The private equity realm has been pretty active so far in 2024, serving as a powerful “alternative” source of liquidity for technology startups and scale-ups in search of an exit. Just this month, TechCrunch reported that EQT had picked up a majority stake in cybersecurity firm Acronis at a valuation of around $ 4 billion, […]
After changing its license, Redis drops its biggest release yet
Redis, the company behind the popular in-memory data store, which is often used as a cache, vector database or streaming engine, today announced the launch of Redis 8. With this release, the company is doubling down on Redis as a vector database for AI use cases and launching an AI Copilot the help developers more […]
Braves land ex-Yankees slugger to fill biggest roster hole, per insider
The Atlanta Braves entered the 2024 Major League Baseball season with extremely high expectations. Atlanta was the best regular season team in baseball last year and entered the 2024 campaign hoping to get over the hump. Injuries have completely dismantled the Braves’ season, but Atlanta still can end up making the playoffs. The Braves aren’t […]
NBA power rankings 2024: Bucks, Nuggets, Suns, Clippers among biggest risers and fallers after Olympics
We last ranked all 30 NBA teams near the end of free agency. It’s time for an updated ranking with Summer League and the Olympics now complete. The summer tournaments gave us a better idea of how some of the stars of the league will perform, along with how many of the younger players are […]
The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising
We’re over halfway through 2024, and already this year we have seen some of the biggest, most damaging data breaches in recent history. And just when you think that some of these hacks can’t get any worse, they do. From huge stores of customers’ personal information getting scraped, stolen and posted online, to reams of […]