Tag: Cloud

Indian government’s cloud spilled citizens’ personal data online for years

The Indian government has finally resolved a years-long cybersecurity issue that exposed reams of sensitive data about its citizens. A security researcher exclusively told TechCrunch he found at least hundreds of documents containing citizens’ personal information — including Aadhaar numbers, COVID-19 vaccination data, and passport details — spilling online for anyone to access. At fault [...]read moreIndian government’s cloud spilled citizens’ personal data online for years

3 Shifts That Cloud The Public’s Perception Of Real Estate Agents

April is Teams Month here at Inman. Adding nuance on top of our weekly Teams Beat email newsletter, we’ll serve up top insights from the best team leaders across the country as we dig deeper into what it takes to build a team, scale it, and even leave one. As Realtors and consumers alike continue [...]read more3 Shifts That Cloud The Public’s Perception Of Real Estate Agents

The market is forcing cloud vendors to relax data egress fees

In recent months, the big three cloud vendors — Amazon, Microsoft and Google — have relaxed their egress fees, which are a tax of sorts that the cloud companies charge customers to move their data to another vendor. It’s a way to keep existing customers in the fold, but it’s kind of a ham-handed way [...]read moreThe market is forcing cloud vendors to relax data egress fees

Dan Stevens Dishes on Third ‘Downton Abbey’ Film and Working With Late Angus Cloud in ‘Abigail’ (Exclusive)

Dan Stevens is looking toward the future as he basks in the glow of his blockbuster tentpole, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. The English actor walked the red carpet at the premiere of the hotly anticipated Kaiju epic in Los Angeles on Monday, and he spoke with ET about the possibility of another big [...]read moreDan Stevens Dishes on Third ‘Downton Abbey’ Film and Working With Late Angus Cloud in ‘Abigail’ (Exclusive)

A government watchdog hacked a US federal agency to stress-test its cloud security

A U.S. government watchdog stole more than one gigabyte of seemingly sensitive personal data from the cloud systems of the U.S. Department of the Interior. The good news: The data was fake and part of a series of tests to check whether the Department’s cloud infrastructure was secure. The experiment is detailed in a new [...]read moreA government watchdog hacked a US federal agency to stress-test its cloud security

Google brings Stack Overflow’s knowledge base to Gemini for Google Cloud

Developer Q&A site Stack Overflow is launching a new program today that will give AI companies access to its knowledge base through a new API, aptly named OverflowAPI. The launch partner for this is Google, which will use Stack Overflow’s data to enrich Gemini for Google Cloud and provide validated Stack Overflow answers in the [...]read moreGoogle brings Stack Overflow’s knowledge base to Gemini for Google Cloud

Clumio raises $75M to automate cloud data backup and recovery

Clumio, a data backup and recovery provider for companies using the public cloud, has raised $75 million in a Series D round of funding. The raise comes as the Santa Clara, California-based company claimed a four-fold increase in annual recurring revenue (ARR) last year, driven by new customers such as Atlassian, which is now using [...]read moreClumio raises $75M to automate cloud data backup and recovery

NodeShift wants to challenge the hyperscalers with its decentralized cloud

When the large cloud providers have excess compute capacity, they tend to discount it through programs like AWS’s and Azure’s spot instances. Any time a server idles, it isn’t making the company money, after all. NodeShift aims to take this concept and expand it well beyond the big clouds — and with stronger guarantees — [...]read moreNodeShift wants to challenge the hyperscalers with its decentralized cloud

Apple Now Allowing Game Streaming Apps Like Xbox Cloud Gaming in the App Store, will Allow 3rd Party App Stores in the EU to Comply with Law

Today Apple announced some massive changes coming to the iOS operating system, with the most significant stuff applying only to those in the EU in order to comply with regulations there, but also some interesting things coming to iOS users worldwide. Most significant to our interests here at TouchArcade, being that we’re based in the [...]read moreApple Now Allowing Game Streaming Apps Like Xbox Cloud Gaming in the App Store, will Allow 3rd Party App Stores in the EU to Comply with Law

Amazon posts AI-fueled cloud, ecommerce growth, shares jump

By Reuters Published Feb 2, 2024 Amazon.com beat fourth-quarter revenue expectations on Thursday as new generative AI features in its cloud and ecommerce businesses spurred robust growth during the critical holiday period. Investors cheered the results, sending Amazon shares up as much as 8% in trading after the market close. Amazon’s roster of high-spending business [...]read moreAmazon posts AI-fueled cloud, ecommerce growth, shares jump