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The IMF’s blogpost, published on Monday, doesn’t name any country or region, but many countries, including China, Japan, the US, Australia, Canada and the UK, have been exploring various implementations of digital currencies issued by their respective central banks — CBDCs or digital sovereign currencies. The European Central Bank (ECB) this month announced plans to prepare for a digital Euro, a sovereign digital currency issued by the ECB that would complement cash and support digital payments in light of changes in transactions since the pandemic....

The Amsterdam-based mining and crypto tech leader said today that Brooks will lead the 10-year-old crypto unicorn as it launches a new funding round, increases the growth of its mining business with a new microchip design and new global data center locations, and scales a portfolio of businesses that grew out of the company’s heritage as an early Bitcoin leader. Bitfury founder Valery Vavilov will become chairman of the board and chief vision officer and continue to focus on developing over-the-horizon hardware and software innovations as the company builds the infrastructure for a tokenized global economy....

The undersea link is 6.200km long, connects the Brazilian city of Fortaleza to Sines in Portugal, and allows data traffic at a speed of 100 Tbps, with 60 milliseconds. The project conducted by EllaLink with support from the Brazilian government was launched on June 1. The initiative started in 2015 with the supply contract awarded to Alcatel Submarine Networks in 2017 and equity fund Marguerite joining as the sponsor in 2018....

Under the initiative, the Brazilian Association of Information Technology and Communication Companies (Brasscom) plans to train 156,000 web developers, in what is is describing as the most ambitious skills training initiative ever undertaken in the country. The project aims to address the IT talent gap in Brazil: according to a study by Brasscom itself, some 420,000 new technology workers are required to meet the sector demands between 2019 and 2024....

The company’s non-GAAP diluted earnings per share came to $6.96. Revenue was $6.78 billion for the third quarter, up 16% from the prior year period. Analysts were expecting earnings of $6.88 per share on revenue of $6.76 billion. “Broadcom delivered record revenues in the third quarter reflecting our product and technology leadership across multiple secular growth markets in the cloud, 5G infrastructure, broadband, and wireless,” CEO Hock Tan said in a statement....

That has led to what switch silicon vendor Broadcom describes as a critical impasse. Nvidia, the dominant vendor of the GPU chips running deep learning, is also becoming the dominant vendor of networking technology to interconnect the chips, using the InfiniBand technology that it added when it acquired Mellanox in 2020. The danger, some suggest, is that everything is tied up with one company, with no diversification and no way to build a data center where many chips compete....

NFTs, also known as non-fungible tokens, are digital assets that can be sold and traded on the blockchain. While some NFTs – from a pixel cartoon to a popular meme – can reach a sale price of millions of dollars, the popularity of this phenomenon has also created a new attack vector for exploitation. On Wednesday, the Check Point Research (CPR) team said that flaws in the OpenSea NFT marketplace could have allowed “hackers to hijack user accounts and steal entire crypto wallets of users, by sending malicious NFTs....

The growing incorporation between design and development is just one of the many changes shaping the software world. Being part of a software team means working with others in hybrid fashion, building smaller-than-ever chunks of functionality. That’s the word from Fletcher Previn, CIO of Cisco, and previously CIO of IBM, who has redesigned the company’s own software operations in the wake of the COVID era. Also: 20 IT trends that CIOs must be aware of and plan against “I created and embedded a design team within the IT department to lead with the user experience and outcomes – we engineer from the user back, instead of the IT department and out,” he said in an interview at the company’s New York offices....

Superficially, at least, many of these devices look so similar as to be practically identical. They are, for the most part, small boxes that you can connect to one or more large displays, an Ethernet network, a full-size wired keyboard and mouse, an external power supply, and just about anything that plugs into a USB port. The magic happens when you connect that little box to your laptop with a single cable that effectively turns your laptop into a comfortable working environment....

Web3Link allows clients to quickly offer a wide range of services based on blockchain technologies and integrated with legacy enterprise applications. The partnership claims that its approach allows off-chain integration with blockchain-type technologies. The founding teams of the startups have much in common – nearly all used to work at Tibco Software – a veteran Silicon Valley company that started life by providing real-time data services to Wall Street companies....

