Yes, I got grouchy. What are you going to do about it? At times like these, I sit and read, sit, and watch sports, or sit on my stationary bike, read, and watch sports. Once a day, I ventured to the mailbox, just to see which nefariously-minded financial planner, mortgage broker, or realtor was trying to hawk their soiled wares. With a suitably absent mind, I picked them up and took them inside....
In a blog post, AWS principal advocate Martin Beeby said AWS BugBust was taking the concept of a bug bash “to a new level” by allowing developers to create and manage private events that effectively “gamify the process of finding and fixing bugs in your software.” “It’s difficult to get time from skilled developers to quickly perform effective code reviews since they’re busy building, innovating, and pushing out deployments,” Sivasubramanian said....
The company said on Tuesday it had filed for an experimental licence with the US Federal Communications Commission to launch and operate a pair of satellites dubbed KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2. The prototypes will test the communications and networking that will be used in the final design, and will have Ka-band phased array and parabolic antennas, power and propulsion systems, and custom-designed modems. “We’ve invented lots of new technology to meet our cost and performance targets for Project Kuiper....
“Our action will allow Kuiper to begin deployment of its constellation in order to bring high-speed broadband connectivity to customers around the world,” the FCC said in its decision. “SpaceX argues that the Commission should limit Kuiper to deploy only 578 satellites in its 630 kilometer orbital shell, and defer action regarding the remainder of the constellation. SpaceX argues that granting this tranche would address Kuiper’s ability to coexist with other systems in and around its 590 kilometer and 610 kilometer shells, and allow for “continued monitoring” of deployment,” the FCC notes....
Researchers at French mobile security firm Pradeo said the app embeds Android trojan malware known as “Facestealer” because it dupes victims into typing in their Facebook credentials to a web page that transmits the credentials to the attacker’s server, which happens to be a domain that was registered in Russia. If a user adds their credentials, the makers of the Android app then have full access to victims’ Facebook accounts, including any linked payment information, such as credit card details, as well as users’ conversations and searches, according to Pradeo....
Nevertheless, Apple flexed its AI muscles. It expanded its cross-platform language translation functionality, introduced Apple Music-based soundtracks to accompany photo playbacks, and created a slick implementation of in-photo character recognition with Live Text. On the heels of Google showing off the ability to identify certain medical conditions based on photos of the skin, Apple introduced the ability to track the risk of falling by analyzing one’s gait. And in revisiting one of the company’s highest-profile early forays into AI in a more privacy-conscious era, Apple announced that it would be enabling far more of Siri’s commands to work offline, a benefit driven by the company’s ever-faster processors (albeit one where Apple is still following Google’s path)....
You see them worn by people desperately wanting to ignore you and live in their own blissful bubble. It seems as if you’re not of the modern world unless you have the unfinished earrings known as AirPods inserted into your very being. At first, they seemed a little strange. But Apple types swiftly committed themselves to constant AirPod wearing. So much so that, in one infamously informative survey, 17% of AirPod owners insisted they kept them on during coital conflagration....
Overall, though, the company has done an excellent job of positioning itself as the (only) tech behemoth that’s conscious of humanity’s true meaning. In recent years, Apple has made privacy one of the core tenets of its brand. While all the other tech companies are busily raiding every element of your life and selling it, Apple is merely selling you expensive hardware coupled with increasingly expensive and expansive software. So in its role as guardian of your galaxy, Cupertino released a new ad in which it tries to show what’s really happening to you every day....
As part of this change, the company said a 27% commission fee would still apply to payments even if they are made through a third-party system. Last year, the competition watchdog found Apple’s previous unwillingness to allow dating app providers to use payment systems outside of Apple’s own system was anti-competitive. This led to the ACM issuing a penalty order consisting of Apple being issued a €5 million fine for every week it failed to meet the regulator’s requirements for 10 weeks....
Also: How to choose the right monitor layout These are monitors you can pack in your laptop bag with your laptop and use on the road. They also make very light additional monitors that you can use in your office. I have two of them on iPad arms next to my desk, and they provide very convenient added screen real estate. But my favorite use for any of these super-light monitors is as a test rig....
