Partner content The FCC may be facing another nuclear-sized interference problem 21st December 2021 Federal spectrum regulators at the FCC have come under increasing fire over concerns that 5G in C-band spectrum might interfere with aircraft radio altimeters. Indeed, that issue has ballooned into a major national debate, with executives in the airline industry claiming a “catastrophic failure” in regulations, while wireless technology experts lament the government’s failure to “uphold its statutory […]
Partner content Lights out: Cyberattacks shut down building automation systems 21st December 2021 A building automation engineering firm experienced a nightmare scenario: It suddenly lost contact with hundreds of its building automation system (BAS) devices — light switches, motion detectors, shutter controllers, and others — after a rare cyberattack locked the company out of the BAS it had constructed for an office building client. The firm, located in […]
Partner content Nvidia hardware puts power-pole tracking technology to the test 21st December 2021 FirstEnergy has completed a pilot program demonstrating how computer vision can be deployed to analyze thousands of utility pole infrastructure images. The company teamed up with Noteworthy AI to install smart cameras in its utility truck fleet, with software powered by edge AI chips from Nvidia’s offering. FirstEnergy’s utility pole network spans 269,000 miles of distribution […]
News Public-safety reps react to apparent demise of bill with NG911 funding 20th December 2021 Public-safety leaders today expressed disappointment that efforts to secure federal funding for next-generation 911 (NG911) deployments likely will need to begin anew after hopes to pass the $2 trillion Build Back Better bill were dashed with an announcement of opposition from Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.). Senate Democrats have been trying for months to persuade moderate […]
Partner content Original fix for Log4j flaw fails to fully protect against DoS attacks, data theft 16th December 2021 Security experts are now urging organizations to quickly update to a new version of the Log4j logging framework that the Apache Foundation released Tuesday because its original fix for a critical remote-code execution flaw in the logging tool does not adequately protect against attacks in some situations. According to the Apache Foundation, the Apache Log4j […]
Partner content Another AWS outage and more cloud worries 16th December 2021 AWS had another outage this week, but this one was brief. The cloud giant said on its service availability dashboard on Wednesday that it had outages in its US West region – Oregon and California – and resolved both connectivity issues quickly. Multiple news reports cite Downdetector.com data revealing that several services that use Amazon’s cloud to […]
Partner content Zyter’s smart-agriculture solution offers farmers real-time insights 16th December 2021 Farmers are set to gain more intelligent insights into the granular condition of their soil thanks to a new product from smart agriculture vendor Zyter. The Maryland-based company’s Smart Agriculture solution gathers soil data and atmospheric analysis from IoT sensors beneath the ground. Information is then processed to provide a virtual view of the farm’s […]
News Honeywell to buy US Digital Designs as part of public-safety strategy 15th December 2021 Honeywell has agreed to purchase alerting and dispatch communications provider US Digital Designs in an all-cash deal that is expected to enhance Honeywell’s efforts to help public-safety agencies accelerate response times, particularly in the case of structural fires. Sameer Agrawal, Honeywell’s general manager for software and services, said the hardware and software solutions from Arizona-based […]
Partner content Cloud burst: How the EU’s Gaia-X project went awry 15th December 2021 For all the difficulties it has met along the way, Europe’s cloud infrastructure project Gaia-X had impressive enough origins. Not many tech startups, after all, get launched in the European Parliament, by the EU’s president. “We will build a European cloud as part of NextGenerationEU – based on Gaia-X,” intoned Ursula von der Leyen in […]
Partner content Lack of patching leaves 300,000 routers at risk 13th December 2021 Hundreds of thousands of routers produced by Latvian network hardware firm MikroTik remain vulnerable to at least one of four exploitable vulnerabilities that are at least a year old and are likely being used by attackers as part of their operational infrastructure, researchers say. A new report from security firm Eclypsium says that of the approximately […]
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