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Chrome, Firefox and other browsers affected by critical WebP vulnerability
Google LLC, the Mozilla Foundation and other browser makers have released patches to fix a zero-day vulnerability affecting the WebP image format. It’s believed that hackers are actively exploiting the flaw to launch cyberattacks. Google patched Chrome on Monday to fix the popular browser’s built-in WebP implementation. The Mozilla Foundation followed suit with a Firefox ...
Data management provider Denodo raises $336M from TPG
Denodo Technologies Inc., a provider of data management software, today announced that it has raised $336 million from private equity firm TPG. The transaction is described as a Series B investment. It included equity funding and a sale of secondary shares by HGGC, a private equity firm that became a Denodo investor in 2017. The ...
Stability AI debuts latent diffusion AI platform for generating audio
Stability AI Ltd. today introduced Stable Audio, a software platform that uses a latent diffusion model to generate audio based on users’ text prompts. The platform can generate up to 95-second clips across a variety of music genres. According to Stability AI, Stable Audio also lends itself to creating other types of audio including sound ...
IoT networking startup FloLive raises $47M
Networking startup FloLive Ltd., which helps companies link their sensors and other connected devices to the internet, today announced that it has raised $47 million in funding. Greenfield Partners and 83North led the Series C round. They were joined by Qualcomm Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital, Saban Ventures and Hazelnut Partners. Companies in industries such as ...
SQream reels in $45M for its speedy GPU-powered database
SQream Technologies Ltd., the developer of a high-speed database that runs on graphics processing units, has raised $45 million in new funding. Tel Aviv-based SQream announced the Series C funding round this morning. The round was led by World Trade Ventures with participation from several new and returning backers. Since its 2010 launch, SQream has ...
Intel debuts high-speed Thunderbolt 5 standard with signal modulation upgrade
Intel Corp. today debuted a new and significantly faster version of its Thunderbolt technology, which is used to connect personal computers with external devices such as displays. Thunderbolt was jointly created by Intel and Apple Inc. in 2011. It shares certain components with USB but offers significantly faster performance. This speed, and the fact that ...
Instacart seeking to raise up to $616M in IPO at $9.3B valuation
Instacart today disclosed that it hopes to raise up to $616 million in its upcoming initial public offering. The grocery delivery company, which is incorporated as Maplebear Inc., detailed its fundraising target in an update to its IPO prospectus. Instacart filed the initial version of the document on Aug. 25. The same week, Arm Holdings ...
Qualcomm shares jump on surprise Apple modem chip deal
Shares of Qualcomm Inc. jumped more than 3.8% today after the chipmaker announced that Apple Inc. will keep using its mobile modem chips for the next three years. Apple was previously expected to significantly scale back its use of the modems as early as this year. The announcement of the supply deal comes a day ...
Salesforce and Databricks expand partnership with new platform integration
Salesforce Inc. and Databricks Inc. have debuted a new product integration that aims to simplify joint customers’ data analytics projects. The integration was developed as part of a technical collaboration that the companies detailed today. The news comes a few days after Salesforce announced a similar partnership with Snowflake Inc., one of Databricks’ top rivals, ...
TSMC says chip packaging shortage is constraining processor supply
Shortages of a key chip packaging technology are constraining the supply of some processors, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. chair Mark Liu has revealed. Liu made the remarks during a Wednesday interview with Nikkei Asia on the sidelines of SEMICON Taiwan, a chip industry event. The executive said that the supply shortage will likely take ...