Data management provider Cohesity Inc. today announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud and unveiled Cohesity Turing, a set of artificial intelligence technologies that bring AI capabilities to data security and management. The expanded partnership between Google LLC and Cohesity builds on a previous partnership wherein Cohesity and Google have offered joint customers a solution for the ...

Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms Inc., is reportedly in talks with augmented reality startup Magic Leap Inc. as part of its pursuit of creating the metaverse. The Financial Times reported today that Meta is exploring a potential multiyear agreement with Magic Leap, focusing on intellectual property licensing and contract manufacturing in North America. The collaboration is ...

International Business Machines Corp. today announced a new 10-year, $100 million initiative with the University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago to develop a quantum-centric supercomputer powered by 100,000 qubits. A “qubit,” or quantum bit, is the fundamental unit of quantum information and is distinguished by its ability to exist in multiple states at ...

Autonomous data security posture management company Concentric Software Inc. today announced new deep-learning-driven detection capabilities that can find hardcoded “secrets” and key credentials in popular enterprise on-premises and cloud data repositories as well as email and messaging applications. Secrets are programmatic access keys, such as application programming interface keys, access tokens and connection strings, used ...

A threat actor who has been known to target Microsoft Corp. products in the past has started using a combination of phishing and SIM-swapping attacks to take over Microsoft Azure administrative accounts to gain access to Azure Virtual Machines. Detailed May 16 by researchers at Google LLC-owned Mandiant, the threat actor, designated UNC3944, uses the Serial ...

Developer security operations startup Ox Appsec Security Ltd. today announced the launch of OX-GPT, a ChatGPT integration to improve software supply chain security. The company says the new integration presents developers with customized fix recommendations and cut-and-paste code fixes, providing for quick remediation of critical security issues across the software supply chain. Although the rise of OpenAI LP’s ...

Kubernetes operations and cost management startup Cast AI Group Inc. today announced several new features for its platform to reduce cloud costs for organizations that are using generative artificial intelligence models. The new features from CAST AI are designed to assist organizations that are building, training and running AI models and applications in the cloud. The company argues ...

Automated threat modeling solutions provider ThreatModeler Software Inc., today announced the launch of a new partner program designed to help partners capitalize on the growing demand for DevSecOps solutions. The ThreatNet Partner Program helps partners cater to customers’ demands to address evolving threats and mitigate risk effectively, focusing on building strong relationships aligned with the company’s ...

Kubernetes co-founder Craig McLuckie and Sigstore founder Luke Hinds today announced the launch of a new software supply chain company called Stacklok, after the company raised $17.5 million in venture capital funding ahead of its reveal. Stacklok is pitched as giving the power of open-source security technologies access to developers so that they can secure software ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Australian Cyber Security Centre have issued a joint warning about a change in tactics from a well-known ransomware group from traditional ransomware encryption to exfiltration-based extortion. The group, called BianLian, is believed to have first emerged in 2021. It came to widespread ...