ASML: from a leaky shed to the chip industry’s key player
ASML top executives Peter Wennink (CEO) and Martin van den Brink (CTO) will retire on Thursday. Frenchman Christophe Fouquet is set to replace Wennink, while Van den Brink's role will vanish. The ASML left behind by the pair is incomparable to the miniscule operation it was 40 years ago. As a linch... Read more
Snowflake enters the LLM war with introduction of Arctic
With the new Large Language Model Arctic, Snowflake can help companies generate code and SQL.
In this way, Snowflake aims to compete with existing models. With the introduction of OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, a large market has emerged, but more and more alternatives are emerging that can substan... Read more
IBM nears acquisition of HashiCorp
Within days, IBM may already be the new owner of HashiCorp. Negotiations are at an advanced stage, with a possible acquisition amount above HashiCorp's previous market value of $4.9 billion (€4.58 billion).
That market value has already risen sharply to $6.1 billion now that discussions betwee... Read more
Bug bounty in practice: the final layer of security
What does a bug bounty program look like, and what does it deliver? We talk to Visma about its usefulness for security professionals and the ultimate benefit for the user of the software.
"With the bug bounty program, we have extra eyes looking at our products," explains Chief Information Securi... Read more
Application testing democratised via GenAI in Tricentis Copilot
Software application development is benefiting from AI-assisted testing at the ‘back end’ of enterprise IT systems in order to make our business apps bug-free, more functionally complete and safer. Among the firms pushing forward AI tools of this kind is continuous testing and quality engineeri... Read more
Wiz nearing acquisition of Lacework for a bargain
A week after it acquired Gem Security, Wiz is already aiming for its next target. Lacework, which once seemed to be worth nearly 8 billion euros, is said to cost between 140 million and 190 million euros.
A letter of intent is said to have already been written to finalize the proposed acquisitio... Read more
Meta unveils powerful open-source model Llama 3 and chatbot Meta AI
Meta has announced Llama 3, the successor to the highly successful open-source model Llama 2. Along with the new LLM debuts Meta AI, one of the best AI assistants in the world, according to the company.
Llama 3 launches with two models: the compact Llama 3-8B (8 billion parameters), which can be... Read more
Newest ASML machine at Intel is ready to go, with plenty of R&D ahead
Intel has just announced that ASML's High-NA EUV machine has finished construction. For the first time, the so-called Twinscan EXE:5000 has made 10-nanometer lines on a piece of silicon, proving that all components work correctly to some degree. The new device will enable future manufacturing proce... Read more
How did Phishing-as-a-Service group LabHost operate?
With "Operation PhishOFF," phishing gang LabHost appears to have exited the cybercrime stage. This criminal group was broken up through international cooperation between 18 countries and security services. But how did the LabHost members operate? And how did they eventually get caught?
LabHost w... Read more
Cisco Hypershield: new security architecture protects against new (and old) problems
According to Cisco, what we need is not so much new security products, but a completely new architecture to better protect organizations and especially their workloads. That's what Hypershield is supposed to accomplish.
Hypershield is a big announcement for Cisco. A very big one, even, based on ... Read more