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Illuminate Education, which owns popular school management platforms Skedula and PupilPath, said it is still in the process of restoring service after a “security incident” that began on January 8. Scott Virkler, chief operating officer of Illuminate Education, told ZDNet that their priority is “to restore service as soon as possible and do everything in our power to help users.” “We launched an investigation with the help of third-party experts, and that is still ongoing,” Virkler said, declining to answer other questions....

At times, she laughs, she is even making more money than her husband. That is not to say that the “good work” came easily. Some savvy Googling and a few Reddit channels got things moving, but she still remembers starting off with “crappy stuff”. “I compare it to a video game,” says Brittany, who did not want her full name reported. “At first you have to do what’s called grinding to get the good gear and stuff....

Are they using GNOME, Xfce, KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, Mate, Enlightenment, or Pantheon… and what do they do with that desktop to make it stand out from other distributions using the same interface? Furthermore, what does a particular distribution do to make it a worthy contender for new users? Also: Thinking about switching to Linux? 6 things you need to know That, my friends, has become one of the single most important aspects of any Linux distribution aimed at gaining a wider audience....

This extended commuting time on trains provides me with the opportunity to thoroughly test new mobile technology. In March, the commute stopped as our engineering firm went fully remote in response to the coronavirus pandemic. I continue to test out new mobile technology and as you can see in the images boxes continue to stack up. My home office provides a separation between my engineering work and my freelance writing with many Star Wars items occupying the walls and shelves of my office....

Aimed at field workers, warehouse staff, first responders, military personnel and others who operate in challenging environments, the Toughbook G2 is a modular device, allowing it to be configured for specific use cases. Naturally, it’s also extremely robust, with the certifications to prove it, so that this tablet should withstand whatever abuse comes its way. And as usual with Panasonic’s Toughbooks, there’s an extensive selection of accessories, including docking stations, vehicle docks, straps and cases, most of which are backwards-compatible with the older G1 and G20....

That is not an accident – it is by design. Social media apps are communications channels, but communications of a particular kind. They are designed to transmit an aggregate signal of all the things people are saying, and in so doing, boost advertising revenue. To do so, social media seeks to minimize what is known as entropy, which is basically equivalent to minimizing information. It all goes back to physics....

Once the keynote ended, those in attendance were given a chance to go hands-on with the new phones and wearable – and so I did. In a demo area like this, it’s hard to get a lot of quality time with any new products. Everyone’s trying to do the same thing; get a quick feel for whichever device is in front of them without feeling pressured to hurry up and move on to the next thing....

The messages are being sent by the Metropolitan Police as part of the UK’s biggest ever anti-fraud crackdown, following an international operation to shut down a cyber-criminal service. The operation was led by the Met and involving law enforcement agencies in Europe, Australia, the US, Ukraine, and Canada, resulting in the arrest of 142 suspected cyber criminals. Those arrested are suspected of being involved in conducting scams where they posed as representatives from banks – including Barclays, Santander, HSBC, Lloyds, Halifax, First Direct, Natwest, Nationwide and TSB – and tricked victims into handing over money, or one-time passcodes to access bank accounts....

The month-long operation took place in October and saw 19 countries involved in targeting criminal networks that were using stolen credit card information to order high-value goods from online shops. Law enforcement raided locations where goods bought using stolen credit card details had been delivered, arresting the suspects and confiscating the fraudulently acquired items, according to Europe’s law enforcement coordination agency Europol. The action was coordinated by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and the Merchant Risk Council, the non-profit membership association for eCommerce payments and fraud prevention....

In a company statement, Poly said it will initially use the platform “internally for its own recorded video assets, including global sales meetings.” Poly will also offer CLIPr to its own customer base as an extension of their audio and video solutions. CLIPr said it uses AI and machine learning “to index video content to help people save time and reduce video fatigue.” Poly will be incorporating CLIPr’s VAM platform as a way to increase productivity, and the platform will help “manage and extract important moments of recorded video content” that will be searchable and interactive....

