Last year, Red Hat decided to stop supporting CentOS 8 and shifted focus to CentOS Stream. CentOS had some huge enterprise users, among them Disney, GoDaddy, RackSpace, Toyota, and Verizon. In response, Greg Kurtzer, one of CentOS’s founders, kicked off Rocky Linux in December 2020. Seven months later, the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) released the first stable release of Rocky Linux 8.4. And now Kurtzer’s firm, CIQ, the founding sponsor and services partner behind Rocky Linux, has secured $26 million in Series A funding led by Two Bear Capital....

More: Everything you need to know about Web 3.0 The Samsung US Discord server, which requires a free invite to join, reached more than 100,000 members within the first 12 hours of launching. (It’s up to 162,178 at the time of writing). The virtual channel serves as a connection hub for fans, gamers, and creators to win exclusive digital products, VIP access to events, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and more. There will also be daily giveaways to reward users’ engagement....

The Exynos W920 will support the new unified wearable platform that Samsung built jointly with Google, the South Korean tech giant added. The chip will first be applied to the upcoming Galaxy Watch, Samsung said. This is likely referring to its new Galaxy Watch 4 that is expected to be unveiled at Unpacked this week along with its new foldable phones. According to Samsung, the Exynos W920, its first wearable processor made with the 5nm node, will pack two Arm Cortex-A55 cores and an Arm Mali-G68 GPU....

The M8 – or S32BM801 to give its full model number – has now shipped, and at just $699.99 or £699 it provides an attractive 32-inch display with 4K resolution for less than half the price of Apple’s Studio Display ($1,599/£1,499). It’s also more than a simple computer display, as it runs Samsung’s Linux-based Tizen operating system, which allows it to function as a standalone smart TV when not connected to a PC or Mac....

The South Korean tech giant said on Thursday in its earnings guidance that it expects 14 trillion won in operating profit and 77 trillion won in revenue for the second quarter. It is an increase of 11.4% and 21%, respectively, from the same time period a year ago. South Korean analysts are forecasting a strong performance from the company’s chip division and a favorable exchange rate for the Korean won to have contributed to the growth....

Known for its camera ingenuity, Samsung continues to find unique innovation with the Flip 4’s “Flex Mode.” Perfect for content creators or photo enthusiasts, when you flip open the phone, you can use the bottom half as a camera “stand” and the top screen as your camera. Instead of having to set a self-timer and frantically run back to hit the perfect pose, just hold up a hand gesture for a quick, hands-free snap or video....

The technology is being rolled out gradually and will see approximately 10 million individual and corporate clients using mobile banking for transactions invited to register to use the functionality. In use across most neobanks in operation in Brazil, smartphone-based facial biometrics is being described by Santander as a safer option for identity verification than fingerprints, which are currently captured at ATMs. According to Ulian, the bank will build its own facial biometrics database, which is considered more reliable than using a third-party database....

What’s happened over the past 18 months? SAS Viya on Azure is still a fraction of SAS’s core business, but growth is starting to pick up. For calendar Q4 2021, Viya on Azure sales were up 30% over a year ago as the company closed 20 seven-figure deals, one of them topping out at $6 million for a three-year legacy SAS 9.4 migration to Viya. Over the past year, the largest was a similar $15 million multi-year migration engagement....

BEC schemes can be simple to execute and among the most potentially devastating for a business, alongside threats such as ransomware. A BEC scam will usually start with a phishing email, tailored and customized depending on the victim. Social engineering and email address spoofing may also be used to make the message appear to originate from someone in the target company – such as an executive, the CEO, or a member of an accounts team – in order to fool an employee into making a payment to an account controlled by a criminal....

Dual nano-SIM support is not available on iPhones outside of China. Instead, those markets offer a single physical SIM with support for a second eSIM. But YouTuber Hugh Jeffreys got thinking. What if you changed the SIM reader and tray in a regular iPhone for one from a Chinese iPhone? Surely it wouldn’t work. But it did. Must read: Why you need to urgently update all your iPhones, iPads, and Macs - NOW!...

