The shares were listed as a direct listing, without the traditional IPO underwriting by a banking syndicate. As such, there was no formal offer price. A “reference price” of $35 had been established in advance of trading, and the first trade of $50 immediately blew past that. Shares went on to rise another 7% in afternoon trading, to $53.66. “I hope the traditional IPO goes away,” co-founder and CEO Spenser Skates told ZDNet, speaking from the Nasdaq Market Site in Manhattan following the start of trading....

This new speed boost “VPN Accelerator,” is enabled by default on all ProtonVPN paid accounts and with all the ProtonVPN apps. It also works with all of ProtonVPN and is available for all users. VPN Accelerator will give you its speed boost no matter which VPN protocol you use: OpenVPN TCP, OpenVPN UDP, Wireguard, or IKEv2 VPN protocols. How? By making a variety of improvements. For example, to give the popular OpenVPN and other single-threaded protocols a kick in the pants, ProtonVPN has re-written OpenVPN so that multiple OpenVPN processes per server now run to take advantage of multi-core processors....

Also: John Deere rolls out new battery-powered farming and construction equipment The Ram 1500 Revolution is set to enter into production in 2024 and will push the boundaries in range, towing, payload, and charge time, according to Stellantis. The exterior of the vehicle shows significant upgrades from the traditional Ram 1500 with a sleek, ultramodern design. The car has an all-new Ram brand face that reads RAM and has an animated full-LED “tuning fork” design....

Lindy Cameron, the head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), will say that the organisation – the cybersecurity arm of spy agency GCHQ – is committed to tackling the threat of ransomware and “supports victims of ransomware every day” but that a coordinated response is required to combat the growing threat. While state-sponsored hacking campaigns pose a “malicious strategic threat to the UK’s national interests”, it’s cybercrime – and in particular ransomware – which has become the biggest threat....

Based around a 133MHz dual-core ARM Cortex M0 running at 133MHz, it has 264KB of on-chip memory. Designed to be built into hardware, each chip also offers 26 GPIO pins, with a host of additional controller hardware including eight programmable I/O state machines. As well as selling RP2040s to customers to build into their own devices (I have one that’s a 4x4 LED backlit keyboard and another that’s a customisable e-paper badge), Raspberry Pi uses it in its own Pico boards – low-cost devices aimed at makers and other hardware hobbyists....

Whereas the $35 Renegade competed with the Raspberry Pi on price and maintained its form factor, the Renegade Elite is a board of a different sort. It will launch on an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for $100 in July and then will be available in August generally for about $120, according to Liliputing. With accessories, the board could cost around $200. Compared with the Renegade, the Renegade Elite features a faster Rockchip processor, more ports, additional Type-C ports, and, instead of a single 40-pin header, it has a 60-pin PCI-E expansion header, and a 60-pin low-speed header....

For the six months ended 30 June 2021, the company posted $31.3 million in net profit, attributing the $49 million turnaround to its “strong brand position and intensely loyal user base”. “Razer had a phenomenal first half of the year,” Razer co-founder and CEO Min-Liang Tan said. “In addition to the ongoing growth in the broader industry that benefitted our core business segments, Razer’s stellar results were driven by our strong brand position and intensely loyal user base, our proven capabilities in rolling out innovative, category-defining products and services, and effective operational execution....

Microsoft warned customers in February to prepare for degraded support for IE 11 in its key Office apps from August 17: it first announced the end of M365/O365 support for IE 11 on August 17, 2020. “Beginning August 17, 2021, Microsoft 365 apps and services will no longer support… IE11 and users may have a degraded experience, or be unable to connect to, those apps and services. These apps and services will phase out over weeks and months to ensure a smooth end of support, with each app and service phasing out on independent schedules,” the latest warning notes....

The cloud communications firm’s non-GAAP net income per diluted share was 32 cents on revenue of $379 million, increasing 36% year-over-year. Analysts were expecting earnings of 28 cents per share on revenue of $359.51 million. “Second quarter results were outstanding, as contributions from our upmarket momentum and key partners including Avaya, Atos, AT&T, BT, and Telus continued to increase,” Shmunis said in a statement. “As businesses embrace hybrid workforces, they require next-generation mobile-first platforms that support team messaging, video meetings, and phone system capabilities....

