At CES 2024, tech firm Siemens announced new partnerships and what it claims are breakthroughs in AI and immersive engineering to enable the industrial metaverse based on its Xcelerator open digital business platform. Siemens revealed that it had strengthened its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make it easier for businesses of all … Leer más
Cryptocurrency markets fluctuated wildly on the evening of Monday 9 January after the US financial regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), briefly appeared to claim it had approved spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for the first time. The fake announcement was made via X, the service formerly known as Twitter, at around 9pm … Leer más
While most knowledge workers say they are well-equipped to work from home, many feel hybrid working makes their job more difficult. A Censuswide survey for Scalable Software, based on a poll of 2,000 employees, found that 40% of employees say hybrid work makes their job harder. According to Scalable Software, this is higher in … Leer más
Microsoft has released a total of 49 new patches marking the first Patch Tuesday event of 2024, addressing a variety of vulnerabilities across its product estate, among them two critical bugs affecting Windows Kerberos and Windows Hyper-V, but no zero-days or Exchange issues. This is the second relatively light Patch Tuesday drop on the … Leer más
Sony Corporation has announced the development of an immersive spatial content creation system, which includes an extended reality (XR) head-mounted display equipped with high-quality 4K OLED microdisplays and video see-through function, and a pair of controllers optimised for intuitive interaction with 3D objects and precise pointing. The latest spatial reality displays are now providing … Leer más
Scotland risks “sleepwalking” into a surveillance state that places every citizen in a permanent digital line-up if it does not deviate from the UK government’s data reform plans in 2024, according to the biometrics watchdog. The Scottish biometrics commissioner, Brian Plastow, has blasted the UK government’s plans to abolish the dual biometric and surveillance … Leer más
Cyber security experts at Cisco Talos and Avast, working alongside law enforcement in the Netherlands, have collaborated to make available a decryptor for the Tortilla variant of the infamous Babuk ransomware, allowing victims compromised by the gang dating back to 2021 to recover their files. In a joint operation, intelligence supplied to the Dutch … Leer más
For most people buying a new phone, it makes sense to get it on contract. Not only does this get you an allowance of calls, texts and data each month, it breaks down the cost of an expensive device into more manageable monthly payments. But to do this, you’ll usually have to commit to 24- … Leer más
At the end of October 2023, the UK’s national library, the British Library, took to social media to inform users that it was experiencing disruption to its services following an IT outage. Over the next few weeks, it emerged that the venerable institution had fallen victim to a ransomware cyber attack, and that its … Leer más
NordVPN has announced the results of a fourth audit by Deloitte, one of the Big Four. The company said it opened its doors from 30 November until 7 December 2023 for the auditors to poke around, interview employees and generally check that the VPN servers aren’t recording any sensitive data about how subscribers are using … Leer más
