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
SAS wants to make AI models and AI modeling as accessible as possible
AI models sometimes have an almost mythical status. You can do a lot with them, but building and deploying them is no easy task. If it were up to SAS, that wouldn't be necessary at all. How does it want to achieve that? Some announcements during SAS Innovate shed light on this question.
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Google hints at breakthrough for LLMs with Infini-attention
Google researchers claim they've cracked the code to give large language models (LLMs) the literary equivalent of an endless appetite. Their latest paper unveils 'Infini-attention,' a technique that supposedly lets models munch on input of infinite length without getting indigestion from memory ove... Read more
Process HQ steals the show in 24.2 release of Appian Platform
Process mining is taking on an increasingly important role within Appian's automation and orchestration platform. It should provide both more insights into organizations' processes, but also into the underlying Data Fabric. Of course, there is also the necessary space and focus on AI in version 24.... Read more
Google Chat must compete with Slack and Teams
The market for business tools such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, as well as Teams, Slack, Zoom, Dropbox and Webex has been booming over the past few years. With the introduction of all kinds of GenAI tools, there is going to be another shift in this area. The only question is in whose favour ... Read more
Noname Security wants to sell itself to Akamai: an inevitable move?
Noname Security is in talks with Akamai for a possible sale. The API security player would cost Akamai $500 million as things stand, a halving of its market value from 2021. Can API security simply not stand on its own?
The two parties have yet to reach a deal, meaning negotiations could still l... Read more