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GCP – Google researchers discover ‘Reptar,’ a new CPU vulnerability
This year, Google has seen an increase in the number of vulnerabilities impacting central processing units (CPU) across hardware systems. Two of the most notable of these vulnerabilities were disclosed in August, when Google researchers discovered Downfall (CVE-2022-40982) and Zenbleed (CVE-2023-20593), affecting Intel and AMD CPUs, respectively. This trend proves only to be intensifying as […]

GCP – Savimbo scales conservation and reforestation with Google Cloud
Savimbo was founded to facilitate a better way to help stop deforestation of the Amazon rainforest by directly paying small farmers and indigenous groups to be good stewards of the land. Smallfarmers control 80% of the world’s tropical forests, guarding 70% of its carbon stores. Indigenous groups are 5% of the world’s population guarding 80% […]

GCP – Vertex AI Search adds new generative AI capabilities and enterprise-ready features
Our vision for Vertex AI Search, unveiled earlier this year and made generally available in August, is to leverage our deep experience in information retrieval and generative AI to help enterprises enable their customers, employees, and other stakeholders to discover critical information at speed, uncover hidden insights across data, and improve productivity. The easy setup […]

GCP – Build your own gen AI-powered vector search applications with Vertex AI Search
The world has been amazed in the last year by the power of generative AI — and vector embeddings are part of the behind-the-scenes magic. Embeddings are a way of representing data – text, images, videos, users, music, and more – as points in space. When two points are close, they are semantically related. For […]

GCP – Boosting customer and employee engagement with TELUS International, Automation Anywhere, and Google Cloud
While artificial intelligence grabs all the headlines, there’s a quieter — but just as impactful — revolution going on behind the scenes. Intelligent automation is transforming the world of work by enabling companies to automate complex, end-to-end enterprise processes so they can drive business transformation. The result is improved employee experience and increased productivity; improved […]

GCP – Detecting data deletion and threats to backups with Security Command Center
The threat landscape is rapidly evolving, with data destruction attacks increasingly pervasive and more sophisticated than in years past. Today’s threat actors are constantly identifying new pathways to target data and to limit organizations’ ability to recover from attacks. Backups have long been the solution to rapid recovery from data destruction, which is why they […]

GCP – How TEKsystems Global Services is helping retail brands break down data silos through platform modernization
Retail brands face the challenges of data duplication and data silos as businesses and technology stacks grow — while consumer expectations remain high. These challenges not only increase the complexity of data management but can also lead to a rise in overall costs. By leveraging platform modernization services within Google Cloud, such as BigQuery, BigLake, […]

GCP – reCAPTCHA Enterprise and Descope combine no-code authentication and fraud prevention
For more than a decade, reCAPTCHA has been protecting organizations from fraud, spam, and abuse. Using an advanced and adaptive risk analysis engine, reCAPTCHA Enterprise prevents automated software from engaging in abusive activities such as credential stuffing, account takeover (ATO) and automated account creation. Organizations conducting business through online channels are constantly under attack from […]

GCP – Ingress traffic to your GKE fleet with the Multi-cluster Gateway controller, now GA
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GCP – How Looker helps startups uncover data-driven insights
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