One of the outcomes of war in the modern age is that it can lead to a new class of destructive tools in the hands of cyber threat actors. This result has been documented most recently by Fortinet Inc. in its key findings from its 2H 2022 FortiGuard Labs “Threat Landscape Report”. The cybersecurity firm […] The post Fortinet’s Threat Report finds attackers are retooling and leveraging more wiper malware appeared first on SiliconANGLE ..read more

First Citizens Bank, a major financial institution with more than $100 billion in assets under management, has agreed to acquire Silicon Valley Bridge Bank. The transaction was announced this morning. Silicon Valley Bridge Bank is the entity to which regulators moved the assets of Silicon Valley Bank following the latter company’s collapse this month. After […] The post First Citizens Bank to buy Silicon Valley Bridge Bank appeared first on SiliconANGLE ..read more

Particle Network, a middleware platform for Web3 applications, announced Friday that it raised $7 million in seed funding to support the easy development of blockchain-based decentralized applications. The round was led by ABCDE Capital and was joined by other well known crypto investors including Animoca Brands, Hashkey Capital, Longhash Ventures, GSR Ventures and OP Crypto. […] The post Web3 middleware platform Particle Network raises $7M appeared first on SiliconANGLE ..read more

Amazon Web Services Inc. announced today that it’s enabling call analytics for the Amazon Chime software development kit, making it easier and more cost-effective to generate insights on real-time audio calls. Amazon Chime SDK call analytics enables developers to create transcriptions of real-time calls, perform voice tone analysis and search for specific speakers, the company […] The post AWS brings real-time call analytics to Amazon Chime software development kit appeared first on SiliconANGLE ..read more

Breaking Analysis is a weekly editorial program combining knowledge from SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE with spending data from Enterprise Technology Research. Branded as theCUBE Insights, Powered by ETR, the program is our opportunity to share independent, unfiltered editorial with SiliconANGLE, theCUBE and Wikibon communities. The program and conclusions we produce are data-driven, tapping ETR’s proprietary spending data set. Episode 171 – […] The post Dave Vellante’s Breaking Analysis: The complete collection appeared first on SiliconANGLE ..read more

The U.K.’s antitrust regulator will narrow the focus of its probe into Microsoft Corp.’s plan to buy Activision Blizzard Inc. for $68.7 billion. The Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA, disclosed the development today.  Microsoft announced its plans to acquire Activision Blizzard early last year. If approved, the deal would establish the technology giant as […] The post UK narrows antitrust probe into Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition appeared first on SiliconANGLE ..read more

WebAssembly startup Dylibso Inc. today announced that it has raised $6.6 million in new funding to help teams take WebAssembly to production. WebAssembly is a binary instruction format and a virtual machine that brings high performance to web browser applications, enabling developers to build high-speed web apps in whatever language they choose. Founded in 2022, Dylibso is the […] The post Dylibso raises $6.6M to help teams take WebAssembly to production appeared first on SiliconANGLE ..read more

Big-data analytics firm Databricks Inc. has emerged as an unlikely player in the generative artificial intelligence space, open-sourcing a new AI model that it claims is “as magical as ChatGPT,” despite being trained on far less data in less than three hours using a single machine. Databricks announced in a blog post today that it’s […] The post Databricks open-sources an AI it says is as good as ChatGPT, but much easier to train appeared first on SiliconANGLE ..read more

Utah Governor Spencer Cox today signed two pieces of social media regulation that will annoy the hell out of many young folks. In the midst of a mental health crisis for the young, with social media having a starring role in this crisis, the regulation will make it so people under the age of 18 […] The post Utah governor just signed a bill that will make it difficult for teenagers to get on social media appeared first on SiliconANGLE ..read more

Twitter Inc. today announced that it will revoke “legacy” verified badges in April as it made its Twitter Blue paid verification service available globally. Twitter Blue initially launched in November 2021 but underwent a shakeup a year later under the ownership of Elon Musk. Musk shifted what was originally meant to be a service offering […] The post Twitter to revoke ‘legacy’ verified badges as Twitter Blue rolls out globally appeared first on SiliconANGLE ..read more