The pandemic slammed many supply chains, but the supply chain issues in the semiconductor business fell particularly heavily on the auto industry, with big auto brands like BMW and Volkswagen, Ford and General Motors all warning of the impact of the chip shortage on production. AlixPartners has almost doubled its prediction of estimated losses since May of $110 billion to $210 billion. It’s forecasting that auto makers won’t produce 7....

The GOTRAX G4 electric scooter uses 10-inch pneumatic airless tires, so you can handle any bumps in the road with ease. Plus, the design features a display lock and a cable lock, so no one can unlock the scooter without the codes, making it easy to lock and head into class. For a range, the scooter can handle up to 25 miles on a single charge, and the display will show battery life....

In one sense, it’s all too human. Who trusts anyone these days? In another, however, it’s a dark portent of a world gone twisted. I’ve never been the same since reading the tale – posted to Reddit last year – of a company that used an IM system that offered three status choices: idle, available, or in a meeting. This fine system registered an employee as “idle” if they didn’t touch their keyboard for five minutes....

Datamart in Power BI: This new self-service capability is in Power BI Premium and is meant to help users to discover insights in their own data sets. Microsoft is describing Datamart in Power BI as bringing “turnkey data warehousing to millions of Power BI users” in a way they won’t have to rely on IT. This is in preview as of today. During the kick-off Build keynote, CEO Satya Nadella told developers attending virtually that data is their “most important app consideration....

But there’s one thing that’s so easily overlooked. Something that as a photographer using a mirrorless camera I do all the time. That’s clean my lens. Yup, it’s that simple. I noticed the other day that my iPhone photos looked washed out and had a weird, ugly streak of light going across the photos. I started to wonder if this was a bug with the iOS update. Or maybe something I’d done to the settings....

Here’s a look at what’s in this free PDF ebook. ZDNet’s Joe McKendrick’s primer on low-code and no-code solutions, ‘What is low-code and no-code? A guide to development platforms’, includes a review of the leading vendors with low- and no-code offerings. He investigates how the very definition of a developer is changing in the feature ‘Low-code and no-code is shifting the balance between business and technology professionals’ and explains why IT managers need to stay on top of what users are doing with application development in his article ‘Even in low-code software development, IT departments still need to hold users’ hands’....

Give your people the space to focus on creative projects Mia Sorgi, director of digital product and experience at PepsiCo Europe, says finding time to think about the future isn’t always easy, and all digital leaders will recognise that they must deliver the day-to-day operational requirements. “There’s a certain amount of digital transformation stuff that’s almost hygiene and that you need to do. And sometimes that’s 60% or 80% of what you need to do,” she says....

In this post, he addresses the foundational problems that are now manifestly obvious with traditional supply chain management. It is fascinating to see what kind of beneficial business outcomes could result from a CX-focused supply chain management effort. It is also an eminently practical thing to do at this juncture in history. After reading this, I highly suggest you contact Sven to continue the conversation. You can reach him here....

Newegg is offering the Wavlink N300 outdoor WiFi range extender for just $46 this Black Friday. That’s more than 70% off the original price of $160, saving you $114. This Wi-Fi extender is powerful enough to deliver Wi-Fi in large areas like a factory or street – so it should be able to reach the edge of your backyard. It supports 2.4G transmission speeds of up to 300Mbps, delivering WiFi to up to 64 devices at once....

Organizations had to rapidly pivot to digital environments and manage their teams through virtual meetings and apps. For many employees, however, the move to remote work improved their productivity and work-life balance. As a result, rolling back to office-only work has been a challenge for businesses now unwilling to offer hybrid or fully-remote roles, with some employees going so far as to resign or change jobs. In Depth: These experts are racing to protect AI from hackers....

Usernames and passwords for enterprise cloud services like Microsoft 365 are a prime target for cyber criminals, who can exploit them to launch malware or ransomware attacks, or sell stolen login credentials onto other hackers to use for their own campaigns. Cyber criminals are looking for sneaky new ways to dupe victims into clicking links to phishing websites designed to look like authentic Microsoft login pages, accidentally handing over their credentials....

