Apple launches Beats Studio Buds + with the help of female rapper Cardi B
Today, with a special video by female rapper Cardi B (seen below), Apple launches the all-new Beats Studio Buds +. These wireless earbuds offer an exceptional true wireless experience, catering to both iOS and Android users. With a sleek and transparent design, these buds not only look stunning but also come packed with major improvements in features like Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), Transparency, call performance, and battery life.
Oliver Schusser, the Vice President of Beats and Apple Music, expressed his enthusiasm for the product, stating, "As our fastest-selling product ever since its launch, Beats Studio Buds are beloved earphones for so many people around the world, and we're thrilled to be taking them to the next level."
Amazon launches four new Echo products to celebrate a half billion Alexa devices sold
Today, Amazon launches four new Echo devices, including the Echo Pop, Echo Show 5, Echo Show 5 Kids, and Echo Buds. The new devices offer customers even more choice in how they access Alexa, Amazon's voice assistant. In addition, the company announces more than a half billion Alexa-enabled devices have been sold.
The Echo Pop ($39.99) is a small, affordable Echo device that is ideal for bedside or kitchen use. It features a compact design and a fabric finish that makes it look great in any home. The Echo Pop also has a built-in speaker that can be used to play music, get news, and more.
How long would it take to crack your password?
Thankfully the days of organizations storing passwords in plain text are pretty much gone. Most are now hashed using algorithms that prevent hackers from reading the database easily.
But, as new research from Specops Software reveals, that doesn't necessarily make things safe. The quality of the password itself has a big impact on how long it will take to crack.
Creating digital workplaces with IT, AI and IoT
Due to the many advances and new developments in technology, the way in which businesses are communicating is changing. Technology holds a central role in reshaping how employees work, interact and engage with others. This is helping to create digital workplaces, where emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are powering organizations to utilize data and increase access to information.
While technology such as AI and automation have been in existence for some time, the speed and rate of adoption across the business landscape is gathering pace as a means to digitize workplace settings. Currently, 15 percent of all UK businesses have adopted at least one AI technology, with the IT and telecommunications sector leading the way with the highest rate of adoption at 29.5 percent. But what features and technologies matter most to end users and how is this evolving across the digital workplace?
deepin Linux V23 can replace Windows 11 on your PC
If you are dissatisfied with Windows 11 or macOS, and intrigued by Linux, deepin, a distro from China, could be a great choice to switch to. It's one of the most beautiful operating systems around, and sports a well-designed user interface.
The newest version of that operating system, deepin V23 Beta, is now ready to be downloaded. This updated version of deepin comes with a number of new features including DDE changes, terminal, cross-version upgrades, and application compatibility.
How freelancers can save time with ChatGPT
As a freelancer, your most valuable resource is time. With the gig economy and your workload always changing, you must find new ways to stay productive. That’s where ChatGPT comes in.
ChatGPT can help freelancers save hours every week by automating tasks, such as generating new content ideas and topics, writing code for apps and plugins, and even putting together personalized client proposals. The following guide will investigate how freelancers and professionals can use ChatGPT (and ChatGPT-adjacent tools) to be more productive and time-efficient.
Over 80 percent of workers don't believe AI can replace them
Could AI one day make your job obsolete? 81 percent of respondents to a new survey don't believe so.
The study of almost 1,200 UK office workers by ID Crypt Global finds that while 95 percent have heard of AI, 94 percent are doing nothing to prepare for the eventuality of AI replacing them in the workplace, such as learning new skills or looking for new industries to work in.
How to enhance integrations for better security outcomes
Whether security leaders oversee a small security team or an enterprise-scale team spread over numerous security operations centers (SOCs), building and maintaining integrations with other tools in the tech stack can be difficult and time-consuming.
The average business integrates approximately 75 different security products and often multiple public, and private cloud services into its technology stacks. Many dynamic factors are at play with integrations, from versioning and version control to the constant evolution of Application Program Interfaces (APIs).
Carpet bomb DDoS attacks rise 300 percent
A new report shows that 2022 saw a 300 percent increase in 'carpet bomb' DDoS attacks compared to 2021. Carpet bomb attacks, also known as spread-spectrum or spray attacks, distribute traffic across large IP address spaces.
Legacy technology, like standard victim-oriented detection and mitigation detection techniques, often fails to accurately identify these attacks, leading to incomplete mitigation or false positives. Legacy solutions can also simply be overwhelmed by the number of IP addresses involved.
Why automation can help continuously validate security policies [Q&A]
Security professionals all know that they should test their security hardware and software periodically to make sure it's working as intended. Many normal IT activities have unintended consequences that cause security configurations to 'drift' over time and make the organization more vulnerable.
But testing is frequently postponed or ignored because it never becomes a high enough priority. We spoke to Song Pang, SVP of engineering at NetBrain, to find out how automation can be used to detect when security products or network traffic are no longer behaving as intended.
Google will start deleting inactive accounts and wiping out user data later this year
Google has announced an update to its inactive account policies that means some user accounts will be deleted before the end of the year.
The company says that accounts that have not been accessed for two years will be deleted starting in December. While the deletion of inactive accounts might seem fairly innocuous, there are serious implications for many people, such as those who have used Google cloud storage, or Gmail, as a means of backing up data and have had no reason to access their account since.
Microsoft is looking into slow VPN speed problems in Windows 11 caused by recent updates
The curse of the problematic Windows update may have struck again. Some users who installed the KB5025305 preview update or the KB5026372 update for Windows 11 are complaining about a significant slowdown in VPN speeds.
Microsoft says that it is looking into speed issues with L2TP/IPsec VPN connections in Windows 11. The company is yet to provide a fix, but there is a less than ideal workaround available in the meantime.
AI ethics and innovation for product development
AI ethics are a factor in responsible product development, innovation, company growth, and customer satisfaction. However, the review cycles to assess ethical standards in an environment of rapid innovation creates friction among teams. Companies often err on getting their latest AI product in front of customers to get early feedback.
But what if that feedback is so great and users want more? Now.
Dealing with data: What to do and where to store it
Today’s digitally-enabled organizations generate huge volumes of data that needs to be stored, maintained, and accessed. Indeed, it’s been estimated that globally, around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is created every day. A figure that is escalating at a rapid rate as enterprises pursue big data analytics and IoT projects.
Added to which, the rising use of video, rich imaging, and AI applications means that much of this data is 'unstructured'. So much so that according to IDC as much as 80 percent of the world’s data will be unstructured by 2025. All of which adds further complexities into the equation when it comes to storing and preserving data so that it is accessible and available for analysis.
New AI-powered engine helps protect critical infrastructure
A new AI-based analysis and response engine designed to quickly address security gaps and resource limitations in mission critical operational infrastructure is being launched by Nozomi Networks.
Vantage IQ uses artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to help security teams by automating the time-consuming tasks associated with reviewing, correlating and prioritizing network, asset and alert data.
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