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Security

DDoS attack forces New Zealand Stock Exchange to halt trading

By Duncan Riley Aug 26, 2020

New Zealand’s stock exchange was forced to halt trading for several hours Wednesday following a sustained cyberattack, the second in two days. In a statement, the exchange said it was targeted by a volumetric distributed-denial-of-service attack…

Big Data

Big-data company Splunk stumbles, missing quarterly revenue target

By Mike Wheatley Aug 26, 2020

Big-data analytics firm Splunk Inc. fell short of Wall Street’s expectations on its second-quarter financial results announced today. The company, which sells software to help enterprises search, correlate, analyze, monitor and report on data…

Cloud

Box delivers solid earnings by growing existing customer accounts

By Mike Wheatley Aug 26, 2020

Shares in Box Inc. rose almost 9% in after-hours trading today after the company reported better-than-expected second-quarter financial results. The cloud storage and file management company reported a profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 18…

AI

SugarCRM acquires AI sales startup Node to help it challenge Salesforce

By Maria Deutscher Aug 26, 2020

SugarCRM Inc., a Salesforce.com competitor with more than 2 million users worldwide, has acquired an artificial intelligence startup called Node Inc. to build more automation features into its platform. The deal was announced Monday.…

Emerging Tech

US launches $1B+ push to advance quantum information sciences and AI

By Maria Deutscher Aug 26, 2020

U.S. officials today announced a broad research initiative to invest more than $1 billion over five years in new breakthroughs in quantum information sciences and artificial intelligence. As part of the effort, 12 specialized…

Apps

Google launches alpha release of Jetpack Compose to speed Android coding

By Maria Deutscher Aug 26, 2020

Google LLC today launched the alpha release of Jetpack Compose, a development tool it has built to speed up the creation of Android apps. The search giant debuted an early preview version of Jetpack…

Blockchain

Blockdaemon integrates Blockstack to support simplified blockchain node management

By Kyt Dotson Aug 26, 2020

Blockchain infrastructure platform Blockdaemon today announced its integration with Blockstack PBC to support the Stacks 2.0 network in an effort to simplify node management for institutional and enterprise customers. Blockdaemon said the integration will…

Cloud

Abstracting Kubernetes: Open-source community shifts focus to infrastructure-as-a-service

By Betsy Amy-Vogt Aug 26, 2020

As-a-service hides technological complexity behind layers of abstractions, showing only the user-friendly face. But under the hood, the intricacy is growing with applications and data following edge computing as it spreads itself across the…

Cloud

New features for Google Cloud spring from company’s significant IT resources

By Mark Albertson Aug 26, 2020

Google LLC has a history of generating new products from the tools it uses to run a vast global information-technology network. Several of its more recent new cloud product and service releases appear to…

Cloud

Rancher Labs’ K3s becomes the latest CNCF sandbox project

By Mike Wheatley Aug 26, 2020

Container management software company Rancher Labs Inc. said today that its lightweight Kubernetes distribution K3s has been accepted as a sandbox project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Rancher Labs, which was recently acquired…

the latest

DDoS attack forces New Zealand Stock Exchange to halt trading

SugarCRM acquires AI sales startup Node to help it challenge Salesforce

US launches $1B+ push to advance quantum information sciences and AI

Google launches alpha release of Jetpack Compose to speed Android coding

Blockdaemon integrates Blockstack to support simplified blockchain node management

New features for Google Cloud spring from company’s significant IT resources

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