The report sent MongoDB shares up 16% in late trading. CEO and president Dev Ittycheria called the results “another fantastic quarter,” one that was “highlighted by 84% Atlas revenue growth and increasing our customer count to over 31,000.” Added Ittycheria, “We believe a key driver of our success has been the early, but growing, trend of customers choosing MongoDB as an enterprise standard for their future application development. Revenue in the three months ending in October rose 50% year over year to $227 million, yielding a net loss of 11 cents a share, excluding some costs....

Google’s smart doorbell, Nest, is known for shaking up the doorbell chime status quo, introducing festive and unique chimes since 2018. For Nest owners looking for more distinctive doorbell chimes, you’re in luck. While Google has already released festive doorbell chimes for Christmas, they’re now releasing themed tunes for other cultural holidays, like Lunar New Year and Diwali. SEE: The best video doorbell: Porch thieves beware For Halloween, a spooky witch’s cackle will be available to beef up the scare factor for trick-or-treaters....

The 2021 Global Tech Scam Research report [PDF] showed that in the past 12 months, 68% of Australians encountered some form of tech support scam. While it was a two-point decrease from 2018, it was still higher than the global average which came in at 59%, five points lower than in 2018. Of those Australians who encountered a scam in 2021, 9% lost money as a result, a three percentage point increase on 2018, and slightly higher than the global average of 7%....

NASA engineers have found the bug that was causing critical instruments on the four-decade-old spacecraft to send “garbled” health information to mission controllers on Earth. Voyager 1’s attitude articulation and control system (AACS), which keeps its antenna directed at Earth, earlier this year started to send back information that didn’t reflect what was actually happening onboard. The AACS appeared to be functioning normally, but the data it was sending back was deemed invalid because it didn’t match any possible state the system could be in....

The rollout is a major moment for the stalled Artemis mission, which now aims to launch on Nov. 14. Also: What is the Artemis mission? Everything you need to know The mission was initially slated to launch in late August, but the launch was scrubbed due to technical delays. A second attempt was also scrubbed due to technical issues. Then in September, NASA had to wheel the SLS back to its hangar as Hurricane Ian approached the western side of Florida’s peninsula, disrupting what would have been the third launch attempt....

Landing successfully on Mars is a major feat – only about 40% of the missions ever sent to Mars by any space agency have been successful. When the Perseverance rover entered the Martian atmosphere, it was traveling at nearly 12,500 mph. The spacecraft had to slow down as much as possible while enduring extreme heat, the planet’s gravitational forces, as well as pockets of air that could throw it off course....

Specifically, part of the funding will be used to digitise and preserve what is considered the National Archives’ “at-risk collection” as part of an “accelerated” four-year digitisation program. The collection that will be digitised includes military documents in relation to World War II and the Vietnam and Korean wars, as well as immigration records and Census data, all of which are currently kept in various formats, including paper-based, photographers, film-based, magnetic audio-visual tapes, and digital files....

Under a new partnership between NBA China and Alibaba’s fintech business Ant Group, “customized” experiences will be produced for fans of the sport as well as users of Ant’s digital platforms. These will include original video content, joint membership, and digital collectibles. The collaboration would facilitate NBA’s digital engagement with its fans in China, with an NBA content matrix to be launched on the Alipay app, Ant said in a statement Tuesday....

The Netgear Nighthawk M5 (MR5200) costs £779.99 (inc. VAT; £649.99 ex. VAT) in the UK, or $699.99 in the US. A simple black box with an LCD touch screen on the top, the Nighthawk M5 has two ports: RJ-45 Ethernet and a dual-purpose USB-C connector for tethering laptops and powering the router. Inside there’s a slot for a 5040mAh battery and a Micro-SIM card. The bottom pops off easily, allowing you to remove the battery and swap out SIMs as needed....

The attack, one of the fastest recorded by Sophos researchers, was achieved by operators who “precision-targeted the ESXi platform” in order to encrypt the virtual machines of the victim. On Tuesday, Sophos said the malware, a new variant written in Python, was deployed ten minutes after threat actors managed to break into a TeamViewer account belonging to the victim organization. TeamViewer is a control and access platform that can be used by the general public and businesses alike to manage and control PCs and mobile devices remotely....

