An evacuation order was originally put in place for the Lismore CBD on March 29 and was removed the same afternoon, only to be reinstated at 3am the next day. The state government has since established an independent inquiry to examine and report on the cause of, preparedness for, response to and recovery from the flood event. But with catastrophic weather events like these only predicted to worsen, parts of the country, such as Latrobe City Council in regional Victoria believes it has equipped the local community with the right tools to allow them to stay informed and respond appropriately to any potential emergencies....

The 24 courses in this bundle will provide you with a comprehensive overview of cybersecurity awareness and prevention. They will help you to master one of the most crucial areas of computing by providing you with the latest knowledge, as well as the newest tools and techniques. You will take deep dives into the specifics of security as to how it relates to networks, databases, and the cloud. Security procedures for project management are covered too....

If you’re considering a tech career, it pays to know SAP. You might not have heard those initials before, but companies like 3M, Coca-Cola, and Ford Motors certainly have. They’re just a few of the American firms that rely on the services of the top-earning software company based outside the U.S. That means that the more you know about their systems, the higher your value to employers that use SAP....

Believe it or not, switching from landscape to vertical orientation is more practical than for watching TikTok videos and YouTube Shorts. (But if you want a monitor for 9:16 content consumption, that’s cool too.) Business users have found the vertical layout beneficial for scanning through taller pages like press releases, articles, and documents. While other professionals have taken advantage of the taller aspect ratio like when video-editing layers of layers of footage, effects, and audio....

Torvalds says Linux 5.19 contains “nothing really interesting” and a “lot of random stuff”. The most interesting thing about the release, according to Torvalds, is the fact he used an Arm64 development platform. Torvalds has been keen on using an Apple M1 MacBook Air, which he’s previously said would be “almost perfect, except for the OS.” Last year the Asahi Linux project was working to bring the Arch Linux distro to Apple’s M1 architecture....

For once, I disagree with Torvalds. Also: Microsoft finally authorizes Windows 11 on Apple M1 and M2 Macs By adding upstream support for the Apple M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M1 Ultra chips, newer Mac owners can look forward to running Linux on their M1-powered machines. And, for techies, that’s sexy. Getting Linux to run on the M1 family wasn’t easy. When these high-powered ARM chips first arrived, Torvalds told me in an exclusive interview that he’d like to run Linux on these next-generation Macs....

On Tuesday, Sophos cybersecurity researchers said the attacks were first detected in mid-January and are ongoing. Not only are backdoors and cryptocurrency miners being deployed, but in addition, scripts are used to gather and steal device information. Log4Shell is a critical vulnerability in Apache Log4J Java logging library. The unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability was made public in December 2021 and is tracked as CVE-2021-44228 with a CVSS score of 10....

Dmitry Antipov, a Linux developer at CloudLinux, AlmaLinux OS’s parent company, first spotted the problem in March 2021. Antipov found that RPM would work with unauthorized RPM packages. This meant that unsigned packages or packages signed with revoked keys could silently be patched or updated without a word of warning that they might not be kosher. Why? Because RPM had never properly checked revoked certificate key handling. Specifically, as Linux and lead RPM developer Panu Matilainen explained: “Revocation is one of the many unimplemented things in rpm’s OpenPGP support....

The company introduced Astro, which includes Alexa, computer vision and AI. Astro will cost $1,449.99, but as part of the Day 1 Editions program, it will be available for an introductory price of $999.99 with a six-month trial of the Ring Protect Pro subscription included. Limp said he has been using Astro for a year in testing to check on loved ones and pets. A periscope feature can check on objects and investigate activity....

To help researchers address those problems, Meta, on Friday, announced the release of a new large language model called LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI). The company is making it available under a noncommercial license focused on research use cases, with plans to grant access on a case-by-case basis. It will be available to academic researchers; those affiliated with organizations in government, civil society, and academia; and industry research laboratories around the world....