The new version of the PC Health Check app is available to members of the Windows Insiders program. The app will come in focus after Microsoft releases Windows 11 to the general public on October 5. The app checks for things like whether the hardware supports Trusted Platform Module 2.0 and that it is enabled, as well as whether the processor, storage and memory or RAM meets Windows 11 minimum requirements....

Also: CES 2023 tech you can actually buy now Enter the Evie Ring. It’s the brain child of California-based health solution company, Movano Health, and just combined wearable health’s two biggest conceptual fronts into reality. Specifically designed for women, the Evie Ring can monitor resting heart rate, heart rate variability, skin temperature variability, SpO2, menstrual and ovulation cycle, and sleep stages and duration. Movano says the intention of the “actionable insights” is to help women understand the “why” behind what they’re feeling, and claims the Evie Ring can even “mood track....

If the laptop is on a desk, this heat could be shortening the life of the laptop. If it’s on your lap, well, let’s just say that things can get awfully uncomfortable. You need a laptop cooler. There are two things that people want from a good laptop cooler – it needs to actually cool the laptop, and it shouldn’t be deafening when they are working (some are truly awful to be near when working!...

CISA has released “CISA Insights: Preparing For and Mitigating Potential Cyber Threats” to provide critical infrastructure leaders with steps to proactively strengthen their organization’s operational resiliency against sophisticated threat actors. In a letter sent out on Thursday, White House Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger and National Cyber Director Chris Inglis said there are typically breaches around national holidays because cybercriminals know that security operations centers are often short-staffed....

Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus build 6114, which Zoho released on September 6, 2021, fixes the vulnerability. ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus is a widely used self-service password management and single sign-on solution. The critical authentication bypass vulnerability affects representational state transfer (REST) application programming interface (API) URLs that could enable remote code execution. In a joint advisory sent out this week, CISA, the FBI and the US Coast Guard Cyber Command said APT actors have already targeted “academic institutions, defense contractors and critical infrastructure entities in multiple industry sectors – including transportation, IT, manufacturing, communications, logistics, and finance....

For cybersecurity, here’s what we expect to see in 2022: 60% of security incidents will result from issues with third parties. In 2020, 27.8% of organizations reported 20 or more supply chain disruptions and executives have uttered the phrase “supply chain” over 3,000 times on S&P 500 earnings calls, compared to 2,100 times all of last year. A quick look at Google Trends reveals that searches for “supply chain” have peaked just in the last couple of weeks....

This week Coros announced the Vertix 2 as the premium Coros wearable with several improvements over the Vertix, focused on providing the best GPS tracking experience for users. It is priced $100 more than the original Vertix and is scheduled to start shipping on August 27 with two color options available. Also: Best sports watch 2021: Garmin isn’t your only option Coros is known for providing stunning battery life with its watches and with the Vertix 2 we see a battery life capable of 135 hours with full GPS tracking and 60 days of normal use, along with 20% faster performance on a higher resolution display....

For the period ending 31 March 2021, NTT Australia saved a significant amount as a result of a reduction in major expenses, such as in travel and entertainment, which was down by more than AU$8 million to AU$2.2 million, and a AU$10 million reduction in administration costs to $65 million. While the company did not disclose its total number of employees, the financial report showed there was a slight decline in expenses related to employee benefits....

Total novices can jump right in with “CompTIA IT Fundamentals+ (FC0-U61)”, it starts with basic computer literacy and takes you all the way to entry-level IT skills. If you have the least bit of experience with computers, the comprehensive “CompTIA A+ (220-1001/220-1002)” course will get you up to speed. You can actually start applying for well-paid tech positions with just this one certification, then advance whenever you’re ready by taking the next course....

The mix of startups, well-established tech firms and global companies opening offices or branches in Prague makes the Czech capital a popular destination for the country’s tech workforce. Software developers themselves say they are mostly motivated by the opportunity to learn and to work on interesting projects, as well as the quality of life that Prague offers. See also: Managers aren’t worried about keeping their IT workers happy. That’s bad for everyone....