Also: How to set up your first Raspberry Pi All of this popularity created strong demand even before the world’s supply chain was struck by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent chip shortages, the effects of which still linger. Matters were made worse by the increasing interest of hobbyists with unexpected free time over the pandemic scooping up boards for use in their various projects. While there may be hope on the horizon for easing these supply constraints, the task of finding an in-stock Raspberry Pi board can be frustrating and sometimes, ahem, fruitless....

In the press release, Save explains that the card will “match customers’ spending” and invest into “globally diversified allocations, sustainable investments, and alternative assets with managed crypto exposure.” Cardholders keep all returns on the investments aside from a Save Wealth management fee of 0.79%. The returns are deposited into cardholders’ bank accounts as cash, and Save serves as a fiduciary advisor to manage customers’ investments on their behalf. According to Save, for every dollar cardholders spend, Save will invest $2....

I finally made the switch for a number of reasons, one of which was the fact that Firewalla has a Wi-Fi SD option that allows you to use your phone’s hotspot capability as a backup connection for your home internet. If you ask my coworkers, my internet service used to break down constantly. Since switching to Gold and adding the Wi-Fi SD option, my internet connection has been perfect. And now that I’ve started traveling for work again, I’ve been taking the Firewalla Purple with me to connect to hotel Wi-Fi and keep my devices secure....

Flexera worked closely with its customers to identify “areas of major spending that can be reduced,” Cyndi Tackett, Flexera’s VP of product marketing, said in a statement. That led to the new functionality around the two Salesforce products. In Flexera’s 2022 Tech Spend Pulse survey, 48% of enterprises list Salesforce as one of their top three vendors in terms of IT spending. A number of Salesforce customers have at least 20 instances....

Also: This handy $24 kit can help you troubleshoot USB problems The Prestige 13 Evo comes with a matte, glare-free, 13-inch display, a privacy-shuttered webcam that supports Windows Hello, up to 32GB of RAM, and all the ports you’d want, including HDMI and USB-A. MSI tells me the base $999 model (12th Gen Intel Core i5 with 16GB RAM) will be available by the end of this month, so I’d wait until then if you’re looking to save money....

Rust has risen to 20th position in October, up from 26th this time a year ago. It’s the second time it’s been in Tiobe’s top 20 after peaking at 18th position in September 2020, a few months after it reached version 1.0. Paul Jansen, CEO of Tiobe Software, sees Rust as a “small threat” for C and C++ – the two languages that some developers believe Rust should replace for new projects due to its better management of memory security....

How Did it Happen The German state of NRW built a website to distribute coronavirus relief funding. However, unlike other German states that required proof of identity before making funding payments, the NRW did not do this. Some German states who have created similar websites, have asked users to download a form and mail it in with documents to prove their identity. Other states have asked users to upload scanned documents to their website to prove their identity....

Whether you just feel like a casual Minecraft game or looking to compete in professional League of Legends or Fortnite tournaments, you need a gaming rig with the performance you need. Not only can this Refurbished Periphio Ember Gaming PC from 2022 deliver that, but it also looks super sharp while doing it. Also: How much RAM does your Windows 11 PC need? Periphio’s latest model gaming tower adds a Quad-Core Intel Core i5 processor and 8GB of RAM to the most recent generation GeForce GTX 1650 overclocked graphics card with 4GB of graphics memory for unmatched performance during all your gaming adventures....

Between accessing entertainment and social media accounts, everyone seems to be spending much more time in the cloud and online than ever before. And considering how much more frequent and severe cybercrime has become, it’s easy to see why so many of us are using the most effective VPN services we can find. However, even that kind of protection doesn’t always feel enough to keep our most sensitive and confidential information safe....

GitHub recently announced that teachers who join GitHub’s Global Campus and use GitHub Classroom now get free access to Codespaces, GitHub’s integrated development environment. In addition, GitHub also announced plans to host two in-person graduation events this month. Hardek said about 1.9 million students are active in the GitHub Education platform. “What is particularly game-changing about Codespaces in the education space is how the development environment is set up,” said Hardek....

