As many as 18 customers signed 8-figure transactions in Q4, the company said. Non-GAAP net income for the fourth quarter was $161.9 million, or $1.60 per diluted share. Fourth-quarter revenue grew 28% year-over-year to $1.2 billion. Analysts were expecting earnings of $1.43 per share on revenue of $1.17 billion. For the full fiscal year 2021, revenue grew 25% to $4.3 billion. “Our strong Q4 performance was the culmination of executing on our strategy throughout the year, including product innovation, platform integration, business model transformation and investments in our go-to-market organization,” chairman and CEO Nikesh Arora said in a statement....

The TOLA Act, passed three years ago, was criticised heavily when it first became law as it gave intelligence and law enforcement agencies powers to request or demand assistance from communications providers to access encrypted communications. Since its passing, the most public display of these powers has been Operation Ironside, which AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw last year labelled as the Australian Federal Police’s (AFP) “most significant operation in policing history”....

Pay Monthly will enable US consumers to spread payments over longer periods of time, up to two years. What’s more, its customers will have access to a new offering through PayPal that will give them “greater flexibility and even more choices to pay for the items they want and need,” according to the company’s announcement. With 537 million credit card accounts and debt totaling $841 billion in the US as of March 31, credit card debt is becoming a greater issue among many US consumers who are experiencing first-hand the effects of 40-year record inflation and rising interest rates and fears of an impending recession....

The rise in adblocker installs and compliance with global privacy regulations means that the industry is ripe for a permissions-based advertising model to engender trust and loyalty from users. Advertisers face significant challenges in click fraud. Reportedly, 40% of digital ad traffic is the activity of bots clicking on ads. By 2022, $44B is estimated to be lost in ad revenue, making click fraud the 2nd biggest organized crime in the world....

Suppose you actually happen to be familiar with Azure and just need the certification to validate your skills. In that case, the 21 lessons contained in just one hour of “AZ-104: Microsoft Azure Administrator Full Course” should be all you need to pass that exam. But if you’d prefer a more comprehensive course, “AZ-104 Azure Administrator Exam Certification 2021” offers 146 lectures over the course of 12 hours. Afterwards, you can follow up with “AZ-204 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure Exam Prep” to move on to the next certification....

That’s right. Private Internet Access is open source. Don’t worry about the business model though. Of all the products you could release as open source, the one that’s completely and totally dependent on a physical network is a VPN offering. Given that you can’t offer a VPN without the network, it’s a wonder other vendors don’t release their code publicly. Also: The top 5 fastest VPNs Private Internet Access is also US-based....

You probably seldom think about how easy life is with the internet; the amount of information available and the effort it saves us is truly breathtaking. But there are downsides, of course, such as the risk to your privacy and security. Fortunately, you can now affordably protect your web presence with the Lifetime Password Manager & Privacy Subscription Bundle for only $29.99. With hackers breaching large companies seemingly daily, using just one password for multiple websites leaves you vulnerable to data leaks....

The new Singapore cloud region would allow both large enterprises and small and midsize businesses to store and deploy data for analytics locally, Qlik said in a statement Thursday. It has three other cloud regions in Australia, Ireland, and the US. The vendor has operated an office in Singapore since 2011. The option to keep their data in the regional cloud also would provide customers with the ability to support end-users’ analytics needs in the region more effectively, with faster access and lower latency, Qlik said....

On Monday, the US chip giant said the deal has been agreed as an all-cash transaction at $37 per share. Magna intended to acquire the company for $31.25 per share in an equity agreement worth $3.8 billion. The firm’s intention to purchase was announced in July, however, it seems that Veoneer, an automotive technology company, also engaged the interest of Qualcomm and SSW Partners. After the $4.5 billion counter offer was laid on the table, Magna was given four days to match or improve its deal – a right that was waived....

Initially available on devices based on the flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, Qualcomm says that Snapdragon Satellite, which was announced at CES 2023, will be available across “all upcoming 5G Modem-RF systems and Snapdragon Mobile Platform tiers (from 8- to 4-tier)” going forward. This support will allow satellite connectivity to expand beyond smartphones to other device categories, including compute, automotive, and IoT sectors, the company says. Also: The most exciting phones at MWC 2023 (that you likely can’t buy) There’s no indication, yet, of the specific devices that Qualcomm’s newly announced satellite smartphone partners will launch....

