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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Microsoft is raising the prices of its Dynamics 365 application suite by ten percent or more. As an explanation for the price increase, the company says that the products are getting more and more new features from which users can benefit. In Microsoft's announcement for Dynamics 365, it announc... Read more
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Update April 15th: this article from April 2nd has been updated to reflect the desired financial gains from Rubrik's IPO according to a Reuters source. Rubrik is hoping to secure $713 million with its planned IPO. The company filed documents with the U.S. watchdog SEC for an official listing ear... Read more
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Apple has unsuccessfully tried to escape a British lawsuit. A mass claim representing 1,500 developers could potentially cost the US company £785 million (€800 million). This would be a compensation for the high fees Apple charges for transactions within the App Store. Reuters reports. Apple ... Read more
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Hackers from the Russian-backed Midnight Blizzard managed to obtain important emails from Microsoft. The attack led to the interception of communications between regulators and the tech company. So concludes the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The danger from the ... Read more
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Dutch chip manufacturer Nexperia has been hacked. The cybercriminals who carried out the attack say they will publish highly sensitive data if the company refuses to pay. Dutch news agency RTL Nieuws discovered that the incident had taken place. Speaking to this publication, Nexperia does not wa... Read more
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