As the massive US pipeline operator works to restore operations after a DarkSide ransomware attack late last week, experts say it’s a cautionary tale for critical infrastructure providers. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Boffins will have to wait until September 2023 to get their hands on the goodies OSIRIS-REx, the spacecraft carrying NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample, has started its two-year journey back to Earth, the space agency confirmed on Monday.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Pfizer and BioNTech’s request to allow their Covid-19 vaccine to be given to kids ages 12 to 15 on an emergency use basis, allowing states to get middle school students vaccinated before the fall. The two-dose vaccine is already authorized for use in people 16 and older….

It was the company’s first formal annual meeting with Wall Street analysts since its split from Symantec in 2019. …read more Source:: ZDNet

An anonymous reader shares a report: The first few months of 2021 have been absolutely massive for AMD and Intel. According to the latest report from Mercury Research, the first three months of 2021 saw the largest yearly increase in shipments of CPUs in a quarter of a century, and second only to the final…

Freely available to use, from the hardware schematics to RISC-V cores on an FPGA, to the firmware on top The OpenPOWER Foundation, formed to promote IBM’s open-source POWER instruction set architecture (ISA), on Monday said it is putting together a new working group to develop LibreBMC, claimed to be the first baseboard management controller (BMC)…

Smarten up your home with these Gosund outlets, which work with both Alexa and Google Home and cost little more than $3 each. …read more Source:: CNet

In the absence of humans, the region around Chernobyl is being reclaimed by nature. From a report: 35 years ago a total of 350,000 people were evacuated from the territory after one of humanity’s worst nuclear disasters. Ukrainian authorities say the area may not be fit for humans for another 24,000 years. Today, however, it…

Prices range from $8-$10 for a variety of colors and sizes. …read more Source:: CNet

The attack shut down Colonial Pipeline service on the East Coast. …read more Source:: CNet