SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 steps up to boost the coffers of NoSQL database biz Redis Labs, a commercial backer of the open-source key-value store database Redis, has secured $110m in funding, with backers including Softbank Vision Fund 2.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

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The Search giant has open-sourced Lyra, an audio codec that taps machine-learning to produce high-quality audio with very little data. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Emulation could save you from a complete meltdown Webcast No-one likes to have a silo of specialized but aging kit that requires special care and attention embedded in the heart of their computing infrastructure.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Software developer Stephen Diehl on Signal’s move to introduce support for cryptocurrency: Many technologists viscerally felt yesterday’s announcement as a punch to the gut when we heard that the Signal messaging app was bundling an embedded cryptocurrency. This news really cut to heart of what many technologists have felt before when we as loyal users…

Possible culprit: Ancient code running in production. A vuln ‘would not be terribly surprising’ says maintainer PHP maintainer Nikita Popov has posted an update concerning how the source code was compromised and malicious code inserted – blaming a user database leak rather than a problem with the server itself.… …read more Source:: Register

The National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security (NCS4) at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) recently completed a product operational exercise for an RF-based detection system. The two-part exercise included a demonstration of the technology in the company’s laboratory and observation of it in use at a concert at Ruth Eckerd Hall in…