Category: Business

  • NIST updates and expands its flagship catalog of information system safeguards

    NIST updates and expands its flagship catalog of information system safeguards

    After your organization forms a general plan for tackling its cybersecurity and privacy risk management issues, it needs particular state-of-the-art tools to make that plan a reality. Computer security and privacy experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have the answer with an updated toolbox of safeguards for protecting an organization’s operations and assets, as well as the personal privacy of individuals.

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  • Italy to re-nationalise Alitalia in response to virus

    Italy to re-nationalise Alitalia in response to virus

    Italy’s government said Tuesday it will re-nationalise the bankrupt former national carrier Alitalia to make sure crises like the coronavirus pandemic never strand its compatriots abroad.

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  • Why people delay software updates, despite the risks

    Why people delay software updates, despite the risks

    In May 2017, around a quarter of a million computers around the world running Microsoft Windows were attacked and infected with malware that would later be named “WannaCry.” Victims found their computers locked and unusable, but could free them if the victims transferred Bitcoin—typically an amount equivalent to $300-600 USD—to the people behind the attack.

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  • Cathay Pacific cutting 90% of April flights due to virus

    Cathay Pacific cutting 90% of April flights due to virus

    Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways says it will cut its flight schedule by 90% in April after passenger traffic in February fell by more than half from a year ago amid travel curbs to fight the coronavirus.

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  • Australian carrier Qantas slashes international routes 90%

    Australian carrier Qantas slashes international routes 90%

    Australian airline Qantas announced Tuesday it was slashing its international capacity by 90 percent and domestic flights by 60 percent in a further coronavirus blow to the beleaguered travel industry.

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  • Virus-stricken airlines face bailout or bust

    Virus-stricken airlines face bailout or bust

    Airlines worldwide face an unprecedented existential threat as the coronavirus shuts down global travel, leaving governments with controversial and costly decisions about which carriers to bail out.

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  • VW warns of ‘very difficult’ year in virus crisis

    VW warns of ‘very difficult’ year in virus crisis

    The CEO of Volkswagen on Tuesday said the German auto giant was bracing for a “very difficult” year as the coronavirus epidemic wreaks havoc with the global economy.

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  • Amazon seeks to hire 100,000 to keep up with surge in orders

    Amazon seeks to hire 100,000 to keep up with surge in orders

    Amazon said Monday that it needs to hire 100,000 people across the U.S. to keep up with a crush of orders as the coronavirus spreads and keeps more people at home, shopping online.

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  • Machine-learning technique sharpens prediction of material’s mechanical properties

    Machine-learning technique sharpens prediction of material’s mechanical properties

    Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Brown University have developed new approaches that significantly improve the accuracy of an important material testing technique by harnessing the power of machine learning.

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  • Google sibling Verily launches COVID-19 screening website

    Google sibling Verily launches COVID-19 screening website

    Google sister company Verily has launched a website to screen people who think they might have COVID-19 and point them to testing sites. But you probably can’t use it to get tested quite yet.

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