01. Hackers released 500,000 user data stolen from Medibank
Recently, cyber criminals released data stolen from Medibank. The attackers are believed to be linked to a Russian-backed REvil ransomware gang, who posted an update on their darknet blog in the early hours of last Thursday, "Happy Cybersecurity Day! Folders are full, the case is over." Medibank confirmed in November that the attackers stole 9.7 million customer personal details and health claims data from nearly 500,000 customers. Medibank cybercriminals previously released data include customer names, date of birth, passport numbers, medical claims information, and sensitive documents related to abortion and alcohol -related diseases.
02. Apple recruits a large number of neural rendering researchers
Apple's recent recruitment announcement shows that the company is recruiting neural rendering research scientists, hoping to achieve a fully immersive 3D experience on the upcoming VR headset. Previously, Tianfeng Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicted that Apple mixed reality headset devices may not be mass-produced and shipped until the second half of 2023, mainly because of "software-related issues." Mingchi Kuo believes that Apple's headset will be an expensive niche product and predicts that the company will ship less than 500,000 units in 2023.
03.Slack's CEO will step down
A few days after Salesforce co-CEO Stewart Butterfield announced his resignation, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield announced that he would resign in January. The company also announced that Lidiane Jones, who served as executive vice president and general manager of Salesforce’s digital experience cloud, will replace Butterfield.
04. Zhejiang launched the digital economy (blockchain) standardization pilot project
Recently, the launch meeting of the major pilot project of Zhejiang Province's digital economy (blockchain) standardization pilot was held at the blockchain unicorn enterprise Qulian Technology. Qulian Technology will lead the consortium to formally carry out the implementation of the pilot projects, and complete the task goals as planned based on six major tasks: building a standard system, developing key standards, promoting standard implementation, promoting standard innovation, cultivating standardization institutions and carrying out publicity and training.
05. Shuguang Cloud helps Qingdao create a request resolution platform "Laoxianban"
December 6th news, Qingdao Laoshan District Social Governance Center joined hands with Shuguang Cloud to develop and design the appeal resolution platform "Laoxianban" officially launched. Shuguang Cloud Smart City Big Data Platform gathers massive amounts of data, and through collaborative sharing of data in multiple fields and intelligent data governance, it realizes efficient collection and processing of information. At the same time, in conjunction with the Shuguang Smart Community Platform, through the community grid management mechanism, we can realize the intelligent flow of people's livelihood demands, accurately grasp the difficult issues reported by grassroots people, and achieve " to handle immediately after receiving complaints". In addition, Shuguang's self-developed big data basic platform, governance platform, intelligent analysis and visualization platform, etc. have formed big data service capabilities such as identification, association, prediction, and early warning, and can deeply support the "handle before complaint" ability of "handle before complaint".
06. Moxi Semiconductor completed a Pre-A round of financing of , which will accelerate the research and development of automotive chips
Recently, Wuxi Moxi Semiconductor Co., Ltd. announced that it had completed a Pre-A round of financing of tens of millions of yuan. This round of financing was led by Wuxi Haichuang, followed by Xinhe Investment and Wuxi Xin Investment. It is reported that the funds obtained this time will be used to promote the research and development of automotive chips. This round of financing is the second financing obtained by Moxin Semiconductor this year after receiving a 10 million yuan angel round led by Xingwang Investment in May. In the future, Moxin Semiconductor will continue to be committed to building and providing automotive control chips with high functions, safety, high reliability and high performance, and seize the strategic opportunities of automotive architecture upgrades and supply chain localization.
07. Eagle Pupil Airdoc won the "Oscar" of China's health industry - Innovation Qipu Award
On the evening of December 3, the 2022 fourth China Health Industry Innovation Platform "Qipu Award" was awarded in Shanghai. After 11 months, after layers of professional review screening, Beijing Yingtong Technology Development Co., Ltd. (retinal image artificial intelligence detection system" finally won the 4th Medical Device Innovation Qipu Award!
08. Nvidia released MONAI application package, AIDE and other products to accelerate the clinical deployment of medical imaging AI
Recently, at RSNA (North American Radiology Annual Meeting), Nvidia released the latest application progress of its open source medical imaging AI framework MONAI. Nvidia will provide MONAI application package (MAP) to package AI models for easy deployment by medical imaging companies and institutions. At present, MAP has been adopted by mainstream cloud platforms such as Amazon Cloud, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle. At present, MONAI has downloaded more than 650,000 times and has been adopted by well-known medical institutions such as Guy and St. Thomas Hospital and King's College Hospital in the UK. Nvidia said that the UK National Health Service System (NHS) Trust will use MONAI to provide clinical AI applications for diseases such as stroke , dementia, heart failure , cancer, etc.
