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Revenue in Q4 rose 54%, year over year, to $193.6 million, yielding an EPS of $0.00. Analysts had been modeling $184.7 million and and a loss per share of -$0.01. The report sent Cloudflare shares up nearly 7% in late trading. For the full year, the company saw a revenue of $656.4 million, a 52% year-over-year increase, and a non-GAAP net loss of $15.1 million. “The full year represented a 52% year-over-year increase in revenue growth and a 71% year-over-year increase in large customer growth....

Labelled by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) as a digital trade strategy, the framework is scant on actionable details but provides three aspirational goals. The first of these goals is advocating for digital trade liberalisation, standards, and regulatory cooperation with international partners and through participation in international fora. The remaining two are negotiating liberalising and trade-facilitative digital trade rules and supporting the implementation of digital trade rules internationally....

iConstituent did not respond to requests for comment, but Punchbowl News reported that almost 60 members of Congress use the platform. Chief Administrative Officer of the House Catherine Szpindor told the news outlet that they were notified of a ransomware attack on iConstituent’s e-newsletter system, which House members buy access to. But Szpindor added that no data from the House had been taken or accessed and the network used by the House was not affected....

In addition to the update news, COROS is offering up to $200 for US customers who want to trade in an Apex, Apex Pro, or Vertix in order to purchase a new watch. I loved the Vertix 2 that I reviewed and may take the company up on this special offer to upgrade my original Vertix. The brighter, clearer display is a major reason I am considering the upgrade because as you can see in the details of the firmware update COROS is bringing features to the original Vertix that make it tough to distinguish from the new watch....

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), signed into US law decades ago, aims to protect intellectual property rights. However, IP laws can be abused by vendors to suppress research going public that could be damaging or embarrassing for a brand – and one area, in particular, Section 1201, has long caused cybersecurity professionals issues when it comes to research and disclosure. Section 1201 contains a number of anti-circumvention mandates, including the “circumvention of technological measures” to “descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise, to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner....

Debian has always offered a choice of installation images that included proprietary software, but these were also labeled as experimental. This decision makes proprietary software officially part of Debian. The Debian community knows exactly what it’s doing. In September, the group voted on incorporating non-free firmware in Debian. This vote, like all Debian community decisions, was done with the Condorcet method. The winning option, Proposal E, Choice 5, clearly stated it superseded the Debian Social Contract....

Yes, the last couple of years have been dismal for air travel, but we’re emerging on the other side. Now, there’ll be joys. There’ll be real customer service. There might even be free food. Yes, of course I’m getting carried away, but some of the biggest airlines are generating some of the biggest excitements. For some of the people with bigger budgets. It’s new. It’s shiny. How much have you got?...

Technology has played a key role in the fight against COVID-19, with IT teams helping businesses to adapt to remote-working and digital-first operations. But this rapid adoption of technology has had a massive impact on those tasked with implementing it, with various reports highlighting the mental strain developers have faced over the past year as a result. SEE: The best programming languages to learn–and the worst (TechRepublic Premium) In a survey of nearly 260 UK developers by software company Haystack, 83% of respondents reported feelings of burnout, 81% of which cited the COVID-19 pandemic as the cause....

Our technology can’t work worth a darn if the Network Time Protocol (NTP) isn’t keeping our servers and PCs coordinated with one another. Without it, backups would fail, financial transactions would go awry, and many fundamental network services wouldn’t work. To help with these issues, Facebook started making its internet clocks more accurate in 2020. Now, the social media giant is open-sourcing its technology, Time Appliances Project (TAP), and enabling anyone to turn a commodity server into a reliable NTP time appliance....

The warning comes from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is developing a catalogue of “exceptionally risky” behaviours that can put critical infrastructure at extra risk of falling victim to cyberattacks. Use of single-factor authentication – where users only need to enter a username and password – is the latest risky behaviour to be added to the list, with CISA warning that single-factor authentication for remote or administrative access to systems supporting the operation of critical infrastructure “is dangerous and significantly elevates risk to national security”....

