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Microsoft releases new open-source toolkit to advance AI development
Microsoft Corp. has revamped one of its most popular artificial intelligence frameworks with the launch of Cognitive Toolkit 2.0 Thursday. The product is a revamped version of Microsoft’s original packaged deep learning software CNTK, which is designed to help developers build their own neural networks. CNTK was released in beta last October, and rivals frameworks such ...
Workday sees strong subscription revenue growth, but shares waffle
Cloud business software provider Workday Inc. beat analysts’ expectations as it reported solid first quarter financial results — just not solid enough to thrill investors. The company reported a net loss of $64 million for the quarter, or 31 cents per share, compared with a net loss of $80.6 million, or 41 cents per share, in ...
Microsoft releases Draft, a new tool for building cloud-native apps
Microsoft Corp. wants to help developers get started with Kubernetes, the popular open-source container orchestration tool originally created by Google Inc. To that end, the company has just launched a new tool called Draft that’s designed to streamline the setting up of container-based applications. The idea behind Draft is that it allows developers to work ...
Defense contractor Booz Allen left sensitive US military data on unsecured AWS server
Sensitive U.S. military data relating to an intelligence agency project has been discovered on an unsecured Amazon Web Services Inc. server. The data, made up of more than 60,000 files including security credentials and passwords to a government system containing sensitive information, was freely accessible with no password protection in place. Gizmodo first reported the ...
Box shares rise on steady quarterly growth
Cloud content management company Box Inc. reported solid first fiscal quarter earnings that edged past analysts’ expectations. Investors liked what they saw, with the company’s share price rising more than 4 percent in after-hours trading. Box posted an operating loss after certain costs such as stock compensation of $16.6 million, or 13 cents per share, ...
Organizations need dedicated personnel to create security awareness, study finds
Most organizations today have some kind of security awareness training program in place for their staff, but the success of those efforts is a mixed bag at best. Indeed, only around 10 percent of organizations can boast that they have achieved the highest two tiers of security awareness maturity when measured on a five-tier model, according ...
Walmart submits patent for blockchain-based drone delivery system
The idea of using drones to deliver consumer goods was made famous by Amazon.com Inc., but the online retail giant is not alone in that endeavor. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is one such company testing drones with an eye to delivering groceries to consumers, and it has now submitted a patent application for a system to receive ...
Qualcomm launches mesh networking platform for smart devices in the home
Mobile chip maker Qualcomm Technologies Inc. has unveiled a new mesh networking platform that’s intended to manage and improve the use of consumer Internet of Things devices in the home. The platform was unveiled Tuesday at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. Qualcomm said the platform is made up of several of its networking and ...
Western Digital to join Japan-KKR consortium bid for Toshiba’s flash business
It might not be the frontrunner, but Western Digital Corp. hasn’t given up on its bid to acquire Toshiba Corp.’s NAND flash business unit, which is currently one of the hottest properties in tech. Last week it was reported that Broadcom Corp. was leading a pack of bidders that also includes Hon Hai Precision Industry ...
Google says it just costs too much to provide wage data in gender pay gap case
Google Inc. is continuing to resist a demand from the United States Department of Labor that it provides data on its employees’ salaries, in a months-long case where it was accused of gender pay discrimination. On Friday, representatives of the company told a federal court that complying with Labor’s request would be too much of ...