies were ready to share details just yet about their collaboration – only that they are indeed collaborating. They clearly wanted to make it known that they’re a strongly aligned triumvirate, all heavily invested in both Android and integrating XR content and hardware into their apps and devices....

Isocell HP3 packs 200 million 0.56 micrometer-sized pixels __ which is 12% smaller than the 0.64 micrometer-sized pixels it used for its first 200MP image sensor, the Isocell HP1, unveiled last year. This reduced pixel size of Samsung’s latest also allows for the size of the overall camera module to be smaller by up to 20% compared to its predecessor, the South Korean tech giant said. Isocell HP3 also comes with the company’s quad phase detection technology for autofocus....

The RGB keyboard offers mechanical gaming switches that are guaranteed for over 50 million key presses. But what makes this keyboard really great for gamers is the built-in OLED screen. It offers notifications for Discord, game info, profiles, and more, so you can keep an eye on your messages without pausing your game. The frame is composed of Aircraft grade aluminum alloy that’s designed to withstand a lifetime of use – it’s known for unbreakable durability....

Known as vishing attacks, criminals and scammers telephone victims and attempt to use social engineering to trick them into giving up personal data. Common scams involve attackers claiming to be from the victim’s bank, the police, or even cybersecurity or software companies. Often, they use scare tactics to encourage victims to give up information like bank information or passwords as a matter of urgency. The attackers can even engineer the telephone number and caller ID to look legitimate, making their claims more convincing....

Serverless wasn’t the only new feature announced last week. AWS also announced the preview of automated materialized views that treat the creation of these views much like cost-based query optimizers: it automatically generates the views based on data hot spots. Nonetheless, serverless grabbed the limelight. AWS ups its industry ground game at re:Invent 2021 When AWS launched Redshift back in 2013, it was one of the first cloud data warehousing services....

Cellebrite, an Israeli digital intelligence company, is best known for its controversial phone-cracking technology, which it previously claimed could download most data from almost any device on behalf of government agencies. “We’re very aware that we have a role of assurance over AU$200 billion of social support in Medicare and Centrelink programs and so the integrity of those outlays is important,” Services Australia acting-deputy CEO of payments and integrity Chris Birrer said....