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Akamai’s new AI-based Page Integrity Manager takes on malicious site scripts
The sharp rise in the number of people shopping online has increased the risk posed by web skimming campaigns, cyberattacks that compromise websites with malicious scripts to steal credit card details. To tackle this threat and other script-based attacks, Akamai Technologies Inc. today launched a new cybersecurity product called Page Integrity Manager. Page Integrity Manager uses ...
GitLab 13 rolls out with new cybersecurity features and more analytics
GitLab Inc. today launched a new round-number release of its popular code hosting platform that brings more cybersecurity features, a productivity analytics tool and better support for Kubernetes environments. GitLab, valued at $2.75 billion after its most recent funding round, is one of the main competitors to Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub. Its namesake platform provides an ...
Samsung starts building cutting-edge 5-nanometer chip production line
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has begun work on a new chip production line in South Korea that will make cutting edge five-nanometer chips for use cases such as 5G networks and artificial intelligence. The electronics giant detailed the project on Thursday, saying that production is expected to begin in the second half of 2021. The ...
Facebook will allow some employees to work from home permanently
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said today that the company will allow some employees to work remotely on a permanent basis and indicated a majority of its workforce could eventually shift to a remote model. Zuckerberg detailed the plan in his weekly livestreamed broadcast. As a first step, the company will open most new ...
Report: Amazon sets new date for Prime Day as it seeks to resume normal operations
Amazon.com Inc. has reportedly scheduled its multibillion-dollar Prime Day event for September and scaled back some shipping caps, a potential sign the company’s supply chain is starting to return to normal operations. Amazon in March stopped processing nonessential third-party merchandise to free up warehouse capacity for orders of household essentials such as toiletries. Not long after, a report ...
NoSQL database maker Couchbase lands $105M funding round backed by Accel
Couchbase Inc., a NoSQL database startup that counts a third of the Fortune 500 among its users, today said it has raised a $105 million funding round led by GPI Capital with participation from Accel. Couchbase is the developer of the popular open-source Couchbase Server database. The platform is designed to store large amounts of structured, ...
Twitter starts testing new feature to let users limit replies to their tweets
Twitter Inc. has started testing a new feature with a select number of users that will make it possible to restrict others’ ability to reply to a tweet. The limited pilot could be a prelude to the company making the setting available to everyone on its platform. However, experimental Twitter features don’t always make it to ...
Dell places its OneFS storage technology in Google’s cloud data centers
Dell Technologies Inc. has placed storage hardware in Google LLC data centers as part of a collaboration with the tech giant to better support joint customers with hybrid cloud environments. The partnership, revealed today, headlines a series of new additions to Dell’s portfolio. Dell worked with Google to deploy Isilon storage systems running OneFS file ...
Google lands multicloud cybersecurity project with the DOD
Google LLC today said that it has won a contract to build a “secure cloud management solution” for protecting the U.S. Defense Department’s cloud infrastructure. The deal is valued in the seven figures, the search giant told Axios. Google is taking on the project for the DOD’s Digital Innovation Unit, which is in charge of ...
Strapi raises $10M for its ‘headless’ CMS after winning over IBM and NASA
Strapi Solutions SAS, a France- and San Francisco-based startup taking on WordPress in the content management system market, today announced that it has raised a $10 million round of funding led by Index Ventures. The round follows a $4 million seed investment last October that saw the participation of Docker creator Solomon Hykes. In the ...