Hi John, The CSIRO's Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, a radio telescope that has few equals in the world, has been used to conduct a survey of the entire southern sky in record speed and detail, creating a new atlas of the universe.
Italian financial analyst site Finaria has pointed the finger at the COVID-19 outbreak triggering "the most significant fall in PC shipments since 2013, as pandemic affected supply chains and forced consumers to prioritise their spending". Security firm Intel 471 claims to have discovered a pattern in ransomware attacks over the past 18 months, with a growing inter-dependence between the actual attackers and those who sell access to compromised systems. New Zealand cable operator Hawaiki Submarine Cable has signed a deal with Honolulu-based Hawaiian Telcom which, it says, would give it "significant" capacity on the Southeast Asia-United States (SEA-US) trans-Pacific fibre cable system from Guam to Los Angeles. Samsung will be the lone name missing from the list of Android smartphone makers who have all pledged to use the latest silicon from Qualcomm, the 888 5G mobile platform, in smartphones next year. The NBN Co, the body rolling out Australia's national broadband network, has taken on another $1.2 billion of debt at 1% over five years. AWS has announced an unusually wide-ranging collection of new products and features in EC2, Outposts, Storage, Databases, Containers, DevOps, Analytics, Amazon Connect, Industrial Machine Laerning - and more! As we’ve heard from a range of security vendors this year, remote work and cloud computing during COVID-19 have contributed to increased ransomware attacks, with the healthcare industry the most vulnerable, according to Datto’s latest report. And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com. Have a great day - and thank you for being a loyal iTWire reader! Alex Zaharov-Reutt, Newsletter Editor, iTWire PROMOTE YOUR WEBINAR on iTWire.com Contact: andrew.matler@itwire.com 0412 390 000
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