COVID-19 has accelerated the rate of remote work adoption globally, but what have we found out? We have discovered that remote work is not bad, after all. In the past, many companies have been wary about transitioning to telecommuting, even when most of their office operations do not require the physical presence of employees. The …
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Des pirates informatiques modifient les données réglementaires volées pour semer la méfiance à l’égard du vaccin COVID-19
Getty Images Le mois dernier, les fabricants de l’un des vaccins anti-coronavirus les plus prometteurs ont rapporté que des pirates avaient volé des documents confidentiels qu’ils avaient soumis à un organisme de réglementation de l’Union européenne. Vendredi, on a appris que les pirates informatiques avaient falsifié certains des contenus des soumissions et les avaient publiés …
Do your neighbors want to get vaccinated?
As the coronavirus vaccines have rolled out across the US, the process has been confusing and disastrous. States, left by the federal government to fend for themselves, have struggled to get a handle on the logistics of distribution. Many, including Georgia, Virginia, and California, have fallen woefully behind schedule. But even if there were a …
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Apple has removed a controversial feature in macOS 11.2 beta 2 that allowed its own apps to bypass third-party firewalls, security tools, and VPNs (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Apple has removed a controversial feature in macOS 11.2 beta 2 that allowed its own apps to bypass third-party firewalls, security tools, and VPNs — The ContentFilterExclusionList has been removed in macOS 11.2 beta 2. — Apple has removed a controversial feature from the macOS operating system …
Hackers used 4 zero-days to infect Windows and Android devices
Google researchers have detailed a sophisticated hacking operation that exploited vulnerabilities in Chrome and Windows to install malware on Android and Windows devices. Some of the exploits were zero-days, meaning they targeted vulnerabilities that at the time were unknown to Google, Microsoft, and most outside researchers (both companies have since patched the security flaws). The …
Jumbled-up sentences show that AIs still don’t really understand language
Researchers at Auburn University in Alabama and Adobe Research discovered the flaw when they tried to get an NLP system to generate explanations for its behavior, such as why it claimed different sentences meant the same thing. When they tested their approach, they realized that shuffling words in a sentence made no difference to the …
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Parler CEO says the company has been dropped by "every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers", which could end the business (Bruce Haring/Deadline)
Bruce Haring / Deadline: Parler CEO says the company has been dropped by “every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers”, which could end the business — Parler CEO Mark Matze said today that his company have been dropped by virtually all of their business alliances after Amazon …
How an Intranet Will Consolidate Multiple Disparate Software Applications
The average employee uses between 10 and 20 individual software applications throughout the course of their day. This makes sense considering modern businesses run on software. However, using too many individual applications stifles productivity by wasting time, which subsequently wastes payroll dollars. For instance, employees use separate applications for the following tasks: Time tracking Customer …