Although in the upcoming week, Microsoft issued a major equipment announcement, perhaps the main news maker should still be called Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg’s company said it has invested more than $13 billion in security measures since 2016. In a sense, this is a reaction to the notion that social networks do not pay enough attention to controlling the content posted by users. It was also pointed out that there are now 40,000 people working in safety in the overall structure—10,000 people five years ago. It is worth noting that Facebook’s artificial intelligence technology has helped delete more than 20 million false texts about COVID-19 and vaccines.
At the same time, it is well known that Facebook STO resigned after 13 years of work in the company. Mike Schroepfer will replace Andrew Bosworth, the current head of Facebook AR and VR. Before joining Facebook in 2008, Mike Schroepfer served as the vice president of engineering for the Mozilla project for several years, and before that he was the CTO of the Sun Microsystems division. The news of the leadership change was released after a series of critical reports on Facebook’s leadership and business practices. The Wall Street Journal published an article stating that company executives were aware of the negative effects of its development, but did not take any measures to eliminate them. At the same time, Politico first reported a lawsuit in which Facebook allegedly paid billions of dollars to the FTC to protect Zuckerberg from personal liability.
This week, Facebook launched the third-generation Portal video call device and announced the launch of Portal for Business, a service for small and medium businesses that allows them to purchase, deploy, and remotely manage devices. Portal was first released in 2018 and competes with Amazon Echo Show and Google Nest Hub. The lineup now includes a $199 Portal Go and a 10-inch screen and Portal+, a model with a 14-inch wide display, priced at $349 for video calls. Although many people still have a question-is such a stand-alone device with only one function needed? As a last resort, why can’t you connect a separate monitor for the confcall task? (By the way, since 2012, the best results in the global display market are expected to appear. IDC counts global shipments of more than 35 million devices, so the result a year ago increased by 11.2%.)
Microsoft has decided to invest in the development of general-purpose equipment, although it is sometimes peculiar. For example, a few days ago, the company launched the updated Surface series and Surface Duo in the second version. Allegedly, this dual-screen smartphone now does not have many of the shortcomings that the company blamed when the first version was released a year ago. Improved the hinge mechanism and reduced the distance between displays. There are now three cameras instead of one-a wide-angle 12-megapixel, an ultra-wide-angle 16mm and a 12-megapixel telephoto lens. The new Surface Duo 2 is based on Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 and has some new features, including support for 5G, NFC, and stereo speakers. After folding, the side panel will light up, displaying information about charging status, calls, notifications, text messages, and Teams messages. Surface Duo 2 will be priced at $1,500 or higher. It will be $100 more expensive than the first version.
But more attention is paid to the Surface Laptop Studio, Surface Pro 8, Surface Go 3 and Surface Pro X announced by Microsoft. The Surface Laptop Studio, priced at $1,600, has a new design that will replace the previously released Surface Laptop. The device has a special hinge that allows you to tilt the 14-inch display at an angle that covers the keyboard. You can also flip the screen and use Laptop Studio as a tablet. However, unlike the Surface Laptop, the screen will not be separated. The company also announced its flagship 2-in-1 hybrid computer, the Surface Pro 8, which is rumored to be launched last year. The new model is priced at US$1,100, while the Surface Pro 7 starts at US$750. The screen of the new model is 13 inches, while the screen of the previous model is 12.3 inches. At the same time, tablets are now wider and heavier. Microsoft also updated the Surface Go 3, which is a miniature version of the Surface Pro tablet, which starts at $400 without a keyboard. Surface Go 3 is said to provide up to 11 hours of battery life, one hour more than the previous version. Finally, the lineup also announced a new version of Surface Pro X, which is the first ARM tablet released in 2019. This is the first version with only a Wi-Fi variant. This model is priced at $900, which is only $100 less than the previous model, although it has the same chip and does not have any other obvious filling changes.
