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Oracle to launch EU-only public cloud

Paul Gillin — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 08:00:51 +0000

Taking what it says is a unique approach to addressing the compliance needs of organizations in the European Union, Oracle Corp. today launched dedicated cloud infrastructure exclusively for use by the 27 EU member countries, providing the same services, service-level agreements and pricing as its broader public cloud. The EU Sovereign Cloud, which will be […]

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Databases then and now: the rise of the digital twin

David Strom — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 22:52:32 +0000

When I first started in information technology, back in the Mainframe Dark Ages, we had hulking big databases that ran on IBM Corp.’s Customer Information Control System, written in COBOL. These mainframes ran on a complex collection of hardware and operating systems that was owned lock, stock, and bus and tag barrel by IBM. The […]

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What to expect during MongoDB.local NYC: Join theCUBE June 22

Mark Albertson — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 19:24:21 +0000

When it’s time to cut cloud costs, businesses make tough decisions on technology investments. In a post-earnings call Dev Ittycheria, president and chief executive for MongoDB Inc., noted that customers were continuing to analyze these investments to determine the must-haves. Based on the blowout earnings quarter reported by MongoDB at the start of this month, the […]

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Intel to build two chip fabs in Germany as part of expanded €30B+ investment

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:50:57 +0000

Intel Corp. today announced plans to build two cutting-edge chip fabs in Germany at a cost of more than €30 billion, or $32.75 billion. The plan extends an initiative Intel first detailed early last year. That original initiative would have also seen the company build two fabs in Germany, but with a lower initial investment […]

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On theCUBE Pod: Avoiding AI-washing and the great Reddit backlash

Ryan Stevens — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 16:39:59 +0000

It has been a big road month for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, with countless events on the calendar. What has emerged out of the start of our summer events season has been a continued emphasis around developments in generative artificial intelligence. It’s reached the point where if a company doesn’t have some kind of […]

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BlackCat ransomware gang demands $4.5M, API changes for 80GB leaked Reddit data

Kyt Dotson — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 15:45:19 +0000

Hackers from the BlackCat ransomware gang have contacted Reddit Inc. claiming to be behind a hack that affected the social media forum platform in February that took more than 800 gigabytes of internal documents, code, contracts and employee information. The hacker group, also known as AlphaV, also demanded $4.5 million to not release the stolen […]

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Avaya debuts new cloud capabilities at Engage 2023

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 13:00:19 +0000

Avaya LLC today introduced new capabilities for its suite of communications applications and revamped its professional services unit. The company made the announcements at its Avaya Engage 2023 conference, which is taking place this week in Orlando. Durham, North Carolina-based Avaya sells videoconferencing software for enterprises. It also provides other collaboration tools, as well as […]

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Microsoft discloses detailed analysis of Layer 7 DDoS attacks

Duncan Riley — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:51:41 +0000

Microsoft Corp. disclosed Friday that outages that affected its customers earlier this month were caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack launched by a threat actor called Storm-1359. The Layer 7 DDoS attack affected Microsoft services, including Azure, Outlook and OneDrive. A “Layer 7” attack is a form of DDoS that targets the application layer of the internet […]

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Intel to invest $25B in Israeli chip manufacturing plants

Mike Wheatley — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 23:52:55 +0000

Chipmaker Intel Corp. has committed to building a new manufacturing plant in Kiryat Gat, Israel, as part of an ongoing effort to diversify its production operations away from Asia. The deal was announced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today, and Intel separately confirmed that it’s intending to expand its manufacturing capacity in the country, […]

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Rethinking your college major in the age of AI

Joseph Hickman — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 21:19:14 +0000

I recently had a good friend call me with a dilemma and he asked me if I would talk to his son. His son was considering putting his third year in college on hold to pursue his computer animation career in Southern California. I got a call later that evening from my friend’s son and […]

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Uber’s real-time architecture represents the future of data apps: Meet the architects who built it

Dave Vellante with George Gilbert — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 18:27:36 +0000

