Amazon bets on Anthropic: AI developer serving the enterprise market
Amazon is investing four billion dollars into Anthropic, acquiring a minority stake in the AI developer. The investment in the OpenAI competitor will allow the tech giant to launch a competitive offering against Microsoft. However it is not unique in its investment either, as Google already investe... Read more
Outlook will be the central point for Microsoft 365 apps: update on redesign
Microsoft is subjecting its email client Outlook to a robust redesign. Outlook should become one with Microsoft 365 and as such, serve as a "hub. The redesigned Outlook will become the standard for all Windows application users in a few years.
Microsoft sees the digital inbox as the starting po... Read more
Venafi automates machine identity code recipes for developers
Computers, like people, are things. We all have a number of unique identifiers, a selection of defining characteristics and a range of parameters that describe who we are, where we exist, when we came to be and how we fill some kind of role in a system, service or society. Like us, machines have id... Read more
Microsoft presents powerful Surface Laptop Go 3 and Surface Laptop Studio 2
Did Microsoft just kill its Surface Laptop portfolio with the introduction of the Surface Laptop Go 3 and the Surface Laptop Studio 2? The differences between the entry-level and premium models seem to be getting smaller by the day. The Surface Laptop 5 does not seem to be a model to consider at th... Read more
ServiceNow introduces Vancouver release and makes generative AI available
ServiceNow presented the latest version of its platform. This new release, named Vancouver, focuses mainly on generative AI, as it has added the necessary generative AI assistants. Customers can now get started with generative AI on the Now platform starting September 29.
At ServiceNow, they did... Read more
Unified Acceleration Foundation (UXL) gives oneAPI a boost, and more governance
Arm, Fujitsu, Google Cloud, Imagination Technologies, Intel, Qualcomm, and Samsung participate in new Unified Acceleration Foundation. Together, they should make it easier for applications to perform optimally in heterogeneous environments.
One of the more important announcements at this week's ... Read more
Open Source Summit Europe 2023: Defined structures & diversified industries
The Basque city of Bilbao played host to the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit Europe 2023 this September. While the mainstage keynotes are designed to inspire and provide a big-picture state-of-the-nation address, it is often the member sessions and breakouts that offer some of the grittier mo... Read more
Last week in ransomware: Caesars and KNVB pay, MGM struggles on
Over the past week, several ransomware incidents illustrated the dilemmas a company faces once they fall victim to a ransomware gang. Pay up or struggle on?
Each victim of a ransomware attack deals with the problem differently. Some see the best opportunity in negotiating with the hackers behind... Read more
What does effective security awareness training look like?
Hackers can find an entry point into your company's digital spaces through your employees. A popular technique among hackers to get in is phishing, where an employee is tricked into sharing personal data or installing malware. For IT professionals, the attack may be familiar, but what about managem... Read more
Jim Goodnight considers later SAS IPO: ‘It will be in 2025’
During SAS Explore, we had an interview with Jim Goodnight, the co-founder and CEO of SAS. We asked him for an update on the initial public offering (IPO). SAS' original plan to go public in 2024 no longer seems within reach. "It will be 2025," Goodnight said.
When asked why 2024 is the right ti... Read more