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Dynatrace’s new Grail technology to unify observability data from cloud-native and multicloud environments
The observability software firm Dynatrace Inc. is adding a new core technology to its flagship application monitoring platform. Announced today, Grail is designed to unify observability data from applications with security and business intelligence from both cloud-native and multicloud environments. At the same time, Grail will retain the context of this data to deliver instantaneous, ...
Samsung announces plans to mass-produce 1.4-nanometer chips by 2027
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced an aggressive roadmap for its most advanced chips, saying it will deliver transistors measuring just 1.4 nanometers across by 2027. The company said today that its contract chipmaking business will begin manufacturing two-nanometer chips by 2025, with the 1.4-nanometer process set to kick off two years later. Samsung began ...
Cloud-native database startup SingleStore bags additional $30M in funding
SingleStore Inc., the cloud-native database startup, today closed on an additional $30 million round of funding on top of the $116 million raised in July. The Series F2 round announced today follows an $80 million Series F round of funding in September 2021, which was itself followed by a $116 million extension to that round ...
Immerok raises $17M to build out its serverless Apache Flink real-time data processing platform
Serverless Apache Flink startup Immerok GmbH is hoping to make real-time data stream processing a reality for more companies today after closing on a $17 million seed funding round. Today’s round was led by CUSP Capital, 468 Capital, Cortical VC and Essence VC, with participation from a number of angel inventors, including the co-creator of ...
EU mulls liability laws for AI systems, paving the way for compensation claims
The European Union’s executive commission has proposed new legislation that would make it easier for European citizens to sue companies in the event of harm caused to them by artificial intelligence technology. The AI Liability Directive proposed Wednesday has several aims, the main one being to update product liability laws to cover machine learning systems. ...
Atlassian debuts unified administrative controls to combat SaaS application sprawl
Collaboration and application development software provider Atlassian Corp. Plc. announced a series of key updates today, including new unified administration controls, new smart links and a subscription service for its products, including Trello, Confluence and Jira Work Management. In addition, Atlassian said Atlas, a new teamwork directory service announced in April, will become generally available ...
Micron to slash spending on new chipmaking gear by 50% to counter ‘unprecedented’ oversupply
Reporting its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings today,Micron Technology Inc. warned investors that it’s planning to take drastic measures by scaling back on plans to build out production capacity amid what it called an “unprecedented” market downturn. In a press release the company reported a net profit for the fourth quarter of $1.49 billion, with earnings before certain ...
Ox Security debuts with $34M in funding to reinvent software supply chain security
Developer security operations startup Ox Appsec Security Ltd. exited stealth mode today armed with a hefty $34 million in seed funding. The round was led by Evolution Equity Partners, Team8 and Microsoft Corp’s venture capital fund M12, with participation from Rain Capital. Ox Security, as it likes to be called, is developing an entirely new ...
Google Maps’ updates to provide more realistic, immersive experiences for users
Google LLC is hopeful that a coming series of updates to Google Maps will inspire more people to use the application to plan their daily travels, as it announced today that no less than four new features coming soon to make Maps “look and feel more like the real world.” The new updates include the long-awaited ...
Chipmakers ramp up spending on new fabs even as demand for silicon cools
The semiconductor shortage may have eased with the global economic slowdown this year, but chipmakers are not letting up in their efforts to boost manufacturing capacity. A report Monday from SEMI is forecasting investment in chip fab equipment to increase by 9% to a record high of $99 billion this year. SEMI’s latest quarterly World Fab ...