Uber Technologies Inc. has one of the most amazing business models ever created. The company’s mission is underpinned by technology that helps people go anywhere and get anything — and the results have been stunning. In just over a decade, Uber has become a firm with more than $30 billion in annual sales with a […]

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Databricks’ Data + AI Summit will focus on next-gen data infrastructure for AI and more

Rob Strechay — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 22:26:43 +0000

Our analysis and end-user discussions continue to demonstrate that a new modern data stack is emerging along with sophisticated data-oriented “personas,” such as data analysts and data scientists. Discussions with data professionals in leading organizations show that Databricks Inc. is heavily influencing these emergent personas. We believe Databricks is embarking on a mission to broaden […]

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Comet teams up with Snowflake to simplify AI development for enterprises

Maria Deutscher — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:47:51 +0000

Comet ML Inc., a startup that provides tools for building artificial intelligence models, is partnering with Snowflake Inc. to ease the work of enterprise machine learning teams. The partnership was announced this morning. As part of the collaboration, Comet has developed an integration for Snowflake’s Snowpark tool. According to the startup, its new integration will simplify […]

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Meta introduces Voicebox, a generative AI model for speech

Kyt Dotson — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 17:35:21 +0000

Researchers at the artificial intelligence labs of Meta Platforms Inc. today announced a breakthrough with a generative AI model for speech dubbed “Voicebox,” which can accomplish a wide variety of tasks such as synthesizing speech, styling and editing content. According to researchers, what large language models such as OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT and diffusion models such […]

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Google to wind down Google Domains, sell assets to Squarespace

Kyt Dotson — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:10:37 +0000

In a surprise announcement on Thursday, Google LLC revealed plans to wind down Google Domains and sell its assets to website building and hosting company Squarespace Inc. Google Domains is currently home to more than 10 million domains, all of which will become Squarespace customers. The deal is worth $180 million, according to Bloomberg. Banking partner […]

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Dave Vellante’s Breaking Analysis: The complete collection

Dave Vellante — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 10:33:12 +0000

Breaking Analysis is a weekly editorial program combining knowledge from SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE with spending data from Enterprise Technology Research. Branded as theCUBE Insights, Powered by ETR, the program is our opportunity to share independent, unfiltered editorial with SiliconANGLE, theCUBE and Wikibon communities. The program and conclusions we produce are data-driven, tapping ETR’s proprietary spending data set. Episode 183 – […]

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Strong earnings results and AI buzz send Adobe’s stock higher

Mike Wheatley — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 23:45:37 +0000

Shares Adobe Inc. moved higher in extended trading today after the design software company delivered record fiscal second-quarter revenue and beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company reported net income for the quarter of $1.3 billion, rising slightly from the $1.2 billion profit it delivered in the same period a year ago. Earnings before certain costs […]

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Russian man arrested for alleged involvement with LockBit ransomware gang

Duncan Riley — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 23:44:43 +0000

A Russian national has been arrested in Arizona on charges alleging that he was involved in multiple LockBit ransomware attacks against victims in the U.S., Asia, Europe and Africa. The LockBit ransomware gang, which first emerged in 2020, operates on a ransomware-as-a-service model where affiliates use already developed ransomware to execute attacks. In its time, LockBit […]

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Clop MOVEit hacking victims now include Department of Energy facilities

Duncan Riley — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 23:13:25 +0000

The number of victims targeted by the Clop ransomware gang’s targeting of a critical vulnerability in Progress Software Corp.’s MOVEit file transfer software continues to grow, with the revelation today that the victims now include several U.S. government agencies. Although a full list of agencies targeted was not disclosed by Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency officials […]

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Google advises employees not to enter internal information into AI chatbots

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:58:50 +0000

Google LLC parent Alphabet Inc. has advised employees not to enter internal information into artificial intelligence chatbots. Reuters reported the policy this morning, citing four people familiar with the matter. Google later confirmed the report. The company is urging employees to avoid inputting sensitive data into conversational AI tools at a time when it’s working […]

