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  • The Register: Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/google_cloud_mod_contract/ Source: The Register Title: Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services Feedly Summary: Deal promises sovereign datacenters, AI, and cybersecurity to strengthen communication links with US The UK’s Ministry of Defence has signed a £400 million ($540 million) contract with Google sovereign cloud to support security and analytics workloads.……

  • Slashdot: Britannica and Merriam-Webster Sue Perplexity Over AI ‘Answer Engine’

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/11/2016238/britannica-and-merriam-webster-sue-perplexity-over-ai-answer-engine?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Britannica and Merriam-Webster Sue Perplexity Over AI ‘Answer Engine’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a lawsuit against Perplexity AI, an AI startup accused by Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster of improperly using their content. This case highlights critical issues surrounding AI and copyright infringement,…

  • AWS News Blog: Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/accelerate-serverless-testing-with-localstack-integration-in-vs-code-ide/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Accelerate serverless testing with LocalStack integration in VS Code IDE Feedly Summary: AWS is announcing integrated LocalStack support in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code that makes it easier than ever for developers to test and debug serverless applications locally. This enhancement builds upon our recent…

  • The Register: Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/vmscape_spectre_vulnerability/ Source: The Register Title: Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets Feedly Summary: AMD Zen hardware and Intel Coffee Lake affected If you thought the world was done with side-channel CPU attacks, think again. ETH Zurich has identified yet another Spectre-based transient execution vulnerability that affects AMD Zen CPUs and…

  • AWS Open Source Blog: Strands Agents and the Model-Driven Approach

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/strands-agents-and-the-model-driven-approach/ Source: AWS Open Source Blog Title: Strands Agents and the Model-Driven Approach Feedly Summary: Until recently, building AI agents meant wrestling with complex orchestration frameworks. Developers wrote elaborate state machines, predefined workflows, and extensive error-handling code to guide language models through multi-step tasks. We needed to build elaborate decision trees to handle…

  • Cloud Blog: Introducing no-cost, multicloud Data Transfer Essentials for EU and U.K. customers

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/new-for-the-uk-and-eu-no-cost-multicloud-data-transfer-essentials/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing no-cost, multicloud Data Transfer Essentials for EU and U.K. customers Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud, our services are built with interoperability and openness in mind to enable customer choice and multicloud strategies. We pioneered a multicloud data warehouse, enabling workloads to run across clouds. We were the…

  • The Register: This Patch Tuesday, SAP is the worst offender and Microsoft users can kinda chill

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/microsoft_patch_tuesday/ Source: The Register Title: This Patch Tuesday, SAP is the worst offender and Microsoft users can kinda chill Feedly Summary: ERP giant patches flaw that allows total takeover of NetWeaver, Microsoft has nothing under attack for once September’s Patch Tuesday won’t require Microsoft users to rapidly repair rancid software, but SAP users…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft To Use Some AI From Anthropic In Shift From OpenAI

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/09/238208/microsoft-to-use-some-ai-from-anthropic-in-shift-from-openai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft To Use Some AI From Anthropic In Shift From OpenAI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft is expanding its AI capabilities by incorporating Anthropic’s AI features into Office 365 applications, shifting its reliance from OpenAI. This integration aims to enhance functionalities like financial automation in…