| | Tech News Flash March 16, 2021 | | New Threat Report Finds Email Prime Vehicle for Malware | | Malicious online actors used email as their prime vehicle for delivering malware to their victims in the last quarter of 2020. The HP-Bromium Threat Insights Report found that 88 percent of malware was delivered by email into its targets' inboxes, many times evading measures at email gateways to filter out the infected correspondence. | | SPONSORED Investors have $20 billion to acquire businesses. Is yours one of them? | | Our Technology M&A: 2021 Outlook gives owners, founders and entrepreneurs insight into why e-commerce is dominating technology acquisitions, what this means for multiples, when investors are looking to allocate capital and more. | | The EU's Cure for the E-Waste Epidemic | | Globally, we throw out 50 million tons of electronics waste every year, which is the equivalent of 1,000 laptops every second. This month the EU addressed this problem with a comprehensive "right to repair" law to dramatically reduce this waste. Let's explore electrical hardware sustainability issues this week, and look at a laptop that seems to anticipate these new e-waste regulations. | | Microsoft Confident Exchange Hack Is State-Sponsored Operation | | Microsoft has reported that multiple malicious actors were taking advantage of vulnerabilities in its Exchange software recently to attack systems at organizations that have failed to patch the flaws. The company attributed the attacks "with high confidence" to Hafnium, a group believed to be state-sponsored and operating out of China. | | AI Vision System Hoodwinked by Pen and Paper | | Skeptics of giving computers control over high-risk activities like driving cars were given some ammunition when researchers at OpenAI discovered their two-month-old machine vision system could be tricked with a pen and paper into misidentifying objects. | | Commission Issues Blueprint to Boost AI Prowess in US | | A road map for continued U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence has been revealed in a 756-page report released by the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. Two years in the making, the report made a number of recommendations, including an emphasis on the need for the United States to win the AI competition with China. | | TRENDING ON TECHNEWSWORLD | | Biometric Authentication Will Revamp the Commerce Experience As they become more prominent, consumers will enjoy shopping experiences that no longer rely on payments from a piece of plastic with a four-digit pin. Instead, consumers will use unique motion sensors in smartphone devices... Read more www.technewsworld.com | | | | | | AI App Puts New Life in Old Photos Nostalgia website MyHeritage has launched a new service that allows you to create lifelike animations of faces in still photos. The AI-powered service called Deep Nostalgia is free to try and is remarkably accurate. Read more www.technewsworld.com | | | | | | Global Commerce, Simplified with Digital River At Digital River we believe in using our global expertise to fuel and optimize commerce, open doors to new markets and facilitate payments around the world. Build an ecommerce solution customized for your business. Read more www.digitalriver.com | | | | | | Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity Pursue lucrative and in-demand roles with Utica College's 100% online cybersecurity degree. You’ll choose from four specializations to tailor your degree to your career goals. Read more programs.online.utica.edu | | | | | | Forrester Consulting Study, AI-Infused Contact Centers Create a road map to a truly cognitive contact center. Ensure AI investments achieve the dual goals of automation and customer satisfaction. Empower agents with AI-enabled tools that enhance CX. Coach, train and develop new agents wherever they work. Read more get.niceincontact.com | | | | | | Women in Tech: 20 Trailblazers Share Their Journeys | | | | Successful women in the tech trenches share their insights and tackle subjects ranging from how to search out a strong mentor to how to be one -- from how to advance in a large company to how to start your own firm.
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