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Red Hat open sources StackRox, the Kubernetes security platform it acquired last year
Last January, Red Hat announced that it was acquiring Kubernetes security startup StackRox, a company that had raised over $65 million since it was founded in 2014. With StackRox, the company acquired
Cloud Foundry Foundation launches Korifi to simplify the Kubernetes developer experience
The Cloud Foundry Foundation today announced the launch of Korifi, a new developer experience that will offer a Cloud Foundry-compatible application platform on top of Kubernetes. Since its initial re
Classiq raises additional funding for its quantum algorithm design tools
Tel Aviv-based Classiq, a startup that wants to make it easier for developers to build quantum algorithms and applications, today announced that it has raised additional funding for its service by add
The Envoy Gateway project wants to bring Envoy to the masses
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is hosting its semi-annual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference this week, so it’s maybe no surprise that we’ll hear quite a bit of news around
Google updates its Firebase back-end-as-a-service to make app development faster
At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced a number of updates to Firebase, Google’s popular back-end-as-a-service platform. The focus here is mostly on deeper integrations with the
Google’s Flutter 3 adds support for macOS and Linux desktop apps
At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of Flutter 3, the latest version of its open source, multiplatform UI development framework for building natively compiled applicatio
Google and Samsung team up to make sharing data between health and fitness apps easier
At its Google I/O developer conference, Google and Samsung today announced Health Connect, a new initiative that will simplify the connectivity between health and fitness apps to allow users to share
Google’s Android Studio IDE gets live edits to speed up development cycles
It’s Google I/O today and as is tradition, the company is using the event to introduce the latest releases of its Android Studio development environment. Launching today are a new beta of Androi
Google Cloud launches AlloyDB, a new fully managed PostgreSQL database service
Google today announced the launch of AlloyDB, a new fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database service that the company claims to be twice as fast for transactional workloads as AWS’s comparab
Google launches Google Wallet to help you store your credit cards, tickets and more
At its I/O developer conference, Google today launched Google Wallet, a new Android and Wear OS app that will allow users to store things like credit cards, loyalty cards, digital IDs, transit passes,
Google Chrome adds virtual credit card numbers to keep your real ones safe
Google today announced that its Chrome browser will now offer users the ability to use a virtual credit card number in online payment forms on the web. These virtual card numbers allow you to keep you
Google launches a 9 exaflop cluster of Cloud TPU v4 pods into public preview
At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced the public preview of a full cluster of Google Cloud’s new Cloud TPU v4 Pods. Google’s fourth iteration of its Tensor Processing Uni
Google makes it easier to chat with its Assistant
Google today announced three new features for its voice-activated Assistant that will make it easier and more natural to interact with it. The first is about making it easier to initiate a conversatio
Oriient raises $11M Series A for its indoor positioning service
Indoor navigation was something we heard about a lot after the launch of the iPhone and during that first wave of location-based apps. But the technology has quietly evolved over the last few years an
Sunday Security launches a cybersecurity service for senior execs
Traditionally, cybersecurity has always focused on what can be hacked and not so much on who might be most at risk. Sunday Security, which is launching today and announcing a $4 million seed funding r
Arrikto expands its MLOps platform with Kubeflow as a service
Arrikto’s mission is to enable data scientists to build and deploy their machine learning models faster. The company, which raised a $10 million Series A round in late 2020, is building its plat
Supabase raises $80M Series B for its open source Firebase alternative
Supabase, which bills itself as an open source alternative to services like Google’s Firebase, today announced that it has raised an $80 million Series B funding round led by Felicis Ventures. C
Codenotary launches a full-stack monitoring solution for Kubernetes and VMware environments
Codenotary, the company behind the immutable immudb open source database and a software supply chain security service built on top of it, today announced that it is also adding a full-stack Kubernetes
Google Cloud and SAP launch a native integration between Workspace and S/4HANA Cloud
Google and SAP have partnered around a number of different projects over the years and Google Cloud, just like its competitors, is a strategic cloud partner for RISE with SAP, the German enterprise so
GitHub will require all users who contribute code to enable two-factor authentication by the end of 2023
Here is some news that is both straightforward and still a long time out but nevertheless important: by the end of 2023, GitHub will require all users who contribute code on the platform to enable one