But the rapidly growing interest in the burgeoning quantum industry throws up some difficult questions for businesses. One of the most pressing in the near-term is how organisations with quantum computing ambitions can find and attract skilled workers in this new and highly specialised field. There’s also the issue of how industry and academia can speed up the supply of candidates with the right qualifications and competencies into quantum computing jobs....

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the move would incentivise more games projects and game developers to bring their business to the state. “By adding this new games’ incentive, local and international studios will be further motivated to outsource the creation of valuable game titles to Queensland, while our own locally based developers will be supported to create original games content right here,” she said. In addition, the state government said it would move to lower the threshold to access the PDV and games incentive from AU$500,000 to AU$250,000....

In a joint letter sent to The Law Society, the NCSC and ICO say there’s been a rise in ransomware payments and that in some cases solicitors “may have been advising clients to pay” ransoms in the belief that it will keep the data safe or result in a lower financial penalty from the ICO. The Law Society is the professional association for solicitors for England and Wales. “In recent months, we have seen an increase in the number of ransomware attacks and ransom amounts being paid and we are aware that legal advisers are often retained to advise clients who have fallen victim to ransomware on how to respond and whether to pay....

Ransomware attacks have long been a significant cybersecurity issue, causing disruption to critical infrastructure, healthcare, businesses and services around the world. And the potential for disruption is so great that a UK government minister has described it as a national security threat. “The greatest cyber threat to the UK – one now deemed severe enough to pose a national security threat – is from ransomware attacks,” Steve Barclay, lead minister for cybersecurity told the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) CyberUK conference in Newport, Wales....

We last wrote about the new space-hardened Raspberry Pi units, dubbed Astro Pi, in September and they launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in December as part of Expedition 66 on a Dragon Cargo spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The AstroPi units are part of a project run by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Earth-focused Mission Zero and Mission Space Lab. The former allows young Python programmers to take humidity readings on board ISS while the latter lets students run various scientific experiments on the space station using its sensors....

That’s because (they say) they’re experts and have expertly marketed their way into being seen as experts. Which is an expertise in itself. Sometimes, though, you have to wonder about the true basis of their knowledge. I ask because of a recent image from a piece of expert HR software, posted to Twitter by @muchnerve. It asked this currently important question: “Which of the following items might help an HR professional drive employee retention and success?...

It had been rumored at May 2022’s Red Hat Summit that Cormier, who had been with Red Hat for over 14 years, might retire soon. That rumor wasn’t true, but he is moving to a “somewhat” less demanding position. That said, as Stephanie Wonderlick, Red Hat’s VP of Brand Experience + Communication, said, “I don’t think Red Hat would have become Red Hat without Paul Cormier.” Wonderlick’s right. In 2003, when Cormier was Red Hat’s VP of engineering, he led the company to leave behind its early inexpensive distribution, Red Hat Linux, to move to a full business Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)....

Some of the world’s largest global tech firms have already gone ahead and answered those questions, at least for themselves. Twitter led the pack when it announced last May its work-from-home plans would remain permanent, even after offices fully reopen. Square’s declaration that it would permit employees to work from home permanently followed shortly after. PwC Australia Real Estate Advisory business partner Tony Massaro says one thing the pandemic has proven is that remote working is no longer just an experiment, but a widely embraced practice....

Dubbed as the Safe Blues program, the solution relies on Bluetooth technology to transmit virtual “virus-like” strands between mobile devices to mimic the spread of COVID-19 infections in the community in real-time. Relying on artificial intelligence, the Safe Blues infections are then compared to the latest real-world COVID-19 data. “Safe Blues offers a solution for real-time population-level estimates of an epidemic’s response to government directives and near-future projections,” the researchers stated....

He’s not wrong. In particular, as we continue to move to a container and Kubernetes-based world, RHEL 8.5 comes with significant container improvements. These include: Containerized Podman: The RHEL 8 Podman container image is now generally available and can help unlock the usage of Podman in cloud continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) systems, on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2, under Docker Desktop on macOS, and (of course) on RHEL 6, 7 and 8....