Month: April 2023

3 overlooked cloud security attack vectors

A 2022 Thales Cloud Security study revealed that 88% of enterprises store a significant amount (at least 21%) of their sensitive data in the cloud. No surprise there. Indeed, I thought the percentage would be much higher. The same report showed that 45% of organizations have experienced a data breach or failed an audit involving cloud-based data

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Preview: Google Cloud Dataplex wows

In the beginning, there was a database. On the second day, there were many databases, all isolated silos… and then also data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, all different, and tools to extract, transform, and load all of the data we wanted a closer look at. Eventually, there was also metadata, data classification, data quality,

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Research: supporters of a separatist movement in Punjab, India, are using Twitter bots to promote violence, sharing content before Twitter’s safety team can act (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

Joseph Menn / Washington Post: Research: supporters of a separatist movement in Punjab, India, are using Twitter bots to promote violence, sharing content before Twitter’s safety team can act  —  The messages are too numerous for Twitter’s reduced moderation teams to delete  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Amid escalating conflict between …

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Open-source LLMs are having a moment after the LLaMA leak and releases from Stanford and others, prompting debates over the pros and cons of open and closed AI (Sharon Goldman/VentureBeat)

Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat: Open-source LLMs are having a moment after the LLaMA leak and releases from Stanford and others, prompting debates over the pros and cons of open and closed AI  —  The open-source technology movement has been having a moment over the past few weeks thanks to AI — following a wave …

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The Commerce Department’s NTIA begins exploring possible rules for ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, requesting comment from the public over accountability (Ryan Tracy/Wall Street Journal)

Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal: The Commerce Department’s NTIA begins exploring possible rules for ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, requesting comment from the public over accountability  —  Fears grow over the potential use of artificial intelligence to commit crimes and spread falsehoods

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How a startup event in India dubbed the “world’s biggest funding festival” plunged into chaos, with participants alleging they were lured with false promises (Meryl Sebastian/BBC)

Meryl Sebastian / BBC: How a startup event in India dubbed the “world’s biggest funding festival” plunged into chaos, with participants alleging they were lured with false promises  —  In March, hundreds of budding entrepreneurs descended on Noida, a suburb of India’s capital Delhi …

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In draft guidelines, the Cyberspace Administration of China details plans to require a security review of generative AI tools before their release (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: In draft guidelines, the Cyberspace Administration of China details plans to require a security review of generative AI tools before their release  —  China plans to require a security review of generative AI services before they’re allowed to operate, casting uncertainty over ChatGPT …

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Alibaba Cloud unveils its ChatGPT-style product Tongyi Qianwen and says it will roll out the AI chatbot into all products starting with DingTalk and Tmall Genie (Sheila Chiang/CNBC)

Sheila Chiang / CNBC: Alibaba Cloud unveils its ChatGPT-style product Tongyi Qianwen and says it will roll out the AI chatbot into all products starting with DingTalk and Tmall Genie  —  – Chinese tech giant Alibaba revealed its ChatGPT-style product Tongyi Qianwen at a Tuesday summit.

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South Korea fines Google ~$32M for squeezing out a rival app store by allegedly asking Korean and Chinese firms to release games exclusively in the Play Store (Heejin Kim/Bloomberg)

Heejin Kim / Bloomberg: South Korea fines Google ~$32M for squeezing out a rival app store by allegedly asking Korean and Chinese firms to release games exclusively in the Play Store  —  South Korea fined Alphabet Inc.’s Google 42.1 billion won ($32 million) for using its clout in the mobile app market to squeeze out

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Apple says it will open Apple BKC in Mumbai on April 18, its first retail store in India, followed by Apple Saket in Delhi on April 20 (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple says it will open Apple BKC in Mumbai on April 18, its first retail store in India, followed by Apple Saket in Delhi on April 20  —  Apple recently confirmed that the first Apple Retail Store in India would be opened later this month.  Now the company has confirmed that

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Internal email: Sydney-based MilkRun, which promised grocery delivery in 20 minutes or less and raised a A$75M Series A led by Tiger Global in 2022, is closing (Australian Financial Review)

Australian Financial Review: Internal email: Sydney-based MilkRun, which promised grocery delivery in 20 minutes or less and raised a A$75M Series A led by Tiger Global in 2022, is closing  —  Ultrafast delivery company MilkRun will close its doors and make all staff and riders redundant, marking an abrupt end for the company …

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GoFundMe’s former chairman and CEO Rob Solomon announces Kite, which will invest in digital-first consumer product brands, with $200M in equity funding (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: GoFundMe’s former chairman and CEO Rob Solomon announces Kite, which will invest in digital-first consumer product brands, with $200M in equity funding  —  Three years after stepping down as GoFundMe’s chairman and CEO, Rob Solomon is returning to the industry he calls his “first love,” …

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Your Multimeter Might Be Lying To You

Multimeters are indispensable tools when working on electronics. It’s almost impossible to build any but the most basic of circuits without one to test and troubleshoot potential issues, and they make possible a large array of measurement capabilities that are not easily performed otherwise. But when things start getting a little more complex it’s important

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