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Commvault snaps up software-defined storage startup Hedvig for $225M
Backup and data management provider Commvault Systems Inc. today said that it has inked a deal to buy Hedvig Inc., a startup rival, for $225 million. Santa Clara, California-based Hedvig previously raised over $50 million in funding from investors including Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. It sells a software platform that enables administrators to manage different kinds of ...
Google fined $170M over accusations YouTube breached children’s privacy
Google LLC will pay $170 million to the Federal Trade Commission and the New York Attorney General to settle allegations YouTube unlawfully collected data on children under 13. In the memo announcing the settlement today, the FTC hailed it as the largest penalty of its kind to date. Regulators charged that Google violated the Children’s ...
New Google tool teaches AI to handle structured and ‘adversarial’ data
Google LLC today open-sourced Neural Structured Learning, a framework for its popular TensorFlow artificial intelligence development toolkit that will enable developers to train models with structured and “adversarial” data. Most of the files that AI models are used to process, such videos and images, are technically unstructured data. But other types of files still have their place in ...
Android 10 arrives with new machine learning, security features
Machine learning-powered action suggestions, better security and universal gesture controls are some of the new features mobile users are getting with the long-expected Android 10 update, which Google LLC officially launched today. The new operating system is initially downloadable only on the search giant’s Pixel smartphones. Availability will expand to devices from external manufacturers before the year ...
In updated IPO filing, Cloudflare seeks up to $483M at $3.5B valuation
Cloudflare Inc. today updated the prospectus for its upcoming initial public offering, revealing that it’s looking to sell 35 million shares at $10 to $12 apiece. That works out to a fundraising target of between $350 million and $420 million. The final figure will likely be higher, since the banks underwriting the offering have reserved the option to ...
UT Austin’s new 38-petaflop Frontera supercomputer will help advance science
Intel Corp. and The University of Texas at Austin today dedicated Frontera, a new supercomputer ranked as the fastest of its kind that will support research in areas such as gravitational wave astronomy. Frontera is the most powerful computer in the academic world with a peak performance of 38.75 petaflops. A single petaflop equals a ...
Google will reportedly pay fine of up to $200M to settle FTC’s YouTube probe
Google LLC will cough up between $150 million and $200 million to settle a regulatory probe into children’s privacy on YouTube, Politico reported today. The investigation was launched by the Federal Trade Commission last year following a joint appeal from 20 advocacy groups. The advocacy coalition charged that YouTube violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection ...
Google: Malicious sites hacked iPhones for years through unknown exploits
Google LLC’s Project Zero cybersecurity team has made an alarming discovery: a group of websites that exploited previously unknown iPhone vulnerabilities to hack Apple Inc. users. Ian Beer, a researcher with Project Zero, detailed the hacking operation in a series of blog posts published Thursday night. The malicious sites apparently attacked any iPhone user who ...
DOD awards $7.6B Microsoft Office 365 cloud contract to General Dynamics and partners
Amid the controversy over its JEDI cloud computing contract, the U.S. Defense Department has been pursuing a separate multibillion-dollar procurement initiative to expand its use of software-as-a-service solutions. That contract was officially awarded today. The Defense Enterprise Office Solutions or DEOS program is expected to be worth $7.6 billion over 10 years. The program will ...
Apple will hold its iPhone launch event on Sept. 10 in Cupertino
The world will likely get its first glimpse of the next iPhone in less than two weeks. Reports emerged today that Apple Inc. has started sending out invites for a company event that will take place on Sept. 10 at its Cupertino, California headquarters. The minimalist invite letter didn’t reveal much about the focus of the conference. However, ...