Web 2.0-era personal productivity app maker Evernote Corp., acquired by Italian technology company Bending Spoons S.p.A. in November, has laid off most of its staff in the U.S. and Chile and has relocated the remaining staff to Italy. In a statement from Bending Spoons Chief Executive Officer Luca Ferrari reported July 7 by SFGate, most of Evernote’s ...

Decision intelligence startup Quantexa Ltd. today announced that it plans to invest more than $155 million in the global artificial intelligence industry in the next three years to help clients advance the use of AI to protect, optimize and grow their organizations. The seven-year-old company also previewed its generative AI technology, Q Assist, alongside its investment plans. ...

Cisco Systems Inc. published a security advisory Wednesday warning customers of a high-severity vulnerability in its Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in ACI mode that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to read or modify inter-site encrypted traffic. The vulnerability, designated CVE-2023-20185, stems from a problem in the implementation of the ciphers used by the switches’ CloudSec ...

Cloud directory-as-a-service provider JumpCloud Inc. has reset admin application programming interface keys for customers due to an unspecified “ongoing incident.” Exactly what the ongoing incident is was not specified. A notice sent to customers stated only that the company was resetting the API keys out of an abundance of caution. “We have done this to protect your ...

Nvidia Corp. is collaborating with Intel Corp. to provide extensive attestation services for Nvidia H100 GPUs, using Intel Trust Domain Extensions and Intel’s trust service, “Project Amber,” for customers that deploy confidentiality-preserving artificial intelligence solutions. The announcement was made at the Confidential Computing Summit in San Francisco last week but was highlighted today, with further details provided ...

The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, today announced an in-depth investigation into Amazon.com Inc.’s proposed acquisition of robotic vacuum cleaner company iRobot Corp. Amazon announced in August last year that it had entered an agreement to acquire iRobot for $1.7 billion. Along with its Roomba line of robotic vacuum cleaners, the ...

Data security startup Dig Security Solutions Inc. today announced that it has added optical character recognition to its data security posture management solution to allow enterprises to detect sensitive information stored in image files. With the release, Dig can detect that data in image files even when it’s stored in multicloud environments, such as passports and driver’s licenses. ...

Despite the ongoing hype and investment into generative artificial intelligence startups, venture capital funding fell again in the second quarter, according to a new report today from Crunchbase Inc. VC funding fell 18% in the second quarter from the first quarter and 49% year-over-year, to $65 billion. The Crunchbase report noted that the reduction mirrors an ...

Meta Platforms Inc. today launched Threads, a microblogging and messaging app linked to Instagram that’s set to take on the increasingly troubled Elon Musk-owned Twitter Inc. Threads is being pitched as “Instagram’s text-based conversation app.” The Google Play listing claims that the app “is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you ...

The infamous Russian-linked ransomware gang LockBit has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Japanese port that has temporarily crippled operations. The ransomware attack targeted the Nagoya Port Unified Terminal System, the controlling body of the Port of Nagoya, Japan’s largest port, on the morning of July 4 local time. The port is a major hub ...