‘Greta dislikes you; we like Greta’ – Sandvik, and the smartest little tool-house in Sweden

“The world is changing, and changing extremely fast,” Swedish manufacturer Sandvik told PI World 2019 in Gothenburg this week. The firm, a ‘lighthouse’ smart manufacturer for the World Economic Forum, said industrialists must drive digital change in order to save the planet.   During a morning keynote at the event, Claes Nord, experience specialist at Sandvik…

Smominru Botnet Indiscriminately Hacked Over 90,000 Computers Just Last Month

Insecure Internet-connected devices have aided different types of cybercrime for years, most common being DDoS and spam campaigns. But cybercriminals have now shifted toward a profitable scheme where botnets do not just launch DDoS or spam—they mine cryptocurrencies as well. Smominru, an infamous cryptocurrency-mining and credential-stealing botnet, has become one of the rapidly spreading computer…

Innovation Center Keeps Getting Better

How exciting is our industry right now? You might say I’m easily excited, and I’d probably agree, because I just love this stuff, especially when we are talking manufacturing and more. But really, if you take a look at what’s happening with AI (artificial intelligence), machine learning, robotics, automation, 5G, blockchain, autonomous vehicles, AR (augmented…