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GCP – How BioCorteX uses BigQuery to help answer the question “Will this drug work?”
Editor’s note: The post is part of a series showcasing partner solutions that are Built with BigQuery. BioCorteX is a leading techbio company that’s focused on answering the almost impossible question: will this drug work? To find the answer, BioCorteX created the first biology emulator, which unlocks drug-bacteria relationships to discover and develop more compatible […]
GCP – Navigating the EU AI Act: Google Cloud’s proactive approach
Governance of AI has reached a critical milestone in the European Union: The AI Act has been published in the EU’s Official Journal, and will enter into force on August 1. The AI Act is a legal framework that establishes obligations for AI systems based on their potential risks and levels of impact. It will […]
GCP – Scaling Up Malware Analysis with Gemini 1.5 Flash
Written by:Bernardo Quintero, Founder of VirusTotal and Security Director, Google Cloud SecurityAlex Berry, Security Manager of the Mandiant FLARE Team, Google Cloud SecurityIlfak Guilfanov, author of IDA Pro and CTO, Hex-RaysVijay Bolina, Chief Information Security Officer & Head of Cybersecurity Research, Google DeepMind In our previous post, we explored how Gemini 1.5 Pro could be […]
AWS – AWS Identity and Access Management simplifies management of OpenID Connect identity providers
Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is announcing improvements that simplify how customers manage OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity providers (IdPs) in their AWS accounts. These improvements include increased availability when handling federated user logins through existing IdPs and a streamlined process for provisioning new OIDC IdPs. IAM now secures communication with OIDC IdPs by […]
AWS – Amazon Q introduces support for scanned PDFs and embedded images in PDF documents
Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative-AI powered assistant that enhances employee productivity by answering questions, providing summaries, generating content, and completing tasks based on customer’s enterprise data. Across various industries, users want to derive insights from document types such as invoices, tax statements, which are frequently in scanned PDF format. Starting today, Amazon […]
GCP – Safeguard your SAP environments with Workload Manager’s evaluation service
As businesses embrace the cloud for their SAP workloads, compliance with best practices is critical. In this blog post, we dive into Google Cloud’s Workload Manager and show how it can help safeguard your SAP systems by providing automated, rule-based analysis to proactively identify potential misconfigurations and deviations from best practices. The role of best […]
GCP – At Devoted Health, ChromeOS works side by side with employees
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by David Gallant, Head of Enterprise Technology and Support at Devoted Health, an all-in-one healthcare company on a mission to dramatically improve the health and well-being of older Americans. At Devoted Health, we believe healthcare should be a better experience for patients and clinicians. That’s why nearly all of our […]
AWS – Announcing IDE workspace context awareness in Q Developer chat
Today, AWS announces IDE workspace context awareness in Amazon Q Developer chat. Users can now add @workspace to their chat message to Amazon Q Developer to ask questions about the code in the project they currently have open in the integrated development environment (IDE). Developers can ask questions like “@workspace what does this codebase do?” […]
AWS – Amazon ECS now enforces software version consistency for containerized applications
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now enforces software version consistency for your containerized applications, helping you ensure all tasks in your application are identical and that all code changes go through the safeguards defined in your deployment pipeline. Customers deploy long-running applications such as HTTP-based microservices as Amazon ECS services and often use container […]
AWS – AWS Secrets Manager announces open source release of Secrets Manager Agent
AWS Secrets Manager today announces Secrets Manager Agent – a language agnostic local HTTP service that you can install and use in your compute environments to read secrets from Secrets Manager and cache them in memory. With this launch, you can now simplify and standardize the way you read secrets across compute environments without the […]