Three weeks later, investors are still not terribly enthusiastic about the massive Cisco-Splunk deal
Three weeks after the Cisco announced a massive $28B acquisition of Splunk, investors still seem less than enthused about the deal.
Read moreSony’s PlayStation unit hit by MOVEit hack
The division of Sony Group behind the PlayStation video consoles and games is the latest American-based organization to publicly acknowledge being victimized by the zero-day vulnerability in Progress Software’s MOVEit file transfer platform. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has begun notifying almost 6,800 former employees and family members of current or
Read moreZoom expands beyond meetings, takes on Google and Microsoft with Zoom Docs
At Zoomtopia yesterday, Zoom debuted a series of offerings, including Zoom Docs, AI-powered customer service tools, a beefed-up chatbot, and more hybrid work collaboration tools, despite its own recent attempts to send its employees back to their office desks. Zoom Docs takes on Google Docs and Microsoft Word with traditional
Read moreApple Watch’s new double tap gesture is now live in the watchOS 10.1 public beta
In September, Apple introduced the Apple Watch Series 9 at its annual event, which included a new gesture: the double tap. The gesture, which gives users a new way to interact with their watch, has not yet been publicly available to test, as it isn’t expected to ship to the
Read moreLyca Mobile blames cyberattack for network disruption
U.K.-based mobile virtual network provider giant Lyca Mobile has confirmed a cyberattack that caused service disruption for millions of its customers. Lyca Mobile claims to be the world’s largest international mobile virtual network operator, or MVNO, which piggybacks off network operator EE’s infrastructure. Lyca confirmed in a statement this week
Read moreThe global VC market continues to stumble
Venture deal volume has fallen every quarter since Q2 2022 across the world, and the trend shows no signs of reversing.
Read moreDefense startup Mach Industries closes $79M Series A at $335M valuation
Defense tech darling Mach Industries has closed a $79 million Series A led by Bedrock Capital in a deal that catapulted their post-money valuation to $335 million, multiple sources tell TechCrunch. Mach Industries’ head of growth Koko Xu confirmed the numbers in an email, adding that the new investment came
Read moreNews app turned X competitor Artifact now lets users generate AI images for their posts
Artifact, the news aggregator recently turned X competitor, is adding a new generative AI feature. The app, built by Instagram’s co-founders, announced last week it would allow users to post their own updates, which didn’t have to include a link. Today, it’s expanding on that addition with the ability for
Read moreDocker launches remote container builds, new debugging tools and more
Docker today announced a slew of new products at DockerCon, the company’s user conference which has returned as an in-person event. These include a new remote build service, new debugging tools and the general availability of Docker Scout, the company’s software supply chain security service. The event comes at an
Read moreLemurian Labs is building a new compute paradigm to reduce cost of running AI models
It’s fair to say that Nvidia has found itself in the right place at the right time with demand for its GPU chips at an all time high, thanks to the resource demands of generative AI models, but what if there were a chip that provided similar power at a
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