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Nvidia reveals how its BlueField DPUs boost Palo Alto Networks’ virtual firewall performance
Nvidia Corp. and Palo Alto Networks Inc. detailed today how they created what they say is a massively accelerated virtual next-generation firewall that doesn’t impact network performance. Announced in May, Palo Alto’s VM-Series NGFW helps to accelerate packet filtering and forwarding by offloading traffic from server processors to dedicated Nvidia BlueField-2 data processing units. It further speeds ...
Aqua Security buys open-source ‘infrastructure as code’ scanning tool tfsec
Cloud-native security startup Aqua Security Software Ltd. has spent some of the money it raised earlier this year to acquire an open-source scanning tool called tfsec. The company said that with today’s acquisition, it will immediately integrate tfsec and its “infrastructure as code” or IaC security scanning capability with its Aqua Trivy product. It will ...
Facebook teaches walking AI robots to adapt on the fly to terrain such as dirt, sand and even swamps
Facebook Inc.’s artificial intelligence researchers have come up with a more advanced method of teaching walking robots to adapt to different kinds of terrain on the fly. Using the method, robots can with relative ease make their way across sand, loose rocks, deep grass, muddy fields, slippery surfaces and anything else they encounter. The Rapid ...
Google calls states’ antitrust suit on app store commissions ‘meritless’
Updated: Google LLC has been slapped with yet another antitrust lawsuit — one that it promptly called “meritless.” This time the search giant faces a coalition of state attorneys general that argue the company is abusing its control of the Android app store to charge unfair commissions to developers. The lawsuit, filed today by 36 states ...
Airbyte enables easy data integration from multiple sources with Amazon S3 storage
Open-source data integration startup Airbyte Inc. has come up with an easy way for Amazon Web Services Inc. customers to replicate data from dozens of popular sources to their Amazon Simple Storage Service accounts. The new capability announced today is said to be the industry’s first-ever open-source integration for a data lake. Companies can now ...
Skedulo, which helps companies manage mobile workers, raises $75M
5Mobile productivity software provider Skedulo Holdings Inc. is getting ready to manage more mobile workforces after landing a hefty $75 million round of funding today led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. The company said it will use the Series C funding round to continue to develop and scale up its platform and expand internationally. Skedulo ...
IBM open-sources CodeFlare framework for AI models that run on multicloud platforms
IBM Corp. announced a new open-source framework today called CodeFlare that it says helps simplify the integration and efficient scaling up of big data and artificial intelligence workflows on multicloud infrastructures. The new framework is built atop an open-source distributed computing framework called Ray, extending that software’s capabilities by adding various elements that make it ...
Samsung profit jumps more than 50% on strong memory chip demand
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said Wednesday morning in South Korea that its second-quarter operating profit has likely increased by 53% on a year-over-year basis, surpassing analyst estimates. The increase was thanks to strong demand and high prices for its memory and server chips, which account for the bulk of the company’s revenue. That helped offset ...
Fake Amazon cloud service AWS InfiniDash quickly goes viral
Twilio developer educator Joe Nash got more than he bargained for after posting about how a make-believe Amazon Web Services Inc. cloud service would likely go viral and be added as a skills requirement to numerous jobs listings if he posted about it. His tweet about AWS InfiniDash promptly prompted one company update its job ...
China-backed Nexperia bids to acquire U.K.’s largest semiconductor fab in cut-price deal
China is looking to get its hands on more semiconductor manufacturing technology through a cut-price deal that will see the Dutch chip maker Nexperia B.V. acquire U.K.-based Newport Wafer Fab. Nexperia, which is owned by the Chinese private equity firm Wingtech Technology Co. Ltd., is already the second-largest shareholder in NWF, CNBC reported. Nexperia Chief ...