Struggling database company MariaDB could be taken private in $37M deal
MariaDB is the subject of another potential takeover bid, as the company behind the eponymous open source relational database management system (RDBMS) confirmed it had received a provisional offer from California-based K1 Investment Management. K1 quietly revealed on Friday that it had tabled what is known as an “unsolicited non-binding
Read MoreBuilding a startup is like building a house
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Read MoreWyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes
Image: Wyze Wyze’s problems with letting its security camera customers briefly see into other customer homes is a lot worse than we thought. Last week, co-founder David Crosby said that “so far” the company had identified 14 people who were able to briefly see into a stranger’s property because they
Read MoreDili wants to automate due diligence with AI
Stephanie Song, formerly on the corporate development and ventures team at Coinbase, was often frustrated by the volume of due diligence tasks she and her team had to complete on a daily basis. “Analysts burn the midnight oil working hundreds of hours doing the work that nobody wants to do,”
Read MoreCyber Security Today, Feb. 19, 2024 – Fake police data breach notification fools Maine’s AG site
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Monday February 19th, 2024. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. Today is the President’s Day holiday in many U.S. states and a civic holiday in several Canadian provinces. If you’re off, thanks for tuning in.
Read MoreSoftBank’s Masayoshi Son is reportedly seeking $100B to build a new AI chip venture
SoftBank Group’s Masayoshi Son has made no secret of his intent to double down on red-hot artificial intelligence industry. Now, he’s fundraising for his next move in that strategy. According to a report in Bloomberg, the SoftBank founder is seeking $100 billion to build a new venture that would compete
Read MoreEU opens formal probe of TikTok under Digital Services Act, citing child safety, risk management and other concerns
The European Union is formally investigating TikTok’s compliance with the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA), the Commission has announced. Areas the Commission is focusing on in this investigation of TikTok are linked to the protection of minors, advertising transparency, data access for researchers, and the risk management of addictive design
Read MoreKaspersky shares cyberthreat landscape insights
During Kaspersky’s 9th annual Cyber Security Weekend – META 2024 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, experts delved into the changing cyberthreat landscape in the region. The focus was on the security challenges posed by emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and threats targeting industrial control systems in critical infrastructure across the
Read MoreSafeguarding Data in the Age of Cyber Threats: A Proactive Approach
In today’s dynamic cybersecurity landscape, the imperative for companies to adopt a proactive stance towards data protection has never been more urgent. With cyberattacks becoming not a matter of “if” or “when,” but rather “how often,” organizations must fortify their defenses to thwart repeated incursions effectively. Modern malware assaults no
Read MoreIntroducing SORA: What is it & What Makes it Unique?
OpenAI, the company renowned for the innovative chatbot ChatGPT, has introduced a new tool named Sora, capable of generating hyper-realistic videos based on text commands. Sora is an AI model designed to bring to life vivid and imaginative scenes from simple text instructions. For instance, it can visualize scenarios like
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