Emily Nicholls, Author at TFiR

AI/ML

Iterative Announces A Free Extension To Microsoft Visual Studio Code To Accelerate ML Model Development Experience

Iterative launches an open source VS Code extension for machine learning practitioners looking to accelerate their model development experience.

By Emily NichollsJune 14, 20220

Cloud Native Computing

Rust Foundation Announces Recipients Of 2022 Community Grants Program

The Rust Foundation has announced the first recipients of awards for the inaugural Community Grants Program.

By Emily NichollsJune 14, 20220

Cloud Native Computing

Denonia, The First Malware Targeting AWS Lambda Discovered

The first sample that has been discovered only runs crypto-mining software and is thought to be relatively innocuous, however, it does signal a ...

By Emily NichollsApril 15, 20220

Electric Vehicles (EVs)

Smart Reveals Its Production-Ready #1 Fully Electric Compact SUV

The #1 will not be sold in the U.S. market after exiting the North American market in 2019 after 11 years of selling ...

By Emily NichollsApril 11, 20220

Cloud Native Computing

New DevOps Platform, Dagger, Aims To Simplify Building CI/CD Pipelines

The platform can be run on any runtime compatible with Docker allowing applications to run unchanged on multiple platforms.

By Emily NichollsApril 4, 20220

Developers

Large-Scale Attack Uses Malicious npm Packages To Target Azure Developers

Cybersecurity researchers Andrey Polkovnychenko and Shachar Menashe believe that it was a targeted attack against the entire @azure npm scope.

By Emily NichollsMarch 24, 20220

News

US Court Rules That Misrepresenting Software As Open Source Is False Advertising

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in February affirmed a lower court decision concluding that it’s false advertising to claim ...

By Emily NichollsMarch 18, 20220

Cloud Native Computing

Era Software Report Highlights Challenges IT Executives Face With Observability Data Management

The volume of log data will continue to grow in 2022 and beyond. However, IT teams struggle with the massive growth of data ...

By Emily NichollsMarch 17, 20220

Cloud Native Computing

Deepfence Introduces Secret Scanning And Runtime SBOMs In ThreatMapper 1.3.0

The latest version allows users to scan workloads and hosts for sensitive secrets and generate SBOMs at runtime.

By Emily NichollsMarch 16, 20220

Developers

Supply Chain Security Project in-toto Joins CNCF

in-toto joined the CNCF Sandbox, an entry point for early stage projects in 2019. Since then, in-toto has attracted more than 132 Contributors ...

By Emily NichollsMarch 11, 20220

Cloud Native Computing

Google Acquires Cybersecurity Firm Mandiant For $5.4 Billion

Mandiant, the threat intelligence and incident response firm, confirmed today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google ...

By Emily NichollsMarch 9, 20220

Developers

‘Dirty Pipe’ Linux Vulnerability Allows Overwriting Data In Arbitrary Read-Only Files

The vulnerability, known as CVE-2022-0847 or “Dirty Pipe” leads to privilege escalation as unprivileged processes can inject code into root processes.

By Emily NichollsMarch 9, 20220

Developers

Israeli Cybersecurity Company, Cider Security, Raises $38M To Secure Software Development Environments

Cider Security aims to provide Security teams with an in-depth understanding and comprehensive view of the technologies, systems, and processes unique to every ...

By Emily NichollsMarch 9, 20220

Cloud Native Computing

Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, And Ping Identity Join Forces To Strengthen U.S. Cybersecurity

The Critical Infrastructure Defense Project will provide comprehensive, no-cost cyber protections for U.S. hospitals and water and power utilities.

By Emily NichollsMarch 8, 20220

News

US Senate Unanimously Passes Major Cybersecurity Legislation

The US Senate on Tuesday passed major cybersecurity legislation to require organizations in critical industry sectors to report cyberattacks and ransomware payments to ...

By Emily NichollsMarch 4, 20220

Cloud Native Computing

VMware Unveils New Container Runtime Security Capabilities

According to VMware, 97 percent of technology leaders say they have concerns about Kubernetes security, with one in five citing securing containerized workloads ...

By Emily NichollsMarch 4, 20220

AI/ML

CardinalOps Raises $17.5M For AI-Powered Threat Coverage Optimization Platform

The company plans to use the new funding to aggressively expand its go-to-market and product innovation.

By Emily NichollsMarch 4, 20220

Cloud Native Computing

Google-Led Knative Is Accepted As A CNCF Incubating Project

The project, which reached version 1.0 in November 2021, is currently at v1.2 with releases expected about every six weeks.

By Emily NichollsMarch 4, 20220

AI/ML

Sanctuary Secures $58.5M In Funding To Create Robots With Human-Like Intelligence

Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp., a Canada-based startup aiming to create general-purpose robots with human-like intelligence, yesterday announced it had raised US$58.5 million in ...

By Emily NichollsMarch 3, 20220

Platform Engineering Is A DevOps Enabler, Not Something That’s In Conflict With DevOps

Platform Engineering Helps Tackle Infrastructure And Complexity Challenges

You Can’t Kill DevOps; It’s A Cultural Phenomenon | Austin Parker

Platform Engineering Is The Next Logical Step From DevOps | Pavel Despot, Akamai

Iterative Announces A Free Extension To Microsoft Visual Studio Code To Accelerate ML Model Development Experience

Rust Foundation Announces Recipients Of 2022 Community Grants Program

Denonia, The First Malware Targeting AWS Lambda Discovered

Smart Reveals Its Production-Ready #1 Fully Electric Compact SUV

New DevOps Platform, Dagger, Aims To Simplify Building CI/CD Pipelines

Large-Scale Attack Uses Malicious npm Packages To Target Azure Developers

US Court Rules That Misrepresenting Software As Open Source Is False Advertising

Era Software Report Highlights Challenges IT Executives Face With Observability Data Management

Deepfence Introduces Secret Scanning And Runtime SBOMs In ThreatMapper 1.3.0

Supply Chain Security Project in-toto Joins CNCF

Google Acquires Cybersecurity Firm Mandiant For $5.4 Billion

‘Dirty Pipe’ Linux Vulnerability Allows Overwriting Data In Arbitrary Read-Only Files

Israeli Cybersecurity Company, Cider Security, Raises $38M To Secure Software Development Environments

Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, And Ping Identity Join Forces To Strengthen U.S. Cybersecurity

US Senate Unanimously Passes Major Cybersecurity Legislation

VMware Unveils New Container Runtime Security Capabilities

CardinalOps Raises $17.5M For AI-Powered Threat Coverage Optimization Platform

Google-Led Knative Is Accepted As A CNCF Incubating Project

Sanctuary Secures $58.5M In Funding To Create Robots With Human-Like Intelligence