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Researchers detect hundreds of thousands of Log4j cyberattack attempts
Researchers at two cybersecurity companies have detected hundreds of thousands of attempts to launch cyberattacks using the recently disclosed vulnerability in Log4j. The number of hacking attempts is particularly alarming because the vulnerability was only discovered last Thursday. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., a publicly traded cybersecurity provider, said it has blocked more than 800,000 Log4j-related ...
Critical vulnerability found in open-source tool used by Apple, Microsoft and others
A newly discovered cybersecurity vulnerability in Apache Log4j, an open-source software tool used by numerous companies, could enable hackers to install malware on affected systems. The Apache Software Foundation, which oversees development of Log4j, issued a patch for the vulnerability this morning. The organization also released guidelines on how users can mitigate the flaw if ...
Replit raises $80M at $800M valuation for its browser-based IDE
Replit Inc., the creator of a popular browser-based coding platform with more than 10 million users worldwide, on Thursday announced that it has closed a $80 million funding round. Prominent technology investment firm Coatue led the Series B round. San Francisco-based Replit is now valued at $800 million. Replit has raised more than $100 million in ...
Tiger Global leads $30M round for AI reliability startup Robust Intelligence
Robust Intelligence Inc. today disclosed that it has raised $30 million in funding to enhance its namesake software platform, which promises to help companies find and fix issues in their neural networks faster. Tiger Global led the round. Sequoia, Harpoon Venture Capital and Engineering Capital participated as well. San Francisco-based Robust Intelligence is led by ...
Google Cloud and Kyndryl ink strategic cloud partnership
Google LLC’s cloud unit and Kyndryl Holdings Inc., the former managed infrastructure services division of IBM Corp., have inked a partnership to support joint customers’ digital transformation projects. Announced today, the partnership places an emphasis on helping enterprises with use cases such as analytics and edge computing. Kyndryl is one of the newest companies on ...
Italy’s competition regulator fines Amazon $1.27B over business practices
The Italian Competition Authority today issued a fine of €1.128 billion, or about $1.27 billion, to Amazon.com Inc. after finding that some of the company’s business practices harmed rivals. The Italian Competition Authority, or AGCM, has also ordered Amazon to implement a number of business changes. The company pushed back against the regulator’s decision in ...
Meta’s AI unit details new machine learning system for detecting harmful content
The artificial intelligence unit of Meta Platforms Inc., previously Facebook Inc., today detailed a new machine learning system that will help the company combat harmful content across its social media platforms. The system is known as Few-Shot Learner, or FSL for short. The main advantage of FSL over earlier technologies, Meta says, is its ability ...
New $270M funding round values enterprise fintech startup Tipalti at $8.3B
Startup Tipalti Inc., which helps companies complete common accounting tasks faster, is now one of the world’s most valuable financial technology startups thanks to a newly closed $270 million funding round that values it at $8.3 billion. The funding round, announced today, was led by G Squared. Marshall Wace, Morgan Stanley’s Counterpoint Global investment arm ...
Report: Some iOS apps continue collecting user-level signals for ad targeting
A number of iOS app developers, including Meta Platforms Inc. and Snap Inc., reportedly continue to collect user-level signals from iPhones despite Apple Inc.’s recent introduction of features designed to boost privacy. The Financial Times reported the practice today. According to the publication, the fact that iOS developers can continue collecting user-level signals represents an ...
AWS outage causes disruptions across popular online services
Updated: An outage in one of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s data center clusters is causing disruptions across a large number of popular online services, including financial apps, food delivery platforms and others. The outage is the result of a malfunction in some of the network devices that AWS uses to power its public cloud. Because AWS ...