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TSMC receives temporary US approval to send advanced chipmaking gear to its China fab
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. has received temporary approval from the U.S. Commerce Department to send advanced chipmaking gear to its fab in China, Bloomberg reported today. According to Tom’s Hardware, the approval is valid for a year and applies to chipmaking gear made by U.S. companies. In a statement, TSMC told the publication that it ...
Microsoft finally closes its $68.7B acquisition of Activision Blizzard
Microsoft Corp. today said it has completed the acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc., nearly two years after announcing plans to buy the video game maker for $68.7 billion. The development was not unexpected. Last week, a source told The Verge that Microsoft was seeking to finalize the deal today. Less than a month earlier, the company ...
Mojo Vision raises $21.1M for its micro-LED display technology
Mojo Vision Inc., a startup developing micro-LED display technology for devices such as wearables and TVs, today announced that it has raised $21.1 million in fresh funding. The investment was led by New Enterprise Associates, Khosla Ventures and new investor Vanedge Capital. More than a half-dozen other backers contributed as well. The capital was provided ...
Google adds image and text generation features to its SGE search service
Google LLC today introduced image and text generation features for Search Generative Experience, or SGE, an experimental version of its search engine powered by artificial intelligence. SGE made its debut in May at Google’s annual I/O developer event. When a user enters a query into the service, it displays standard search results alongside a panel at ...
Lakera and Deasie raise funding to make AI large language models more reliable
Lakera AI AG and Deasie Inc., two startups tackling reliability issues in large language models, today both announced that they’ve raised funding to drive adoption of their respective products. Zurich-based Lakera secured a $10 million investment from a consortium led by Swiss venture capital firm Redalpine. The company announced the round, which it closed several ...
Google debuts new sustainability tools for consumers and municipalities
Google LLC is rolling out new sustainability features designed to help consumers and municipalities reduce their carbon footprints. Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc., detailed the features during a Tuesday product event in Brussels. He also announced that the company is expanding the availability of Flood Hub, its artificial intelligence-powered ...
Google makes its Cloud Spanner database service faster and more cost-efficient
Google LLC today introduced a new version of Cloud Spanner, one of its managed database services, that will enable customers to process their information faster and more cost-efficiently. The company will roll out the update over the coming months. Google originally developed Cloud Spanner for internal use more than a decade ago. In 2017, the ...
Microsoft says China-linked hacking group targeting Confluence deployments
Microsoft Corp. has determined that a China-linked hacking group is targeting deployments of Atlassian Corp. Plc’s Confluence collaboration software. Microsoft detailed the hacking campaign in a late Tuesday post on X, the social network previously known as Twitter. Atlassian confirmed the findings in a security advisory on its website. The hacking campaign is exploiting a ...
Container networking engine Cilium graduates from CNCF incubation
Cilium, an open-source technology used to manage software containers’ network traffic, today graduated from the CNCF’s incubation program. The CNCF, or Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is a Linux Foundation affiliate that manages dozens of open-source projects. Its portfolio includes foundational technologies such as Kubernetes and the Prometheus observability platform. The CNCF incubation program from which ...
Arctic Wolf acquires venture-backed cybersecurity provider Revelstoke
Arctic Wolf Networks Inc. today announced that it has acquired Revelstoke Security Inc., a cybersecurity startup backed by $38 million in funding. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Arctic Wolf is a major provider of managed cybersecurity services that has raised more than $600 million in equity and debt financing from investors. The ...