The cloud content management company published preliminary results two weeks earlier, amid its ongoing dispute with activist investors at hedge fund Starboard Value LP. Non-GAAP net income per share came to 21 cents on revenue of $214.5 million, up 12% year-over-year. Analysts were expecting earnings of 18 cents per share on revenue of $212.45 million. “As companies implement strategies to support a remote workforce and digital processes in this hybrid world, more customers are turning to Box to secure content management and collaboration in the cloud,” CEO Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box....

Along with Levie, the stockholder vote keeps former VeriSign CFO Dana Evan and McAfee CEO Peter Leav on the board of directors. Earlier this year, activist investors at hedge fund Starboard Value LP put forward its own slate of director nominees to Box’s 10-person board, arguing that Box hasn’t aggressively capitalized on the enterprise trends driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. For an activist investment firm like Starboard, the end game is to see Box acquired....

Lumen, formerly CenturyLink, operates one of the world’s largest Internet backbones. Effective immediately, Lumen declared it couldn’t continue to operate in Russia and stopped all routing traffic for Russian organizations. Lumen’s decision comes mere days after Cogent bid the Russian market adieu. Oddly, Lumen tried to say this really didn’t make that much of a difference because the “business services we provide are extremely small and very limited, as is our physical presence....

System administrators who are unfamiliar with PowerShell can start with two quick one-hour courses. “Anybody Can Script | A PowerShell Learning Series” offers 14 lessons that cover a scripting introduction, basics, automation, and more. “Essential Tools for Windows System Administrators” has eight lectures covering open source tools and those built-in to Windows that can help you become a more efficient system admin. In “GUI Automation using Python”, you learn how to increase your productivity by using Python to automate any GUI efficiently....

The awards were issued between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021 and is slightly less than what it paid out in 2019. That year, Microsoft tripled the awards from the previous year. The largest award was $200,000 under the Hyper-V Bounty Program, Microsoft’s program for its virtualization layer on Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, and containers for running Windows and Linux applications in the cloud. SEE: Network security policy (TechRepublic Premium) “With an average of more than $10,000 USD per award across all programs, each of the over 1,200 eligible reports reflect the talent and creativity of the global security research community and their invaluable partnership in addressing the challenges of a constantly changing security environment,” the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) said in a blogpost....

Also: After COVID-19, what happens to the grocery industry? Thanks to real-world learnings and improvements to its AI, Grabango is gaining real momentum, founder and CEO Will Glaser said to ZDNet. “We moved from a thing in the lab, to a thing in the real world, to multi-store deployments,” Glaser said. “I think 2022 is the year that checkout free gets big.” Grabango’s first live installment, back in 2017, was a bespoke proof-of-concept that took a full year to implement....

Spend on data center systems, enterprise software, devices, IT services and communications services will grow at pace, predicts Gartner, even after 2020 already forced many business leaders to invest heavily in new technologies to support their workforce as they stayed stuck at home due to the health crisis. This is because priorities are shifting, and the new goals set for 2021 by CIOs require doubling down on IT budgets. While the last year placed businesses in survival mode, leading to short-term digital transformation projects that had to be implemented at pace, 2021 will be all about bigger initiatives with longer time frames....

On February 15, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said that Carlos Guerrero, a resident of Chula Vista, California and Tijuana, Mexico, admitted to “conspiring to sell and use hacking tools manufactured by private companies in Italy, Israel and elsewhere.” The 48-year-old appeared in a San Diego federal court, where prosecutors alleged that Guerrero owned a number of companies registered in the US and Mexico that were used as sales brokers for “interception and surveillance tools....

The price of food has been skyrocketing, so it’s probably a smart move to take advantage of great discounts whenever and wherever you find them. And now, you can not only get a Sam’s Club Membership at 72% off, but if you sign up by June 12th, you can also get a $10 E-Gift Card. Of course, while Sam’s always has fabulous grocery discounts, you’ll also find excellent bargains on a wide range of premium products....

The report sent Cambium shares fractionally higher in late trading. CEO Atul Bhatnagar remarked that “Demand for infrastructure projects around the world are expected to accelerate during 2022 fueled by increased government funding of broadband solutions and the continuation of hybrid work and play from home.” Added Bhatnagar, “Fixed Wireless Broadband is a critically important networking fabric connecting our local communities “Our fourth quarter continued to have strong demand for Cambium products as we work through supply chain issues which we expect to substantially improve during the second half of calendar 2022....

