Tag: AWS

Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/that_whatsapp_from_an_israeli/ Source: The Register Title: That WhatsApp from an Israeli infosec expert could be a Iranian phish Feedly Summary: Charming Kitten unsheathes its claws and tries to catch credentials The cyber-ops arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has started a spear-phishing campaign intent on stealing credentials from Israeli journalists, cybersecurity experts, and…

Slashdot: Microsoft Sued By Authors Over Use of Books in AI Training

Jun 26, 2025

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Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/25/2137220/microsoft-sued-by-authors-over-use-of-books-in-ai-training?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Sued By Authors Over Use of Books in AI Training Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text discusses a lawsuit against Microsoft regarding the unauthorized use of authors’ books to train its Megatron AI model. This case highlights significant legal and ethical issues surrounding AI…

AWS News Blog: Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports Amazon S3 access without any data movement

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-fsx-for-openzfs-now-supports-amazon-s3-access-without-any-data-movement/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports Amazon S3 access without any data movement Feedly Summary: You can now attach Amazon S3 Access Points to your Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems so that you can access your file data as if it were in S3. With this…

The Register: Germany asks if US hyperscalers hold keys to AI kingdom

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/germany_probes_ai_market_over_competition_concerns/ Source: The Register Title: Germany asks if US hyperscalers hold keys to AI kingdom Feedly Summary: Competition authorities listen to concerns over barriers to entry and reliance on AWS, Google and Microsoft Three American hyperscalers are the gatekeepers to AI, as they possess the necessary compute infrastructure and access to the volumes…

The Register: Bank of England expands data and cloud framework by £26.7 million after revising data strategy

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/bank_of_england_expands_data/ Source: The Register Title: Bank of England expands data and cloud framework by £26.7 million after revising data strategy Feedly Summary: Dependent on SAP and Oracle, UK central bank wants to modernize in the cloud, refresh data strategy The UK central bank is expecting a 45 percent hike in the maximum cost…

The Register: Anthropic won’t fix a bug in its SQLite MCP server

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/anthropic_sql_injection_flaw_unfixed/ Source: The Register Title: Anthropic won’t fix a bug in its SQLite MCP server Feedly Summary: Fork that – 5k+ times Anthropic says it won’t fix an SQL injection vulnerability in its SQLite Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that a researcher says could be used to hijack a support bot and prompt…

Slashdot: Meta’s Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/24/221211/metas-massive-ai-data-center-is-stressing-out-a-louisiana-community Source: Slashdot Title: Meta’s Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text reports on Meta’s plans to build a massive 4 million square foot AI data center in Louisiana, highlighting significant implications for local energy infrastructure and potential cost increases…

AWS News Blog: New: Improve Apache Iceberg query performance in Amazon S3 with sort and z-order compaction

Jun 24, 2025

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-improve-apache-iceberg-query-performance-in-amazon-s3-with-sort-and-z-order-compaction/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: New: Improve Apache Iceberg query performance in Amazon S3 with sort and z-order compaction Feedly Summary: Amazon S3 now enables improved Apache Iceberg query performance through two new compaction strategies—sort and z-order—available for both S3 Tables and general purpose S3 buckets, helping organize data more efficiently by…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books

Jun 24, 2025

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