Month: January 2022
Cancel flights due to 5G safety fears
British Airways is among the airlines cancelling US flights due to 5G safety concerns as Several other airlines are grounding flights to and from the US due to the rollout of the mobile phone technology near airports. The action is in response to fears that the activation of the C-band strand of the mobile phone
Microsoft $69bn on video Games
Microsoft boasts a market capitalisation of around $2.3trn, $69bn is a lot of money. On January 18th the firm said it would pay that sum all of it in cash—for Activision Blizzard, a video-game developer. It is both the biggest acquisition ever made in the video-game industry and the biggest ever made by Microsoft, more
New NATO and RUSSIA
In 30 years the NATO has expanded more than 1,000km to the east of the former front line dividing Germany. A bloc that once shared only a slender border with Russia, in Norway’s northern fringes, now encompasses the Baltic states, former Soviet territories within 200km of St Petersburg and 600km of Moscow. Seven of the
Russia’s military options in Ukraine
Sweden’s decision to fortify the Baltic island, which lies close to Russia’s European exclave of Kaliningrad, reflects wider fears that war is looming. Russia has gathered over 100,000 troops near Ukraine’s borders, with more streaming in from the far east, and declared that talks with America and NATO held last week were a bust. It
Free N95 Masks for Americans
President Joe Biden announced plans to provide free high quality masks to Americans last week but did not provide any details. Health experts and officials, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warn single-layer cloth masks provide insufficient protection against the highly transmissible omicron variant and advise wearing a tight-fitting mask with effective filtration
Data Integration Hubs
A data hub enables information sharing by connecting data producers with data consumers. Systems of record publish their data in real-time to the integration data hub so applications can access, consume and use the data in real-time. The hub provides a point of mediation, governance and visibility to how data flows across the enterprise. It
New esports campus
The British Esports Association will create a campus with classrooms and performance arena at the Riverside. A centre dedicated to competitive electronic gaming is set to open in a former car showroom in Sunderland. Competitive gaming, where teams of players pit their skills against rivals online, has tournaments with prizes of millions of pounds and
Apps Encryption
Messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal already use E2EE, and Meta plans to deploy it in Facebook Messenger, but the No Place to Hide campaign says it makes it harder to detect child abuse. When messages are sent using E2EE, only the sender and receiver can read them, not law enforcement or the app owners.
Gavin Williams banned from teaching
A rugby coach has been banned from teaching after a panel found he asked girls as young as 13 for nude pictures. Gavin Williams, 34, was rugby partnership officer at Aberdare Community School, Rhondda Cynon Taf, for more than six years. A fitness to practise panel heard he messaged eight girls on Instagram and Snapchat
Beijing Olympics app vulnerability
The My2022 app will be used by athletes, audience members and media for daily Covid monitoring. The Beijing Winter Olympics app that all Games attendees must use contains security weaknesses that leave users exposed to data breaches, analysts say. But cybersecurity group Citizen Lab says the app fails to provide encryption on many of its