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AWS throws its weight behind Facebook’s Deepfake Detection Challenge
Amazon Web Services Inc. is joining a Facebook Inc.-led industry initiative to combat “deepfakes” with artificial intelligence. Deepfakes are the umbrella term for videos in which a person’s face and sometimes voice are superimposed on another individual. The phenomenon is fueled partially by the increasing accessibility of AI software, which can manipulate footage with far greater ...
Taking aim at Hadoop, Teradata brings its Vantage analytics platform to Google Cloud
Teradata Corp. today announced a partnership with Google LLC to bring its flagship Vantage analytics toolkit to the search giant’s cloud platform. Vantage is a software suite designed to serve as a kind of Swiss army knife for business intelligence teams, providing all the core features they need to do their work. It enables workers ...
Virtual private network provider NordVPN discloses 2018 breach
NordVPN, a major virtual private network provider with 12 million users worldwide, today disclosed that it suffered a security breach last year. VPN applications such as NordVPN aim to enhance users’ privacy by routing their web traffic through encrypted connections that are for all intents and purposes isolated from the rest of the network. The ...
Microsoft buys data migration startup Mover to boost Office 365 adoption
Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has acquired Edmonton, Canada-based data migration startup Mover.io Inc. to make Office 365 easier to adopt for businesses. Seven-year-old Mover provides a cloud service that automates the task of transferring files among applications. Administrators can orchestrate migrations through a browser-based interface that offers ready-made data connectors. Mover can transfer ...
Commercetools raises $145M to power large enterprises’ online sales
Commercetools GmbH, a German startup providing e-commerce tools to enterprises, today disclosed that it has nabbed a $145 million investment from Insight Partners. The post-money valuation wasn’t revealed in the official announcement. But a source described as close to the deal told TechCrunch that Commercetools is now worth around $300 million. The investment opens a new ...
Adobe smartens up Experience Cloud with trio of new AI and data tools
Adobe Inc. is enhancing its Experience Cloud platform today with new artificial intelligence and analytics features aimed at helping brands engage consumers online more effectively. Experience Cloud is a suite of services that helps marketing teams collect data about their target audiences, then turn the data into personalized promotions. The toolkit is underpinned by an artificial ...
Oracle co-CEO and HP veteran Mark Hurd dies at 62
Veteran technology executive Mark Hurd, until last month one of Oracle Corp.’s chief executives, died early this morning, a month after taking a leave of absence for undisclosed health reasons. He was 62. Oracle founder, Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison shared the news in an internal email to employees. “Mark was my ...
Long-unnoticed Linux vulnerability may enable hackers to attack devices over Wi-Fi
A six-year-old bug in the Linux kernel could enable hackers to crash and, under certain circumstances, potentially compromise devices running Realtek Semiconductor Corp.’s Wi-Fi chips. The issue was discovered by GitHub principal security engineer Nico Waisman, who shared his research with Ars Technica late Thursday. The bug is lurking in the Linux kernel’s RTLWIFI software ...
Samsung promises patch after user finds Galaxy S10 fingerprint reader can be fooled
It all started with a $3.50 screen protector. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today that it will release an update for its Galaxy S10 flagship smartphone to fix a fingerprint reader vulnerability discovered accidentally by a user. The fix could come as early as next week. The customer, who first shared the issue with a British ...
Marketing surge reportedly led Airbnb to incur $306M first-quarter loss
Heavy investments in growth caused Airbnb Inc. to incur a $306 million operating loss during the first quarter, more than twice what it had racked up during the same period a year earlier. That’s according to a report published today in The Information, which cited undisclosed financial data. The first-quarter operating loss is said to ...