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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
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
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%
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%+
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
Microsoft Edge for Linux is now available for all users, supporting multiple distributions including Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE
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
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%+
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
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
Researchers detail how hackers are using FiveSys, a rootkit with a Microsoft-issued digital signature, to steal the login credentials of gamers in China
No ink, no scan: Canon USA printers hit with class-action suit
7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial imagery without consent
Enterprise search company Elastic to acquire Optimyze, whose continuous profiling platform Prodfiler can detect the CPU efficiency of fleets of machines
Analysis of 80M ransomware samples: Israel and South Korea are the most affected countries; GandCrab was the most active ransomware gang since the start of 2020
Microsoft makes a preview version of Windows Subsystem for Linux for Windows 11 available in the Microsoft Store, decoupling the app from the Windows image
Google announces new efforts to protect journalists and high-risk users from cyberattacks, including providing over 10,000 free security keys through 2021
Honda prepping AI robots electric air travel and lunar technology for 2030
Alexa, Ring, and Astro: Where's My Privacy, Amazon?
Hacker News · 2 months ago
FCC aggressively moves to block spam calls
US and EU will cooperate across various tech areas, including AI, semiconductors, and supply chain security, to ensure sensitive technologies are not misused
Australia recognizes electronic payments system eftpos as its first private ID exchange operator, to enable online transactions requiring a digital ID
AT&T says it has big problems. A T-Mobile salesman showed me how big
HP announces refreshed consumer devices, including Spectre x360 16" 2-in-1 for $1,639+, Envy 34" 5K all-in-one desktop for $1,999+, and Tablet PC 11" for $499+
Adobe says it will launch a payment service via PayPal for Adobe Commerce by the end of the year, adding native payments to customers' digital storefronts
US Cybercom says mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerability ongoing
Asana beats in Q2 with revenue of $89.5M, up 72% YoY, net loss of $68.4M, up from $41.1M last year, and says it has over 107K paying customers
CrowdStrike beats in Q2 with revenue of $337.7M, up 70% YoY; ARR rose 70% YoY to $1.34B, subscription revenue was $315.8M, up 71% YoY, net new subs grew 81% YoY
Cloudera reports Q2 revenue of $236.06M, up 10% YoY, subscription revenue of $213.3M, up 11% YoY, and ARR of $832M, up 13% YoY, announces departure of its CPO
Facebook Is the AOL of 2021
Dell beats in Q2 with $26.1B revenue, up 15% YoY, as net income fell to $880M; PC revenue rose to a record $14.3B, up 27% YoY, as servers rose 6% YoY to $4.5B
VMware reports Q2 revenue of $3.14B, up 9% YoY, vs estimates of $3.1B, Subscription and Saas revenue of $776M, up 23% YoY, is on track for Dell spin-off in Nov.
ByteDance joins the Open Invention Network, the largest US-based patent non-aggression consortium covering Linux and related open-source tech
eBay Q2: revenue of $2.7B, up 14% YoY, GMV of $22.1B, down 7%, 159M global active buyers, down 2%; 80% of eBay's S. Korean division sold to Emart for ~$3B
NortonLifeLock says that it will merge with Avast in a cash and stock deal worth between $8.1B and $8.6B
AU gov asks big tech to introduce detection capabilities in encrypted comm
Dropbox beats in Q2 with revenue of $530.6M vs estimates of $524.06M, up 13.5% YoY, 16.14M paying users up from 14.96M YoY, and ARR of $2.17B, up 12.2% YoY
Microsoft's desktop-as-a-service Windows 365 Cloud PC is generally available and costs between $20 to $162 per user per month, based on cores, RAM, and storage
Researchers detail a never-before-seen attack against Iran's train system and transport ministry from a new threat actor using a reusable wiper called Meteor
OpenAI introduces Triton 1.0, an open-source programming language for writing GPU code for neural networks, and claims it is easier to write than Nvidia's CUDA
PayPal beats with Q2 revenue of $6.24B, up 17% YoY, total payments volume of $311B, up 40% YoY, and 11.4M new active accounts for 403M total; stock down ~5%
Facebook says Q2 ad revenue was $28.58B, up 56% YoY, with average price per ad up 47% YoY and a 6% YoY increase in ads delivered
Google announces a new bug bounty program, called Bug Hunter University, and says the existing program found 11,055 bugs from 2,022 researchers, paying ~$30M
IBM report: in 2021, the average data breach costs companies $4.24M to remedy, up 10% YoY; "mega" breaches involving 50M+ consumer records can cost $401M
Report: malware developers are increasingly writing malicious code in "exotic" programming languages like Golang to hamper analysis efforts and evade detection
AMD Q2: revenue of $3.85B, up 99% YoY, Computing and Graphics revenue of $2.25B, up 65% YoY, Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom revenue of $1.6B, up 183% YoY
Analysis: 740 organizations faced ransomware attacks and had their data posted to leak sites in Q2 2021, up 47% QoQ; attacks on retail sector grew 183% QoQ
Google unveils a public preview of Google Cloud Armor Adaptive Protection, a ML-powered service for Google Cloud apps and sites to protect against DDoS attacks
AWS announces general availability of Amazon HealthLake, a HIPAA-eligible service that allows health organizations to store and work with health data in cloud
Techmeme · 5 months ago