Day: February 14, 2021

AustCyber merges with Stone & Chalk to boost local capability in emerging tech

Touting the merger as combining the ‘greatest concentration of cybersecurity industry expertise’ with the ‘most developed technology commercialisation infrastructure that Australia has ever built’. …read more Source:: ZDNet


How Our Brutal Science System Almost Cost Us a Pioneer of mRNA Vaccines

Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: As the first COVID-19 vaccines arrived at Penn Medicine last year, Penn Today reported with great pride, “It was mRNA research conducted at Penn—by Drew Weissman, a professor of Infectious Diseases, and Katalin Karikó, an adjunct associate professor—that helped pave the way for the development of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna…


This August Smart Lock with Wi-Fi is $194, close to the lowest price ever – CNET

Get the newest version of the August lock for $55 off the regular price and with $10 of the historic low. …read more Source:: CNet


How to Bake Brownies With A Perfect Glossy Skin

If you’re anything at all like this writer, you don’t spend a lot of time inspecting brownies past the initial object identification phase, preferring to insert them directly into the mouth post-haste. But those with more of an aesthetic focus take great care to produce brownies with a glossy, attractive skin. [Adam Ragusea] decided to…


Cloud computing ‘sticker shock’ is on the rise, and containing it may be a new career path

With concern about cloud spending on the rise, more professionals begin to devote part of their jobs to containing it. ‘The dirty little secret of cloud spend is that the bill never really goes down.’ …read more Source:: ZDNet


Microsoft Urges America to Force Google and Facebook to Pay for News

“Microsoft has said the USA should copy Australia’s plan to force Google and Facebook to pay for links to news content,” reports The Register, “and suggested that doing so will help improve social cohesion and strengthen democracy.” But Google has fired back with a statement asserting that Microsoft’s motives are impure. “Of course they’d be…


Snyder Cut Justice League trailer arrives with a fresh look at new villains – CNET

It teases Steppenwolf, Darkseid and of course, Jared Leto as Joker. The full 4-hour cut arrives March 18 on HBO Max. …read more Source:: CNet


Should You Block Connections to Your Network From Foreign Countries?

Slashdot reader b-dayyy quotes the Linux Security blog: What if you could block connections to your network in real-time from countries around the world such as Russia, China and Brazil where the majority of cyberattacks originate? What if you could redirect connections to a single network based on their origin? As you can imagine, being…


Egregor ransomware operators arrested in Ukraine

Arrested suspects are believed to be clients of the Egregor RaaS, not the Egregor gang itself. …read more Source:: ZDNet


How the Ozone Layer Was ‘Rescued’ From a Spike in CFC

Thelasko shared this report from the BBC: A steady decline in the levels of ozone-harming CFC chemicals in the atmosphere has resumed, scientists say. This follows a recent, dangerous pause in that downward trajectory, which could have slowed the healing of Earth’s protective ozone layer. Atmospheric measurements published in 2018 pointed to illegal CFC production…