Danish cloud host says customers ‘lost all data’ after ransomware attack
Cloud host CloudNordic says most of its customers have “lost all data with us” following a ransomware attack on its datacenter systems, including its backups. The Denmark-based cloud company said the ransomware attack began Friday, during which cybercriminals “shut down all systems,” including its website and email, and encrypting customer
Read moreGoogle to add more granular security controls to Workspace
Google will soon improve its automated AI-based data protection capabilities in its Workspace productivity suite for organizations storing data in Google Drive. The enhanced features include the ability to automatically and continuously classify and label data in Drive, the ability of administrators to enforce context-aware data loss prevention controls, and
Read moreIBM launches GenAI offering it says accelerates mainframe app modernization
There was a time when mainframe computers ran the world, and they ran it with software written in COBOL. Even today, there are more than 230 billion lines of COBOL code still in use, according to IBM, yet the number of programmers available to maintain the software has drastically shrunk.
Read moreVMware, NVIDIA team up, launch major GenAI initiative at VMware Explore
The generative AI (GenAI) offensive continued yesterday with VMware Inc. and NVIDIA announcing an expansion of a partnership the two said is designed to “ready the hundreds of thousands of enterprises that run on VMware’s cloud infrastructure for the era of generative AI.” The focal point of the launch, which
Read moreTwilio Segment teams with Amazon SageMaker on new customer predictions product
The customer data platform provides a central place to collect first party information about customers, but simply having a pile of data is not the point. Companies want to put it to work to improve customer experience and more precisely target certain groups, based on this information they have stockpiled.
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Read moreFrom Blaze to Buck2 — A Brief History of Modern Monorepo Build Systems
From Blaze to Buck2 — A Brief History of Modern Monorepo Build SystemsImage by authorOur story begins in 2006 with Google’s invention of a revolutionary new build system named Blaze (which later became the open sourced Bazel). For the first time, a build system could provide extremely strong guarantees around the correctness of build
Read moreAutomattic CEO Matt Mullenweg talks future of Tumblr, with algorithmic choice, AI enhancements and more
Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and other online publishing tools, is offering a glimpse into Tumblr’s future — the blogging site Automattic acquired from Verizon in 2019. On the Evening Standard’s “How to be a CEO” podcast, the WordPress founder offered a vision of Tumblr’s future
Read moreAutomakers now have to comply with MA’s Right to Repair law
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Tuesday automakers can comply with a Massachusetts Right to Repair law, reversing a previous directive to ignore the state legislation. Massachusetts’s Right to Repair law was a ballot initiative that passed overwhelmingly in 2020. The law requires auto manufacturers that sell cars
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