House Democrats are set to introduce a package of five bills as soon as this week that would prohibit tech giants like Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google from discriminating against rivals or buying potential competitors, two individuals familiar with the discussions told POLITICO — the most serious effort yet to rein in Silicon Valley’s power…

The vaccine purchase and donation will happen over the next year. …read more Source:: CNet

A few months ago, a tweet by [Ken Shirriff] asking about simple digital simulators caught my attention. The topic came up again in May when a repair video by [CuriousMarc] featured one such simulator called Logisim-evolution. It made me want to take a fresh look on what’s out there and which features set the different…

How to bust the bottlenecks without breaking the bank Webcast We all know HPC and AI datasets are going to be massive. But they’re also very different — the former built from large, sequential files, while the latter from much more random info.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

John Benson began working for the Iowa Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management in 1992 and was recently named the department’s Interim Director. …read more Source:: SecurityMagazine

Hackers have broken into gaming giant Electronic Arts, the publisher of Battlefield, FIFA, and The Sims, and stole a wealth of game source code and related internal tools, Motherboard reported Thursday. From the report: “You have full capability of exploiting on all EA services,” the hackers claimed in various posts on underground hacking forums viewed…

Misconfigured dashboards are yet again at the heart of a widespread, ongoing cryptocurrency campaign squeezing Monero and Ethereum from Kubernetes clusters. …read more Source:: Threatpost

The cybersecurity landscape continues to spawn new companies and attract new investments. Here is just a sampling of what the industry has to offer. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Amid an intensifying drought, Lake Mead in Nevada, the nation’s largest reservoir by volume, reached its lowest level since the 1930s late Wednesday. From a report: The record low is due to a combination of years of punishing drought that’s worsening across the Southwest, as well as challenges in managing water resources for a burgeoning…

It’s not the size that counts, it’s how you use it Samsung today introduced its latest imaging sensor, the 50-megapixel ISOCELL JN1, which it claims has the smallest individual pixels in the industry.… …read more Source:: TheRegister