Frontline Ventures invests $200 million in B2B software companies
Frontline Ventures is putting $200 million of capital into two investment funds. This aims to spur European and U.S. business growth.
Frontline Ventures' mission is to help B2B software companies grow globally. Primarily, growth to the U.S. and within Europe are aspired to. The growth should pr... Read more
OpenAI may launch successor to GPT-4 by the middle of this year
OpenAI may be launching the successor to GPT-4 by the middle of this year. Whether this will be the long-awaited GPT-5 or perhaps an improved version of GPT-4.5 Turbo remains to be seen.
The successor to OpenAI's GPT-4 LLM -the engine behind ChatGPT- will be presented mid-year. This reports Busi... Read more
Dutch researcher discovers Fujitsu blunder: AWS keys and logins in public bucket
Fujitsu failed to keep customers' sensitive information secure. AWS keys and passwords were publicly published on the Internet for a year. Dutch water utility PWN is one of the victims.
Security researcher Jelle Ursem, who works for the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD), disco... Read more
Cohere aims to realize market value of 4.6 billion euros with investment round
Cohere aims to raise 458 million euros ($500 million) with a new investment round. The investments should eventually give the AI startup a market value of 4.6 billion euros ($5 billion).
Sources told Reuters that Cohere wants to compete even more with rivals such as OpenAI. To this end, Cohere w... Read more
Windows and Exchange Servers crash after March 2024 update
The latest Windows and Exchange Server update is causing domain controllers to crash. The problems occur on Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2022, Exchange Server 2019 and Exchange Server 2016.
Several Windows administrators say they are experiencing outages on updated domain controllers. Th... Read more
Fermyon Technologies introduces SpinKube to CNCF Sandbox
Fermyon Technologies has added SpinKube to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Sandbox project. SpinKube is an open-source initiative that aims to simplify the development, deployment, and operation of WebAssembly workloads on Kubernetes. Sandbox projects serve as a starting point for... Read more
36% of Dutch companies fail compliance audit
As a result, such companies are ten times more likely to become a data breach victim.
That's according to figures from Thales. Based on research among 3,000 IT professionals worldwide, including 105 from the Netherlands, Thales shares the alarming figures. Of all the companies that failed a comp... Read more
UiPath gets generative AI to advance automation
Updates to the UiPath Business Automation Platform include Autopilot, Context Grounding and an IBM watsonx.ai connector.
UiPath announced this during its virtual AI Summit event. The Business Automation Platform is used to automate processes with RPA, where the new features should contribute to ... Read more
Windows 11 Insiders can use Android device as webcam
All Windows 11 Insiders, whether from the Canary or Dev Channel, have received new functionality that allows them to use their Android smartphones or tablets as web cameras for their PC or laptop. Microsoft indicates that the rollout of this feature is progressing steadily.
The new feature allow... Read more
Google fined €250 million for training Gemini
The French competition authority Autorité de la concurrence has fined Google €250 million.
The multi-million dollar fine follows after Google used news reports from French media companies to train chatbot Bard, now known as Gemini. Gemini would also reproduce these French news reports.
Acc... Read more