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Google has announced that Gemini will be available on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC). This gives organizations access to Google’s most advanced AI models in their own data centers. This step allows companies with strict regulations or data restrictions to still use high-quality AI technology without moving their data to external clouds. The public preview will […]

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has launched OLMoTrace. This allows researchers and developers to see which sources a language model uses to generate text. This should make understanding how the AI arrives at its output easier. Ai2 claims that OLMoTrace is the first function of its kind. Users can trace the output of language […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is adding support for ML-KEM post-quantum key agreement standards in AWS Key Management Service (KMS), AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) and AWS Secrets Manager. This will improve the security of TLS connections. ML-KEM (Module-Lattice-based Key Encapsulation Mechanism) is a post-quantum cryptographic algorithm designed to exchange keys in a way that is resistant […]

Okta has announced new possibilities for securing AI agents and other non-human identities. The identity platform is expanding its security fabric, enabling organizations to protect these digital entities with the same care as human users. The new possibilities come to Identity Security Posture Management and Okta Privileged Access. These offer companies an end-to-end solution for […]

Atlassian wants to make its cloud offering more attractive to more organizations, including those for whom the transition to the cloud is not self-evident. Today it announced two new cloud services to achieve this. Atlassian Government Cloud, specifically for American government agencies, is now available in early access. The Atlassian Isolated Cloud offering will become […]

Collaboration and productivity software platform company Atlassian has detailed the mechanics currently driving its Rovo AI Agents product set. Although suitable for (potentially) any team environment that would feel the benefit from an AI-powered workplace & workflow assistant service, the company has highlighted this tool’s wider use and its specific suitability for software developers. With […]

Atlassian Team ’25, the company’s annual event, has a lot of focus on the System of Work framework. This framework means that the various tools used by organizations’ technology teams should be optimally integrated. Teamwork Collection, which Atlassian announced today, fits in perfectly with this. Of course, there is also plenty of room for Rovo […]

Google is making its worldwide network infrastructure available to all organizations via the new Cloud WAN solution. The fully managed enterprise backbone network promises up to 40 percent faster performance than the public internet. Organisations can save up to 40 percent in costs compared to current WAN solutions. The infrastructure that supports Google’s own services, […]

The American stock market surged on Wednesday after President Trump announced he would temporarily lower tariffs on almost all countries to 10 percent. Tech companies such as Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft saw their shares rise by more than 8 percent. Other large IT companies also saw significant gains: HPE (15.91 percent), Dell (15.98 percent), Cisco […]

Riverbed is expanding its platform with AI functionalities. The company is introducing a combination of Generative, Predictive and Agentic AI and new data observability modules. The innovations focus on predicting IT problems before they affect users and simplifying troubleshooting via AI. The new AI offering is built on Riverbed’s experience gained from over 64 million […]

• Creator: Berry Zwets
• Publish Date: 08.04.2025, 13:19
• Categories: Security, Agentic AI, AIops, generative AI, observability, Predictive AI, riverbed

Broadcom reports that the Board of Directors has approved a new share repurchase program. This program allows for the repurchase of up to 10 billion dollars in common stock through December 31, 2025. According to CEO Hock Tan, this step reflects the Board of Directors’ confidence in Broadcom’s strength, particularly in the diversified semiconductor and […]

• Creator: Mels Dees
• Publish Date: 08.04.2025, 12:17
• Categories: Infrastructure, Broadcom, Intel, shares

EncryptHub, a notorious threat actor associated with intrusions at 618 organizations, reported two possible Windows zero-day vulnerabilities to Microsoft. This seems like a double role for an organization that moves between cybercrime and security research. The reported vulnerabilities are CVE-2025-24061 (Mark of the Web bypass) and CVE-2025-24071 (File Explorer spoofing). Microsoft resolved the issues during […]

• Creator: Mels Dees
• Publish Date: 08.04.2025, 11:44
• Categories: Security, EncryptHub, Hacker, zero-day

Microsoft has announced that it will raise the prices of its on-premises server licenses in July 2025. Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, and Skype for Business Server will become 10 percent more expensive. Customers who depend on these on-premises solutions must pay more for server and client access licenses. Microsoft continues to encourage the transition to […]

Creator: Coen van Eenbergen Publish Date: 08.04.2025, 11:08 Categories: Applications, Cloud, Exchange Server, License costs, licenses, Microsoft, Microsoft Server, on-premises, price increase

The government will first screen researchers and master’s students who want to work in the Netherlands with knowledge or technology sensitive to national security. This is stated in the new screening knowledge security bill, which has been offered for internet consultation. The proposal stems from the coalition agreement of the Schoof cabinet. Minister Bruins of […]

Creator: Mels Dees Publish Date: 08.04.2025, 10:49 Categories: Security, Bill, Government, knowledge