WebView 2, which is built on Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge browser, is included as part of Windows 11 but for Windows 10, Microsoft has recommended developers distribute and install the runtime with their applications. WebView2 is a control for integrating web content into an app, such as in JavaScript and HTML. Edge serves as the rendering engine to display web content in apps. SEE: Windows 11: Microsoft gives Notepad an update it thinks you will enjoy Microsoft says that more than 400 million Windows 10 devices now have WebView2, thanks to developers distributing WebView2 applications....

Already announced for other Microsoft 365 apps, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, the Copilot integration for OneNote will combine large language models (LLMs) such as Open AI’s GPT-4 with your notes, calendars, emails, chats, documents, meetings, and other data. As such, the tool aims to assist you in two key ways, according to Microsoft. Also: How to use ChatGPT to create an app First, the Copilot AI will work behind the scenes to try to help you as you work....

Here’s a transcript of our conversation, edited slightly for clarity. MJF: For anyone who’s interested in the Microsoft Cloud, what do you consider to be the top three or four “hidden gems” at Ignite? I’m thinking topics which may not have gotten enough attention or things that people might be interested in if they knew more about them. Guthrie: I think I’d say one macro trend that we’ve talked about before this Ignite obviously is the integration of the subcomponents of the Microsoft Cloud, and the fact that you can take advantage of these pieces that are not required but are preintegrated to get faster value....

If you want a thorough explanation of what changed regarding the Edge protocol, I’d recommend this post from ghacks.net. In short, Microsoft blocked tools like Edge Deflector and Search Deflector, which were designed to make selecting a browser other than Edge more of a straightforward process. Microsoft didn’t do this by accident, and officials made it clear they aren’t considering relenting on this. In last week’s Windows 11 Dev Channel test build notes, there’s a line that acknowledges its latest move....

The rankings, compiled by the Claremont Graduate University’s Drucker Institute for the Wall Street Journal’s (WSJ) Management Top 250 list, compares America’s largest publicly traded companies. Microsoft led the pack, followed by Apple (2), IBM (3), General Motors (4), and Whirlpool (5). As noted by WSJ, last year, the first five spots were taken by tech companies. This year’s top five consist of three firms founded before World War I: IBM and Whirlpool were founded in 1911, while GM was founded in 1908....

Microsoft Teams Together Mode, which displays participants in a common virtual room like a lecture hall, now allows meeting organizers to assign seats to participants. The app also lets users pop out shared meeting content, like a PowerPoint presentation, into a separate window so users can see each other and their content more easily. Also: Four ways to get noticed in the changing world of work There are also updates for live translated captions that are tied to Microsoft’s new Teams Premium accounts....

The new Clippy is now part of Microsoft’s attempt to lighten up Teams video calls after a year of remote working. But this time around, Clippy’s job has been reduced from that of an animated helper to a mere Teams background image, where he’s not working but instead just sitting on an endless Office ribbon, which is a nod to an old Clippy Flash animation on the Office ribbon. “After well over a year of remote and hybrid work we could all use some excitement on video calls, we asked our designers to give a few memorable Microsoft moments their debut as Microsoft Teams backgrounds,” Microsoft said in a blogpost....

As part of Meta’s unveiling, Microsoft announced it will bring Mesh for Teams to Meta Quest devices. Microsoft’s Mesh for Teams, announced in November 2021, is a feature of the Teams collaboration platform which will combine the mixed-reality capabilities of the Microsoft Mesh platform with the productivity tools like meetings, chat and document collaboration of Teams. Microsoft has been building immersive spaces for Mesh for Teams users, as well as avatars that Teams users can use as an alternative to having their cameras always on....

Officials said today that Microsoft will have an “accommodation” process in place for employees, so that those with a medical condition or other protected reason, such as religion, which prevents them from getting vaccinated, will be able to obtain an exemption. They also said caregivers of those who are immunosuppressed or parents of children too young to receive a vaccine will be able to continue to work from home until January 2022....