Rackspace officially applied for an IPO
Rackspace has officially applied for an IPO. It will be the second time the company will be listed on the stock exchange after Rackspace left in 2016 following a 4.3 billion deal dollar with venture capitalist Apollo Global Management.
Rackspace has not disclosed the size of its equity portfolio... Read more
‘Apple releases 13.3-inch MacBook Pro with Arm chips this year’
Apple is releasing a 13.3-inch MacBook Pro and a new MacBook Air with the new ARM chips this year, according to well-known Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The two devices are scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of 2020.
If Kuo's reports are correct, the 13.3-inch MacBook Pro will be the firs... Read more
‘More financial institutions focus on the shift to cloud’
The shift to the cloud is of the utmost importance for financial institutions, as part of the digital transformation, according to research by F5.
The Financial Services edition of the 2020 State Of Application Services survey by F5 is published. The edition shows that six out of ten companies (... Read more
IBM expands storage portfolio to support AI
IBM is expanding its storage portfolio to help enterprises build an optimized AI infrastructure. The new products should make it easier for enterprises to implement AI in their infrastructure.
The new Elastic Storage System 5000 (ESS 5000) is a software-defined storage solution designed for the ... Read more
’15 billion credentials are sold on the dark web’
Credentials of 15 billion accounts are being sold on the dark web, according to research by Digital Shadows. The price ranges from under ten euros for access to streaming websites to about 100.000 euros for access to large companies.
The research 'From Exposure to Takeover: The 15 billion stolen... Read more
Google forms organisation to manage open-source trademarks
Google helps open-source developers manage their project trademarks with Open Usage Commons. With this independent organisation, Google aims to save time for developers and create a more straightforward legal structure for users of their software.
In the context of open-source software, trademar... Read more
Nvidia’s latest A100 GPU debuts on Google Cloud
The Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPU is now available in alpha as part of the new Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) instance series on Google Cloud.
The company claims that the new chip, built using Nvidia's new Ampere architecture, is the most powerful GPU the company has ever produced. Designed primari... Read more
‘Number of data breach fines will increase in the coming years’
The number and value of fines that companies have to pay for mishandling user data will increase in the coming years, according to a new report by DSA Connect.
DSA Connect, a company that sells data management services, has polled a thousand employees and more than a third (37 percent) expect bo... Read more
‘Popular home routers are full of vulnerabilities’
Almost all home routers are not up to date and contain vulnerabilities. German security researchers investigated 127 routers and found missing security patches, outdated software and many security flaws.
The research by the German Fraunhofer Institute for Communication looked at 127 routers from... Read more
Salesforce finds new way to reduce gender bias in AI models
Salesforce has developed a new way to reduce gender bias in word embedding in collaboration with researchers from the University of Virginia. Word embeddings are used to train AI models to summarize, translate, and perform other prediction tasks.
Word embeddings capture semantic and syntactic me... Read more