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Facebook unveils VR remote working experience, Horizon Workrooms
News Using the Oculus Quest 2, workers can beam their own Sims-style avatar into the ‘metaverse’
Weekly threat roundup: Blackberry QNX, Cisco VPNs, Fortinet firewalls
News Pulling together the most dangerous and pressing flaws that businesses need to patch
LG hails 6G breakthrough with successful outdoor test
News Tech firm claims it has overcome a major hurdle to viable long-range 6G connections
Qualcomm unveils first 5G and AI-compatible drone platform
News The Qualcomm Flight RB5 5G Platform aims to bring together several complex technologies into a single system
GitHub Discussions is now generally available
News The inclusion of Reddit-like features such as upvoting and discussion pinning aims to improve the user experience
MoD launches callout for tech to plug cyber security holes
News The £300,000 call for submissions aims to address a landscape that’s “full of legacy systems vulnerable to cyber attack”
Intel unveils Arc brand with new GPUs arriving in 2022
News The first hardware generation, nicknamed Alchemist, will be based on the Xe microarchitecture
Cisco acquires Israeli application monitoring startup Epsagon
News Technology and expertise from the cloud monitoring startup will feed into Cisco’s full-stack observability strategy
Windows 11 will introduce ‘focus sessions’ to help with remote work distractions
News This tool pairs tasks on a to-do list with Spotify playlists to allow workers to concentrate while working from home or in the office
Microsoft tests experimental “Super Duper Secure Mode” for Edge browser
News Developers will strip back buggy performance-boosting tech to make room for additional security features
Microsoft shuts down Windows 365 free trials after significant demand
News The widely anticipated Cloud PC service launched on Monday with configurations available between £17 and £134.60 per user, per month
Thales to offload railway signalling division to focus on cyber security
News Hitachi set to acquire the transport business for approximately £1.4 billion
Google bundles Android and web authentication APIs under one banner
News Google Identity Services' SDK includes 'Sign in with Google' and 'One Tap' security tokens
Rishi Sunak: Teams and Zoom are bad for relationship building
News The chancellor says young workers should return to the workplace if they want to develop their careers
What's behind the explosion in zero-day exploits?
In-depth Projections show the industry will detect almost three times as many exploits in 2021 as were found last year
Starlink to establish Isle of Man base station to achieve full UK coverage
News Elon Musk’s satellite internet service will reach remote regions that aren’t yet covered by 5G or full-fibre networks
Amazon faces £637 million fine over GDPR violations
News If confirmed, the penalty would be almost 15-times larger than the current record fine
Intel unveils Xeon W-3300 Ice Lake CPUs for workstations
News The family of five W-3300 processors support up to 4TB of eight-channel DDR4 memory
Microsoft warns of dangerous ‘BazaCall’ call centre ransomware scam
News Human operators are tricking victims into manually downloading malware onto their systems
Amazon to retire iconic EC2-Classic network
News Customers will have until 2022 to migrate from the 15-year-old network to VPC
Data breach costs surge to record high in 2021
News The cost in the UK was above the global average, but the US is home to the most expensive data breaches
Hackers turning to 'exotic' languages for next-gen malware, report warns
News Coding languages such as Go, Rust, Nim and DLang are allowing malware authors to avoid signature detection and add layers of obfuscation
Intel's four-year roadmap kicks off with Amazon, Qualcomm chip deals
News Intel confirms first foundry customers as it sets out a 2025 target for recovery
