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A raft of big technology firms is backing a new Linux Foundation-led initiative that aims to promote the concept of “confidential computing,” or encrypting data while it’s in use. The Foundation said in a statement that the new Confidential Computing Consortium will …
Box adds stricter access controls and threat detection capabilities
Cloud content management company Box Inc. is bringing new content security controls and intelligent threat detection capabilities to its users with the launch today of Box Shield. Box Shield was announced as a private beta a year ago at the file-sharing company’s annual …
H20.ai gets $72.5M funding to bring AI to the masses
Artificial intelligence firm H20.ai Inc. has just bagged a $72.5 million round of funding as it looks to further its mission of democratizing AI for businesses of all shapes and sizes. The Series D round was led by Goldman Sachs and Chinese …
Report: Apple’s health team suffers employee departures amid internal strife
Apple Inc.’s health team is in crisis, hit by a series of high-profile departures over the last year as a result of internal disagreements over its direction, according to a report by CNBC. The report cited anonymous sources as saying that some …
Meet Springhill: Intel debuts its first chip for machine learning workloads
Intel Corp. today quietly announced its first dedicated artificial intelligence processor at a special event in Haifa, Israel. The Nervana Neural Network Processor for Inference (pictured), also known as “Springhill,” was developed at Intel’s labs in Haifa, and is said to be designed for …
Databricks intros AutoML tools for building machine learning models
Big-data company Databricks Inc. is hoping to empower so-called citizen data scientists to create their own machine learning models with new “Automated Machine Learning” capabilities in its Unified Analytics platform. The AutoML capabilities announced today rely on machine learning too, and are designed to …
Druva enables intelligent data storage on Amazon Web Services
Cloud data protection startup Druva Inc. announced ahead of VMworld 2019 in San Francisco what it says is the industry’s first “multitier data storage system” for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud. Druva sells an integrated service for AWS users that combines data from …
Twitter open-sources network diagnostic tool Rezolus
Twitter Inc. has open-sourced an internally developed tool for discovering performance anomalies and usage spikes in its network that were too brief to be noticed by its regular observability and metrics systems. In a blog post Monday, Twitter site reliability engineer Brian Martin …
Huawei gets another 90-day reprieve before US technology ban takes effect
The U.S. Commerce Department has granted another stay of execution to Chinese technology giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. that will allow it to continue buying components from U.S. companies until November, Reuters reported Monday. The extension, which was announced by U.S. Commerce …
State attorneys general to launch yet another antitrust probe of tech firms
Big tech firms are bracing themselves for yet another antitrust investigation, this time led by a group of U.S. state attorneys general. The Wall Street Journal reported today that the probe will look into allegations that companies such as Amazon.com Inc., Google LLC …