Microsoft this week disclosed the details of a large-scale phishing service business, detailing a phishing as a service (PhaaS) provider, which is used by many criminal groups to conduct one-time and regular attacks with a flexible monthly subscription model. BulletProofLink vendors sell easy-to-use phishing kits, hosting and automation services, and more than 100 phishing templates that mimic well-known brands (including Microsoft) at relatively low prices. Some BulletProofLink services, such as a one-time hosting link, cost as low as $50, but those who need a full service must pay up to $800 per month for subscription fees. An interesting technique used by BulletProofLink is the so-called “endless domain abuse” technique. The organization broke into the domain name servers of the website to create “unlimited subdomains,” which allowed the attacker to use a unique URL for each recipient. A hacked or purchased domain could last for several weeks.
This week, people also learned that the open source office suite Apache OpenOffice has unpatched vulnerabilities. CVE-2021-33035 “is a .dbf buffer overflow, it overwrites DEP bypass return pointer [предотвращение выполнения данных] And ASLR [рандомизация разметки адресного пространства] So that the attacker can finally execute arbitrary commands.” Therefore, specially prepared documents can be used to invade OpenOffice.
Continuing the topic of cybersecurity, we cannot fail to mention the attack report on the agricultural service provider NEW Cooperative, from Iowa, whose software participates in about 40% of the food production in the United States and provides 11 million farm animals. The company was attacked by ransomware and was forced to shut down its system. The BlackMatter organization previously associated with DarkSide demanded a ransom of $5.9 million. The farmer organization claimed that it should be classified as an element of “critical infrastructure,” and the organization was allegedly suspended by cybercriminals. However, BlackMatter disagreed with this assessment and demanded a ransom. I want to know how this case will end.
Recently, not only the development of the field of network security systems is showing a trend, but also various low-code business process automation solutions are constantly emerging. Therefore, last Thursday attracted more attention from Salesforce announcing the addition of new RPA tools to Einstein Automate-MuleSoft RPA, Einstein Document Reader and Digital Process Automation.
Salesforce shares rose 7% last Thursday after the company raised its earnings forecast for the current fiscal year ending in January. According to the latest estimates, its revenue will reach 26.35 billion U.S. dollars, compared with the previous forecast of 26.3 billion U.S. dollars. By the way, the current market value of Salesforce has reached 272 billion US dollars, while Oracle is 244 billion US dollars. .
On the issue of capitalization. Toast is a restaurant software company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday under the ticker symbol “TOST”. Demand for its stock is higher than expected. Before the pandemic, Toast developed rapidly, providing restaurants with solutions that helped them integrate payment systems with tools to manage inventory and processes. In February 2020, investors valued the company at $5 billion. As of the end of June, Toast had served more than 48,000 restaurants, up from 27,000 in 2019. Revenue in the second quarter of 2021 increased by 118% year-on-year to US$494 million. And now, during the IPO, the company’s valuation has reached 27 billion US dollars.
GitLab, a repository and DevOps platform, is also going to Nasdaq. Some observers pointed out that its estimate may exceed 10 billion US dollars. According to GitLab, in the second quarter of fiscal year 2022, its revenue for fiscal year 2020 was $233 million. It should be noted that one of the co-founders of GitLab is Ukrainian Dmitry Zaporozhets.
Xerox’s capital growth in the past year was modest, in the $3.5 billion range. At the same time, the company recently decided to split its software assets into a separate structure and obtained a post-investment valuation of $700 million. CareAR Holdings will cover CareAR, DocuShare and XMPie platforms… In addition, the newly established The company also received a US$10 million equity investment from ServiceNow. The new CareAR platform is powered by augmented reality (AR) technology that Xerox acquired when it acquired CareAR earlier this year. The solution is integrated with ServiceNow field service management, enabling service technicians to leverage the knowledge of more experienced experts through real-time AR guidance.
Well, all in all, news from Purdue University in Indiana. Engineers there developed cascaded field effect transistors. A key aspect of the new CasFET technology is the superlattice perpendicular to the transmission direction of the transistor and makes switchable cascaded states possible. The new design will allow the use of smaller transistors, use less power and require less on/off voltage. So it looks like it will find another lever in its efforts to follow Moore’s Law. At this time, according to some predictions, it will start to fail within 5-7 years.
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