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With new Security Cloud, Splunk aims to automate threat detection, investigation and response
Big data analytics company Splunk Inc. is building on the launch of its Observability Cloud with a new, cloud-centric suite of security tools that its customers will be able to use to identify and investigate threats. Launching today, the Splunk Security Cloud is billed as a comprehensive security operations platform that combines advanced security analytics ...
AI researchers publish theory to explain how deep learning actually works
Artificial intelligence researchers from Facebook Inc., Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have teamed up to publish a new manuscript that they say offers a theoretical framework describing for the first time how deep neural networks actually work. In a blog post, Facebook AI research scientist Sho Yaida noted that DNNs are one ...
Email services API startup Nylas raises $120M in Series C funding
Communications startup Nylas Inc. is gunning for the booming application programming interface economy after raising $120 million in a new round of funding that brings its total amount raised to $175 million. Tiger Global Management led the Series C round, which saw participation from a host of other backers. Existing investors Citi Ventures, Slack Fund, ...
Adobe’s clouds post double-digit growth as it sails past earnings and revenue targets
Photoshop creator Adobe Inc. celebrated another strong financial performance today, posting second quarter earnings and revenue that topped expectations and showing strong growth in its three core cloud businesses. The company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of $3.03 per share on revenue of $3.84 billion, up 23% from the year ago ...
Dish to use Dell’s hardware and software to build its cloud-native Open RAN-based 5G network
Dish Network Corp. has chosen Dell Technologies Inc. as its primary hardware and software partner as it gears up to roll out what it says will be the first cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G network in the U.S. In an announcement today, the two companies said they have formed a strategic infrastructure agreement in which Dell ...
Google debuts new Tau VMs based on AMD’s 3rd Gen EPYC chips for scale-out workloads
Google LLC announced a new family of cloud virtual machines today that it said are ideal for customers operating the most demanding, scale-out workloads. The new Tau VMs are based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s latest 3rd Gen EPYC processors and Google reckons they provide a greater price-performance than any of its rival’s offerings. Scale-out ...
Google announces more partner apps and services at the edge of its cloud
Google LLC has announced a big expansion of a key initiative introduced at the tail end of last year to bring various partner services and applications to the network edge on Google Cloud. The company revealed today that more than 20 of its independent service vendor partners have agreed to deliver new apps and services ...
Facebook reverse-engineers deepfakes to detect the AI models used to create them
Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence research unit has teamed up with Michigan State University on what the company says is a new and extremely accurate tool that can not only detect deepfakes but also understand how they were were built. Deepfakes is the name for fake, computer-manipulated images or videos that have been altered in hard-to-detect ...
Real-time analytics database startup Imply raises $70M in Series C funding
Self-styled “analytics-in-motion” database startup Imply Inc. has money to spend after securing a hefty $70 million in a new round of funding. Bessemer Venture Partners led the Series C round, which included the participation of Tiger Global Management and existing investors A16Z, Khosla Ventures and Geodesic Capital, bringing Imply’s total amount raised to $116 million. ...
Microsoft’s new West US 3 data center region is one of its most sustainable yet
Microsoft Corp. today said it has flipped the switch on what it says is one of its most sustainable data centers yet. The new West US 3 region located in El Mirage and Goodyear, Arizona, relies extensively on renewable energy sources and is said to be 100% carbon negative. The company said it chose Arizona for ...