Google, together with its partner SubCom, today announced that the company’s privately owned Dunant subsea cable between Virginia Beach, Virginia and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast is now operational. From a report: Google first announced this project, which was named after the first Noble Peach Price winner and founder of the Red Cross, Henry…

You can upgrade Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Hitman 3 and other games to next-gen versions. …read more Source:: CNet

The new M1 MacBook models are already discounted — just a bit — and you can save up to $300 on the older, Intel-based models. …read more Source:: CNet

SolarWinds’ CEO says evidence indicates attackers lurked in the company’s Office 365 email system for months ahead of the attack. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), the commercial version of the ubiquitous Defender antivirus and Microsoft’s top enterprise security solution, is currently having a bad day and labeling yesterday’s Google Chrome browser update as a backdoor trojan. From a report: The detections are for Google Chrome 88.0.4324.146, the latest version of the Chrome browser, which…

It works – but the more ‘exciting’ stuff is in the Dev and Canary Channels Microsoft has added new features to Edge and released a stable channel version for Mac M1 users as it strives to make the browser more than a tool to download Chrome.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Call us easily amused, but we think it’s pretty amazing what can be done with a microcontroller, some RGB LEDs, and a little bit of plastic. Case in point is [andrei.erdei]’s beautiful and quite approachable fiber optic LED lamp. It’s a desktop-friendly version of a similar piece [andrei] made that is roughly nine times the…

Board members and C-suite executives around the globe are most concerned in 2021 with risks associated with COVID-19-related government policies and regulations, economic conditions that may restrict growth and market conditions that may continue to impact customer demand, according to a new survey from Protiviti and North Carolina State University. Amid these near-term headwinds, when…

The Clean Cars 2030 Bill amounted a handful of cosigners in the state house and senate so far. …read more Source:: CNet

Security pros identify lessons learned that impact how they view infosec today. …read more Source:: DarkReading