Nansen is a blockchain analytics platform that analyzes 100M+ labeled wallets and their activity on Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, and many other Level 1 and Level 2 blockchains. Today, Nansen released its first State of the Crypto Industry Report, covering notable trends and insights across the cryptocurrency, NFT, and DeFi markets over 2021. We caught up with Nansen Co-Founder and CEO Alex Svanevik to discuss the report’s findings, highlighting statistics and movement within key sectors of the blockchain industry as well as an outlook for 2022....

DarkOwl, the cybersecurity firm that uncovered the scam, notes that the EU Digital COVID Certificate program and most EU hospitals have stringent cybersecurity measures in place to protect user data. But hackers that are allegedly part of a gang called Xgroup are offering to add non-vaccinated people to the national COVID-19 vaccine registers that feed into the EU database, asking victims for a trove of personal data under the guise of theoretically adding it to the EU Digital COVID Certificate program....

The ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance is working with CISA on the effort alongside the Incident Command System for Industrial Control Systems (ICS4ICS) and more than 50 other cybersecurity companies, universities and corporations. The groups will be incorporating FEMA’s Incident Command System framework for response structure, roles, and interoperability, according to a statement from ISA. Deloitte, Dragos, Ford Motor Company, Fortinet, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, KPMG, Nozomi Networks, Pfizer, Tenable, CyberOwl and Idaho State University are just a few of the organizations involved in the ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance....

This is frustrating to talented tech professionals who want to keep their skills up to date or explore new areas. That’s the word from a survey of more than 700 tech professionals conducted by Pluralsight, which finds that 48% of respondents have considered changing jobs because they are not given sufficient resources to develop tech skills. A majority, 75%, agree that their organization’s willingness to dedicate resources to developing their tech skills affects their plans to stay with the organization....

First, the company unveiled the Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager with Transparent Snapshots, which Dell Technologies APJ data protection solutions general manager Lucas Salter touted as a solution designed specifically to protect VMware virtual machines at scale, without disruption or latency issues. “Over the years, several approaches have attempted to overcome the issue of latency and business disruption during virtual machine backups, but all of them require compromises around latency, cost scale, performance, and complexity,” he told media during a briefing....

The company delivered the best third quarter in its history with revenue of $28.4 billion, up 21% from a year ago, with earnings of $3.9 billion, or $4.87 a share. Non-GAAP earnings were $2.37 a share. Analysts were expecting Dell to report third quarter revenue of $26.82 billion with non-GAAP earnings of $2.18 a share. Dell’s client solutions group revenue was $16.5 billion in the third quarter, up 35% from a year ago....

Speaking with ZDNet, Dell Technologies Asia Pacific and Japan head of telecom Sam Saba explained the Open RAN Accelerator Card has been designed to bring the performance of traditional RAN solution to Open RAN. “[There’s] this gap of performance and energy consumption. Effectively, we believe now this card will bridge that performance,” he said. “The way we’re doing this is through what we call the layer 1 offload. With that, we’re looking at taking all that layer 1 processing out of the standard CPU that sits in the server, which occupies 60-70% of overall processing capacity … and putting it in a PCIe card in line into the virtual distributed unit close to the base station … in doing that we’re effectively relieving, or releasing, a lot of the capacity in the standard processing card to do more processing....

Under the agreement, ExOne shareholders get $8.50 in cash and $17 in shares of Desktop Metal for their shares. ExOne shareholders walk away with $25.50 per share in cash and stock. Desktop Metal went public in a special purpose acquisition company deal and has expanded into health care and other markets. Desktop Metal has been growing rapidly with second quarter sequential sales growth of 68% to $19 million. Desktop Metal reported a second quarter net loss of $43....

The company’s Q2 non-GAAP diluted net income per share was 40 cents on revenue of $530.6 million, up 13.5 percent year-over-year. Analysts were expecting earnings of 33 cents on revenue of $524.06 million. “Q2 was a standout quarter, driven by strong revenue growth, record free cash flow, and margin expansion,” CEO Drew Houston said in a statement. “Our results reflect the strength of our business model and our ability to make significant progress on our strategic objectives....

Yes, you can make it a little less awful. But I’ve been beating this drum for years, only to realize that it was a battle I was losing. This was bought home to me when I loaded Google Chrome onto my M1 Pro-based MacBook Pro – a machine that’s an absolute beast when it comes to making things run fast. The experience showed me once again how kludgy Google Chrome is....

