Month: January 2025
It is with profound sadness that Tenable Holdings, Inc. announces the passing of our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Amit Yoran. Amit passed away unexpectedly yesterday. He had been battling cancer. A visionary leader and a pioneer in the cybersecurity industry, Amit dedicated his life to making the digital world safer. His unwavering commitment to…
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While the fast-growing AI PC category represents a new way to stay relevant for traditional CPU players Intel and AMD, it also represents an opportunity for Qualcomm, Nvidia and MediaTek—with help from Microsoft—to chip away at the x86 CPU duopoly. The PC market for CPUs is set to get crowded with AI computing giant Nvidia…
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One of Microsoft’s top silicon engineering executives—who helped launch its new Azure Cobalt processors and Azure Maia AI accelerators—has joined rival Google Cloud to lead its silicon chip technology innovation. Microsoft’s former vice president of silicon manufacturing and engineering, Rehan Sheikh, has left to join rival Google Cloud to become one of the company’s leading…
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Guidewheel, Spectro Cloud and Wiz are among the list-makers. An artificial intelligence-powered platform vendor for measuring equipment performance. A provider of a Kubernetes management platform for scaling across various environments. And a cloud security tools juggernaut. Guidewheel, Spectro Cloud and Wiz are among the startups to make CRN’s 10 Cloud Startups To Watch In 2025.…
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Check out best practices for preventing mobile communications hacking. Plus, how the U.S. government can improve financial firms’ AI use. Meanwhile, the FBI warns about a campaign to hack vulnerable webcams and DVRs. And get the latest on a Chinese APT’s hack of the Treasury Department; the federal government’s AI use cases; and cyber tips…
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The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority has launched an investigation into IBM’s $6.4 billion acquisition of Hashicorp. The merger was supposed to close in 2024. IBM’s blockbuster $6.4 billion acquisition of Terraform creator and cloud provider HashiCorp has been temporarily halted by the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority, which will now officially review the deal…
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While Intel faced significant challenges this year ranging from the abrupt retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger to massive job cuts, the semiconductor giant continued to push forward with new products such as the Intel Core 200V series as well as the Intel Foundry business. Intel is ending 2024 in a significantly different position than when…
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World Wide Technology is set to acquire fellow IT channel powerhouse Softchoice for $1.25 billion within the next several months in a move to enhance WWT’s AI, cloud and software business across North America. World Wide Technology is planning to make arguably what would be the biggest acquisition in its long history with the purchase…
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