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  • Cloud Blog: This migration from Snowflake to BigQuery accelerated model building and cut costs in half

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/smarterx-migrating-to-bigquery-from-snowflake-cut-costs-in-half/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: This migration from Snowflake to BigQuery accelerated model building and cut costs in half Feedly Summary: In 2024, retail sales for consumer packaged goods were worth $7.5 trillion globally. Their sheer variety — from cosmetics to clothing, frozen vegetables to vitamins  — is hard to fathom. And distribution…

  • Cloud Blog: Ghost in the Router: China-Nexus Espionage Actor UNC3886 Targets Juniper Routers

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/china-nexus-espionage-targets-juniper-routers/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Ghost in the Router: China-Nexus Espionage Actor UNC3886 Targets Juniper Routers Feedly Summary: Written by: Lukasz Lamparski, Punsaen Boonyakarn, Shawn Chew, Frank Tse, Jakub Jozwiak, Mathew Potaczek, Logeswaran Nadarajan, Nick Harbour, Mustafa Nasser Introduction In mid 2024, Mandiant discovered threat actors deployed custom backdoors on Juniper Networks’ Junos…

  • Wired: A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-payment-system/ Source: Wired Title: A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System Feedly Summary: The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that…

  • Krebs on Security: Microsoft: Happy 2025. Here’s 161 Security Updates

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/microsoft-happy-2025-heres-161-security-updates/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Microsoft: Happy 2025. Here’s 161 Security Updates Feedly Summary: Microsoft today unleashed updates to plug a whopping 161 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, including three “zero-day" weaknesses that are already under active attack. Redmond’s inaugural Patch Tuesday of 2025 bundles more fixes than the company…