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Nvidia announced the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti at CES 2022 in January, promising it would be “a monster GPU”, better than last year’s $1,499 RTX 3090. It would be its next “Big Ferocious GPU”, it said. Both of these are the peak of its range of consumer desktop graphics cards, aimed at gamers, folks who make 3D-gaming graphics, and data scientists. SEE: Software development is changing again. These are the skills companies are looking for Of course, with the global chip shortage, buying last year’s RTX 3090 and even the second tier RTX 3080 was difficult....

Fourth-quarter revenue was $3.04 billion, an increase of 21% year-on-year. NXP’s Q4 GAAP diluted earnings per share came to $2.24. Analysts were expecting earnings of $2.99 per share on revenue of $3 billion. In a statement, CEO Kurt Sievers called 2021 an “excellent year” for NXP. “We experienced significant design win traction across the entire portfolio and especially within the areas of our strategic growth drivers,” he said. “The engagement and performance of our employees has been truly outstanding, we are extremely proud of their adaptability, dedication, and hard work in the face of adversity....

The company shared with ZDNET a banner image of what looks like the rear triple-camera module of the next-gen flagship smartphone, along with some fancy marketing lingo that’s almost too open for interpretation: “Cloud 11” and “Witness the Shape of Power.” Am I supposed to feel hyped or puzzled? Review: OnePlus Nord N20 5G: A worthy contender for budget phone of the year On Cloud 11 A OnePlus spokesperson tells me that the Cloud 11 theme “represents the upgraded technology and performance delivered by the brand’s latest products, and to elevate the user experience from Cloud 9 to Cloud 11....

The truth is, OnePlus isn’t fighting against AirPods or high-end offers from Samsung and Sony. Instead, the Nord Buds are just cheap, no-frills accessories that play great audio. Specifications Back in 2020, OnePlus debuted the first Nord smartphone. It was a device that represented the company’s return to its roots, the days of churning out fundamentally great tech at lower prices. Those values hold true with OnePlus’ latest Nord endeavor, the $39 Nord Buds....

Appwrite is a self-hosted open source Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform for web, mobile and flutter developers that offers a set of integrated REST APIs to manage their core backend needs. It has been a hit with developers, and today the company is announcing $10 million in seed funding. ZDNet connected with CEO and Founder Eldad Fux to discuss the BaaS category, Appwrite’s features, growth and future plans, as well as funding specifics....

The tool will also now run a third-party container image in an isolated environment, leveraging machine learning to perform an inspection of processes, file systems and networking activity pre-deployment. “Today’s announcement delivers a leap in what’s possible for container security, taking our incredible machine learning and applying it to third party, or any, image, regardless of its provenance – enabling customers to run these in a pre-deployment sandbox,” Palo Alto Networks said in a statement....

This is the ad-supported option, but it comes with all of your favorite sporting events, including Live Sports, Premier League, and WWE wrestling – all live from the comfort of your living room. In addition to the sports features, you’ll get access to exclusive Peacock Original series like Bel Air, Killing It, and more, with next-day access to all NBC and bravo shows. If you have bilingual family members or have a telenovela obsession, Peacock also comes with access to Telemundo for your favorite hits like Promesas de campanioa, Amor Valiente, and more....

Basically, there are three main benefits to using a VPN. First and foremost is security, because a VPN can protect your most sensitive data from cybercriminals. The second is privacy protection, it’s no one’s business what you do online. The third benefit of using a VPN is being allowed to unlock content that may not be available in your geographical region. Private Internet Access VPN has you covered for all of those....

Anaconda, a company that provides a leading distribution of Python for data science, wants to change that by supporting Pyston – a new implementation of Python that sheds debugging features for speed. Pyston, created by Kevin Modzelewski, was open-sourced in May with the promise of a 30% acceleration in Python code. Modzelewski was an engineer at Dropbox, which was a major user of Python and hired the language’s creator Guido van Rossum for five years from 2013 to improve its code....

ProtonMail’s Lydia Pang explained in a blog post that the company believes “reading emails should be as private as our end-to-end encryption makes sending them.” “Today, we’re happy to introduce enhanced tracking protection, a feature that will provide an additional layer of privacy to your inbox. Now you can read your emails without letting advertisers watch you, build a profile on you, or serve you ads based on your mail activity,” Pang said....