The best way to advance in your career is to gain new skills, and a StackSkills Unlimited membership makes learning them accessible. Comprising half of this bundle, StackSkills Unlimited provides access to over 1,000 courses that will help you develop marketable skills to qualify you for roles in business or tech. At least 50 new courses are added each month, each with its own certificate of completion that endorses your newly minted skills....

According to developer recruitment platform CodinGame, a new tech job is advertised every two minutes in the United Kingdom, with over half of tech job postings commanding salaries of at least £50,000 ($60,900) and one in five (20%) promising £70,000 ($85,300) and above. The UK is enjoying a boom in tech investment, with investors putting £89.5 billion into European tech firms in 2021, a third of which was directed towards UK firms....

A spokesperson from Evos told ZDNet that they are continuing to operate their terminals but are having some delays after the attack. “There is a disruption of IT services at our terminals in Terneuzen, Ghent, and Malta, which is causing some delays in execution. All operations continue to take place in a safe manner,” the spokesperson said. Prosecutors in Antwerp have opened an investigation into the cyberattacks and told the Associated Press that the Federal Computer Crime Unit is looking into the issue....

For the six months ending 31 December 2021, the Australian IT solutions provider recorded net profit after tax of AU$12.4 million, climbing 32% year-on-year from last year’s reported AU$9.4 million. Revenue came in at AU$999 million, following a 17% uplift. According to the company, revenue growth was underpinned by solid public cloud revenue, which was up 35% to AU$466.7 million as major organisation and government departments migrated to cloud-based infrastructure....

For the year ending 30 June, the Australian IT vendor reported net profit after tax of AU$25.4 million, 7.5% higher than last year’s AU$23.6 million. Revenue came in at AU$1.96 billion, 20.3% higher the previous year’s AU$1.62 billion, with public cloud revenue accounting for 40% of total revenue. Public cloud revenue for the fiscal year was AU$796 million, a 36% year-on-year increase from AU$581 million. The company attributed the growing demand for public cloud to major organisations and government departments accelerating their migration to cloud-based infrastructure....

The company was founded in Lund, Sweden as QlikTech in 1993, and is now based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania in the US, a suburb of Philadelphia. At its founding, it was one of three companies in the wave of then-new business intelligence (BI) companies focused on self-service BI and data visualization. The others, Spotfire and Tableau, were acquired by Tibco and Salesforce in 2007 and 2019, respectively. The company’s original offering was Windows-based BI solution QlikView....

There’s been challenges along the way. You have to build a base of regular clients, you have to manage the risk of accepting too much work or not having enough, and you have to be OK with the fact that there’s no guaranteed wage at the end of the month. Yet I always felt that the balance for me at a personal level meant the risk was worth the rewards....

The Guardian XT is an upper-body variant of the company’s robotic exoskeleton, the Guardian XO full-body, battery-powered industrial exoskeleton. Exoskeleton technology has come along before, but the use cases have been predominantly medical. Commercial human strength augmentation – which many very rudimentary machines allow for in the hands of users but which still exists largely in the realm of sci fi when it comes to robotics – could transform industries such as construction and manufacturing....

Many people see analog and XLR as the way to go for the best audio fidelity, widest flexibility, and most professional sound. Meanwhile, USB microphones are often seen as the easy way out, providing simple, cheap connectivity at the cost of quality. The XDM-100 does a great job of demolishing these preconceptions. To be clear, the launch of its gaming-focused sub-brand, Rode X (which this microphone is part of alongside its great sibling, the Rode X XCM-50), marks a new beginning for Rode, where it attempts to marry its reputation for excellent sound with the ease and cost savings of relying on USB instead of XLR....

But while Apple continues to refine its premier laptop in incremental yet meaningful ways, it’s always interesting to look past the walled garden and into the fields of competing laptops. Samsung’s new Galaxy Book 3 Ultra represents the company’s best of the best; one could say it’s the pinnacle of the Galaxy laptop experience, with a series of ecosystem-enriched features to affirm Samsung’s commitment. Also: Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Ultra vs....