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If you’ve learned what it takes to start and grow a successful business, it’s time to build a professional website. Fortunately, you don’t have to spend a fortune on web developer fees or learn how to make one on your own. You can create a fantastic website using Simbla’s simple drag-and-drop builder, and five-year subscriptions are on sale for $49. You can choose from a variety of responsive websites that are well-designed and tailored for all kinds of businesses....

The company released a statement on its website Tuesday afternoon, but the website is currently down as of Wednesday. On Facebook, Crystal Valley Cooperative confirmed that it had been hit with a ransomware attack on Sunday, September 19. “The attack has infected our computer systems and interrupted the daily operations of our company. Due to this computer breach, all systems of the Mankato-based cooperative have been shut down until they can be restored safely and securely,” the company said....

If you’re making an ooey-gooey holiday treat in the air fryer, no worries, the Ninja air fryer comes with a nonstick basket that makes cleaning as easy as using. The air fryer has a temperature range of 105 F degrees to 400 F degrees, which makes it capable of cooking as much as an oven could without the hassle of having to preheat and turn on an entire oven for smaller quantities....

I’m going to pick a handful of my favorite deals, the ones that I’d be looking at if I was on the prowl for a new graphics card for my PC. Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 3070 Ti AMP Holo 8GB GDDR6X highlights Nvidia Ampere architecture, 2nd Gen Ray Tracing Cores, 3rd Gen Tensor Cores8GB 256-bit GDDR6X, 19 Gbps, PCIE 4.0; Boost Clock 1830 MHzHoloBlack, SPECTRA 2.0 RGB Lighting, IceStorm 2....

On Tuesday, researchers from Cisco Talos said “proxyware” is becoming noticed in the cybercrime ecosystem and, as a result, is being twisted for illegal purposes. Proxyware, also known as internet-sharing applications, are legitimate services that allow users to portion out part of their internet connection for other devices, and may also include firewalls and antivirus programs. Other apps will allow users to ‘host’ a hotspot internet connection, providing them with cash every time a user connects to it....

Boasting dense technicolour forests dotted with waterfalls and surrounded by dazzling turquoise lakes, the Upper Peninsula (UP) lures explorers and lovers of the outdoors and is a world away from the noisy, kinetic streets of the city of Detroit some 350 miles away. When J.R. Cunningham arrived in the tiny rural town of Manistique in UP 13 years ago, it soon became apparent that he was something of a novelty in a town in which most of the workforce is employed in retail, manufacturing and the service industry....

FOI documents released by the Office of eSafety Commissioner indicated there were also plans to carry out similar trials for online gambling, with each private beta testing scheduled to operate for a three to six-month period. Scope to expand the trial in 2022 has also been proposed to include additional users, other Australian-based online alcohol, online gambling service providers, and R18+ online video games with “loot boxes”, and myGovID as an identity provider....

As the executives responsible for leading technology, CIOs will be charged with ensuring customer-focused IT projects – such as opening digital channels to market, introducing big data analytics and supporting new product launches – create great experiences that result in a quick return on investment. So what does the delivery of a great customer experience look like? Five digital leaders give us their tips for using technology to keep customers happy....

Even the seemingly unconquerable Apple conceded in the company’s last earning calls that growth rates would slow down in the next quarter, partly due to component shortages causing longer lead times, and making it difficult to meet ever-increasing demand for iPhones. Semiconductors, the components that power most consumer electronics, have been scarce for several months now, hitting industries ranging from car manufacturing to smart banking, and with little end in sight....

Also read: Data-driven 2021: Predictions for a busy year in data, analytics and AI. What is Automated Feature Engineering? ZDNet spoke with Ryohei Fujimaki, PhD, dotData’s CEO and founder, who explained that the company’s AutoFE technology works by discovering patterns in the source data to find statistically important features that can improve model accuracy in order to augment the domain-relevant features that data scientists might discover intuitively. Specifically, dotData’s Python library, dotData Py, is now Databricks-compatible and can be installed via pip on the Databricks platform....

