Combat drone to compete against piloted plane
The US Air Force will pit an advanced autonomous aircraft against a piloted plane in tests. Source:: BBC News – Technology
The US Air Force will pit an advanced autonomous aircraft against a piloted plane in tests. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Last week, Google and the Cybercrime Support Network launched a public service site called Scam Spotter that aims to bring scam awareness and fraud protection to all users, including the least tech-savvy. The site uses an easy-to-read large font and very simple terms to explain scams and describe “three golden rules” every user can follow…
The app, first tested on the Isle of Wight, had been expected to be rolled out at the end of May. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Rail passengers will be warned if trains or stations are busy, to aid social distancing. Source:: BBC News – Technology
After several years of development Facebook’s networking division is finally getting the commercial UK launch of their new Terragraph wireless broadband technology off the ground, which uses a mesh of small cell style 60GHz (mmW) base stations to distribute a gigabit speed broadband ISP connection across communities. The idea of using the 60GHz millimeter Wave…
In this blog post, we will walk you through the reliability model of services running in our more than 200 edge cities worldwide. Then, we will go over how deploying a new dynamic task scheduling system, HashiCorp Nomad, helped us improve the availability of services in each of those data centers, covering how we deployed…
Even in an always-connected world, we may not be always ready to read something interesting that comes its way. The FOMORS (fear of missing out reading something) once led to a profusion of “read it later” services. These let you easily store an article for later review at your leisure. An article might be a…
The Razer Kraken has long been a favorite of people buying a gaming headset on the cheap. Listing at $80, and often discounted even lower, it’s one of the cheaper name-brand headsets on the market. But what if it were even less expensive? The new Razer Kraken X retails for a mere $50, or $30…
After remaining relatively quiet over the past few months, the threat actors behind the eCh0raix Ransomware have launched a brand new campaign targeting QNAP storage devices. […] Source:: BleepingComputer
Email holds the keys to the kingdom. All your password resets go through email, and abandoning an old domain name makes it easy for attackers to re-register the old domain and get your stuff. [ Keep up with 8 hot cyber security trends (and 4 going cold). Give your career a boost with top security…
Email holds the keys to the kingdom. All your password resets go through email, and abandoning an old domain name makes it easy for attackers to re-register the old domain and get your stuff. [ Keep up with 8 hot cyber security trends (and 4 going cold). Give your career a boost with top security…
Mobile operators Three UK and Vodafone have revealed that they will start re-opening their high street stores on 15th June 2020, albeit with new social distancing measures to help protect both staff and customers alike. The move comes after EE (BT) confirmed (here) that all of their stores would also reopen on the same date.…
A new YouGov survey of 2,301 UK adults has reported that 28% of people experienced an internet connection that was “slightly worse” than usual during the COVID-19 lockdown, while 7% said it was “much worse” and 57% saw “no change“. At the same time 73% said they were making heavier use of broadband due to…
Attackers have been pounding employee inboxes at companies that still use private branch eXchange (PBX) telephone systems for communication, delivering phishing that bypasses email defenses. […] Source:: BleepingComputer
The app will “be running as soon as we think it is robust”, a government minister says. Source:: BBC News – Technology
BBC Click’s Paul Carter looks at some of the best of the week’s technology news stories. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility has added support for managing the recovery point objective (RPO) in an Aurora PostgreSQL Global Database configuration. Source:: Amazon AWS
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have updated Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility to support PostgreSQL minor versions 11.7, 10.12, and 9.6.17. These releases contains bug fixes and improvements from the PostgreSQL community, as well as bug fixes and improvements specific to Aurora PostgreSQL. Source:: Amazon AWS
Hi-tech cleaning products are being offered to tackle coronavirus, but are they better than soap and water? Source:: BBC News – Technology
The NCSC’s weekly threat report is drawn from recent open source reporting. Source:: NCSC Guidance