With the Sticky Password Premium: Lifetime Subscription, you choose a single master password and the app generates unique, strongly encrypted passwords for all your accounts, on all your devices. You can store your passwords in the cloud or use local storage, and they will all be securely filled in automatically across the web. You will never have to worry about losing a password ever again. You will just be logged in automatically to recognized sites and online forms will be instantly filled out with your saved information....

IT staff and data scientists cannot – and should not – be expected to be solo acts when it comes to AI. There is a growing push to expand AI beyond the confines of systems development and into the business suite. For example, at a recent panel at AI Summit, panelists agreed that business leaders and managers need to not only question the quality of decisions delivered through AI, but also get more actively involved in their formulation....

Since closing his deal with Twitter and taking the company private, Musk has made several changes, including firing several top Twitter executives. He has also teased the possibility of bringing different features to the app – with the latest being Vine. Also: Elon Musk promises not to make Twitter a ‘free-for-all hellscape’ On Sunday, Musk tweeted a poll that asked his followers whether or not he should bring back Vine....

The Swiss company showed up on the list of victims for the Hive ransomware on February 1 and confirmed that they were attacked in January. “We have restored and restarted our commercial activity already days after the incident on January 11, 2022,” a spokesperson said, declining to answer more questions about whether customer information was accessed. The company – which has about 3,000 employees – generated $3.29 billion in sales in 2020 thanks to a variety of automobile-related businesses....

Extreme will purchase Ipanema for 60 million Euros (approximately $73 million) in an all-cash transaction. The deal is expected to close in October, pending regulatory approval. Since Infovista is privately held, revenue numbers for the Infovista division are not readily known. I know that pre-pandemic, Ipanema revenue was about €40 million annually but had fallen to €30 million and was probably sliding to the €20 million level. If that’s the case, the €60 million purchase price is a steal and fits the mold of other Extreme acquisitions, because it is a top-tier technology that’s effectively a stranded asset inside a larger organization where it doesn’t fit....

The CISA and FBI on Thursday said in a joint advisory that they are “aware of possible threats” to U.S. and international satellite communication (SATCOM) networks. “Successful intrusions into SATCOM networks could create additional risk for SATCOM network customer environments,” the agencies note. SEE: This sneaky type of phishing is growing fast because hackers are seeing big paydays The advisory contains mitigation actions for both SATCOM operators and their customers to take amid US and European investigations into a major outage affecting Viasat’s internet service for fixed broadband customers in Ukraine and elsewhere on its European KA-SAT satellite network....

The FTC said it has adopted a policy statement aimed at manufacturers’ practices, which it claimed “make it extremely difficult for purchasers to repair their products or shop around for other service providers to do it for them”. The commission voted 5-0 to approve the policy statement during an open commission meeting on Wednesday. In the policy statement [PDF], the commission said it would target repair restrictions that violate antitrust laws enforced by the FTC or the FTC Act’s prohibitions on unfair or deceptive acts or practices....

Yes, it took a little longer than expected to arrive this time around, but as Fedora’s Project Leader Matthew Miller wrote, “While we broke our six-release streak of on-schedule releases, we felt it was more important to resolve a few outstanding blocking bugs.” Amen! Here’s what the latest Fedora brings to the table: GNOME 41 for Fedora Workstation’s default desktop. GNOME 41 brings changes to multitasking in GNOME along with a new remote desktop client, a Mobile Settings panel to manage mobile network connections, and other performance enhancements....

While DSL and satellite services have great availability, they can hardly compete with the speed and quality that fiber-optic and cable connections offer. The difference between fiber and cable is a bit more nuanced so we’ve pitted the two advanced services against each other to help you navigate your search for the best telco service. The short version: Fiber is faster, more reliable, and more expensive. Cable is slower, but it still supports fast speeds and is more widely available....

The Experience Advantage The Experience Advantage is the summary report of the survey findings. Here are the key takeaways of the Experience Advantage: Companies are leaving money on the table. Breaking silos between employee experience and customer experience can lead to a massive opportunity for revenue growth of up to 50% or more. Companies think they have to choose between prioritizing employee or customer experiences. And customer experience is winning. Approximately nine in 10 C-suite members (88%) say employees are encouraged to focus on customers’ needs above all else, even though the C-suite knows that a powerful customer experience starts with an employee-first approach....