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Internet Archive experiences outages after DDoS attacks, data breach
The Internet Archive today experienced a distributed denial-of-service attack that took two of its services offline. The malicious traffic surge is the latest in a series of cybersecurity incidents to have hit the nonprofit over the past few days. It previously experienced at least one other DDoS attack and, more notably, a data breach that ...
Intel debuts Core Ultra 200S desktop processors with up to 24 cores
Intel Corp. today debuted a new desktop processor series, the Core Ultra 200S, that features five chips made using three-dimensional packaging technology. The company is promising an up to 9% improvement in single-threaded performance compared with previous-generation silicon. For multithreaded workloads, the Core Ultra 200S offers a 14% speed boost. Power consumption is up to ...
Amazon details new AI-powered package management system
Amazon.com Inc. today detailed VAPR, an internally developed artificial intelligence system designed to ease the work of its delivery drivers. The e-commerce giant relies on a fleet of about 100,000 vans to ship goods to online shoppers. After reaching a customer’s home, an Amazon delivery driver must find the parcels ordered by that customer, which ...
Google DeepMind scientists, biochemist share Nobel Prize in chemistry
Google LLC scientists Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have won this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry together with biochemistry professor David Baker. The trio received the award for their contributions to protein research. In an announcement today, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences detailed Hassabis and Jumper jointly won half the Nobel Prize for their work ...
Justice Department could seek to break up Google following antitrust ruling
The U.S. Justice Department could ask a federal court to break up Google LLC, officials disclosed in a filing today. Reports that such a move is on the table have been swirling for weeks. In early August, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Google maintains an illegal monopoly across the search ...
SAP upgrades its Joule AI assistant and developer tools with new automation features
SAP SE today debuted a new version of Joule, an artificial intelligence assistant that ships with many of its business applications. The company is also upgrading the developer tools that customers use to extend its software with custom features. Introduced last September, Joule can provide workers with pointers on how to use SAP applications. A ...
AI pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton win Nobel Prize in physics
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today awarded the Nobel Prize in physics to artificial intelligence pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton. Hopfield (pictured, left) is a professor emeritus of molecular biology at Princeton University. Hinton (right) is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Toronto. They received the Nobel Prize for ...
Former Amazon executive Dave Clark raises $100M for new supply chain startup Auger
Dave Clark, the former head of Amazon.com Inc.’s consumer business, has raised $100 million in funding for a new supply chain software startup. Auger Inc., as the company is called, disclosed the massive seed investment today. It detailed that venture capital firm Oak HC/FT led the raise. Clark left Amazon in 2022 following a more ...
PagerDuty debuts new AI features for its incident response platform
PagerDuty Inc. today introduced a set of artificial intelligence features that will help companies more quickly respond to server outages and other technical issues. NYSE-listed PagerDuty provides a popular incident response platform of the same name. The software can detect when something breaks in a company’s information technology environment, collect data about the incident and ...
Court orders Google to open the Play Store to rival app marketplaces
A federal court has ordered Google LLC to allow third-party app marketplaces on the Play Store. The change is one of more than a half dozen that the search giant will be required to implement. The court order was issued today in connection with a long-running legal dispute between Google and Epic Games Inc., a ...