There are many unknowns when it comes to alternative energy sources, but almost everybody agrees on one thing: we’re going to be using a lot more of them in the future. Fitting solar and wind power into a modern energy grid is challenging, but with those challenges come opportunities for career advancement. The next generation of engineers has to be well versed in the possibilities of renewable energy, and now there’s an online master class that can help: the 2022 Complete Renewable Energy Engineer Preparation Bundle....

A security researcher has publicly disclosed a bug present in iOS 15.2 (and going back to iOS 14.7 and possibly earlier) relating to HomeKit that could be used to permanently crash an iPhone. Trevor Spiniolas found that by changing the name of a HomeKit device to a large string (Spiniolas used 500,000 characters for the testing), this would crash the associated iPhone. To make matters worse, because the device name would be backed up to the user’s iCloud account, restoring an iPhone and signing back into the iCloud account linked to the HomeKit device would once again trigger the bug....

Analysis by cybersecurity researchers at Trend Micro identified LockBit Linux-ESXi Locker version 1.0 being advertised on an underground forum. Previously, LockBit ransomware – which was by far the most active ransomware family at one point last year – was focused on Windows. LockBit has a reputation as one of the most sneaky forms of ransomware. And now the Linux and VMware ESXi variant means that the ransomware could potentially spread itself even further, encrypting a wider variety of servers and files – and driving up the pressure for a victim to give in and pay a ransom for the decryption key....

Also: The best drawing tablets This drawing tablet is built for professionals: Artists who create digital art, graphic designers, photographers looking to make precise edits in Photoshop, etc. For serious digital artists, this tablet would be a valuable tool to help make detailed sketches, edits, or drawings. But for me? The Wacom Intuos Pro was simply fun. First Impressions Having never used a screenless tablet, the setup for the Wacom Intuos Pro was much different than simply turning on an iPad or a Samsung Galaxy Tab S8....

What’s called TinyML, a broad movement to write machine learning forms of AI that can run on very-low-powered devices, is now getting its own suite of benchmark tests of performance and power consumption. The test, MLPerf, is the creation of the MLCommons, an industry consortium that already issues annual benchmark evaluations of computers for the two parts of machine learning, so-called training, where a neural network is built by having its settings refined in multiple experiments; and so-called inference, where the finished neural network makes predictions as it receives new data....

Wi-Fi 6 ’s major benefit is that it more gracefully supports many devices. At my house, there are 3 Roku TVs, 4 Macs, 4 iPads, 3 Apple Watches, 3 HomePods, 3 iPhones, and 2 Apple TVs, all fed by 150Mb/sec cable. Only two of those devices support Wi-Fi 6 today, but that number will at least triple over the next year. Then there are the devices, usually more iPhones and iPads, that friends bring over....

For the telecommunications sector to be part of the CDR regime, the federal government must first specify classes of information or data to be designated before CDR rules and standards for the sector can be made. Treasury began consulting on a telecommunications designation in May, hearing from various industry stakeholders. Following this process, the department has shared its insights in the report [PDF], recommending that the designation should include generic and publicly available product data, product data that relates to particular products used by consumers, and basic consumer and account data such as data available to consumers on their bills or through online accounts or mobile apps....

The gaming platform reiterated that the incident was caused by a “server configuration change that allowed improper access by an unauthorized third party.” They claimed Twitch passwords were not exposed in the breach and said they are “confident” that the systems storing Twitch login credentials, which are hashed with bcrypt, were not accessed, nor were full credit card numbers or ACH/bank information. “The exposed data primarily contained documents from Twitch’s source code repository, as well as a subset of creator payout data....

The expected vote comes just about a month before a trial is set to begin to determine whether the acquisition should move forward. Musk has made it clear he’s no longer interested in owning the social media platform. “Twitter stands ready and willing to complete the merger with affiliates of Mr. Musk immediately,” the company said in a statement Tuesday. “Twitter continues to believe that Mr. Musk’s purported termination of the merger agreement is invalid and without merit, and that the Musk parties continue to be bound by the merger agreement and obligated to complete the merger on the agreed terms and conditions....