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Intel’s new vPro chips for business PCs pack AI-powered threat detection
Intel Corp. has refreshed its vPro line of central processing units for business laptops, desktops and workstations with new chips that offer better performance as well as built-in threat detection features powered by machine learning. The chips, unveiled Wednesday afternoon, are all based on Intel’s 14-nanometer Comet Lake architecture. Their debut comes two weeks after ...
AWS open sources cloud development kit to make Kubernetes easier to use
Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched Cloud Development Kit for Kubernetes, or cdk8s, an open-source development toolkit designed to make Kubernetes clusters easier to build and maintain. Kubernetes has emerged as the go-to framework for managing software containers in the enterprise. It allows engineers to compose container clusters by defining configuration details in the relatively simple YAML ...
CyberArk shells out $70M for access management provider Idaptive
Publicly traded cybersecurity provider CyberArk Software Ltd. is shelling out $70 million to buy Idaptive LLC, a firm that offers a platform for managing access to enterprise systems. CyberArk announced the deal this morning before its first-quarter earnings call. The company, which like Idaptive focuses on helping enterprises manage access to internal systems, beat the Zacks ...
VMware acquires Accel-backed Kubernetes security startup Octarine
VMware Inc. today announced plans to acquire Octarine Inc., an Accel-backed startup that develops cybersecurity software for protecting Kubernetes clusters from hacking. Financial terms were not disclosed. Octarine, based in Sunnyvale, California, has raised at least $9 million in funding from Accel and its other investors, namely Battery Ventures, Liberty Technology Venture Capital and Sorenson ...
Waymo raises $750M more to advance its autonomous vehicle roadmap
Waymo LLC, the Alphabet Inc. subsidiary developing self-driving taxis and trucks, today revealed that it has raised an additional $750 million in funding to support its efforts. The financing comes as an extension to the mammoth $2.25 billion round Waymo announced in the beginning of March. That initial tranche came from a group of outside ...
Report: Uber is in talks to acquire food delivery rival Grubhub
Hot on the heels of Uber Technologies Inc.’s investment in LimeBike Inc., a new report claims that the ride-sharing giant has set its sights on another rival: Grubhub Inc. The Wall Street Journal today cited sources as saying that Uber is in talks to acquire the publicly traded food delivery provider, which competes with its ...
Atlassian acquires help desk startup Halp to go after Slack users
Atlassian Corp. PLC has acquired Halp Inc., a venture-backed startup with a cloud service that allows enterprise help desk teams to answer employee support requests inside Slack. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. In a blog post announcing the deal today, the Halp team said the startup’s namesake service will remain available as an ...
AWS makes its Kendra enterprise search platform generally available with new features
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of Amazon Kendra, a managed search platform that enterprises can use to help employees navigate internal data repositories more easily. Kendra was first previewed at AWS’ re:Invent conference last December. Since its initial debut, AWS has improved the platform’s accuracy and added a number of more ...
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 768G chip offers built-in 5G, better performance
Qualcomm Inc. late Sunday unveiled the Snapdragon 768G, a new mobile processor that packs built-in 5G connectivity and promises up to 15% better performance than its predecessor. The processor is an improved iteration of the Snapdragon 765G that debuted in December. That chip was one of the first from Qualcomm to use a built-in 5G modem ...
Unpatchable exploit in Thunderbolt allows hackers to break into locked PCs
Most personal computers with a Thunderbolt port are vulnerable to a new exploit that allows hackers with physical access to a machine to compromise it even if the screen is locked and the hard drive is encrypted. The exploit, dubbed Thunderspy, was publicly detailed on Sunday. It affects all Windows and Linux computers with Thunderbolt ...