09.NAVER and Samsung Electronics cooperate to develop artificial intelligence semiconductor solutions
December 6th news, South Korea's NAVER company and Samsung Electronics signed a memorandum of understanding on the cooperation to develop artificial intelligence semiconductor solutions and established a working team. NAVER will provide its expertise in software, including hyperscale artificial intelligence and compression algorithms, for the development of semiconductor solutions for artificial intelligence; Samsung Electronics will develop semiconductor solutions that can solve bottlenecks in large-scale data processing. The two companies also plan to continue to collaborate on developing next-generation memory solutions that support high-performance computing, such as SmartSSD, HBM-PIM and CXL.
10.Zoho released the "Zoho CRM Security White Paper"
Recently, SaaS software provider Zoho launched the "Zoho CRM Security White Paper". In Zoho's view, the data security issues of enterprises should be viewed in the context of current large cloud services. In terms of information security protection, Zoho has adopted methods such as physical security, infrastructure security, main and secondary data centers to fully ensure the security of hardware, servers and other equipment, and to prevent data from being corrupted. In terms of network security, Zoho adopts network security and surveillance technology with multi-layer protection and defense mechanisms to prevent unauthorized access and bad traffic through firewalls. To protect sensitive data, Zoho splits the system into separate networks, with systems that support testing and development activities hosted in different networks with systems that support Zoho production infrastructure. In terms of privacy and security, Zoho has established a professional privacy protection team with "legal compliance" as its primary goal. Zoho integrates the concept of privacy protection into all levels such as product research and development, product functions, and formulates detailed privacy protection policies to ensure that users' data privacy is not violated.
11.IBM released a new consulting service based on Amazon Cloud Technology
At the recent 2022 Amazon Cloud Technology re:lnvent Global Conference, IBM released a new consulting service based on Amazon Cloud Technology (IBM Consulting Platform Services on AWS). Through this consulting service, IBM and Amazon Cloud Technology are working closely to provide customers with more IBM's AIOps and observability software, including IBM Instana Observability, IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management and IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps in the first half of 2023. This cooperation will accelerate and deepen the partnership between IBM Consulting and Amazon Cloud Technology, and jointly help customers' application migration and modernization journey.
12.Detach displays energy-saving solutions online at the 2022 Industrial Expo
Recently, Delta released the Delta 2022 Industrial Expo online exhibition with the theme of "Low Carbon Intelligent Manufacturing Leads the Future", showing various energy-saving solutions that respond to the "dual carbon" goal. This online exhibition adopts the concept of scenario-based design, applies exhibits to the actual environment, adds dynamic display solutions, and focuses on the three major aspects of smart factories, smart buildings and infrastructure. It not only displays the low-carbon intelligent manufacturing solutions provided by Delta for the manufacturing industry, but also fully presents the application of Delta products in electric vehicle charging, smart buildings, data centers, microgrids, energy storage, renewable energy and other fields.
13. Google , Byte, Meta teamed up to boycott Canada's unreasonable demands
December 6 news, Google's parent company Alphabet, Facebook parent company Meta Platform and TikTok's parent company ByteDance are boycotting a proposal from Canada that will mandate digital platforms to display Canadian content more prominently and compensate local news organizations. The new regulations will require modification of existing algorithms to enable if Canadians search on YouTube, the results will mainly display videos of Canadian artists, rather than content produced by foreign or US. The proposed legislation will also entrust digital media companies to pay annually for Canadian art worlds. Officials estimate that the total payments could be around 1 billion Canadian dollars (about 750 million US dollars).
14.Loft Dynamics raises $20 million to solve pilot shortage through VR training
Loft Dynamics is an Swiss startup developing virtual reality (VR) simulation technology for helicopter pilots. It has raised $20 million from US venture capital companies, including David Sacks’ Craft Ventures, Sky Dayton and Up Ventures. Founded in Zurich in 2016, Loft Dynamics has developed a series of simulators for some of the most common helicopters, including the single-turbo Airbus H125. In this way, fledgling pilots can participate in real training scenarios, including night flight and proficiency checks, and simulate system failures and other problems with force feedback.
