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Aqua Security debuts open-source container image registry scanner
Container security startup Aqua Security Software Ltd. announced today that its open-source tool for scanning container images is now integrated by default with registries from Docker Inc. and the Mirantis Docker Enterprise platform, as well as Harbor, an open-source image registry project run by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Aqua sells a Cloud Native Security Platform ...
Tech firms publish massive CORD-19 dataset to help fight the coronavirus
A consortium of America’s leading technology firms and organizations has come together to create a new artificial intelligence-enabled dataset on the coronavirus to help facilitate research into the disease. The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset, called CORD-19, is meant to give researchers faster access to the most popular scientific resources on the coronavirus in order to ...
France slaps Apple with a record 1.1 billion euro fine for anticompetitive behavior
France’s competition agency today slapped Apple Inc. with a 1.1 billion euro ($1.23 billion) fine for conspiring with its wholesalers in that country to fix prices and limit competition. Reuters said the verdict, from France’s L’Autorité de la Concurrence, is the largest fine that the agency has ever imposed. According to the agency, Apple tightly ...
Container management firm Rancher Labs raises $40M
Container management software company Rancher Labs Inc. closed on a $40 million late-stage round of funding Monday, it said. The round was led by Telstra Ventures and Telstra Corp., and brings Rancher’s total funding to $95 million to date. Rancher Labs said the company plans to use the Series D funding to drive what it ...
Intel’s Loihi neuromorphic chip can identify hazardous chemicals from their smell
Researchers from Intel Labs and Cornell University have demonstrated the unique ability of Intel Corp.’s neuromorphic research chip Loihi to identify a range of hazardous chemicals based on their odor alone. Loihi could identify each chemical based on its odor from just a single test sample, and without disrupting its memory of previously learned scents, ...
Alphabet Inc.’s Verily life sciences unit launches pilot coronavirus testing website
Updated with launch of pilot site Sunday evening: Google LLC said Friday its sister company Verily Life Sciences LLC is helping the federal government to build a new online tool to help some Americans get tested for the coronavirus. Verily, which is owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc., said the tool would first be rolled ...
UK will proceed with plans to start taxing big tech firms
The U.K. government said today it’s moving forward with plans to start taxing providers of digital services in the country starting April 1, and the move is expected to affect dozens of U.S. tech firms, including Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google LLC. The Digital Services Tax, as it’s officially known, will amount to 2% ...
Security firm Arctic Wolf lands $60M in late-stage funding
Cybersecurity startup Arctic Wolf Networks Inc. is hoping to expand into new markets after landing a hefty $60 million funding round announced today. Blue Cloud Ventures and Stereo Capital led the Series D round, which brings the company’s total amount raised to $151.2 million. Arctic Wolf calls itself a “security operations center-as-a-service company.” It offers ...
Linux Foundation to house Project OWL’s disaster relief IoT firmware
The Linux Foundation said today it has agreed to house the “internet of things” device firmware effort of Project OWL, which aims to create a mesh network of open source devices called “DuckLinks” that can be used to establish an Internet connection during emergency situations. One of the worst things about being in a disaster ...
IDC slashes tech spending forecast amid coronavirus fears
International Data Corp. says it’s revising its information technology spending forecast for 2020 downward, blaming the fallout from the rapid spread of the coronavirus. According to indicators in the first quarter, IDC reckons there will be a significant decline in spending on both hardware and software as companies adjust to the situation. As a result, IDC ...