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With Ego4D, Facebook wants AI to understand the world from a first-person perspective

By Kyt Dotson Oct 14, 2021

Facebook Inc. announced today a long-term project aimed at solving research challenges with artificial intelligence and first-person human perception. The research produced in the project, called Ego4D, would be useful for numerous applications, including augmented…

Venture capital funding and exits hit new record highs

By Duncan Riley Oct 14, 2021

Venture capital in the U.S. has hit new high records of investment, according to the latest VC report from PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor released today. The jump was riven by an explosion of mega-deals and record nontraditional investor…

Cloud

NXP Semiconductors moves all of its chip design workloads to Amazon’s cloud

By Mike Wheatley Oct 14, 2021

NXP Semiconductors N.V. has kicked off what could be the start of a new trend in the computer chipmaking industry, announcing that it’s moving the vast majority of its electronics design automation workloads to…

Security

New ‘SnapMC’ threat group steals data, then extorts victims for payment

By Duncan Riley Oct 13, 2021

So-called “double-tap” ransomware groups, which both encrypt and steal data and then threaten to publish the data without payment, have been on the rise for year. The appeal of such an attack is that…

Cloud

DevOps darling GitLab closes 35% above initial public offering price

By Mike Wheatley Oct 13, 2021

Updated: DevOps company GitLab Inc. today closed its first day of stock trading a hefty 35% above its initial offering price. The stock had opened trading at 22% above its IPO offering price of $77 a share,…

Security

Verizon Visible customers targeted in a credential-stuffing attack

By Duncan Riley Oct 13, 2021

Some customers of Visible, the discount pre-paid mobile arm of Verizon Communications Inc., have been hacked in a so-called credential-stuffing attack. The attack first came to light after customers took to social media to…

Policy

Facebook updates its harassment policies to protect public figures better

By James Farrell Oct 13, 2021

As part of an effort to appease its growing number of critics, Facebook Inc. announced today that it will expand its policies to provide better protection of public figures. The company said it will…

Security

Homeland Security secretary warns ‘killware’ is the next big cyber threat

By Duncan Riley Oct 13, 2021

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is warning that the next big cybersecurity threat is killware, and it could indeed end up killing people. Mayorkas (pictured) identified killware as a serious risk…

Cloud

Engineer interviewing startup interviewing.io raises $10M

By Duncan Riley Oct 13, 2021

Engineer interviewing startup Interviewing.io Inc. announced today it has raised $10 million in new funding in a Series A round led by M13. Founded in 2015, interviewing.io pitches itself as reinventing the way tech companies hire…

AI

Naveen Rao’s MosaicML debuts with a mission to improve machine learning training

By Mike Wheatley Oct 13, 2021

Former Intel Corp. executives Naveen Rao and Hanlin Tang have gotten back into the startup game, announcing the launch of a new company called MosaicML today that promises to optimize machine learning. MosaicML is…

the latest

With Ego4D, Facebook wants AI to understand the world from a first-person perspective

Venture capital funding and exits hit new record highs

New ‘SnapMC’ threat group steals data, then extorts victims for payment

Verizon Visible customers targeted in a credential-stuffing attack

Facebook updates its harassment policies to protect public figures better

Homeland Security secretary warns ‘killware’ is the next big cyber threat

Naveen Rao’s MosaicML debuts with a mission to improve machine learning training

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