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Mandiant attributes Barracuda Networks malware campaign to China-linked hackers

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 19:39:29 +0000

Mandiant has determined that the recently discovered hacking campaign targeting Barracuda Networks Inc. customers was launched by China-linked hackers. Mandiant, a breach investigation company that was acquired by Google LLC earlier this year, released its findings today. The Google unit was hired by Barracuda to investigate the malware campaign. Campbell, California-based Barracuda is a major provider […]

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Web3 developer platform Alchemy launches AI-enabled tools

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 19:05:36 +0000

Alchemy Insights Inc., a platform that enables developers to write Web3 and blockchain apps, announced Wednesday that it’s launching a suite of new artificial intelligence tools dubbed AlchemyAI to empower developers to get data faster and speed up build time. The new products Alchemy is launching include an AI-powered assistant for Web3 development called ChatWeb3 […]

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Q&A: Unlocking the potential of generative AI with OctoML’s CEO

Chad Wilson — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 18:48:35 +0000

Generative artificial intelligence has experienced a surge of activity in recent months, and OctoML Inc. has been at the forefront of this revolution. As a leading startup in the field of generative AI, OctoML has just unveiled its OctoAI compute service. The company aims to revolutionize the AI industry by offering developers a fully managed cloud […]

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Beware of fake security researchers who deliver malware

David Strom — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 18:14:26 +0000

If you come across a security researcher from a company called High Sierra Cyber Security, beware — you may get tricked into downloading malware on your computer. High Sierra is a cover for a group of hackers who have weaponized social media and the open-source GitHub code repositories. It isn’t the first time this has […]

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Intel rebrands its PC processor lineup

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 17:46:21 +0000

Intel Corp. today announced plans to reorganize its personal computer processors under a simplified, two-tier branding structure. The move comes more than a decade after the last major rebrand of the product portfolio. It also follows a smaller naming change that Intel announced last September. The latter update saw the company fold two sets of […]

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House testimony by crypto firm Prometheum CEO raises questions about regulation

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 17:15:59 +0000

Recent testimony in front of the U.S. House by cryptocurrency firm Prometheum Inc. Chief Executive Aaron Kaplan has created a stir regarding regulatory clarity for digital assets. The House Financial Services Committee brought experts and insiders from the cryptocurrency community to speak about the industry about how to regulate digital assets on Tuesday focused on a […]

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Game on: Exploring the intersection of cloud technology and inclusivity in video games

Alice Gillin — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 16:43:23 +0000

Video games enable individuals to escape the trials of the real world and immerse themselves in a series of challenging, rewarding and entertaining tasks and experiences. The industry is attracting a broad market that continues to grow as technology implodes. Every demographic, from families, individuals, adults, children, LGBTQ+ and more, can enjoy games and the […]

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Cranium launches AI Card to streamline compliance and trustworthiness

Duncan Riley — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 13:00:50 +0000

Artificial intelligence security and trust software firm Cranium.ai Corp. has today announced the launch of Cranium AI Card, a tool designed to help organizations gather and share information about the trustworthiness and compliance of their AI models. AI Card has been designed to address issues of trustworthiness, security and regulatory compliance associated with AI models. The tool offers a transparent and […]

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Data observability startup Telmai raises $5.5M in oversubscribed seed round

Paul Gillin — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 13:00:47 +0000

Data observability startup Telmai Inc. today said it has raised $5.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round, bringing its total funding to $8.5 million. The company has created what it says is a unique approach to data quality management with an engine based on the Apache Spark analytics framework. It can accommodate a wide variety […]

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Action1 raises $20M to implement zero-knowledge architecture into its platform

Duncan Riley — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 13:00:41 +0000

Risk-based patch management startup Action1 Corp. has today announced that it has raised $20 million in new funding for research and development, focusing specifically on implementing zero-knowledge architecture into its platform. Founded in 2018, Action1 pitches itself as the No. 1 risk-based patch management platform for distributed networks. The company’s platform assists organizations in discovering, prioritizing and […]

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