Maria Deutscher
Latest from Maria Deutscher
Netherlands fines Uber €290M for breaching EU’s GDPR privacy regulation
The Netherlands’ privacy watchdog today issued a fine of €290 million, or about $324 million, to Uber Technologies Inc. over its data management practices. The decision relates to a regulatory framework called the EU-US Privacy Shield that was struck down by a court in 2020. Uber, like many other U.S. tech firms, transfers information it ...
Justice Department sues property management software provider RealPage
The U.S. Justice Department and eight state attorneys general today filed an antitrust lawsuit against RealPage Inc., a major provider of property management software. The complaint revolves around two main arguments. First, the Justice Department charges that RealPage’s software unlawfully decreases competition among landlords and thereby drives up rent prices. The lawsuit’s other core allegation ...
Redis debuts new data integration and AI features for its database
Redis Inc. today updated its namesake database with a set of new features designed to ease software development for customers. Some of the enhancements are rolling out for the core open-source version of the platform. Others will become available in the paid version, which includes additional features that simplify infrastructure maintenance and data processing tasks. ...
Report: Chinese organizations use public cloud to access restricted AI chips
Multiple organizations in China have sought to rent high-end graphics cards from U.S. cloud providers, Reuters reported late Thursday. The news agency learned of the procurement effort by reviewing publicly-available tender documents. Those are invitations that ask companies to submit bids for a contract, in this case artificial intelligence infrastructure purchases. Under U.S. export controls ...
Apple updates iOS and iPadOS to improve compliance with EU’s DMA law
Apple Inc. today previewed an update for iOS and iPadOS that will improve the operating systems’ compliance with the European Union’s DMA law. The update is set to roll out at an unspecified date later this year. The DMA, or Digital Markets Act, is a piece of legislation that the European Parliament passed in 2022. ...
Divers recover body of Autonomy co-founder Mike Lynch from superyacht wreckage
Divers have recovered the bodies of Mike Lynch and four of his guests from the wreckage of the superyacht Bayesian, the Italian Coast Guard announced today. The vessel sank near the coast of Sicily early Monday morning amid an intense storm. Fifteen passengers were rescued by the crew of the Sir Robert Baden Powell, a ...
Opkey reels in $47M to automate ERP change testing with AI
Opkey, a startup that helps companies test the reliability of their enterprise resource planning software, has raised a $47 million investment to finance growth initiatives. PeakSpan Capital led the Series B round. Opkey, officially Smart Software Testing Solutions Inc., detailed in its funding announcement today that UST Global, Verica, Vertical and YouNest chipped in as well. ...
AI payment processing startup Skyfire launches with $8.5M in funding
Skyfire Systems Inc., a startup with software that enables artificial intelligence models to make purchases, launched today with $8.5 million in initial funding. The investment included the participation of more than a dozen institutional backers. Among them was Ripple Labs Inc., a provider of payment processing software backed by more than $200 million in venture ...
Nvidia, Microsoft release new small language models
Nvidia Corp. today released a lightweight language model, Mistral-NeMo-Minitron 8B, that can outperform comparably sized neural networks across a range of tasks. The code for the model is available on Hugging Face under an open-source license. Its debut comes a day after Microsoft Corp. rolled out several open-source language models of its own. Like Nvidia’s ...
UK antitrust watchdog closes Google, Apple probes to revise regulatory approach
The U.K.’s antitrust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority, has closed two parallel probes into Google LLC and Apple Inc. that focused on their business practices in the mobile market. Officials announced the decision today. The development relates to a new piece of legislation, the DMCC Act, that became law in the U.K. this past ...