Epic Games wants a U.S. judge to force Google to open up the Play Store more to competition from alternative app stores. The game company is taking this further in its earlier battle against Google over alternative app payment methods. According to the new demands, Epic Games is now asking the j... Read more
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Zscaler has acquired Airgap Networks. The micro-segmentation technology is intended to complement its Zero Trust platform. With the acquisition, the financial details of which were not disclosed, Zscaler gains a platform that companies can use to address potential data breaches and secure their ... Read more
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Paying users of ChatGPT can now use a new version of GPT-4 Turbo. In addition to more accurate answers than before, the chatbot will waste fewer words on simple answers. The new model (gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09) also has a more recent dataset than its predecessors. OpenAI has provided this LLM with... Read more
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A problem in the supply chain caused the vulnerability to go undetected for nearly six years. Intel and Lenovo have no plans to release a fix, as the affected hardware is no longer supported. So state security researchers at Binarly. In addition to Intel and Lenovo, Binarly lists Supermicro as a... Read more
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Data security company Cohesity is expanding its partnership with IBM, receiving the final part of a Series F funding round of $150 million (more than 140 million euros) from that company. IBM did not disclose the amount it is investing in Cohesity. Cohesity hopes the investment will address cust... Read more
16 days ago
LockBit has been claiming a hefty share of ransomware damage for years. Now the criminal organization is in danger of being pushed away by competing gangs and malicious actors that imitate them. When LockBit was targeted by Europol and other authorities in February, the impact on the cybercrime ... Read more
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A US judge has ruled that AWS must pay up to $525 million (€490 million) to tech company Kove. In 2018, Kove sued AWS, claiming that its Amazon S3 storage service and database service, DynamoDB, infringed three patents. These patents enabled "hyperscalable distributed cloud storage," years bef... Read more
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Wiz is acquiring cloud security company Gem Security. Although the amount was not disclosed, the acquisition cost Wiz $350 million, according to insiders. Gem Security appeared on the scene in February 2023. It announced it was the first to be able to deliver cloud TDIR (Threat Detection & I... Read more
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Google recently introduced an enterprise-targeted paid version of its Chrome browser: Chrome Enterprise Premium. Among other things, this variant of the well-known browser should offer businesses better AI-based security features. Google now sees the browser as a standalone endpoint that employe... Read more
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Open-source AI specialist Mistral has recently introduced its new LLM Mixtral 8x22B. This LLM is the successor to the Mixtral 8x7B LLM and should be an equal competitor to LLMs such as OpenAI's GPT 3.5 and Meta's Llama 2. Mistral AI is stepping up its competition with the major LLM providers and... Read more
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