Tag: cloud infrastructure

  • Hacker News: AMD’s trusted execution environment blown wide open by new BadRAM attack

    Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/new-badram-attack-neuters-security-assurances-in-amd-epyc-processors/ Source: Hacker News Title: AMD’s trusted execution environment blown wide open by new BadRAM attack Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses significant vulnerabilities related to physical access to cloud servers, particularly spotlighting a proof-of-concept attack known as BadRAM that exploits security assurances offered by AMD’s microprocessors.…

  • The Register: AMD secure VM tech undone by DRAM meddling

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/10/amd_secure_vm_tech_undone/ Source: The Register Title: AMD secure VM tech undone by DRAM meddling Feedly Summary: Boffins devise BadRAM attack to pilfer secrets from SEV-SNP encrypted memory Researchers have found that the security mechanism AMD uses to protect virtual machine memory can be bypassed with $10 of hardware – and perhaps not even that.……

  • Hacker News: VictoriaLogs: A Grafana Dashboard for AWS VPC Flow Logs – Migrating from Grafan

    Source URL: https://rtfm.co.ua/en/victorialogs-a-grafana-dashboard-for-aws-vpc-flow-logs-migrating-from-grafana-loki/ Source: Hacker News Title: VictoriaLogs: A Grafana Dashboard for AWS VPC Flow Logs – Migrating from Grafan Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text details the implementation of a monitoring system for AWS VPC Flow Logs using Terraform in conjunction with tools like Grafana, Loki, and VictoriaLogs. It…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: New Gemini model: gemini-exp-1206

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/6/gemini-exp-1206/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: New Gemini model: gemini-exp-1206 Feedly Summary: New Gemini model: gemini-exp-1206 Google’s Jeff Dean: Today’s the one year anniversary of our first Gemini model releases! And it’s never looked better. Check out our newest release, Gemini-exp-1206, in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API! I upgraded my llm-gemini…

  • Cloud Blog: Locking down Cloud Run: Inside Commerzbank’s adoption of custom org policies

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/financial-services/commerzbank-cloud-run-custom-org-policies/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Locking down Cloud Run: Inside Commerzbank’s adoption of custom org policies Feedly Summary: Usually, financial institutions process multiple millions of transactions daily. Obviously, when running on cloud technology, any security lapse in their cloud infrastructure might have catastrophic consequences. In serverless setups for compute workloads Cloud Run on…

  • Hacker News: Show HN: BunkerWeb – The Open-Source Web Application Firewall (WAF)

    Source URL: https://github.com/bunkerity/bunkerweb Source: Hacker News Title: Show HN: BunkerWeb – The Open-Source Web Application Firewall (WAF) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** BunkerWeb is an innovative open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) designed to provide “security by default” for web services. Its seamless integration with various environments (like Linux and Docker), customizable…

  • Cloud Blog: Moloco: 10x faster model training times with TPUs on Google Kubernetes Engine

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/moloco-uses-gke-and-tpus-for-ml-workloads/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Moloco: 10x faster model training times with TPUs on Google Kubernetes Engine Feedly Summary: In today’s congested digital landscape, businesses of all sizes face the challenge of optimizing their marketing budgets. They must find ways to stand out amid the bombardment of messages vying for potential customers’ attention.…

  • Cloud Blog: How Current leveraged Spanner to build a resilient platform for banking services

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/current-challenger-bank-database-resilience-spanner/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Current leveraged Spanner to build a resilient platform for banking services Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: In the heart of the fintech revolution, Current is on a mission to transform the financial landscape for millions of Americans living paycheck to paycheck. Founded on the belief that everyone deserves…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude 3.5 Haiku price drops by 20%

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/5/claude-35-haiku-price-drops-by-20/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude 3.5 Haiku price drops by 20% Feedly Summary: Claude 3.5 Haiku price drops by 20% Buried in this otherwise quite dry post about Anthropic’s ongoing partnership with AWS: To make this model even more accessible for a wide range of use cases, we’re lowering the price…