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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

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In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. ” A DPU is a dedicated piece of hardware designed to handle certain data processing tasks, including security and network routing for data traffic. .

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Hyundai Motor eyes acquisition of Korean lidar-free self-driving startup 42dot

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million in its Series A financing round at a valuation of about $425 million to accelerate its TaaS service and urban mobility operation system (UMOS). The news comes nearly nine months after 42dot raised $88.5 million) in 42dot. According to the newspaper, Hyundai approached 42dot for the acquisition in June.

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Tortoise co-founder Dmitry Shevelenko: ‘You can’t do too many things at the same time’

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Co-founded in 2019 by ex-Uber executive Dmitry Shevelenko, the company began with a mission of being the operating system for micromobility vehicles , one that uses remote operators to reposition shared electric scooters to locations where prospective riders are or send them back to the warehouse for a charge.

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Device42 tunes IT infrastracture tooling to measure carbon emissions

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Device42 , a startup that helps companies understand and manage their hybrid infrastructure, can see a lot of information about each customer’s hardware and software usage. The company decided to use that ability to look at how each part of the system was contributing to carbon emissions.

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MetalSoft aims to help manage server infrastructure through automation

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MetalSoft allows companies to automate the orchestration of hardware, including switches, servers and storage, making them available to users that can be consumed on-demand. Hostway developed software to power cloud service provider hardware, which went into production in 2014.

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DriveNets connects with $262M as demand booms for its cloud-based alternative to network routers

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Including the company’s debut round of $110 million led by Pitango when it first came out of stealth mode in 2019, DriveNets has now raised just over $580 million. Networking as it exists pre-DriveNets is largely focused around costly hardware.

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From Bugs to Breaches: 25 Significant CVEs As MITRE CVE Turns 25

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Unpatched systems are still being targeted today, highlighting the risk of ignoring known vulnerabilities. While it’s difficult to execute a successful Spectre attack, fully remediating the root cause is hard and requires microcode as well as operating system updates to mitigate the risk.