IBM-AI autonomously generates creative titles for images
Scientists at IBM Research have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that can generate various, creative and convincing titles for photographs. The scientists describe the model in a paper, which was presented at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
In order to build... Read more
MongoDB launches Atlas Data Lake and new security features
MongoDB announced the launch of Atlas Data Lake at its developer conference. There is also a new version of MongoDB itself, namely 4.2, which gets several new security features, writes TechCrunch.
Atlas Data Lake enables users to search through data using the company's Query Language on AWS S3, reg... Read more
Startup ThousandEyes opens office in Amsterdam
The startup ThousandEyes expands its activities to the Benelux with a new office in Amsterdam, for a sales and service department. The startup provides insight into the experiences of users over any network, including the Internet.
ThousandEyes argues that companies in Belgium, the Netherlands and ... Read more
Fortinet launches security for WAN and network edge
Fortinet has presented a new solution for branch offices that provides comprehensive protection for the edge of the WAN and access network. This concerns Secure SD Branch, which allows organisations to make use of network functionality that is driven by security.
Secure SD Branch extends the securi... Read more
87 percent of companies experience business acceleration through cloud services’.
87 percent of companies experience business accelerations as a result of their use of cloud services. That's what McAfee's Cloud and Risk Adoption Report says. For the survey, the security company interviewed 1,000 enterprise organizations worldwide. It combined those results with insights from bill... Read more
Cisco warns of two critical errors in data center equipment
Cisco has disclosed two critical vulnerabilities affecting core data center equipment. The vulnerabilities allow attackers to break into networks. Both errors were found during internal tests and a patch was released for them.
The first error is in the Digital Network Architecture (DNA) Center appl... Read more
Apple recalls 15 inch MacBook Pros for fire risk
Apple has established a voluntary replacement program for 15-inch MacBook Pro computers sold between September 2015 and February 2017. A problem in the battery of the devices increases the risk of fire.
"Because customer safety is a key priority, Apple is asking consumers to stop using affected 15-... Read more
Chrome now protects users from phishing websites
As of today, the current version of Chrome includes basic protection against phishing attacks. You don't have to turn anything on: Google automatically activates it for everyone. It also launches an extension where people can report malicious urls to Google.
Google now processes automatic protection... Read more
U.S. city pays $600,000 to ransomware group
The city council of Riviera Beach, a city in the American state of Florida, has decided to pay a ransomware group $600,000. In this way, the city council hopes to recover data that was encrypted in an attack three weeks ago.
On 29 May, an employee of the police in Riviera Beach opened an e-mail, wh... Read more
Google AI now predicts the best ML model
Google Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers have designed an AI that predicts which machine learning models deliver the best results. The off-policy classification (OPC) tests the performance of AI-driven agents by considering evaluation as a classification problem.
The researchers announced thi... Read more