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Amazon Web Services Inc. has hit back at criticism that it’s taking advantage of open-source software projects by “strip mining” them and repackaging them as paid services. Andi Gutmans, vice president of AWS analytics and ElastiCache, was responding to Monday’s New York Times …
Google announces revamp of its Patch Rewards program for open-source security
Google LLC said today it’s planning to revamp its six-year-old Patch Rewards program for open-source software developers beginning next year. Patch Rewards is one of Google’s oldest security programs. It began life in 2013 when the company said it would provide financial …
Micron stock jumps on improved demand for memory chips
Micron Technology Inc.’s stock jumped more than 4% in extended trading today after company executives predicted the chipmaker had hit the bottom of a rough period during which its sales have declined for four successive quarters. The maker of flash memory chips reported …
Cloud-native project The Update Framework hits top-level CNCF status
An open-source specification that secures software updates has just become the ninth Cloud Native Computing Foundation project to graduate to top-level status. The CNCF is an organization that’s responsible for overseeing the development of several popular open-source, cloud-native software projects, including Kubernetes, …
Nvidia debuts new DRIVE AGX Orin platform for autonomous cars and robots
Nvidia Corp. tonight bid to expand the reach of artificial intelligence systems into autonomous vehicles and robots with the launch of its new Nvidia DRIVE AGX Orin platform. Nvidia DRIVE AGX Orin is a software-defined platform that’s powered by a new system-on-a-chip …
AWS adds ontology linking to its Comprehend Medical natural language processing service
Amazon Web Services Inc. today updated its natural language processing service for healthcare providers with a new feature that lets them link to information from medical ontologies. AWS Comprehend Medical is a machine learning service that models topics, detects language, conducts sentiment …
Google denies report it considered quitting cloud computing business
Executives at Google LLC’s parent company Alphabet Inc. reportedly considered exiting the public cloud computing business back in early 2018, only to reject that idea and instead set a goal of becoming the No. 2 player in the market by 2023. However, …
Google unveils BeyondProd framework for implementing cloud-native security
Following the success of its BeyondCorp framework for network access, Google LLC is pitching another model its adopted for securing its cloud-native information technology architecture. BeyondProd, as the new model is called, is the subject of a new white paper that details …
Application monitoring firm Instana announces a hat-trick of acquisitions
Application monitoring startup Instana Inc. has parted ways with a chunk of the $30 million in venture capital it raised last year, buying up two startup companies and the technology assets of a third. Instana today said it’s buying outright both BeeInstant Ltd., …
Amazon debuts Knowledge Skills for Alexa business users
Amazon.com Inc. is making another big push to bring its Alexa digital assistant into the workplace. Today it launched a new kind of skill that lets users ask questions about data in a spreadsheet without writing any code or calling up a specific …