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Microsoft debuts new Entra product suite to ease identity and access management
Microsoft Corp. today introduced Entra, a new product suite that organizations can use to manage user access to their applications. Entra includes a mix of new and existing products. The suite also incorporates technology that Microsoft obtained last year through the acquisition of CloudKnox Security Inc., a multicloud security startup. The flagship product in Entra ...
Mondu raises $43M for its enterprise-focused buy now, pay later platform
Mondu GmbH today announced that it has closed a $43 million funding round to expand its financial technology platform, which promises to streamline sales and procurement for companies. The round was led by Valar Ventures with participation from Cherry Ventures and FinTech Collective. The investment firms were reportedly joined by a number of “senior executives” ...
One AI launches with $8M in funding to ease natural language processing projects
Startup One AI Inc. today launched from stealth mode with $8 million in funding to help companies add natural language processing features to their applications. The funding was provided by a group of backers that included technology investor Ariel Maislos, Tech Aviv and SentinelOne Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tomer Wiengarten. Several other unnamed venture capital ...
AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer ranked as fastest in the world
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Frontier supercomputer has won the top spot on the Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. The latest edition of the Top500 list, which was released today, ranks Frontier as the world’s fastest supercomputer with performance of 1.102 exaflops per second. An exaflop equals 1 quintillion, or a million trillion, ...
AWS previews new P4de instance for AI training and high-performance computing
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the preview of a new cloud instance dubbed Amazon EC2 P4de that will enable customers to train neural networks faster. P4de also lends itself to high-performance computing applications, or applications that usually run on supercomputers. The instance can power the seismic analysis programs that researchers use to study earthquakes, ...
Cybersecurity startup Lacework lays off 20% of workforce
Cloud security startup Lacework Inc. has laid off 20% of its workforce, Protocol reported on Wednesday. Lacework told the publication in a statement that the move is related to a “decision to restructure our business.” The startup didn’t specify exactly how many workers are leaving. It was earlier reported that Lacework had more than 1,000 ...
Manta bags $35M for its automated data lineage platform
Manta Software Inc., a startup that helps companies fix errors in their business data, has closed a $35 million funding round to grow its headcount and accelerate product development. Manta announced the funding round this morning. Forestay Capital led the investment with participation from a half-dozen other backers, including SAP SE’s SAP.io venture capital arm. ...
Google debuts new tools for securing Chrome OS and Chrome in the enterprise
Google LLC today introduced a set of tools designed to help companies improve cybersecurity for workers using its Chrome browser and Chrome OS devices. Chrome OS is a lightweight operating system developed by Google that is widely used in the education sector. Over recent years, the operating system has also been gaining traction in the ...
Nvidia teams up with optical chip startup Ayar Labs to advance AI hardware
Nvidia Corp. has inked a technology partnership with Ayar Labs Inc., a startup developing optical chips that promise to increase the speed and efficiency of data center infrastructure. The partnership was announced today, just a few weeks after Nvidia backed a $130 million funding round for the startup. The chipmaker was joined in the round ...
Researcher finds DuckDuckGo’s browser doesn’t block some Microsoft tracking scripts
A researcher has discovered that DuckDuckGo’s privacy-centric browser enables third-party tracking scripts from Microsoft Corp. to load in some cases. The discovery was reported by Bleeping Computer on Tuesday. DuckDuckGo confirmed the findings in a statement, adding that it expects “to be doing more soon” about the third-party tracking scripts. DuckDuckGo, incorporated as Duck Duck ...