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Listen to article(1 minute)A tech company employee who went viral for filming her firing and sharing it on TikTok says her video has brought a flood of support. “I don’t regret sharing that,” ex-Cloudflare employee Brittany Pietsch told The Wall Street Journal. “I have received so many messages of people telling me, ‘I wish I would have stood up for myself the way you did.’ ”Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Listen to article(1 minute)A tech company…

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg traded insults over the weekend as competition between the billionaires heated up majorly in Zuck’s favor. On its fifth day of existence, Meta’s new Threads app hit over 100 million user signups, becoming one of the fastest growing apps in history. Meanwhile, Twitter’s traffic is “tanking,” according to Mathew Prince, CEO of network service company Cloudflare, whose data shows that visits to Twitter have been in steady decline since Musk took the reins, a trend that accelerated slightly over…

Image: Alexander/Adobe Stock Cloudflare announced on May 15, 2023 a new suite of zero-trust security tools for companies to leverage the benefits of AI technologies while mitigating risks. The company integrated the new technologies to expand its existing Cloudflare One product, which is a secure access service edge zero trust network-as-a-service platform. The Cloudflare One platform’s new tools and features are Cloudflare Gateway, service tokens, Cloudflare Tunnel, Cloudflare Data Loss Prevention and…

Corporate information technology leaders say they are reassessing vendor relationships and putting greater emphasis on risk management as they navigate the aftermath of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. “You can be proactive all you want, but the response to a crisis, the response to a disruption no one saw coming, is just as important,” said Sineesh Keshav, chief technology officer and chief information officer at logistics real-estate company Prologis Inc. He…

The abrupt collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is expected to put a damper on innovation in the enterprise-technology market—at least in the short term—with emerging software startups facing new fundraising challenges and higher-priced loans, corporate technology chiefs, investors and industry analysts say.Beyond added financial pressures, they say, enterprise-tech developers—which make business software tools for companies—will also have to adjust to the sudden loss of the bank as a networking hub at the center of the…

Business titans trudging through Alpine snow can't stop talking about a chatbot from San Francisco.Generative artificial intelligence, tech that can invent virtually any content someone can think up and type into a text box, is garnering not just venture investment in Silicon Valley but interest in Davos at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting this week.Defining the category is ChatGPT, a chatbot that the startup called OpenAI released in November. The tech works by learning from vast amounts of data how to answer…

The final countdown has begun for leap seconds. A global group of scientists and government officials voted (almost unanimously) Friday to axe the small time adjustment method, in a change scheduled to take place by 2035.Leap seconds have been used since 1972, and over the past 50 years have caused big headaches for the tech industry. Now, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures has formally agreed with the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, that it’s time for the practice to end. In a resolution at the bureau’s 27th…

Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure and security company, reported earnings on Thursday, reaching a significant milestone. With almost $254 million in revenue, the company is on a run rate of over $1 billion for the first time. Revenue, which was up 47% over the previous year, also beat the street’s estimate of $250.6 million. That win was offset by a third-quarter loss of $42.5 million, or 13 cents a share. Still, Cloudflare posted a much smaller loss than in the year-ago quarter when it reported losses of…

In a recently published report into DDoS threats in Q3 2022, Cloudflare observed that the most forceful attack of the quarter targeted a Minecraft gaming server. An individual or organization launched a 2.5 Tbps DDoS attack via a Mirai botnet variant, aimed at the popular Wynncraft MMORPG Minecraft server.Cloudflare says that multi-terabit attacks have become more frequent, and its automated content protection and DDoS mitigation services responded to several >1 Tbps attacks in Q3. Interestingly, the Wynncraft…

Cloudflare celebrates its 12th anniversary with the launch of a Zero Trust SIM, an IoT security platform and a Botnet Threat Feed. Image: Adobe Stock/metamorworks Mobility must-reads Having a safe and secure internet has been a major concern for enterprises due to the growing number of successful cyberattacks on organizations worldwide. Among the companies who have taken an interest in profiting from the art of protection is American firm Cloudflare. As a cloud security service and…