#cloud-services

#cloud-services

Microsoft cloud services are scanning for malware by peeking inside users' zip files, even when they're protected by a password, several users reported on Mastodon on Monday.Compressing file contents into archived zip files has long been a tactic threat actors use to conceal malware spreading through email or downloads.

Cybersecurity startup SquareX today emerged from stealth mode with $6 million raised in a seed funding round led by Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia.The Singapore company provides a cloud-based solution that integrates with the browser as an extension, and which can keep users safe from malware and allows them to remain private.

American cybersecurity officials have released an early-warning system to protect Microsoft cloud users.The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the software, developed in conjunction with Sandia National Labs, to help network administrators spot potentially malicious activity in the Microsoft Azure cloud, Microsoft 365 services, and Azure Active Directory (AAD).

In today's ExchangeWire news digest: Meta and its content moderation partners face legal action in Kenya; Google temporarily removes Pinduoduo from its Play Store due to security concerns; and Amazon prepares to cut 9,000 jobs.Meta sued by former content moderators in Kenya
Meta and its Kenya-based content moderation partners are facing fresh legal action in Kenya.

Here's today's AdExchanger.comnews round-up... Want it by email?Sign up 230 Unhurty?here.The US Supreme Court held oral arguments on Tuesday in the case of Gonzalez v. Google, which challenges the Section 230 legal protections for companies that host user-generated content.In the suit is the family of a victim of the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, which were committed by men radicalized in part by YouTube videos.

We couldn't be more excited to announce our first group of partners for ODSC Europe 2023's AI Expo and Demo Hall.These organizations are shaping the future of the AI and data science industries with their innovative products and services.Check them out below.Comprising more than 200 products and cloud services, Microsoft Azure aims to meet organizations where they are (in the cloud, in-person, or a hybrid of the two) to help develop new business solutions.

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In addition to ever-increasing volumes of data, storage needs have evolved due to increases in remote work, the use of cloud services, and cybersecurity concerns such as ransomware.In Modern Storage Management summit, learn from top industry experts and solution providers about the latest ways to effectively manage the flood of enterprise data.

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Grafana Labs today made available an ability to customize what observability data is collected via its managed cloud service.This capability can help reduce storage costs in addition to enhancing the dashboard Grafana provides to make it simpler to track metrics usage.Wayne Jin, vice president of product marketing for Grafana Labs, said both capabilities would make it easier for DevOps teams to track and ultimately reduce the cost of storing the time-series data collected via its cloud platform.

I just finished watching "Local-first Software" by Peter Van Hardenberg and loved it!He talks about changing the paradigm we're currently in where a program runs in the cloud and we look at it when we're online, to one where the program runs on the device in our hands and we send data to the cloud for "durability or accessibility".

Back in 2016 Nvidia kickstarted the generative AI revolution as we've come to know it when OpenAI took delivery of its first AI supercomputer, which powers the breakthrough AI ChatGPT.Now with over 100 million users and rising, Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang used his GTC keynote to call 2023 the "iPhone moment of AI".

The Acer Chromebook 516 GE feels like it was green-lit back when Google Stadia was the future of gaming.As someone who lacks a high-spec gaming PC (but has a PS5 and Xbox Series X) the idea of cloud gaming and having access to high-end PC games anywhere is an enticing third-way for gaming.Stadia may have gone but Nvidia GeForce Now, Game Pass, Amazon Luna+ and more platforms exist.

https://unsplash.com/photos/BJHN6Do8kjQAs you know, I've been working more with IoT edge use cases around my career.It was going fine with Azure to date, but when we were re-analyzing the architecture, we found a need for cloud-agnostic microservices instead of cloud-native microservices (more precisely with Azure).

What are the challenges with log monitoring for cloud-native architectures?Historically, log monitoring was easier because most application logs had a consistent structure and format.Transforming this data and aggregating the information was simple, allowing teams to collect and analyze different logs into a single view of the environment's performance.

Microsoft is bringing ChatGPT, with all its promises and shortcomings, to world-plus-dog as a cloud service in Azure.Redmond this week was "thrilled to announce" ChatGPT will be selectively available as a preview within the Azure OpenAI Service.That service is largely aimed at corporations that want to put large-language models to work in their applications and workflows, such as using Dall-E2 for generating images, GPT-3.5 for text, and Codex for something that resembles code.

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The NIST compliance framework consists of 5 core functions: identify, protect, detect, respond and recover.In my previous column, I mapped threat intelligence capabilities to the NIST core function of Identify.In this column, I will continue the discussion by mapping threat intelligence to the additional functions of Protect, Detect and Respond.