Musk took to Twitter to confirm that the company received “good feedback” from its Starlink beta 10 users, and that there were now plans to roll out beta 10.1, which beta users can request from this Friday, ahead of an official launch next month. Beta services are currently operating in 11 different countries. SpaceX outlined as part of beta services, users can expect to see data speeds vary from 50Mbps to 150Mbps and latency from 20ms to 40ms in “most locations over the next several months” while the Starlink system continues to be enhanced....

“I think [the anti-trolling Bill] can lend itself to a lot of retaliation, a lot of vigilante-style justice,” Inman Grant said, who was reappointed into the eSafety commissioner post a fortnight ago. “I do worry about what that would mean in terms of giving individuals that kind of information, and that might be an IP address, or MAC address, or a device ID that the everyday person can’t do much with....

What does it take to get hired? Organizations are looking for job candidates with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, as well as experience with data modeling tools, XML, Python, Java, SQL, AWS and Hadoop. SEE: Research: BI and data analytics usage up; but companies lack skills needed to take full advantage of tools (TechRepublic Premium) Many data scientist job descriptions also mention the ability to work with a distributed and fast-moving team....

Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, compared the government’s fight against ransomware to the situation the country faced after 9/11 in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. He added that the FBI has identified nearly 100 different types of ransomware, each of which has already been implicated in attacks. He also took direct aim at the Russian government, singling them out for harboring many of those behind the different brands of ransomware....

Along with the coronavirus pandemic, the tug-of-war from social and political issues, the canceled flights, and the high gas prices, there’s yet another more frustrating and frightening factor causing anxiety for millions of Americans right down to their pocketbooks: The economy. The first half of 2022 has been a torturous and tumultuous period for the US stock market, the worst since 1970. Through June 30: The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index – tracking the 500 largest publicly-traded US stocks based on market capitalization – plunged into bear market territory, down 20....

Also: How to set up your first Raspberry Pi All of this popularity created strong demand even before the world’s supply chain was struck by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent chip shortages, the effects of which still linger. Matters were made worse by the increasing interest of hobbyists with unexpected free time over the pandemic scooping up boards for use in their various projects. While there may be hope on the horizon for easing these supply constraints, the task of finding an in-stock Raspberry Pi board can be frustrating and sometimes, ahem, fruitless....

In the press release, Save explains that the card will “match customers’ spending” and invest into “globally diversified allocations, sustainable investments, and alternative assets with managed crypto exposure.” Cardholders keep all returns on the investments aside from a Save Wealth management fee of 0.79%. The returns are deposited into cardholders’ bank accounts as cash, and Save serves as a fiduciary advisor to manage customers’ investments on their behalf. According to Save, for every dollar cardholders spend, Save will invest $2....

I finally made the switch for a number of reasons, one of which was the fact that Firewalla has a Wi-Fi SD option that allows you to use your phone’s hotspot capability as a backup connection for your home internet. If you ask my coworkers, my internet service used to break down constantly. Since switching to Gold and adding the Wi-Fi SD option, my internet connection has been perfect. And now that I’ve started traveling for work again, I’ve been taking the Firewalla Purple with me to connect to hotel Wi-Fi and keep my devices secure....

Flexera worked closely with its customers to identify “areas of major spending that can be reduced,” Cyndi Tackett, Flexera’s VP of product marketing, said in a statement. That led to the new functionality around the two Salesforce products. In Flexera’s 2022 Tech Spend Pulse survey, 48% of enterprises list Salesforce as one of their top three vendors in terms of IT spending. A number of Salesforce customers have at least 20 instances....

Also: This handy $24 kit can help you troubleshoot USB problems The Prestige 13 Evo comes with a matte, glare-free, 13-inch display, a privacy-shuttered webcam that supports Windows Hello, up to 32GB of RAM, and all the ports you’d want, including HDMI and USB-A. MSI tells me the base $999 model (12th Gen Intel Core i5 with 16GB RAM) will be available by the end of this month, so I’d wait until then if you’re looking to save money....