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Despite the upbeat report, Elastic shares declined 8% in late trading. “The area that we’re very proud of is our Elastic Cloud growth,” CEO and founder Shay Banon told ZDNet in an interview via Zoom. That product saw sales rise 84%, year over year, to $69 million, of a similar magnitude as the 89% growth in the previous quarter. “We’ve made significant investments in our cloud offering,” he added. “We believe this is the best way to engage with our products and our solutions....

The grilling arose in response to a letter written by Western Australia Police Minister Paul Papalia to Federal Communications Minister Paul Fletcher that called for the Online Safety Act powers to be used more expeditiously. Papalia wrote the letter after a TikTok video surfaced online of a stolen vehicle occupied by boys aged 11 and 12, and a girl aged 13, ramming a police car into a tree in Broome, injuring two police officers....

The proposed laws, currently before Parliament, seek to establish a requirement for social media service providers to have a complaints scheme in place that allows victims of defamatory comments to both make complaints and request the personal information of the maker of those comments. Under the proposed laws, social media service providers would be liable to defamation for these types of comments if their platform does not have an appropriate complaints scheme....

These claims come with unfortunate timing as the technology company just launched a series of security devices to end the year. One of these new launches, the EufyCam 3 and HomeBase 3 bundle, also known as the Eufy Edge Security System, seems to gather all the best features of competing security cameras and combine them into one kit. With 4K-quality images, forever power, and expandable storage, all with no monthly fees, those flaws may not seem important....

It’s become an LF Energy project, Shuli Goodman, Linux Foundation Energy’s Executive Director, explained because, “At LF Energy, we firmly believe that only open source has the speed and transformative power to change industries fast. Our mission is to decarbonize the global economy by enabling the transformation of power systems, the transition to electric mobility, and the radical efficiency of the built environment. In this regard, EVerest is the perfect addition to our ecosystem....

Apparently it was a “really good deal.” Also: Apple’s worst product has now become one of its best It wasn’t a good deal. It was a fake. And it broke off in the Lightning port after a few weeks of use. Fortunately, I was able to remove it using a pair of surgical hemostats (a good tool to have in the toolkit). I know that Apple charges a lot of money for replacement iPhone charging cables, and it’s tempting to go looking for a “bargain,” but these cheap cables rarely turn out to be bargains....

In December 2020, SpaceX was announced as one of the largest recipients of the 180 firms awarded funds under the FCC’s first round auction for RDOF funding over 10 years to bring high-speed broadband to 5.2 million unserved US households and businesses. But now the FCC has said Elon Musk’s SpaceX satellite broadband service failed to demonstrate it could deliver the service and that its “nascent” technology shouldn’t be subsidized by the Universal Service Fund to meet the RDOF’s goals....

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While it supports the innovative use of AI algorithms to improve user experience and access to information, the growth of such applications can lead to abuse. Emphasis should be placed on such tools and data resources to be used safely and reliably, said the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). Regulations were needed to drive a healthy and sustainable development of generative AI algorithms, said the government agency, as it published the draft laws on its website....

Grocery shopping was never on anybody’s list of favorite ways to pass the time, but the past couple of years have caused both shoppers and retailers to radically rethink the way people get their essentials. Through it all, one outlet has been going strong: Sam’s Club. From the get-go, the business model behind this warehouse discount store was a great one. And now, shoppers can see what’s so great about the store with a one-year membership that’s cheaper than ever and comes with a $10 perk to boot....

It’s that time of year, right in the middle of summer, when a lot of people are still scrambling to find cheap airfares while the sun shines. But some of us have already returned from vacations or are waiting for the airline meltdowns to end, and life – or our homes – may be feeling just a bit drab. But no need to despair, because expensive décor or vacations aren’t necessary to brighten things up....

Google has now updated Google Meet with minor tweaks that will make it easier to notice and address raised hands through a clearer animation. It should also help social cohesion in video meetings with many participants, so it’s a small but important change. On the bottom left of the meeting screen, there’s now a hand icon that expands to display the name of the participant who’s raising their hand to speak....

Google announced AI Test Kitchen in May, along with the second version of LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), and is now letting the public test parts of what it believes is the future of human-computer interaction. AI Test Kitchen is “meant to give you a sense of what it might be like to have LaMDA in your hands,” Google CEO Sunday Pichai said at the time. AI Test Kitchen is part of Google’s plan to ensure its technology is developed with some safety rails....

The Digital Future Initiative will focus on creating new jobs and building Australia’s technology fundamentals, with the funds to be invested into building Australia’s technology talent, digital infrastructure, and developing tech partnerships, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said. As part of investing in building Australia’s technology talent, Google will create its first research hub in the country. As part of building that hub, Google will create a team of local researchers and engineers that will use AI processes to explore job creation, education, and training....

Researchers donated $300,000 of their rewards to a charity of their choice, according to a blog from Sarah Jacobus of Google’s Vulnerability Rewards Team. For Android vulnerabilities, payouts doubled compared to 2020, with almost $3 million being rewarded to researchers for a variety of bugs. The company also handed out its largest Android payout ever at $157,000. The company also launched the Android Chipset Security Reward Program, an invite-only program for researchers looking through manufacturers of certain popular Android chipsets....

SEE: eSIM vs. SIM: What’s the difference? When you purchase an iPhone 14 or iPhone 14 Pro it will already arrive with a ready to activate eSIM, and all you have to do is activate it through your carrier. Good news: the three major US phone carriers, Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, already support eSIM activation. “Verizon makes it super easy to activate a new phone with eSIM. If you are buying the phone from Verizon or unlocked from Apple with an existing Verizon account, the process is seamless....

For those who aren’t familiar, an always-on display will continue to show information and data – such as the time or notifications – on the screen, even when the phone is locked. When an iPhone is currently locked, however, the screen is completely off, leaving a black slab of glass. With the release of iOS 16 beta 4, 9to5Mac has uncovered references to a new “Sleep” mode that turns the bright and vibrant wallpapers into a darker version, saving battery power and barely making the display visible in the process....

California-based Ayar, which has amassed $65 million in venture capital funding, is also receiving funding from Hewlett’s venture capital unit, Hewlett Packard Pathfinder. The two declined to disclose how much. Hewlett said that because of the rapidly increasing amounts of data in high-performance computing (HPC) and in artificial intelligence computing, traditional “electrical-based networking offerings will eventually reach bandwidth limits.” Therefore, the duo “plan to develop capabilities that leverage optical I/O, which is a silicon photonics-based technology that uses light instead of electricity to transmit data, to integrate with HPE Slingshot,” Hewlett’s networking product dedicated to interconnecting HPC systems....

Brighton’s Margaret Burchill had her home phone service cut on February 18 as Telstra Wholesale switched off the copper to her building, despite the fact that new connections in her area were put on hold as part of NBN’s HFC pause. The company responsible for rolling out the NBN postponed new HFC connections at the start of February, due to a shortage of HFC Network Termination Devices (NTDs) caused by COVID-19-related chipset shortages....

Through technology, it is possible to stalk someone with little effort. This can involve anything from sleuthing to find out information about your Tinder date to checking a potential work candidate’s social profiles to planting spyware on your partner’s phone. In short, technology has provided new avenues for stalking to take place. Recorded cases of spyware and stalkerware have dropped in number in recent years – only to be replaced with mobile applications that can be difficult to detect and remove, covert cameras, and item trackers....