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F5 Networks pays $1B to acquire Shape Security
Network traffic management company F5 Networks Inc. is paying about $1 billion to acquire Shape Security Inc., which is best known for the fraud detection platform it sells to airlines, banks, government agencies and retailers. F5 said the acquisition will help it improve its application protection services. “Shape’s machine learning and AI-powered capabilities will scale ...
Amazon hits back at claims it’s abusing open-source software
Amazon Web Services Inc. has hit back at criticism that it’s taking advantage of open-source software projects by “strip mining” them and repackaging them as paid services. Andi Gutmans, vice president of AWS analytics and ElastiCache, was responding to Monday’s New York Times article that said the cloud computing giant was benefiting by integrating open-source software ...
Google announces revamp of its Patch Rewards program for open-source security
Google LLC said today it’s planning to revamp its six-year-old Patch Rewards program for open-source software developers beginning next year. Patch Rewards is one of Google’s oldest security programs. It began life in 2013 when the company said it would provide financial aid to developers of open-source projects that implement important security features. In order ...
Micron stock jumps on improved demand for memory chips
Micron Technology Inc.’s stock jumped more than 4% in extended trading today after company executives predicted the chipmaker had hit the bottom of a rough period during which its sales have declined for four successive quarters. The maker of flash memory chips reported first-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 48 cents per ...
Cloud-native project The Update Framework hits top-level CNCF status
An open-source specification that secures software updates has just become the ninth Cloud Native Computing Foundation project to graduate to top-level status. The CNCF is an organization that’s responsible for overseeing the development of several popular open-source, cloud-native software projects, including Kubernetes, which is used to manage and orchestrate software containers that host modern applications. The ...
Nvidia debuts new DRIVE AGX Orin platform for autonomous cars and robots
Nvidia Corp. tonight bid to expand the reach of artificial intelligence systems into autonomous vehicles and robots with the launch of its new Nvidia DRIVE AGX Orin platform. Nvidia DRIVE AGX Orin is a software-defined platform that’s powered by a new system-on-a-chip called Orin. The new chip is said to be the fruit of “billions ...
AWS adds ontology linking to its Comprehend Medical natural language processing service
Amazon Web Services Inc. today updated its natural language processing service for healthcare providers with a new feature that lets them link to information from medical ontologies. AWS Comprehend Medical is a machine learning service that models topics, detects language, conducts sentiment analysis and extracts phrases from unstructured medical texts such as doctors’ notes, clinical ...
Google denies report it considered quitting cloud computing business
Executives at Google LLC’s parent company Alphabet Inc. reportedly considered exiting the public cloud computing business back in early 2018, only to reject that idea and instead set a goal of becoming the No. 2 player in the market by 2023. However, some Google employees are said to believe the company may still withdraw from ...
Google unveils BeyondProd framework for implementing cloud-native security
Following the success of its BeyondCorp framework for network access, Google LLC is pitching another model its adopted for securing its cloud-native information technology architecture. BeyondProd, as the new model is called, is the subject of a new white paper that details how Google has implemented cloud-native security principles within its organization. Google developed BeyondProd ...
Application monitoring firm Instana announces a hat-trick of acquisitions
Application monitoring startup Instana Inc. has parted ways with a chunk of the $30 million in venture capital it raised last year, buying up two startup companies and the technology assets of a third. Instana today said it’s buying outright both BeeInstant Ltd., which provides high-frequency metrics analysis tools, and StackImpact GmbH, which sells application profiling ...