What can you do now? Well, you could try CentOS Stream, but it’s not the same thing. Classic CentOS was a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone. CentOS Stream, however, “tracks just ahead of a current RHEL release.” In other words, CentOS will no longer be a stable point distribution but a beta rolling release Linux distribution. Why is that such a big deal? For years, experienced Linux users used CentOS for their Linux server....

Out is any indication of where the touchpad is, with parting lines removed and Dell instead choosing to say it has a “seamless glass touchpad” that uses haptics to provide feedback. For the keyboard, Dell has increased the keycap size and tripled each key’s dish on top to 0.3 millimetres, with travel distance said to be 1 millimetre. Up top, the traditional row of function keys has been replaced by a capacitive row that changes between media and function key lights according to whether the function lock is engaged or not....

I asked Chainguard CEO and founder Dan Lorenc at Open Source Summit Europe in Dublin what he meant by an “undistrbution.” He explained, “We call it an undistribution because that’s technically correct. Inside of a container, you have everything but Linux, right? So, even though it’s based on Linux, it’s not really correct to call it a Linux distribution.” What most people call a Linux container, Lorenc continued, is “a distro that boots up on hardware and gets you to a container runtime....

Exclusive Discounts for Maze Ransomware Victims Maze ransomware is a cryptovirus. This type of virus encrypts files on business computer systems and then asks for the payment of a ransom, usually in bitcoin, to recover the files. On 18 March 2020, the “Maze Team” published a press release on various online communications stating they now offer a discount to affected organizations. “Due to situation with incoming global economy crisis and virus pandemic, our Team decided to help commercial organizations […]....

“It starts with the product experience – that was the No. 1 thing,” Cort told ZDNet at the recent SaaStr conference. “The founders were just obsessed with it; they’d release new features every single week for a long time, and that was what allowed us to get traction in a very busy marketplace in a short amount of time.” The San Diego-based company makes a customizable workplace productivity platform that serves all departments across an organization, and a lot of people apparently are intrigued....

Adoption of cloud computing has been growing rapidly over the past decade, and soon a tipping point will be reached, with use of cloud computing for application software, infrastructure software, business process services and system infrastructure overtaking traditional on-premises technology options within the next two or three years. Recent events such as the enforced shift to hybrid working have generated further momentum behind cloud services, and as cloud offerings continue to mature and evolve, it’s likely that adoption will continue to expand....

First reported by Bleeping Computer, the letters say at least 6,000 Coinbase customers had funds removed from their accounts. “In order to access your Coinbase account, these third parties first needed prior knowledge of the email address, password, and phone number associated with your Coinbase account, as well as access to your personal email inbox. While we are not able to determine conclusively how these third parties gained access to this information, this type of campaign typically involves phishing attacks or other social engineering techniques to trick a victim into unknowingly disclosing login credentials to a bad actor,” Coinbase told affected customers in the letter....

Kubernetes-based container deployments are on the rise, according to a recent analysis of data from 7,000 backend developers, as reported in the most recent State of Cloud Native Development Report developed for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) by SlashData. The study finds that Kubernetes adoption soared during the 2020-2021 time period – to at least 5.6 million developers, representing a 67% increase within a year’s time. This group now represents 31% of all backend developers....

If you aren’t a current Costco member, should you pay for the membership to get access to the Costco Anywhere Visa card? And if you are a Costco member, do the benefits and perks offered outweigh other rewards cards? Before you apply for this store card, here are five important things to know about the Costco Anywhere Visa card: The annual cost is $60 for a Gold Star membership or $120 for an Executive membership, plus sales tax, where applicable....

Now, a novel encryption method can truly wring the juice out of data without anyone ever seeing it, allowing Big Data to be used to its full extent while also resolving Big Data’s data privacy issues, resulting in positive implications for the future of personal and sensitive information. “Data is the New Oil” 15 years ago, British mathematician and marketing expert Clive Humby coined the phrase “data is the new oil,” NewScientist wrote....