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Atlassian introduces Security in Jira to prioritize DevSecOps
Atlassian Corp. today announced new security capabilities for Jira Software Cloud, the company’s project management and software issue tracking tool, aimed at assisting developers with their workflows by bringing security visibility directly under their control. As part of the development lifecycle, developers and engineers spend a lot of time with different tools from coding, integration, ...
SEC sues Coinbase alleging that it’s operating an unregistered exchange
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Coinbase Global Inc. today in the Southern District of New York, alleging that the cryptocurrency exchange has been operating as an unregistered securities exchange and broker. The SEC also charged Coinbase over its crypto asset staking rewards program, which it said the company failed to register with the regulator. ...
Apple announces new MacBook Air, Mac Studio and Mac Pro alongside M2 Ultra chip
Apple Inc. unveiled an upgrade to its M2 family of chips with the M2 Ultra during its WWDC 2023 developer conference today that the company is introducing to its new Mac Studio and Mac Pro lineup to deliver professional-level performance. The company also announced a new 15-inch MacBook Air featuring an M2 chip and OS ...
Apple unveils the Vision Pro, its long-awaited $3,500 mixed reality headset
Apple Inc. has finally made good on its much-anticipated mixed-reality headset today during the WWDC 2023 developer conference with the Vision Pro, which Chief Executive Tim Cook described as a “spatial computer.” “Today marks the beginning of a new era for computing,” said Cook. “Just as the Mac introduced us to personal computing, and iPhone ...
Microsoft updates Teams with communities and AI-powered Designer support
Microsoft Corp. is updating the free version of its Teams app built into Windows 11 with big improvements including support for Designer, the company’s artificial intelligence-powered art creation tool. Teams is a messaging and videoconferencing app that competes with business-oriented collaboration and messaging service Slack. Microsoft launched communities in December in a bid to allow ...
Meta’s Quest 3 mixed reality headset ships this fall with a $500 price tag
Meta Platform Inc.’s next-generation virtual and mixed reality headset, the Meta Quest 3, will launch in the fall and feature higher resolution, stronger performance, a slimmer profile and a $499.99 price tag, the company announced today. Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta, touted the upcoming device on Instagram, saying it would be the company’s “most ...
Niantic announces major updates to its augmented reality platforms for developers
Niantic Inc., the developer of the popular augmented reality game “Pokemon Go” and the Lightship AR platform, announced a number of major updates to its developer tools that will enable deeper integrations and hardware compatibility for extended reality software creation. The announcements today at this year’s Augmented World Expo in Santa Clara, California, a conference for ...
OpenAI takes on AI ‘hallucinations’ with new training techniques
OpenAI LP is performing research into dealing with artificial intelligence “hallucinations” using new training methods that will help reduce critical mistakes. Generative AI models have become increasingly popular since the debut of chatbot ChatGPT by OpenAI in late 2022, which is capable of human-like conversation. Since the more recent unveiling of the more advanced GPT-4 ...
GPU-accelerated cloud provider CoreWeave secures $200M led by Magnetar Capital
CoreWeave Inc., a cloud compute provider that specializes in large-scale graphics processing unit-accelerated workloads, announced today that it has raised $200 million in additional funding from Magnetar Capital. The funding is an extension of the company’s previous $221 million Series B round that closed on April 20, also led by Magnetar, which brings the total ...
Crypto wallet Magic raises $52M to expand ‘wallet-as-a-service’ solution
Magic Labs Inc., the provider of a cryptocurrency “wallet-as-a-service” enterprise solution, today announced that it has raised $52 million in a strategic funding round led by PayPal Ventures. Venture capital firms Cherubic, Synchrony, KX, Northzone and Volt Capital also participated in the investment, which brought the company’s total raised to over $80 million. The company ...