Bloomberg: Quant trading firm XTX Markets, which manages $250B+ in daily trades, plans to invest €1B+ in five data centers in Finland to support its growing use of ML — – Billionaire’s quant firm plans five data centers in Finland — The move bucks trend of relying on third-party infrastructure Lees verder op Tech Meme
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: Google unveils classroom and accessibility ChromeOS features, and rolls out a tool that lets users control their computer with their head and facial expressions — Google is announcing a variety of classroom and accessibility-focused ChromeOS features today, and one of the standouts … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Danny Park / The Block: A Texas District Court rules against the sanctions on Tornado Cash, ordering a previous decision to be reversed; the US sanctioned Tornado Cash in August 2022 — – A U.S. District Court has ordered the sanctions on Tornado Cash to be reversed. — The price of TORN jumped over 140% following the news. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Financial Times: UK CMA Chair Marcus Bokkerink plans to leave the antitrust agency, forced out by UK ministers; the CMA appoints ex-Amazon executive Doug Gurr as interim chair — Marcus Bokkerink replaced at CMA with government saying it wants pro-business decisions to drive prosperity and growth Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Vertice, which offers an AI-powered SaaS spend management platform, raised a $50M Series C led by Lakestar, taking its total funding to ~$100M — Vertice has made a name for itself over the years in the crowded world of expenditure management by focusing on applying AI to optimize … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Data analytics startup Databricks closed its $10B Series J, announced in December 2024, with investment from Meta, Temasek, and QIA, and raised $5.25B in debt — Data analytics platform Databricks has confirmed that it has closed a previously announced $10 billion in Series J equity financing at a $62 billion valuation. Lees verder op Tech Meme
The Cloudflare Blog: In 2024, Cloudflare’s autonomous DDoS defense systems blocked ~21.3M DDoS attacks, up 53% YoY, and 420+ DDoS attacks in Q4 2024 exceeded 1Tbps, up 1,885% QoQ — This post is also available in .體中文, Deutsch, 한국어, Español (Espaňa) and Français. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: Quant trading firm XTX, managing $250B+ in daily trades, plans to invest €1B+ on five data centers in Finland to support its growing use of machine learning — – Billionaire’s quant firm plans five data centers in Finland — The move bucks trend of relying on third-party infrastructure Lees verder op Tech Meme
Becky Bracken / Dark Reading: The Trump administration fires all advisory committee members within the DHS, including those in the CISA’s CSRB, which was investigating Salt Typhoon hackers — In a letter sent today, the acting DHS secretary terminated membership to all advisory boards, including the Cyber Safety Review Board … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: Quant trading firm XTX, managing $250B+ in daily trades, plans to invest €1B+ on five data centers in Finland to support its growing use of machine learning — – Billionaire’s quant firm plans five data centers in Finland — The move bucks trend of relying on third-party infrastructure Lees verder op Tech Meme