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Supporting At-the-Edge Processing with CDN Integrations


DataDome’s mission is to protect our customers against threats on any infrastructure. In the past, companies would often use their own on-premise web and application servers to host important resources, or rely on their content delivery network (CDN) to provide bot detection. But today’s far-reaching internet requires far more distributed resources than most companies can sustain. Cloud computing and CDNs now meet that need, but the places they fall short in terms of cybersecurity are more impactful than ever. 

  • Security: Many CDNs include their own non-transferable security. However, it is not the best, most comprehensive security tool available, and most likely does not cover specific threats—especially sophisticated bot attacks—as well as you need.
  • Updates: Because CDNs become part of your website infrastructure, they need to be bulletproof, or they could become vectors for attacks by malicious actors. CDNs may not update or patch as regularly as they should because that is not the primary focus of their business.
  • Attacks: CDNs, which exist to serve internet resources across the globe, are just as likely to be attacked as specific websites, servers, and mobile apps. For instance, many CDNs face distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that attempt to overwhelm their resources to ultimately take down the target site—or every single site serviced by that CDN. DDoS attacks are easier than ever to perform thanks to proxy IP addresses and bots-as-a-service vendors, and if your CDN isn’t prepared to handle high-volume bot traffic, it may fail.

For our customers, integrating DataDome at the CDN/edge level is the best path for protection. That way, the scalability of the protection will be handled by the CDN platform as well, so when attacks occur, they will be distributed across ~100 points of presence (PoPs), with the CDN handling the traffic rather than the origin. 

By comparison, using server side modules (for example, a web server like Nginx/HAProxy) or application modules (like ASP.NET/NodeJS) would mean that the attack would be received by the origin and the origin would not scale. So, a large attack would crash the website. 

Our customers need to ensure…

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Seeing Machines and OMNIVISION Launch Silicon Platform with Interior Sensing Technology Optimized with Occula® Neural Processing Unit


Announced at CES 2023, automakers now have a powerful and cost-effective in-cabin monitoring solution for space-constrained areas that also meets the strict European regulations

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Seeing Machines Limited (LSE: SEE), the advanced computer vision technology company that designs AI-powered operator monitoring systems to improve transport safety, and OMNIVISION, a leading global developer of semiconductor solutions, including advanced digital imaging, analog, and touch & display technology, today announced the successful integration of Seeing Machines’ leading in-cabin monitoring system technology (ICMS) with the OMNIVISION OAX4600 system-on-chip (SoC) platform.

Optimized by Seeing Machines’ Occula® neural processing unit (NPU), the OMNIVISION OAX4600 will provide automakers with a new, powerful, and cost-effective solution to meet and exceed the regulatory requirements associated with the European Commission’s General Safety Regulation as well as Europe’s New Car Assessment Program (Euro NCAP) protocols.

Working closely together, OMNIVISION and Seeing Machines have integrated Seeing Machines’ embedded driver monitoring engine (e-DME) into the OAX4600 SoC silicon, which is specifically targeted toward the expanding automotive ICMS market. The Seeing Machines e-DME makes use of the Occula NPU integrated in the OAX4600 to reduce the load on the on-board Arm processors while accelerating the core tracking pipeline.

When paired with OMNIVISION’s broad range of high-resolution, wide-field-of-view automotive RGB-IR sensors or near-infrared (NIR) sensors, the OAX4600 device, integrated with Seeing Machines’ robust automotive ICMS solution, enables a powerful combination of performance, cost and power efficiency in a form factor that allows it to be packaged into space-constrained areas of the vehicle.

“We are very happy to be working with OMNIVISION to bring our Occula NPU to the market integrated with the OAX4600 SoC,” said Paul McGlone, CEO, Seeing Machines. “Seeing Machines’ software and hardware embedding capabilities, combined with OMNIVISION’s automotive camera sensor and design expertise, are clearly demonstrated with this silicon. We are…

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New Computer Makes Quantum Leap in Processing Power


Algorithmic Warfare: New Computer Makes Quantum Leap in Processing Power

433-qubit IBM Osprey chip

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NEW YORK, New York — As the world grapples with how to take advantage of emerging quantum computing technologies, IBM recently debuted its most advanced computer ever — and broke its own world record in the process.

Unveiled at the annual IBM Quantum Summit in New York, the Osprey computer has more than three times the computing power of the previous model. While the advancements in quantum are expected to impact all industries, the technology could have unique implications for how nations defend themselves, researchers said at the recent summit.

Quantum computers utilize basic units known as qubits as opposed to the 1s and 0s used by traditional computers. The computing power stems from the potential for each qubit to be both 1 and 0 simultaneously, rather than being restricted to one or the other.

At 433 qubits, IBM’s Osprey is the world’s largest quantum computer, surpassing the former largest system in the world, IBM’s 127-qubit computer Eagle.

“We’re living in a moment where computing with a capital C, as I like to call it, is going through one of the most exciting moments since the advent of digital computers in the 1940s,” said Dario Gil, senior vice president and director of IBM research.

“It is an undeniable amount of technical progress that is occurring, and the rate of pace is only accelerating,” he said during the summit.

Creating larger quantum computers increases the ability for the computer to solve complex problems. But stringing together more qubits creates more “noise,” a term meaning interference with the state of the bits in the computer that affects the outcome of the calculations run on it.

As the number of bits without error increases, the closer the quantum computer gets to reaching its full potential. In addition to error issues, current quantum computers are prohibitively large and researchers are continuing to work on…

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LTO bugged by delays in license processing


THE delays in the processing of driver’s license applications and motor vehicle registrations continue in various Land Transportation Office (LTO) sites nationwide, including Metro Manila.

The Manila Times learned that LTO frontliners were forced to render additional working hours even on weekends to process the backlogs as a result of what has been described as the “worst slowdown” in the Land Transportation Management System (LTMS).

LTO-Davao South District Office chief Melencio Diaz Jr. said their employees volunteered to work without pay even on their days off just to catch up with a month’s worth of backlog.

Another LTO official who asked not to be identified said there were issues of slowdown in their system in the past but these were immediately resolved, unlike the current problem which has been going on for more than two weeks now.

The LTMS delay was first reported in the last days of August. Long queues, frustrated customers and “offline” advisories posted on transaction windows were some of the common scenes at LTO sites in the past weeks.

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Although an investigation into the “system slowdown” was initiated by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) last week, LTO clients who shared their frustrations on social media blamed the agency’s system provider, Dermalog, for the problem.

Students and employees said that transacting at the LTO was a “hassle,” and they were forced to miss school or work due to the intermittent connection of the LTMS.

The LTMS is part of the digital shift program of the national government. In 2018, LTO awarded the said IT project, through a Joint Venture Agreement, to Dermalog and three other local companies.

The Commission on Audit (CoA) earlier flagged the LTO for the “undue payment” given to Dermalog despite…

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