Microsoft curbs spam messages with new Exchange limit
Microsoft Exchange Online will support a maximum of 2,000 recipients per 24 hours starting in 2025. This limit should significantly reduce the number of spam messages.
Until now, Exchange Online has not had a similar limitation. The upper limit consists of 10,000 recipients; this will remain unc... Read more
‘Nearly a third of all internet traffic involves malicious bots’
Bots appear to be flooding the Internet. According to Thales subsidiary Imperva's brand new Bad Bot Report, nearly half of all internet traffic comes from bots, 32 percent of which are malicious. Total bot traffic is up two percent from last year and the highest percentage ever measured since Imper... Read more
Liveblog Broadcom/VMware: EU antitrust unit probing Broadcom
In this blog, Techzine reports on the latest developments surrounding VMware's acquisition of Broadcom.
April 16 - The European Commission has inquired about Broadcom's heavily modified VMware licences. This shows that Brussels is heeding the call by CIO organisations (see 29 March). A spokesper... Read more
Appian pairs Private AI with GenAI on Amazon (AWS) Bedrock
Combination of Appian's services and technologies with Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker from AWS should make Private AI more widely available.
Last year at Appian World, Appian unfolded its vision for AI. CEO Matt Calkins made no bones about it and wanted nothing to do with Public AI. That kind of A... Read more
Akamai unveils cloud service for video processing on Nvidia hardware
A new cloud service from Akamai is optimized for fast media processing. Processing footage runs up to 25 times faster than on CPUs.
Akamai's cloud infrastructure achieves these performance gains thanks to Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Generation GPUs, built on the latest Ada Lovelace architecture. Thanks ... Read more
WordPress owner Automattic acquires messaging app Beeper
WordPress owner Automattic has acquired the all-in-one chat platform Beeper. Beeper allows users to chat across networks such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Slack, Instagram, LinkedIn, and more from one app.
It is not Automattic's first acquisition of a messaging service. Last October, the company acqui... Read more
Update: Beta release of Ubuntu 24.04 finally hits after more than a week’s delay
Update 15/04/2024 – The new beta version of Ubuntu, version 24.04 nicknamed 'Noble Numbat,' has been released after over a week's delay. This delay was due to the backdoor found in the compression tool xz. The release was supposed to take place on Thursday, April 11, but it took just a day longer... Read more
Block on Windows 11 updates for certain Intel PCs lifted after 2 years
An incompatibility between Windows 11 and Intel Smart Sound Technology audio drivers has finally been resolved. The bug had long been fixed by Intel, but now Microsoft is finally lifting the block for affected systems.
The Intel Smart Sound Technology drivers on 11th generation Intel processors ... Read more
xAI shows preview of new multimodal LLM Grokv 1.5
xAI, Elon Musk's AI startup, recently previewed its new multimodal LLM Grok Vision (Grokv) 1.5. This LLM is more powerful than the original recently launched Grok-1.5 LLM and should compete with equivalent LLMs from the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
The preview of Grokv 1.5 presented by... Read more
Salesforce aims to acquire data management company Informatica
Salesforce is on the verge of acquiring data management company Informatica. If the deal goes through, it would be one of the company's largest acquisitions to date.
Talks between the two companies are said to be in full swing and a possible deal could be completed this month, The Wall Street Jo... Read more