DARPA Stress Tests its Hardware-Centric Security Approach
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched a cyber security effort several years back designed to replace commonly used security patches for software applications with the ability to spot ...Full Article
Qeexo Takes ‘TinyML’ to AWS Cloud
Qeexo, the Carnegie Mellon University spinoff, is expanding public cloud access to its automated machine learning platform as it pushes its no-code “TinyML” approach to the network edge. The ...Full Article
COVID Hurts Overall IT Spending, Cloud Benefits
The pandemic was expected to slow global IT spending. The only questions being by how much and for how long. Hard numbers for the beginning of this year are ...Full Article
New Chip Approaches Seek to Keep Up with AI
Exploding data sets and complex software have made it harder for single-purpose platforms like ASICs to keep up with the growing demands of enterprise datacenters. Heavy investments in chip ...Full Article
Zscaler Acquires Network Security Startup
Zscaler Inc. is doubling down in its drive to dominate the market for “zero trust” security frameworks with its second acquisition in about six weeks. The cloud security specialist ...Full Article
DARPA Moves to Secure Chip Designs
The U.S. military is ramping up efforts to secure semiconductors and its electronics supply chain by embedding defenses during the chip design phase. The automation effort also addresses the ...Full Article
COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps Attracting Hackers
As contact tracing ramps up for exposure to COVID-19, so too are concerns about data privacy and whether phony tracing apps will expand opportunities for attackers preying on citizens ...Full Article
Nvidia Expands Healthcare Platform to Combat COVID
A new set of AI models released by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) in collaboration with Nvidia is designed to help clinicians detect and examine novel coronavirus ...Full Article
Nvidia Unveils Two Edge AI Offerings for ‘Smart Everything’
Extending latency-sensitive AI workloads to the edge is the objective of two new products from Nvidia, announced today at the company’s annual (virtual) GPU Technology Conference (GTC), based on ...Full Article
Public Health Experts: COVID Contact Tracing Takes a Community
Contact tracing, along with fast-turnaround testing and, where required, quarantining, are seen as the most effective ways of stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus. While digital contact tracing ...Full Article