Review of the week: Auto, Security, Ubiquitous IT

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the Government of the United States agencies issue a warning that the Russian military used a Kubernetes cluster to attempt distributed and anonymized brute-force access against hundreds of government and private sector targets around the world. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA) and National Cyber ​​Security Center jointly issued the warning. The agencies said the attacks began at least between mid-2019 and early 2021 and were called Fancy Bear, APT28 and Strontium. The 85th Main Special Services Center (GTsSS) of the General Intelligence Directorate (GRU) of the Russian General Staff is specifically named in the warning, military unit 26165. The servers were attacked. One way to protect against attacks is to use two-factor authentication.

The US federal government has stepped up its cybersecurity defense. EDS ad it has hired and integrated 300 cybersecurity professionals and offers temporary job offers to 500 others. The department is in a 60-day hiring action it calls the Cybersecurity Workforce Sprint. A total of 2000 vacant positions need to be filled. DHS’s CISA will also keep a published list poor security practices. Finally a historically significant budget for CISA $ 2.42 billion just passed without opposition of its House subcommittee.

Microsoft announced its new operating system Windows 11, which has a more stringent security basis required for the hardware it runs on. The operating system is designed to work only on systems with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 security chip. the TPM 2.0 generates, stores and manages the use of cryptographic keys and supports a powerful cryptographic algorithm called Secure Hash Algorithm 2 256 (SHA-2 256).

Adelphi University launched the Anita D’Amico Endowment Fund for Cybersecurity and Psychology Research. The endowment will fund research that examines the intersections between psychology and cybersecurity. “I am honored that Adelphi University has launched this cybersecurity and psychology research endowment fund on my behalf and I thank everyone who contributes. Human attitudes and behaviors greatly contribute to the safety and security of cybersystems, ”said Anita D’Amico, Vice President of Market Development at Synopsis. “Psychological principles can be used to better understand the interplay between cyber attackers and defenders and can shed light on how to motivate everyday computer users to adopt safer practices and avoid unsafe behaviors. risk. Human factors research can provide insight into organizational characteristics that influence the introduction of vulnerabilities in software and systems. This endowment will fund interdisciplinary research in psychology and cybersecurity in order to promote a safer and more secure cyber world. D’Amico was most recently the CEO of Code Dx, which was acquired by Synopsys.

Ubiquitous Computing – IoT, Edge, Cloud, Data Center and Return
The majority of consumers interviewed in a recent report driven by Cadence felt that hyperconnectivity – always being connected to a network through a device – was a good thing – with caveats. Consumers want devices to be secure, convenient, and work together seamlessly. Recorded consumer cadence want lists, which include great battery life, frictionless updates, data security, and transparency of how data is used. Cadence asked an independent analytics agency to interview 3,073 adults in five key tech markets, including the United States, United Kingdom, Israel, China and Germany, in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Synopsis” Fusion Design Platform is qualified for Samsung FoundryThe latest 3nm gate-all-around (GAA) process technology from after the foundry achieves successful first-pass silicon for an advanced, high-performance, multi-subsystem system-on-chip (SoC). GAA will be used for high performance computing (HPC), 5G, mobile and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The all-around-the-gate FET (GAA FET) promises to address the variations in channel width and loss of mobility seen in advanced node finFETs. Synopsys reports that its R&D collaboration with Samsung on benchmark stream and GAA-focused power optimization techniques shows, according to a Press release, “Improved electrostatic properties which translate into increased performance and reduced power with the added benefit of new optimization opportunities based on the additional vector of nan-sheet width control. ”

AT&T go run its 5G mobile network on Microsoft, which means that all AT&T mobile network traffic will be handled with Microsoft Azure. Microsoft will acquire AT & T’s Network Cloud platform technology, which includes its core 5G software used by mobile and IoT devices to connect to the Internet, and invite AT&T engineers to join Microsoft. Microsoft is developing its Azure for Operators product AT&T will continue to operate its network for its customers but will use Microsoft’s hybrid and hyperscale infrastructure.

Wonder ad that its OCTEON 10 DPU (Data Processing Unit) family will include Arm Neoverse N2 cores.

TotalEnergies Gas Mobility will use Siemens” IoT MindSphere for monitoring its natural gas vehicle (NGV) refueling stations in the Netherlands, Belgium and France. MindSphere is an industrial IoT service available in the cloud and is part of the Siemens Xcelerator software and service portfolio.

Xilinx the latest version of its Vivado design tools now use Machine learning (ML) optimization algorithms to speed up FPGA programming. Vivado ML editions feature ML-based logic optimization, lead time estimation, and smart designs to automate sync close iterations. Xilinx also introduces the concept of an abstract shell, where modules can be defined to be compiled incrementally and in parallel.

Aerospace
The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) sign a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOA) with Verizon’s drone company Skyward to test cellular-connected drones. The two entities will separately collect and analyze data focused on the ability of cellular communications networks to manage the safety-critical command and control (C2) of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The data will help inform both groups as it suggests standards and regulations that will allow businesses to fly safely beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) and will help shape a universal traffic management system (UTM). ), which will be a traffic control for drones. In the United States, drone operators are not permitted to fly BVLOS drones, although Skyward has experience flying BVLOS – with the FAA waiver – to inspect communications equipment during a forest fire in 2020. Verizon’s specter will be part of the test.

Automotive, transport
In a kind of “dry run” of the IAC (Indy Autonomous Challenge), 17 university teams competed in the Ansys Indy Autonomous Challenge Simulation Race, in which they performed simulated digital twins of their vehicles on a digital replica of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The PoliMOVE winner received $ 100,000 and the finalist TUM Autonomous Motorsport received $ 50,000. The live race will take place on October 23, 2021 on the speedway.

Chinese automotive SoC designer Automatic chips adopt again IP Arteristhe FlexNoC interconnection of its automotive SoCs. The FlexNoC is a network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect that manages on-chip communication. AutoChips first used FlexNoC in 2018.

Just under 600,000 hydrogen fuel cell buses and minibuses will be in service by 2035 worldwide according to market research from the research firm Information Trends. Vehicles with hydrogen fuel cells have no carbon emissions, but how this hydrogen is generated still determines whether or not it is carbon neutral (similarly with electricity). A color system indicates how carbon neutral the creation of hydrogen is. The advantages of hydrogen fuels are that they are lightweight and refueling is quick.

People, companies
Lam Research fair set an objective operate on 100% renewable energy by 2030 and be zero carbon by 2050.

The science of brewers helped at least 300 local citizens to recycle electronics and tires to keep them out of the landfill, at a recycling event the company has held annually since 2002. Brewer Science has also posted a series of training videos on its website called Virtual Learning Lab. This week the basics of Melee and project management.

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