Bill to use AI to vet consumer product safety moves to Senate

The U.S. House of Representatives this week approved and sent to the Senate a bill intended to form a pilot initiative to use artificial intelligence…

AWS acquires encrypted messaging app Wickr

(Image: file photo)Amazon Web Services is acquiring the encrypted messaging app Wickr, the company announced Friday. Financial terms of the deal…

Cloud ‘sticker shock’ explored: we’re spending way too much, some venture capitalists say

Cloud computing is probably the biggest business around these days -- it has become a $100-billion-a-year industry. And there's a chance companies…

Will your PC run Windows 11? Even Microsoft can’t say for sure

June 25, 2:15 PM Pacific: This post has been updated multiple times since its initial publication to reflect Microsoft's scrambling to clean up…

Nutanix CEO touts road to profitability as company moves to subscription model

Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami hailed the company's evolution and prospects for profitability this week during virtual Investor Day events this week…

Ajay Sawhney, IT News, ET CIO

India needs to update its Information Technology Act, said Ajay Sawhney, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.Sawhney was speaking at a seminar organised by the Public Affairs Foundation of India.The world had changed…

FOSTA-SESTA trafficking law used once since 2018: GAO report

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that the controversial Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) and Allow…

How Zscaler combined active threat defense and zero trust

Zscaler, which specializes in data security for cloud-based applications, had had quite a year. At its fourth annual Zenith Live event (all-digital…

Technology budgets increase among Brazilian banks

Brazilian banks have spent more on information technology as they sought to adapt to the new requirements emerging after the Covid-19 pandemic, new…

Mozilla partners with Princeton researchers for privacy-focused data sharing platform on Firefox

On Friday, Mozilla announced the release of a new data sharing platform called Rally that is designed to provide users with more control over how…