Non-GAAP net income for the second quarter was $216.8 million, or $2.72 per diluted share. Revenue was $707.3 million, an increase of 30.8% year-over-year. Analysts were expecting earnings of $2.55 per share on revenue of $540.6 million. Arista had been predicting a revenue between $675 million and $695 million as well as a non-GAAP gross margin of 63% to 65%. “Our record second quarter reflects continued momentum and diversification across our top verticals and product-lines,” said Arista Networks CEO Jayshree Ullal....
The Orion spacecraft is set to take off aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for its journey around the moon on Sept. 27 with a 70-minute launch window that will open at 11:37 AM EDT. On Oct. 2, NASA would have a 109-minute launch window, opening at 2:52 PM EDT, upon review approval. Late last week, NASA said the next launch opportunity could be as early Friday, Sept. 23....
The company says it’s building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network designed to be accessible directly by standard mobile phones. Its planned network, called SpaceMobile, aims to deliver 4G/5G connectivity everywhere on the planet – on land, at sea and in flight. Mobile subscribers would be able to automatically roam from land networks to the space-based network, no matter their location. Also: NASA’s Mars helicopter just took these remarkable photos of the rover’s landing gear To facilitate the network, AST SpaceMobile is launching BlueWalker 3, a test satellite designed to communicate directly with cell phones via 3GPP standard frequencies....
Like it or not, the digitization of all things physical is coming fast. Although many of the CES 2022 themes may seem unrelated, there is one underlying technology – and that’s artificial intelligence. We are rapidly moving into a world where AI is infused in almost every aspect of our lives – from the games we play to home electronics to the cars we drive and beyond. The technology that powers AI is the graphics processing unit, also known as a GPU, for which Nvidia is far and away from the market leader and de-facto standard....
AT&T and JBG Smith said the first “network infrastructure deployments” will be implemented early on in 2022. In a statement, AT&T said 5G could make National Landing “a prototype for smart cities of the future.” Like other 5G smart cities popping up around the country, the National Landing site’s use of 5G will incorporate self-driving vehicles, “immersive retail and entertainment,” as well as automation and sustainability. Mo Katibeh, who leads AT&T’s Network Infrastructure and Build, said the development of 5G, AI, cloud and edge technologies is “helping usher in the next level of how technology can improve lives....
The AU$89 million cybercrime centre forms part of Home Affairs’ national plan to combat cybercrime, which was announced alongside the centre’s launch on Monday morning. The AU$89 million was provided through the AU$1.67 billion in funding for Australia’s cybersecurity strategy by the federal government. Andrews said the national plan and the Australian Federal Police’s (AFP) new cybercrime centre, called Joint Policing Cybercrime Coordination Centre (JPC3), would bring together the experience, powers, capabilities, and intelligence needed to build a strong, multi-faceted response....
The proposed anti-trolling laws seek to compel social media platforms into creating complaints schemes that allow people to issue complaints about potential defamatory material and receive information about the poster of that material for the purposes of initiating legal proceedings. “Every submission today has said this Bill is grossly inadequate in terms of its drafting of the unintended consequences,” said Carr, who is the deputy chair of the Senate committee tasked with reviewing the anti-trolling legislation....
The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has been working on Australia’s digital identity system for a number of years, going live with myGovID – developed by the Australian Taxation Office – and accrediting an equivalent identity service from Australia Post in 2019. myGovID and the Australia Post Digital ID are essentially just forms of digital identification that then allow the user to access certain online services, such as the government’s online portal myGov....
“My concern is that I see very strong community standard policies, or hateful content policies or ‘insert name of keep the community safe’ policies from various platforms. I almost can’t fault them but I find a very big gap with the application of them,” she told Meta, who appeared before the committee for questioning. Wicks’ comments were made in light of 15 female Australian politicians, including herself, being the targets of abusive online comments that were left online for weeks and only taken down following law enforcement intervention....