Fowler discovered a database run by Gale Healthcare Solutions with 170,239 exposed records that included names, emails, home addresses, photos and in some cases, Social Security Numbers as well as tax documents. Gale Healthcare Solutions is a Tampa, Florida tech company that connects healthcare workers with healthcare organizations looking to hire people for certain shifts. Fowler said the information also included forms about certain incidents, disciplines and terminations. “We only reviewed a limited sampling of documents and did not review each and every file....

“I think digital health pass is one way to help make travel seamless for customers,” Wang said during Salesforce’s virtual Dreamforce conference on Wednesday. “At the same time, to help operation be very efficient – so that when you’re using digital health pass for check-in, for example – our backend system has already marked all these things that you don’t really need to go to the airport for, [such as] queuing at the counter, which would increase the risk....

The Singapore government on Tuesday announced plans to set aside SG$23.5 million (17.09 million) to support three national platforms, parked under its Quantum Engineering Programme (QEP), for up to 3.5 years. The scheme is part of the country’s Research, Innovation, and Enterprise 2020 (RIE2020) plan. Two of these platforms were unveiled today, including the National Quantum Computing Hub, which would pull together expertise and resources from the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), local universities, and research institutions to beef up relevant skillsets....

Dubbed SnatchCrypto, Kaspersky researchers said on Thursday that the campaign is the work of BlueNoroff, an advanced persistent threat (APT) group suspected of being connected to the larger Lazarus APT. Lazarus is a North Korean hacking unit tied to cyberattacks against banks and financial services. The APT specializes in SWIFT-based intrusions in countries including Vietnam, Bangladesh, Taiwan. Alongside Cobalt and FIN7, Blueliv recently branded the group as one of the top threats faced by FinTech firms today....

Various experts have submitted to the committee that social media platforms like Facebook are of such a significant scale and are so uniquely pertinent to the problem of online child exploitation that they should be subject to additional scrutiny, such as being regulated as carriage service providers. The considerations are part of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement’s inquiry into Australia’s law enforcement capabilities in relation to child exploitation....

These earbuds bring firsts for the brand including spatial audio and a heart rate monitor. Sound These earbuds feature an ACAA 3.0 coaxial acoustic system and two dynamic drivers aligned in the same axis, which the company said produces Hi-Res sound with three times more clarity in LDAC mode. Also: Anker’s new Sleep A10 earbuds will block out distractions They also introduce what the company describes as 360-degree immersive spatial audio: This feature allows sound to surround you from all directions and follows your head movement via dynamic head tracking....

The OIN, the world’s largest patent non-aggression consortium, protects Linux and related open-source software and the companies behind them from patent attacks and patent trolls. The OIN recently broadened its scope from core Linux programs and adjacent open-source code by expanding its Linux System Definition to other patents such as the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and the Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) file system. That may not sound to you like a natural fit for a retail financial services and digital payments company which is best known for its ubiquitous Square Reader for smartcards, but actually, it is....

Beginners can start with the crowd favorite “Java Foundations,” rated 4.9 out of 5 stars by previous students. It’s widely used not only in web and software development but also for Android apps. Then get a great job with the help of “Java Interview Questions: Data Structures & Algorithms” and “How to Get a Job as a Web Developer.” Rob Merrill has taught over 35,000 students, and he can teach you the easiest coding language in the 6-hour “Python for Everyone”....

Many online colleges and universities offer rolling admissions. That means a college or university evaluates your application when they receive it, so you can apply all year ‘round. Once accepted, you can start online college today, tomorrow, or as soon as you’re ready. Best online colleges with rolling admissions: Our picks We chose the best online colleges with rolling admissions based on the ease and speed of the application process, plus acceptance and graduation rates....

Tech jobs are booming: Here’s what employers are looking for The latest HireVue annual global trends report survey reached out to 1,657 hiring managers across the world at companies with more than 500 employees in such industries as finance, retail, construction, healthcare and manufacturing. HireVue asked the managers how they’re navigating through the job market challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the increasing recession, and the effects of The Great Resignation....