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Chorus shows off 25 gigabit per second retail fibre broadband


Broadband infrastructure wholesaler Chorus has demonstrated symmetric fibre to the premises service that is rated at 25 gigabits per second, running over its existing passive optical fibre (PON) network.

The demonstration in Auckland achieved 21.4 Gbps throughput, tested simultaneously on the same strand of fibre that ran an 8 Gbps symmetric HyperFibre connection, and a 900/550 Mbps UFB link.
 
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The Internet Crime Business is Booming


The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its2021 Internet Crime Report which found that 2021 was another record year for both victims of internet crime and dollar losses in the United States. 847,376 complaints were logged by IC3 in the last calendar year with total losses amounting to $6.9 billion. The most frequent internet crimes recorded in 2021 were some form of Phishing/Vishing/Smishing/Pharming. Business Email Compromise and Email Compromise schemes (BEC/EAC) and were the costliest internet crimes last year with adjusted losses of nearly $2.4 billion.
 
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Frontier breaks the exascale threshold to take top supercomputer spot


The US Department of Energy's Frontier supercomputer has been crowned world's fastest at the International Supercomputing Conference 2022 in Hamburg, Germany, and is the first system to enter the exascale era of computing.

The US Department of Energy partnered with Cray Inc in 2019 to build a new supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, which already housed the Titan and Summit supercomputers - the latter being the most powerful until it was surpassed by Japan's Fugaku in 2020.
 
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World's fastest carbon capture system claims 99% efficiency in ambient air


As carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere, it won't be enough to simply curb our emissions - we'll need to actively remove some of what we've already released. In a new advance, researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new compound that can reportedly remove carbon dioxide from ambient air with 99 percent efficiency and at least twice as fast as existing systems.
 
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Blistering data transmission record clocks over 1 petabit per second


Researchers in Japan have clocked a new speed record for data transmission - a blistering 1.02 petabits per second (Pb/s). Better yet, the breakthrough was achieved using optical fiber cables that should be compatible with existing infrastructure.

For reference, 1 petabit is equivalent to a million gigabits, meaning this new record is about 100,000 times faster than the absolute fastest home internet speeds available to consumers. Even NASA will "only" get 400 Gb/s when ESnet6 rolls out in 2023. At speeds of 1 Pb/s, you could theoretically broadcast 10 million channels per second of video at 8K resolution, according to the team.
 
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HP turns back on $1b in annual sales by quitting Russia and Belarus


PC and printer giant HP Inc. is boldly but belatedly turning its back on Russia and Belarus due to the continued conflict in Ukraine.

HP was among the first wave of tech companies to suspend shipments to the countries soon after Russia invaded its neighbor on February 24, but now the company's president and CEO Enrique Lores is making the move more permanent.
 
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Connecticut will pay a security analyst 150k to monitor election memes for misinformation


Ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, Connecticut is hiring a "security analyst" tasked with monitoring and addressing online misinformation. The New York Times first reported this new position, saying the job description will include spending time on "fringe sites like 4chan, far-right social networks like Gettr and Rumble and mainstream social media sites." The goal is to identify election-related rumors and attempt to mitigate the damage they might cause by flagging them to platforms that have misinformation policies and promoting educational content that can counter those false narratives.
 
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Toyota's prototype 'cartridge' is a way to make hydrogen portable


One of the myriad issues with hydrogen as a clean energy source is infrastructure, as it's very expensive to move around and store an extremely explosive gas. Toyota and its subsidiary Woven Planet believe they may have a solution with a new portable hydrogen cartridge prototype. The idea is that they can be filled up at a dedicated facility, transported where needed, then returned when you receive your next shipment.
 
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Diamond-based quantum computer paired with supercomputers for first time


Quantum computing may have just taken a major step forward, as a supercomputer facility in Australia becomes the first to have a quantum computer integrated into it. The quantum processor, developed by German-Australian start-up Quantum Brilliance, runs at room temperature, and will now work in tandem with classical supercomputers at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre.
 
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Lawmakers reignite battle for federal privacy law


Committee leaders in both the House and Senate are poised to introduce an online privacy bill, with key lawmakers releasing a bipartisan draft Friday.

Why it matters: The U.S. has lagged behind the E.U. and China in establishing national privacy rules for online platforms, but this bipartisan effort shows signs of life even as the looming midterms mark the unofficial end of legislating.
 
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