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Microsoft’s newest cybersecurity service Azure Sentinel now available
Microsoft Corp. said today that its security information and event management service Azure Sentinel is now generally available after more than six months of testing. SIEM tools such as Azure Sentinel are proving to be quite popular with cybersecurity teams because they work by gathering data from a range of sources such as operating systems, ...
Google releases videos to help researchers create better ‘deepfake’ detection tools
Google LLC is trying to combat the rise of so-called “deepfake” videos on the web with the release of a tranche of example clips its made that researchers can use to develop more sophisticated detection tools. Deepfake is the name of a technique for human image synthesis that relies on artificial intelligence. It’s used to ...
Lawmakers propose $1B in grants to help replace Huawei networking gear
Members of the U.S. Energy and Commerce Committee unveiled bipartisan legislation on Tuesday that would authorize $1 billion in grants to small and rural wireless network providers. The money would be used to replace banned networking equipment from Chinese firms such as Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and ZTE Corp. The legislation is similar to another ...
D-Wave debuts new 5,000-qubit quantum computer
Quantum computing company D-Wave Systems Inc. today revealed that it has sold the first of its next-generation, 5,000-qubit machines to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The new machine is named “Advantage” because, D-Wave said, it gives organizations a significant edge over competitors that do not have access to a quantum computer. For the uninitiated, quantum ...
Gartner forecasts massive growth in collaboration software spending
Social and collaboration software is going to become a major recipient of enterprise software spending, with revenue in the market set to grow from $2.7 billion in 2018 to $4.8 billion by 2023. Gartner Inc. said today in a new report that the expansion of collaboration apps into emerging markets and a growing base of ...
PagerDuty joins with Salesforce and Zendesk to fix customer service issues faster
Incident response platform provider PagerDuty Inc. said today it’s teaming up with Salesforce.com Inc. and Zendesk Inc. to help organizations resolve customer service issues faster. Announced at PagerDuty Summit 2019 this morning, PagerDuty for Customer Service is basically a two-way integration with Zendesk’s customer service software and Salesforce’s Service Cloud suite. It gives workers an easier ...
USAA uses Google Cloud machine learning to estimate vehicle repair costs
Vehicle insurance provider United Services Automobile Association is using artificial intelligence to try to speed up its claims process. The company today said it has partnered with Google Cloud to create customized machine learning models that can instantly assess vehicle damage from digital images, allowing for faster and more cost-efficient estimates. USAA said it’s trying ...
Data integration company Fivetran raises $44M in Series B round
Fivetran Inc. today said it has raised a hefty $44 million in a financing round that suggests its revolutionary data integration technology is on the verge of hitting the big time. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series B round, which saw participation from existing investors Matrix Partners and CEAS Investments and brings its total funding to date ...
DevOps company Chef says it won’t renew ICE contracts after employee backlash
Chef Software Inc. said today it will not renew its contracts with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency following a protest by one of its former employees. The protest was led by Chef developer Seth Vargo, who decided to take matters into his own hands earlier this month upon hearing the company was planning to ...
Presto establishes formal community under the Linux Foundation
The open-source Structured Query Language engine Presto is getting its own project within the Linux Foundation. The Presto Foundation, as it’s called, will be organized under a standard open and neutral governance model, with its main goal being to attract more users to the community and scale adoption of Presto in the enterprise. Founding members ...