Non-GAAP earnings per share came to 22 cents on revenue of $562.7 million, up 37% year-over-year Analysts were expecting earnings of 12 cents per share on revenue of $530.83 million. “With Q3 revenue up 37% year-over-year and with increasing profitability, it’s clear that Pure continues to set the pace for the industry,” CEO Charles Giancarlo said in a statement. “We’re delighted to provide cutting edge data services to customers and with our continued leadership in two Gartner Magic Quadrants....

Both products expand Pure Storage’s vision that “modern data, storage and management should be, at the end of the day, services delivered as code,” Ajay Singh, Pure Storage’s chief product officer, said to ZDNet. With its new services, Pure Storage is advancing its vision by moving its portfolio upstack. “We think of our portfolio in the context of the customer’s journey to a modern data experience,” Singh explained. There are three aspects of that journey: modernizing infrastructure, modernizing operations and modernizing applications....

On Tuesday, Sophos released new research into the stealer-as-a-service, a bolt-on for threat actors to use as an additional tool for data theft and revenue. In a new campaign tracked by the team, the malware was spread not through spam emails – the usual initial attack vector linked to Raccoon Stealer – but, instead, droppers disguised as installers for cracked and pirated software. Samples obtained by Sophos revealed that the stealer is being bundled with malware including malicious browser extensions, cryptocurrency miners, the Djvu/Stop consumer ransomware strain, and click-fraud bots targeting YouTube sessions....

Microsoft analyzed anonymised data of real threat activity and, according to the company’s new Cyber Signals report, found that over 80% of ransomware attacks can be traced to common configuration errors in software and devices. These include applications being left in their default state, allowing user-wide access across the network, security tools being left untested or misconfigured, cloud applications set up in a way that can easily allow unauthorized intruders to gain access, and organisations not applying Microsoft’s attack surface reduction rules, which allows attackers to run malicious code using macros and scripts....

According to an analysis by cybersecurity researchers at SonicWall, the volume of attempted ransomware attacks targeting their customers rose by 105% in 2021, to a total of 623.3 million attempted incidents throughout the year. The figure also represents more than triple the number of attempted ransomware attacks recorded in 2019. SEE: Cybersecurity: Let’s get tactical (ZDNet special report) The biggest surge in ransomware attacks came between June and September 2021, a period that featured some of the most significant incidents of last year....

BianLian first appeared in August last year, with a series of attacks claiming victims in industries including media, manufacturing, and healthcare. The attacks have hit organizations around the world, with victims in countries such as the US, Australia, and the UK. Targeting Windows systems, and written in open-source programming language Go, BianLian uses an encryption technique that divides files into chunks, which helps it to encrypt systems at high speed, as well as helping it to avoid detection before the encryption has been completed....

The Debug Probe, which is based on the Pi Pico and its RP2040 microcontroller, is available now for $12. It’s the company’s first new product for 2023 and comes as the firm works to improve availability of the Zero W, 3A+, and the 2GB and 4GB variants of Raspberry Pi 4, which have been in short supply since the coronavirus pandemic. Also: Finding Raspberry Pi: Where to buy the latest model and its alternatives The company decided to make the probe after noticing people were using one Pico to debug programs running on another....

The answer: Stay the course. In an interview, Hicks, who’s been with Red Hat since 2006, said, “[We’ll keep using] the same core fundamentals that we built 20-plus years ago.” Why? Because the combination of Linux, open-source software, and top support, “continues to play in new markets, whether that’s the shift to cloud and cloud services or to edge computing. In the next couple of quarters. we’ll just focus on executing....

The biggest reason? The office politics balance of power has – at least for now – shifted. And that shift has been in favour of the workers, not the bosses. Here’s what’s happening: many knowledge workers have now spent plenty of time working remotely and have proved (to themselves at least) that they can be as effective at home as they are in the office. SEE: The hybrid work divide: Managers think tech is the answer - but staff disagree What’s more, that shift to remote working has improved the work-life balance for many (but not all) by giving them a bit more flexibility....

Fast forward five years to today and both of those scenarios are now reality. According to RMIT Online technology and enablement director Will Calvert, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a decline in traditional on-campus enrolments, while students’ expectation around customer and user experiences for online education accelerated over the years, particularly in the past 12 months. “Students, quite rightly, expect that the online education experience should keep up with those other experiences that they have, like the amazing retail experiences that we have online or with Spotify, Netflix, and those social media platforms,” he told ZDNet....