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BlackBerry sells Cylance for $160M, a fraction of the $1.4B it paid in 2018

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Arctic Wolf has acquired Cylance, BlackBerry’s beleaguered cybersecurity business, for $160 million — a significant write-down from the $1.4 billion BlackBerry paid to acquire the company in 2018. Under the terms of the deal, which is expected to close in BlackBerry’s fiscal Q4, BlackBerry will sell its Cylance assets to Arctic Wolf for $160 million […]

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Open source companies that go proprietary: A timeline

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Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of open source software face a perennial struggle between keeping their community happy and ensuring that third parties don’t abuse the permissions afforded by the license. Many companies have launched with lofty open source ambitions, only

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Google debuts NotebookLM for enterprises

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In October, Google started piloting a version of NotebookLM, its viral AI note-taking and research app, aimed at businesses. Now, the company’s bringing NotebookLM to the enterprise, complete with work-focused security and privacy features. NotebookLM for enterprises — which Google’s dubbing NotebookLM Plus — delivers the same experience as the consumer version, but with added

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Google Gemini: Everything you need to know about the generative AI models

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Google’s trying to make waves with Gemini, its flagship suite of generative AI models, apps, and services. But what’s Gemini? How can you use it? And how does it stack up to other generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Meta’s Llama, and Microsoft’s Copilot? To make it easier to keep up with the latest Gemini

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Microsoft’s M12 invests another $22.5M into NueBird, months after its $100M valuation seed round

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Late last year, Goutham Rao and Vinod Jayaraman founded NueBird to automate IT site reliability operations tasks with generative AI. Having sold their previous cloud-native storage startup, Portworx, to PureStorage for $370 million, the pair was well-versed in the IT challenges faced by today’s enterprises. “It’s very hard to find good site reliability engineers. There’s

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MariaDB spinout SkySQL secures seed funding to ‘bring conversational AI to databases’

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Anyone who’s followed the fortunes of MySQL and MariaDB these past 15 years will probably remember SkySQL, another brand that once existed within that same database ecosystem and, a year ago, became a standalone company once more. That company today announced it has raised its first outside funding — a $6.6 million seed round —

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Linux Foundation sets up India entity to boost open source collaboration

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The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization promoting open source adoption, has announced the launch of its India entity. The organization is looking to promote open source contributions across the South Asian nation’s ecosystem of enterprises, startups, and the government. India already has 13.2 million developers using GitHub for their projects, per Microsoft. The country is

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