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This year, companies are playing tug-of-war with employees over return-to-office policies while also battling the competition for the best tech talent. In particular, employers are finding creative ways to adjust their hiring strategies in order to attract and retain talent in a pool that has shrunk over the last two years. As economic uncertainties loom large over 2023, ZDNET examines how these trends might shape the workplace over the next 12 months....

If you’ve been paying attention, you know things are starting to heat up. Just this week people in the great state of Iowa had the first chance to exercise their right to vote. The Democratic Iowa Caucus was held on Monday and things did not go smoothly. In fact, results didn’t start trickling out until the following day. But when they did, well, let’s just say Kim had a few comments on the whole debacle....

HTC is going to release a phone later this year codenamed “Zara”. Thanks to Evan Blass, the man behind the famous @evleaks Twitter account, we now have a spec sheet and a photograph. Let’s get this out of the way: This phone is not for you. Most everyone reading this is likely considering a phone with a screen that outputs at least 720p, and the Zara only does 960 x 540 pixels....

Today Samsung’s sales have declined big time. Their latest flagship, the Galaxy S5 didn’t sell much as its predecessor and the company had to catastrophically reduce its price to boost sales. There were even reports that Micromax has officially taken over them as the number one smartphone seller in India (but Samsung has rubbished this claim). Also, what isn’t helping them is that their old-time nemesis Apple has brought out big-screen phones which are selling like hot cakes in the Asian markets where Samsung has dominance....

Google’s next mid-range Pixel has been leaked in its entirety. Its design, features, specs, and pricing has been reported extensively, and it was rumored that the mid-range phone would be unveiled in June 2020. Now, a new report suggests that the Pixel 4a has seen another delay in the launch. The Pixel 4a was originally meant to be launched sometime this month. However, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic situation, the internet search giant had to delay the launch to June 2020....

We will take a closer look at the current state of demand for threat hunters, job titles and responsibilities, and potential earnings for individuals that choose to embark on this exciting career path. What Is a Threat Hunter and What Do They Do? We can think of threat hunters, also known as cyberthreat hunters, as IT professionals with a strong foundation in information security. They are responsible for searching their organizations’ IT systems, applications and data for security issues that are either known or unknown....

So goes one of the most iconic and quoted lines in Hollywood history – Marlon Brando in his role as a thug who collects money for a gang lord confronting his brother Charlie (played by Rod Steiger) as to why he did not let him do what he was capable of, which was incidentally, being a boxing champion. And well, call us sentimental fools if you wish, but we had a similar sensation when Samsung launched its M series of devices yesterday, and particularly the M20, the better specced of the two devices (read our review here)....

The Tor Project after unsuccessfully gone through from France criticism now planning to branch out its own way which will be separate from Government source, Now the former Electronic Frontier Foundation executive director will lead the Tor Project, a tool which lack of information being anonymous which regularly in the news of encryption and privacy. Also Read: 12 Study Hacks That Will Improve Your Studying – Study Hacks 2016 “Shari Steele the former director of Electronic Frontier Foundation elected in the part of her own personal experience in nonprofits company and now she will be an internal part of Tor Project to diversify our funding sources” Tor Interim executive director Roger Dingledine wrote in a blog post....

The retailer, which has over 500 stores across the UK, says it has been subjected to a “cybersecurity incident involving unauthorised access to its computer systems”. As a result of the cyber attack, some stores have been forced to close because of issues with tills, while replenishment of stock has been temporarily suspended. Customers who order items online are experiencing longer waits for their deliveries because of the incident. SEE: A winning strategy for cybersecurity (ZDNet special report) The retailer says customer payment details haven’t been accessed by intruders because credit and debit card details are stored securely outside of store systems by third-parties....

Themer — the highly customisable launcher that allows users to apply beautiful themes from the MyColorScreen website at the tap of a button — has been suspended from the Play Store because of a copyright complaint from Apple. Apple claimed that the “Seven” theme in the Themer repository infringed their copyrights by including many icons from iOS7. The Themer team immediately removed the theme from their directory, hoping that the app would be re-released on the Play Store in a few days....

Motorola today officially announced its Android 7.0 Nougat update plans. The Lenovo-owned company will start rolling out Nougat update in Q4 with the Moto Z and Moto G (4th gen.). Android 7.0 Nougat comes with a number of new features including a redesigned notification panel and Settings menu, multi-window multitasking, built-in data saver mode, and more. As for the devices that will be getting the Nougat update from Motorola, below is the full list:...

It is true that we are in a sector and an industry in which there are ideas that are ‘borrowed’, that inspire or serve as a starting point for the rest. The tech giant Apple set a standard in terms of screen and usability with its iPhone in 2007. The South Korean giant Samsung dared with the curved designs and put the Infinity Display concept that now continues to the new Honor....

Any security professional knows that once an attacker gets inside your network, damage is near inevitable. Endpoints — all the clients, computers, phones, tablets and IoT devices — provide that many more opportunities for someone or something malicious to slip through. Endpoint security is also your safeguard against honest and simple human error. Most employees are woefully unaware of even common-sense security practices. It’s very easy for an employee to mistakenly cause a security breach or even accidentally destroy data themselves....

To be more precise, IAT is the table that contains references between the function names and their virtual addresses, which are exported from different loaded modules. Each executable or DLL library contains a PE header, which has all the information that the executable needs for the operating system to start successfully, including the IAT table. To understand where the IAT table is located, we must first talk about the PE header....

Nobody knows when life will return to normal. Even offices that reopen will have to implement new safety procedures. But one thing’s for sure: Tons of people realized they’d rather work remotely than in the office. If you’re looking for a new long-distance gig, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve scoured the internet for some of the highest-paying jobs that let you work from home. Whether you’re a physician or software expert, you’re sure to find a job that catches your eye....

Net Worth: $76.2 Billion Bill Gates, the owner of Microsoft has a net worth of 79.6 billion dollars. Since the launch of Microsoft in 1975, he has donated billions of dollars towards charity. #2 Jeff Bezos Net Worth: $50.5 billion #3 Lary Ellison Net Worth: $42.7 Billion #4 Mark Zuckerberg Net Worth: $41.3 Billion Owner of social networking giant, “Facebook” which is now having 1 Billion users and is the youngest tech billionaire aged 31....

If you place it next to you at night, it can track how many hours of sleep you got in. It’s also helpful if you snore or roll around a lot. Apple has one of the most robust Health apps and affords iOS users many features and trackers. The release of Apple’s iOS 15 naturally added more functionality to Apple’s Health app. Here is the latest one and why you should activate it....

If you’re anything like me, you don’t get enough sleep (I’m drinking an oversized Monster Energy drink while writing this). So I thought it was time to dive into the ay Store test out the many different apps designed to assist in getting some ZZZs. I led on four solid options that tackle this problem in different ways. Sleep trackers measure your movement throughout the night produce data about how much sleep you get how restful it is....

Peter Sunde, the founder of Pirate Bay, offers an artistic concept that describes the latest hacking machine. The Kopimashin creates millions of examples of work to prove the stupidity of piracy-related losses when Majors are charging million. Also Read: How To Bypass iCloud Activation May 2015 – iPhone Hacks There are several types of people. The first fall in line when approved by the system, lately become more restricted, though they never terminate their criticism of the system....

An overview of current employee monitoring Employee monitoring enables organizations to track the activities that employees engage in so that they can measure their productivity and determine the amount of work done. For instance, organizations can use monitoring solutions to determine employee attendance, number of hours worked and even ensure security of sensitive information. This information is important when it comes to decision-making within the organization. But while employers are able to collect quite a lot of information today, this comes without some advantages and disadvantages....