Detailed by researchers at cybersecurity company ThreatFabric, the Android malware is part of the SpyNote family, a form of trojan spyware which has been active since 2016 and provides cyber attackers with the ability to secretly spy on and modify user’s activity on Android smartphones. The newest SpyNote variant has been active since late 2021, sold to cyber criminals under the name CypherRat. The source code was made available online in October 2022 and since then researchers have detected a steep rise in CypherRat samples and campaigns....

The new joint advisory outlines what critical infrastructure operators should know about their opponents, citing recent cyberattacks on Ukraine’s energy grid and the ransomware attack against a fuel distribution pipeline. There are heightened fears that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and related cyberattacks against Ukraine could spread to Western critical infrastructure targets. CISA earlier this year warned that attackers had built custom tools to gain control of ICS and SCADA devices from major manufacturers....

The company has faced withering backlash since it was revealed that they helped dozens of organizations spy on world leaders, activists, journalists and others using the Pegasus spyware. The latest report from Citizen Lab – authored by Ali Abdulemam, Noura Al-Jizawi, Bill Marczak, Siena Anstis, Kristin Berdan, John Scott-Railton and Ron Deibert – said nine activists from Bahrain had their iPhones hacked with NSO Group’s spyware, and some were attacked through zero-click iMessage exploits....

To handle all of this dispersed data, companies need to leverage edge services – data management and processing that happens at the “edge,” where data is collected, rather than in a data center. Meanwhile, a private 5G network can help organizations ensure that their data is processed quickly – it provides dedicated bandwidth for applications. Now, the IT infrastructure company NTT is partnering with VMware to offer a service that offers both edge capabilities and private 5G....

Also: The best gaming laptops The GeForce RTX 40 Series Studio Laptops are meant to bring portable gaming to new heights and unleash “a new era of laptop computing,” according to Nvidia. The laptops exhibit a thin, portable design without compromising speed, battery life, graphics or efficiency. The laptops are powered by Nvidia’s Ada Lovelace architecture, GeForce RTX 40 Series Laptop GPUs, and new 5th generation Max-Q technologies, which provide users with up to 4x faster performance, previously impossible detail, massive speedups in 3D, video and broadcast workflows, and AI tools....

Obsidi was created by members of the black professionals in Tech Network (BPTN), which calls itself the largest black community of tech and business professionals in North America. Lekan Olawoye, founder and CEO of BPTN, told ZDNet the Obsidi platform will serve as a conduit to opportunities for black professionals. The site allows users to upload resumes, build professional relationships, network and leverage career development resources. The platform also works with tech companies in search of talent like Microsoft, TD, RBC, LinkedIn, HPE and more....

According to the study, tech budgets are set to reach $7.4 billion in 2022, up 18% in relation to last year. The estimate is based on the responses from 17 Brazilian banks, which concentrate around 82% of all banking assets in Brazil. Within last year’s total tech budget at Brazilian banks of $6.3 billion, investments alone represented $2.3 billion, a 27% increase in relation to the prior year, while the remainder refers to expenses, which also saw an increase of 6%....

Important enough to spend $160,000, according to OpenAI, the artificial intelligence startup. That is the amount of money that a team at OpenAI spent to hire players of Minecraft on the online job listings platform Upwork to submit videos of themselves playing the game. In a paper unveiled this week, “Video PreTraining (VPT): Learning to Act by Watching Unlabeled Online Videos,” OpenAI researchers Bowen Baker and team break ground in the use of large datasets to train a neural network to mimic human keystrokes to solve different tasks in the video game....

At the same time, Jonathan Bryce, Rackspace co-founder, and the future OpenStack’s executive director, was working on their own open-source cloud project. Then, Bryce said in an interview, “we met these folks at NASA, and that went really well. So, we flew out to Moffett Field (Ames main campus) and spent a whole day with them. The whole time everybody was just sitting there nodding because we were rebuilding our stuff in Python....

“Optus is aware of an outage that may be impacting Optus services. We are aiming to restore these services as a priority,” the telco tweeted at 11:04am AEST on Friday “We thank customers for their patience and will provide an update as soon as possible.” Over three hours later, Optus customers are still waiting for more information. A spokesperson for the company said the outage began at 10:30am AEST, and it was looking into the cause....