Addressing complaints by rivals, Microsoft begins relaxing its cloud licensing rules in Europe, which made running its software on other clouds more expensive Techmeme · 5 days ago
Live Bash, which lets artists livestream their performances and convert the shows into digital collectibles and NFTs, raises a $21M seed from unnamed investors Techmeme · 1 month ago
Microsoft releases over 100 security fixes, including patches for two zero-day vulnerabilities, for Windows, Office, Edge, Dynamics, Hyper-V, and other software Techmeme · 1 month ago
Intel unveils i9-12900KS, an unlocked i9-12900K meant to be overclocked, with a 30MB L3 cache, 150W base power, a 5.5 GHz max frequency, coming April 5 for $739 Techmeme · 2 months ago
Adobe reports Q1 revenue of $4.26B, up 9.1% YoY, Digital Media revenue of $3.11B, up 9% YoY, and Digital Experience revenue of $1.06B, up 13% YoY Techmeme · 2 months ago
CrowdStrike Q4: revenue of $431M, up 63% YoY, subscription revenue of $405.4M, up 66% YoY, FY2021 revenue of $1.45B, up 66% YoY; stock up ~12% after hours Techmeme · 2 months ago
Faros AI, which offers an analytics tool for engineering teams, raises a $16M seed led by SignalFire and releases an open source version of its tool Techmeme · 3 months ago
Salesforce reports Q4 revenue of $7.33B, up 26% YoY, including $6.8B from subscription and support, up 25%; platform and other, which lumps in Slack, was up 53% Techmeme · 3 months ago
Zoom reports Q4 revenue of $1.07B, up 21% YoY, vs $1.05B est., net income of $490.5M, up 88% YoY, and 2,725 customers paying $100K+ annually, up 66% YoY Techmeme · 3 months ago
Several Ukrainian government sites have been disrupted by DDoS attacks; researchers discover new data wiper malware installed on hundreds of Ukrainian machines Techmeme · 3 months ago
Project Zero: Linux developers patch security holes faster than anyone else, on average in 25 days, compared to Google in 44 days, Mozilla 46, and Apple 69 Techmeme · 3 months ago
Bitcoin payment processor OpenNode raises a $20M Series A led by Kingsway at a $200M valuation; Twitter, Tim Draper, and Avon Ventures also invested Techmeme · 3 months ago
Twilio Q4: revenue up 54% YoY to $842.7M, loss from operations of $283.6M, vs $185.3M YoY, active customer accounts of 256K, up from 221K YoY; stock up 24%+ Techmeme · 3 months ago
Sonos Q1: revenue of $664.5M, up 3% YoY, vs. $637M est., net income of $123.5M, down from $132.3M last year, and predicts $2B in revenue in 2022; stock up 8%+ Techmeme · 3 months ago
GlobalFoundries reports Q4 revenue of $1.85B, up 74% YoY, net income of $43M, up 108% YoY, and FY 2021 revenue of $6.59B, up 36% YoY Techmeme · 3 months ago
Signal now lets users change the phone number associated with their account while retaining their messages, profile information, and groups Techmeme · 3 months ago
Pinterest reports Q4 revenue of $847M, up 20%, and 431M global MAUs, down 6% YoY, and says revenue grew 52% YoY in FY 2021 to surpass $2B; stock up 28%+ Techmeme · 4 months ago
Meta CFO says Apple's ATT privacy changes will cost the company $10B in revenue during 2022 and says Google "faces a different set of restrictions from Apple" Techmeme · 4 months ago
Education publisher Pearson acquires Credly, which helps businesses issue digital credentials to certify workers' skills, for $140M Techmeme · 4 months ago
Qualtrics reports Q4 revenue of $316M, up 48% YoY vs. est. $298M, subscription revenue of $259M, up 61% YoY, and saw its first fiscal year with revenue over $1B Techmeme · 4 months ago
MinIO, which offers popular open source tools for multi-cloud storage, raises a $103M Series B at a $1B valuation Techmeme · 4 months ago
Meta details Data2vec, a self-supervised algorithm that unifies the process of training a neural network to learn the same across speech, images, and text Techmeme · 4 months ago
Samsung unveils 4nm Exynos 2200, its new SoC with Xclipse GPU based on AMD's RDNA 2 architecture, offering features such as hardware-accelerated ray tracing Techmeme · 4 months ago
