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Fortinet announces it has reached an agreement to acquire cloud security company Lacework; Lacework had raised $1.8B and was valued at $8.3B in 2021 (Kyle Alspach/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/security/2024/fortinet-…

Fortinet To Acquire Cloud Security Unicorn Lacework, Bolster SASE Platform
Terms of Fortinet’s acquisition deal for Lacework, which had once been valued at $8.3 billion, weren’t disclosed.

CrowdEgress: A Multi-Agent Simulation Platform for Pedestrian Crowd
Peng Wang, Xiaoda Wang, Peter Luh, Neal Olderman, Christian Wilkie, Timo Korhonen, Gregor J\"ager
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08190

CrowdEgress: A Multi-Agent Simulation Platform for Pedestrian Crowd
This article introduces a simulation platform to study complex crowd behavior in social context. The agent-based model is extended based on the well-known social force model, and it mainly describes how agents interact with each other, and also with surrounding facilities such as walls, doors and exits. The simulation platform is compatible to FDS+Evac, and the input data in FDS+Evac could be imported into our simulation platform to create single-floor compartment geometry, and a flow solver is…