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GCP – Build maps in the cloud with BigQuery DataFrames, Gemini, and CARTO
In today’s data-driven world, unlocking the power of location data is crucial for gaining deeper insights and making informed decisions. By leveraging the scalability and efficiency of BigQuery for massive geospatial datasets and the visualization capabilities of CARTO, you can now create powerful interactive visualizations and conduct advanced spatial analysis — all without leaving your […]
GCP – Free to be SRE, with this systems engineering syllabus
Creating and implementing reliable systems (of code, infrastructure, or anything really) forms the discipline of systems engineering, which is used extensively by Google site reliability engineers (SREs). To help you learn more about systems engineering, and how to get hands-on with best practices, we’ve assembled some resources for you to get started. The Systems Engineering […]
GCP – UNC3944 Targets SaaS Applications
Introduction UNC3944 is a financially motivated threat group that carries significant overlap with public reporting of “0ktapus,” “Octo Tempest,” “Scatter Swine,” and “Scattered Spider,” and has been observed adapting its tactics to include data theft from software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to attacker-owned cloud storage objects (using cloud synchronization tools), persistence mechanisms against virtualization platforms, and lateral […]
AWS – Productionize Foundation Models from SageMaker Canvas
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports deploying Foundation Models (FMs) to SageMaker real-time inference endpoints, allowing you to bring generative AI capabilities into production and consume them outside the Canvas workspace. SageMaker Canvas is a no-code workspace that enables analysts and citizen data scientists to generate accurate ML predictions and use generative AI capabilities. SageMaker Canvas […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server Supports Minor Version 2022 CU13
A new minor version of Microsoft SQL Server is now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the latest minor version of SQL Server 2022 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. We encourage you to upgrade your Amazon RDS for […]
GCP – Join the latest Google Cloud Security Talks on the intersection of AI and cybersecurity
As AI continues to change the way we work, security professionals are thinking about how to apply generative AI to help them in their jobs, and how to safeguard the AI systems their organizations are beginning to use. They’re also envisioning new ways to use threat intelligence, sharpen their risk assessments, and increase visibility into […]
GCP – Build your own generative AI chatbot directly from BigQuery
Organizations today have access to a wealth of data, including customer information, financial records, operational logs, and more, which they aim to leverage for building new generative AI solutions. However, they face a number of challenges: Building and training LLMs requires significant technical expertise and computational resources. Teams usually need to use many different frameworks […]
GCP – Build gen AI apps quickly with LangChain VectorStore in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
We recently announced a suite of LangChain packages for the Google Cloud database portfolio. Each package will have up to three LangChain integrations: Vector stores to enable semantic search for our databases that support vectors Document loaders for loading and saving documents to/from your database Chat Message Memory to enable chains to recall previous conversations […]
GCP – Lightricks boosts search retrieval rates by 40% with vector support in Cloud SQL
Editor’s note: Lightricks builds innovative photo and video creation apps based on the latest computer vision and AI technology, enabling content creators and brands to produce engaging, top-performing, and scalable content. When its powerful video editor, Videoleap, needed enhanced search functionality, Lightricks leveraged the pgvector extension in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL, which improved its search […]
GCP – Insights on Cyber Threats Targeting Users and Enterprises in Brazil
Written by: Kristen Dennesen, Luke McNamara, Dmitrij Lenz, Adam Weidemann, Aline Bueno Individuals and organizations in Brazil face a unique cyber threat landscape because it is a complex interplay of global and local threats, posing significant risks to individuals, organizations, and critical sectors of Brazilian society. Many of the cyber espionage threat actors that […]