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Deepfakes in cyberattacks aren’t coming. They’re already here.

In March, the FBI released a report declaring that malicious actors almost certainly will leverage “synthetic content” for cyber and foreign influence operations in the next 12-18 months. This synthetic content includes deepfakes, audio or video that is either wholly created or altered by artificial intelligence or machine learning to convincingly misrepresent someone as doing […]

The Graph partners with Optimistic to help scale Ethereum

In an effort to help Ethereum scale, The Graph will be providing market-leading indexing and querying services to new developers building on the Optimistic Ethereum Layer 2. This represents another significant integration for The Graph (GRT) project, as it continues to add new chains to its hosted services. In anticipation of the public launch, developers building […]

Nvidia launches AI Enterprise in general availability

Nvidia today announced the general availability of AI Enterprise, a software suite of tools and frameworks that enable companies running VMware vSphere to virtualize AI workloads on Nvidia-certified servers. Systems from Atea, Carahsoft, Computacenter, Insight Enterprises, SoftServe, Dell Technologies, and SVA System are now available, featuring a range of Nvidia GPUs including the A100, A30, […]

Elastic acquires build.security for security policy definition and enforcement

Less than a year after raising its $6 million seed funding round, Tel Aviv and Sunnyvale-based startup build.security is being acquired by Elastic. The financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed at this time. The deal is expected to close in Elastic’s Q2 FY22, ending October 31, 2021. In an email to […]

Another view: What Is the Metaverse?

Read Toin Villar take an elaborate look at The Metaverse and how it will operate on Make Use Of : Although some might have heard the term “metaverse” only recently, it’s been in use for a couple of decades. It was first used in the 1990s in a work of fiction, and it usually describes […]

Palantir Is About Data And Data Is The Future

Read why Bill Zettler says that data is the future of technology and Palantir Technologies, Inc. is right in the middle of it on Seeking Alpha : Palantir (NYSE:PLTR) is one of the more controversial stocks on Seeking Alpha right now with 25 articles being published just in June. Much of the analysis is concentrated […]

New Aerospike Petabyte Scale Benchmark Runs Real-Time Operational Workloads on Just 20 AWS Nodes with Intel Processors

Aerospike Inc. today unveiled the results of a petabyte-scale benchmark that illustrates its Real-time Data Platform delivering 4 million to 5 million transactions per second (TPS) with sub-millisecond latencies for read-only and mixed workloads on a remarkably small 20-node Amazon Web Services (AWS) cluster fueled by Intel® Xeon Scalable Processors. Read more about the new […]

Immuta: Demand for data is growing, but so are data supply chain challenges

55% of those surveyed report that data is often stale or out-of-date by the time it is consumed or analyzed. Lack of automation and data security challenges are root causes of the friction, and unless resolved, organizations will struggle to be successful with DataOps and cloud migration. The report also finds privacy, security, and governance challenges […]

Why the Metaverse Needs to Be Open

A vast digital mirror world accessible through virtual reality is just around the corner if you believe the latest pronouncements coming out of Silicon Valley. This so-called metaverse has captured the tech zeitgeist and is attracting billions in investments. Last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg even announced plans to turn his trillion-dollar social network into […]

Ethereum’s rise to No. 1 crypto ‘seems unstoppable,’ says deVere Group CEO

The CEO and founder of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organizations, the deVere Group, has stated that Ether’s (ETH) price appreciation should continue to beat Bitcoin’s in 2021. DeVere Group CEO Nigel Green also believes that Ether’s value will have exceeded Bitcoin’s within a few short years. “Ethereum is outperforming Bitcoin, and it can […]