That’s the conclusion of a new state of the industry report by Berkshire Gray. The reason will be familiar to those who have tracked industries like durable goods manufacturing, agriculture, and commercial trucking: A new generation of workers don’t want jobs with low pay, low stability, and high burnout. While this can be framed through a number of lenses (the one that always makes me chuckle is “they’re lazy!”), the unquestionable outcome is a massive turn toward automation, specifically robots....

There’s growing momentum behind an effort to make programming language Rust a second language to C for the Linux kernel. Google is backing a project led by developer Miguel Ojeda that would see Rust being used to write elements of the Linux kernel, which now underpins some of the most critical pieces of the internet’s infrastructure today. Google argues that Rust should help reduce memory errors that lead to security vulnerabilities, which make up the bulk of flaws that tech firms and open-source projects fix in each update....

PM9C1a is a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD integrated with a 5nm controller and the tech giant’s seventh-generation V-NAND. Samsung said the high-performance SSD is aimed at PCs and laptops for demanding computing and gaming applications. It has top sequential read and write speeds of 6,000MB/s and 5,600MB/s, respectively, which is 1.6 times and 1.8 times faster than its predecessor PM9B1, the South Korean tech giant said. According to Samsung, PM9C1a also has random read and write speeds of up to 900K IOPS and 1,000K IOPS, respectively....

Now that Samsung has finally taken the wraps off this juggernaut of a monitor, we can see that its specs have the muscle to back up all of the varied use cases Samsung expects it to excel at: While all of the above stats place this among the best gaming monitors on the market from a mathematical perspective, Samsung hopes that the display’s unique size and curvature will make it a unique entry in the space....

Last week, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data and privacy regulator, intervened after nine schools in North Ayrshire, Scotland, began scanning student faces to take payment for school lunches. At the time, more schools were expected to follow suit. The scheme was defended as a cashless, quick, and contactless means of payment in light of COVID-19. However, the ICO and privacy outfits were quick to note that in a time where law enforcement is roundly criticized for using the same technology on the streets, introducing it in schools may be unnecessary....

After leaving the Senate in 2017, Xenophon set up a law firm with former investigative journalist Mark Davis that was appointed as strategic counsel in 2019. The firm also represented Jordan Shanks in a recent high-profile defamation case. Xenophon last week said he was running for the Senate again in the upcoming federal election. On the basis of his return to public life, Patrick said in the Senate on Tuesday night that Xenophon should disclose the terms of his Huawei agreement....

Market dynamics, has clearly benefited from the accelerated pace of digital transformation that has corresponded with the pandemic. “There are structural challenges facing every industry in every geographic region,” CEO Bill McDermott said during a conference call Wednesday. He cited a handful of challenges in part brought on by the pandemic: “the great resignation, supply chain disruption, inflation, to name a few.” In the face of those challenges, he continued, “Digital technologies are a growth stimulating, deflationary force… The technology strategy has become the business strategy....

Cellebrite, an Israeli digital intelligence company, is best known for its controversial phone-cracking technology, which it previously claimed could download most data from almost any device on behalf of government agencies. During Senate Estimates in October, Greens Senator Janet Rice had asked Services Australia various questions about the agency’s decision to procure vendor services from Cellebrite, with a request to see a copy of the Cellebrite contract being among them....

Dubbed NCIS Chemotherapy Cost Calculator, the AI platform will help frontline healthcare professionals estimate out-of-pocket expenses patients have to set aside each month based on key factors, such as their prescribed cancer treatment, residency status, and eligibility for national subsidy schemes. Government subsidy programmes that have been integrated with the calculator include Ministry of Health’s cancer drug list, drug subsidy schemes on the Medication Assistance Fund and standard drugs list, as well as outpatient specialist subsidies....

The SG$19.5 million ($13.99 million) National Integrated Centre for Evaluation (NICE) will facilitate vulnerability assessment of software and hardware products, physical hardware attacks, and security measures, said Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), which jointly launched the facility on Wednesday. They noted that access to security evaluation facilities were difficult, due largely to high equipment cost and deep expertise typically required to carry out cybersecurity evaluation, at the highest assurance levels....

Starting January 31, all businesses not on the Singapore SMS Sender ID Registry (SSIR) will have their messages labelled as “Likely-SCAM”, according to industry regulator Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA). Registering with the SSIR will enable organisations to use alphanumeric Sender IDs when they push out SMS messages to customers. The mandate would better safeguard consumers against potential scams as well as facilitate tracking when scam messages were sent to local mobile users, the Singapore regulator said....