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Industry giants AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel, Meta, and Microsoft have teamed up to develop a new industry standard called UALink enabling interconnection for data centre grade AI and HPC accelerators and rivaling software company Nvidia's NVLink.

There has been an increase in AI-driven phishing attacks in Australia with research revealing that Australia is within the top 10 countries alongside US, UK, India and Germany targeted by phishing scams.

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COMPANY NEWS: Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management leader, unveiled a trio of native integrations with Microsoft at Informatica World currently underway in Las Vegas. These product developments will make it simpler for Azure and Microsoft Fabric customers to discover, manage, and deploy AI-powered data management services within Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management CloudTM (IDMC) platform to create trusted data for generative AI.

On 3 May, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella issued a long statement, saying in effect that security would be the most important thing for the company from now on.

GUEST RESEARCH: The rapid adoption of AI in software development is transforming the industry, as evidenced by OutSystems' recent report highlighting a 30% year-over-year growth in the use of AI tools. This surge underscores a significant shift towards integrating AI to enhance the development process, particularly in low-code environments.

Superior detection efficacy, international expansion, and ongoing advances lead to double-digit growth

Highlights:

• Barracuda’s ongoing investment in machine learning delivers improvements in detection efficacy.
• New innovations deliver enhanced user experience, reporting, data loss engine, and data residency support for international customers.
• AI-enabled email protection helps Microsoft 365 customers to block 70% more business email compromise attacks than when relying on native security alone.
• Barracuda’s Email Protection SaaS business experienced double-digit growth, with MSPs representing the fastest growing channel segment.

COMPANY NEWS: Barracuda Networks, Inc., a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today announced increased efficacy with its Email Protection platform and additional AI innovation for better defenses against emerging threats.

Germany-based open source vendor SUSE has appointed technology and marketing veteran Pilar Santamaria as its new vice-president of AI.

COMPANY NEWS Illumio Inc., a Zero Trust Segmentation company, today announced it has become a member of Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), an ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISV) and managed security service providers (MSSP) who have integrated their solutions with Microsoft security technology to build a better defense against a world of increasing cybersecurity threats.

Microsoft has released patches for two zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild, along with fixes for another 57 CVEs on its monthly Patch Tuesday.

Microsoft will face an anti-trust probe by the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, over claims that it is preventing rivals of its video-conferencing app Teams from competing.

Email is an old method of communication — yes, it's been here since 1965 with the first messages on the Arpanet being sent in 1971 — but the way it operates is still as much of a mystery to the average punter as it was back in those days.

Three days after holding out the lure of releasing new details about the LockBit ransomware gang, a team of American, British and European cyber specialists have unmasked the alleged administrator and developer of the gang: Russian citizen Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

COMPANY NEWS: Vectra AI, the leader in hybrid attack detection, investigation, and response, today announced an expansion of the Vectra AI Platform to protect enterprises from new threat vectors introduced by the rapid adoption of Generative AI (genAI) tools. The Vectra AI Platform’s patented Attack Signal Intelligence uses behaviour-based AI to defend against cyber attackers abusing genAI – empowering security operations centre (SOC) teams to fight genAI attacks with AI.

Microsoft has unveiled a preview of a system using which it intends to lock down the Domain Name System, the system that translates IP addresses to human-readable domains, on Windows.

GUEST OPINION: The world of online gaming is a high-stakes arena. Platforms like Steam and Epic Games need to distribute content with the efficiency of tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft.

The judge presiding over an anti-trust case against Google, brought by the US Department of Justice and state attorneys, is debating whether he should sanction the search behemoth over what the DoJ has termed "routine, regular, and normal destruction" of evidence.

Secure document storage and records lifecycle solutions provider ZircoDATA has been hit by the Black Basta ransomware gang, with the company saying it had noticed unauthorised access of its servers on 28 February.

The creator of systemd, Microsoft employee Lennart Poettering, has announced that he would be including a new tool, known as run0, in the upcoming v256 release of systemd.

Enterprise automation and AI software company UiPath has announced that Raghu Malpani is joining the company as Chief Technology Officer.