Kyle Sanders, US Drone Soccer vice president and former US Air Force combat pilot is seeking to do just that by educating students in robotics, coding, and aerospace. Drone Soccer, which according to a spokesperson looks a lot like Quidditch from the Harry Potter books, was introduced in South Korea in 2016 and has moved to the US as an educational and fun sport. So how do you play? “Drone Soccer is an educational sport where students must first learn how to build, program, fly, and repair high-performance drones,” Sanders tells me....

For the final quarter, Dropbox took in total revenues of $565.5 million, up from the $504.1 million posted for the same quarter in 2020. Net income here was $124.6 million, or $0.33 per share, up massively from the $398.2 million, or $0.84 per share, lost in the year-ago quarter. That loss was the result of an impairment charge during Q4 2020 relating to “the company’s decision to shift to a Virtual First work model, as well as an income tax benefit....

These security features, which include two-factor authentication functionality, has initially been adopted by Till Payments, Fat Zebra, and Eftex. The rollout of these features is part of Eftpos’ five-year, AU$100 million investment it’s making on digital upgrades to its network, designed to enhance the level of protection up-front for consumers and merchants, rather than retrofitting security to legacy systems. “This is a tipping point for Eftpos, online Australian businesses and the digital economy, and it is great to have partners like Till Payments, Fat Zebra, and Eftex onboard,” Eftpos chief Stephen Benton claimed....

GAAP net income for the quarter came to $152 million million or $1.68 per share. Quarterly revenues increased 10% over the same quarter last year to $1.675 billion. Analysts were expecting a revenue of $1.68 billion. Charles Meyers, President and CEO, Equinix, said the pandemic has triggered an accelerated need to digitize business models in virtually every segment of the economy. “Our strong Q3 results are reflective of this increasing demand for digital services....

The BullSequana XH300 combines CPUs, GPUs and accelerators from AMD, Intel and Nvidia, as well as microprocessor tech from French firm The Silicon Pearl (SiPearl), according to a statement from Atos. Atos bills the BullSequana XH300 as ’exascale-class’, by which the French tech firm is referring to the high-performance computer (HPC) industry’s ambition to achieve benchmarking scores in the ’exscale’ tier of the performance measurement ‘floating-point operations per second’, or Flop/s....

The tests, due to start over the course of this week, will include trials of end-to-end encrypted audio and video calling. At present, Secret Conversations only supports messages, pictures, video clips, voice recordings, and stickers being sent with end-to-end encryption, a protocol that is intended to prevent anyone other than participants from reading content, including platform providers. Secret Conversations does not support encrypted group messages, payments, or audio/video calling, however, the social media giant has now begun testing extended encryption options for a potential rollout in the future....

The flagship Facebook app, as well as Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Oculus services, all suffered a global outage beginning at around 11:44 am EDT. The social media giant’s platforms went down because there was no working Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes into Facebook’s sites. BGP is the standardized exterior gateway protocol used to exchange routing and reachability information between the internet top-level autonomous systems (AS). According to Cloudflare, Facebook was reconnected as of 5:28 pm EDT....

Zhang has come a long way in her life and her career – making it easy to see why she was chosen for the keynote speaker role. She’s of Chinese ethnicity, from inner Mongolia, a mother of two young children and with ambitious goals for her career. I recently spoke with Zhang about her role at the upcoming conference in San Francisco: Here are my notes: I asked Zhang what she will be talking about during her keynote speech....

Graham Mudd, vice president of product marketing at Meta, said the platform would be removing “options that relate to topics people may perceive as sensitive, such as options referencing causes, organizations, or public figures that relate to health, race or ethnicity, political affiliation, religion, or sexual orientation.” Mudd provided examples that included terms like “World Diabetes Day” and “same-sex marriage” as well as topics around political beliefs, social issues, causes, organizations and figures....

The social media platform unveiled Habitat 2.0, an upgrade on the Habitat simulation platform that lets researchers train their robots at speed in virtual environments, which render with utmost precision the smallest details that the machines are likely to be faced with in an ordinary setting like a kitchen or a living room. Letting the robots roll about freely in Habitat’s simulated virtual environments comes with evident cost and time savings compared to training them in a real-world setting, and Facebook is hopeful that the platform will fast-track the development of assistive robots that can help out with household chores....