I pre-ordered a Pixel 6 Pro and it arrived a couple of weeks ago. My return deadline is tomorrow and it’s all boxed up and ready to head back to Google. Readers know my primary daily driver is the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 and while I wasn’t looking for the Pixel 6 Pro to replace it on T-Mobile, I thought it could serve as my Google Fi primary device....

With its first-ever Google Cloud Startup Summit, the company is looking to share best practices, business models and industry-specific approaches with young companies. Google Cloud is also launching new resources and services to mentor and provide support to startups. The headliner of the event is Astro Teller, Google X’s Captain of Moonshots, who will talk about creating a moonshot factory. Ryan Kiskis, director for the startup unit at Google Cloud, said the cloud provider is supporting customers across 128 countries with startups focused on digital banking, travel, healthcare and media....

The new products follow a series of dramatic cybersecurity incidents, including the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack that shut down gas and oil deliveries throughout the southeast, the SolarWinds software supply chain attack and an extensive hack on Microsoft Exchange servers. For CSOs, however, there’s no room to breathe easy. “If anything, the attack surface is going to get worse,” Sunil Potti, Google Cloud VP and GM of cloud security, said to reporters last week....

Since Kurian made his debut as cloud chief in 2019, Google Cloud has taken an industry-focused sales approach, tailoring the company’s cloud and AI expertise to key verticals. In his role as GM of Google Cloud’s Global Strategic initiatives, Vemuri has helped the company land some of its most important deals, including partnerships with Ford, Sabre, Globo, Mayo Clinic and Deutsche Bank. As head of Global Strategic Customers & Industries, he’ll continue to build partnerships with enterprise customers that allow them to leverage services across Google – spanning Google Cloud as well as businesses like Google Ads, Maps or Assistant....

Healthcare Datat Engine builds on the core capabilities Google started offering last year with its Cloud Healthcare API. It can map more than 90 percent of Health Level 7 (HL7) v.2 messages to Fast Healthcare interoperability Resource (FHIR) standards across leading electronic health records (EHRs) out of the box. This makes it easier to implement with less custom tooling or services. Once customers bring data in from disparate sources and harmonize it to the FHIR format, they can analyze it using Google BigQuery....

I recently came upon a mesmerizing animated bar chart on the wonderful Visual Capitalist site. I enjoy Visual Capitalist because it’s all charts, all the time, and I have a somewhat unhealthy love of charts. In any case, Visual Capitalist’s James Eagle put together an animated bar chart running from 1993 to January 2022 showing the top ten websites, in terms of traffic. Also: Hackers are increasingly targeting Google Chrome He pulled traffic numbers for each of the sites using a variety of sources....

Signed by Google Brazil president Fabio Coelho, the letter released on Friday (12) criticizes the project introduced in 2020, which aims to regulate platforms with more than 2 million users, who would be responsible for creating rules and mechanisms to identify content that could be considered false clearly. “We recognize the importance of debating solutions to this problem, but we are concerned that the Congress is doing so without considering the negative and unintended consequences the bill could bring”, Coelho argued....

A dark web site this month released a data set of 200 million Twitter profiles. That’s where I found my account’s data. I know my data hadn’t been revealed in earlier releases because I’d checked then. In my business, I take security seriously. On Wednesday, Twitter said that “there is no evidence that data recently being sold was obtained by exploiting a vulnerability of Twitter systems.” The company suggests the newly exposed account data in December and January (yes, this is the second recent release) is “likely a collection of data already publicly available online through different sources....

A sample of the database posted on the dark web includes the emails and phone numbers of Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, SpaceX, the US Department of the Interior, and the World Health Organization (WHO), to name a few. It is impossible to verify the authenticity of the information at this time. However, cybersecurity intelligence company Hudson Rock said it is a “credible threat....

Paul Prudhomme, cyber threat intelligence advisor at IntSights, examined network access sales on underground Russian and English-language forums before compiling a study on why criminals sell their network access and how criminals transfer their network access to buyers. More than 37% of all victims in a sample of the data were based in North America while there was an average price of $9,640 and a median price of $3,000. The study notes that the kind of access being offered continues to be used in ransomware attacks across the world....