Microsoft to lay off 10,000 employees, CEO confirms
Ten thousand Microsoft staffers will lose their jobs in the coming months, CEO Satya Nadella confirmed in a written statement.
Earlier today, we covered rumours of a layoff round at Microsoft. Insiders said the tech giant would disclose the plan today. Meanwhile, confirmation has arrived. CEO S... Read more
Pure Storage adds energy efficiency guarantee to storage-as-a-service
Pure Storage introduced an energy efficiency guarantee for Evergreen//One, one of the company's storage-as-a-service (STaaS) solutions.
The energy-efficiency guarantee can be thought of as a service-level agreement (SLA) for energy consumption. According to Pure Storage, the SLA ensures that cu... Read more
Rubrik grows fast, ex-CEO of Palo Alto Networks joins board
Rubrik is celebrating a milestone. The organization announced that software subscriptions generate more than $500 million (about €460 million) in annual recurring revenue. In addition, the company welcomed a new board member: Mark McLaughlin, former CEO of security giant Palo Alto Networks.
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‘Microsoft cuts 11,000 jobs worldwide’
Microsoft reportedly plans to cut 11,000 jobs worldwide, representing about five percent of the total workforce.
Sky News and Bloomberg reported on the rumours. Like other large tech firms, Microsoft appears to be planning a round of job cuts.
The giant employs 221,000 professionals worldwi... Read more
Dell launches PowerEdge servers with Intel Sapphire Rapids processors
Dell Technologies introduced thirteen PowerEdge servers with Intel Sapphire Rapids processors. In addition, the organization unveiled updates to energy-saving and monitoring tools.
All of the new servers are available with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, also known as Sapphire Rapids. T... Read more
Apple Mac mini M2 and M2 Pro available from January 24
Apple launched Mac mini models with M2 and M2 Pro processors. The processors provide significant performance improvements over M1 models from the previous generation.
The Mac mini M2 and M2 Pro are available for pre-orders starting today. Apple will ship the devices from January 24 onwards. The... Read more
Belgium-based Cumul.io raises €10 million for low-code analytics
Cumul.io has secured €10 million in venture capital to hire staff and expand into new markets. The Belgium-based firm develops a low-code platform for analytics and data visualization.
The investment brings Cumul.io's total funding to €13.1 million. The round was led by French venture capit... Read more
Microsoft launches Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT coming soon
Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service is now available for select partners and customers. The tech giant says it will add OpenAI's popular ChatGPT tool soon.
According to Microsoft, Azure OpenAI Service provides access to major AI models such as Codex and Dall-E, as well as the tech giant's proprieta... Read more
CircleCI loses encryption keys and customer secrets to data theft
CircleCI recently disclosed a December 2022 incident in which customer data was misappropriated. Attackers misused session tokens to steal encryption keys and other sensitive information.
In a blog post, CTO Rob Zuber shed light on the breach. Cybercriminals had access to customer data until Ja... Read more
‘European Commission objects to acquisition of Activision Blizzard’
Insiders told Reuters that the European Commission is expected to inform Microsoft of objections to the acquisition of Activision Blizzard sometime in the coming weeks.
Microsoft announced the acquisition of Activision Blizzard in 2022. Activision Blizzard develops well-known games such as Call... Read more