Check Point: the number of cyber attacks per week on corporate networks in 2021 grew 50% YoY, peaking towards the end of the year, largely due to the Log4j flaw Techmeme · 4 months ago
Blackbaud, a cloud software provider to nonprofits, acquires Everfi, which offers organizations cloud-based learning services, for $750M Techmeme · 5 months ago
China plans to become a global innovation hub for robotics by 2025; its manufacturing robot density in 2020 was 246 per 10,000 people, double the global average Techmeme · 5 months ago
Brazil's Ministry of Health suffers a major ransomware attack, resulting in the unavailability of millions of COVID-19 certificates and the loss of 50TB of data Techmeme · 5 months ago
Edge Impulse, which lets developers create custom ML projects, raises a $34M Series B led by Coatue at a $234M valuation, bringing its total funding to $54M Techmeme · 5 months ago
Samsung merges its mobile and consumer electronic divisions into one business unit led by JH Han, and names Kyehyun Kyung as the CEO of its semiconductor unit Techmeme · 6 months ago
AWS announces SageMaker Studio Lab, a free version of SageMaker in public preview to help customers with little experience build, train, and deploy ML models Techmeme · 6 months ago
Qualcomm plans to integrate Google's Vertex AI NAS into its Neural Processing SDK, starting with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, to automate the creation of AI models Techmeme · 6 months ago
HPE reports Q4 revenue of $7.35B vs estimates of $7.38B, Compute unit revenue of $3.2B, up 1.1% YoY, and Storage revenue of $1.3B, up 3% YoY Techmeme · 6 months ago
Box reports Q3 revenue of $224M, up 14% YoY, vs. $218.6M est., and billings of $231.5M, up 25% YoY, and a net retention rate of 109%, up from 103% YoY Techmeme · 6 months ago
EU companies issues formal complaint against Microsoft OneDrive Windows integration Reddit · 6 months ago
Biden signs the Secure Equipment Act of 2021, denying FCC licenses to national security threats, effectively banning Huawei and ZTE network equipment in the US Techmeme · 6 months ago
Microsoft launches Visual Studio 2022, its first 64-bit version, with Hot Reload for making code changes while an app is running, and .NET 6, with Arm64 support Techmeme · 7 months ago
Square reports Q3 revenue of $3.84B, up 11% YoY but missing $4.39B estimates, bitcoin revenue of $1.81B, up 11% YoY, and gross payment volume of $1.13B, up 43% Techmeme · 7 months ago
Qualcomm Q4: revenue of $9.3B, up 43% YoY, net income of $2.9B, up 75%, chip revenue of $7.7B, up 56%, and FY 2021 revenue of $33.5B, up 55%; stock up 5%+ Techmeme · 7 months ago
A joint probe by Australia and UK's Information Commissioners finds Clearview AI collected data on 3B+ people by indiscriminately scrapping info from the web Techmeme · 7 months ago
Microsoft Edge for Linux is now available for all users, supporting multiple distributions including Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE Techmeme · 7 months ago
Apple's Q4 sales in Greater China rose 83% to $14.56B, Americas up 20% to $36.82B, Europe grew 23% to $20.79B, and paid subscriptions grew to 745M, up 160M YoY Techmeme · 7 months ago
Twilio Q3: rev. of $740.2M vs. $681M est., up 65% YoY, loss of $224.1M, up from $116.9M YoY, 250K+ active customer accounts, up from 208K YoY; stock down 11%+ Techmeme · 7 months ago
AMD Q3: revenue of $4.31B, up 54% YoY, Computing and Graphics revenue of $2.4B, up 44% YoY, Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom revenue of $1.9B, up 69% YoY Techmeme · 7 months ago
Facebook says Q3 ad revenue grew 33% YoY to $28.28B but warns of "continued headwinds" in Q4 due to Apple's ATT changes in iOS Techmeme · 7 months ago
Researchers detail how hackers are using FiveSys, a rootkit with a Microsoft-issued digital signature, to steal the login credentials of gamers in China Techmeme · 7 months ago
7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial imagery without consent Hacker News · 7 months ago
Enterprise search company Elastic to acquire Optimyze, whose continuous profiling platform Prodfiler can detect the CPU efficiency of fleets of machines Techmeme · 7 months ago