Hadrian, an Amsterdam-based security company, has introduced Subwiz. The AI tool detects subdomains that often act as weak spots. The solution allows organizations to detect hidden digital backdoors before hackers can exploit them. Tests show that the tool finds 10 percent more subdomains than traditional methods. For hackers, forgotten subdomains are ideal targets. These web […]

Creator: Berry Zwets Publish Date: 08.04.2025, 09:53 Categories: Security, AI, cybersecurity, hadrian, machine learning, subdomain detection

IBM has announced the z17, which is equipped with the Telum II processor and the Spyre Accelerator. These IBM components allow running generative AI models and agentic AI on-premises. Data must be accessible at the lowest possible latency. The new IBM z17 is designed to process the most critical transactions. Big Blue claims that approximately […]

Creator: Berry Zwets Publish Date: 08.04.2025, 08:59 Categories: Infrastructure, AI, Enterprise, IBM, Mainframe, Spyre Accelerator, Telum II, z17

The Russian cyber underworld is not merely a shadowy collection of unstructured hackers, but a complex, interconnected community playing an increasingly significant role on the world stage. This, in a nutshell, is how a recent Trend Micro report characterizes this sophisticated digital ecosystem. Russian hacking collectives consistently dominate headlines, frequently implicated in orchestrating attacks against […]

Creator: Laura Herijgers Publish Date: 08.04.2025, 09:00 Categories: Security, hacker group, Hackers, Investigation, Russia, Trend Micro, Ukraine

A slight change of pace, or at least of topic, this week in Techzine Talks on Tour. We sit down with Reggie Townsend, VP of Data Ethics at SAS to talk about the important but not always easy topic of ethics and AI.  Subscribe to Techzine Talks on Tour and listen to our other episodes […]

Creator: Sander Almekinders Publish Date: 08.04.2025, 02:02 Categories: Analytics, AI, bias, Data, Ethics, Techzine Talks on Tour, trust

Since January 2024, Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in Wikipedia’s bandwidth usage. However, this enormous increase is not due to human users suddenly reading Wikipedia articles or watching videos but to AI crawlers that automatically scrape content to train AI models. This creates new challenges for the foundation. The sudden increase in traffic […]

Creator: Coen van Eenbergen Publish Date: 07.04.2025, 17:28 Categories: Infrastructure, AI, AI crawlers, Artificial Intelligence, bandwidth, content scraping, Wikimedia, Wikipedia

The official Python team established PEP 751. This specifies the dependencies of packages for an application. This makes installations reproducible without users having to re-determine the dependencies during installation. When asked, Python core developer Paul Moore told DevClass that this is a full, final approval, not a provisional one. He hoped to avoid delays before […]

Creator: Mels Dees Publish Date: 07.04.2025, 15:50 Categories: Applications, application, Hosting provider, Python

DeepSeek is collaborating with Tsinghua University to reduce the training process of its artificial intelligence (AI) models, to reduce operational costs. According to The Edge, the Chinese start-up that shook up the market in January with its cheap reasoning model is now working with researchers from the institution in Beijing on a paper that describes […]

Creator: Mels Dees Publish Date: 07.04.2025, 14:53 Categories: Applications, AI, DeepSeek, Llama 4

The leak site of the Russian-affiliated ransomware group Everest was hacked last weekend. A short message from the hackers appeared on the site, which is normally used to publish stolen files to force victims to pay ransoms. A short message could be seen on the website: “Don’t do crime CRIME IS BAD xoxo from Prague”. […]

Creator: Berry Zwets Publish Date: 07.04.2025, 14:27 Categories: Security, cybersecurity, Everest, Hackers, leaksite, ransomware

A hacker gained access to the GitLab repositories of the Europcar Mobility Group car rental company. The hack resulted in the theft of the personal details of some 200,000 customers and the source code for the Android and iOS applications. The attacker extorted the company by threatening to publish 37GB of stolen data. The data […]

Creator: Coen van Eenbergen Publish Date: 07.04.2025, 12:46 Categories: Security, cybersecurity, data breach, Europcar, Extortion, GitLab

Elon Musk’s team for making the American government more efficient, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is organizing a hackathon to build a “mega API”. This would offer easy access to data from the American tax authority IRS. The plan has met with resistance from IRS employees who indicate that the proposed deadline is […]

Creator: Coen van Eenbergen Publish Date: 07.04.2025, 11:25 Categories: Devops, API, DOGE, Elon Musk, government data, hackathon, IRS, Privacy

Mozilla is developing a new, simplified way for extension developers to obtain permission to collect user data. The new system will be integrated into the Firefox extension installation process in 2025 and will eliminate the various, often confusing permission screens that developers currently have to build themselves. Currently, Firefox extension policy requires developers to create […]

Creator: Berry Zwets Publish Date: 07.04.2025, 11:18 Categories: Devops, Consent, data collection, Extensions, Firefox, Mozilla, Privacy, User Experience