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Android 17 Adds OS-Wide ECH to Hide Website Visits From Network Providers

Google on Thursday announced new network security protections in Android 17 to bolster connection privacy, address cellular vulnerabilities, and safeguard the privacy of users' home networks. Topping the list is support for Encrypted Client Hello (ECH), a privacy standard that prevents networks from eavesdropping on which websites a user is visiting. "This new privacy standard works in tandem

Spreading the load: How Salesforce met Multi-AZ HA with SageMaker Inference Components

Learn how Salesforce used Amazon SageMaker AI Inference Component placement (the SchedulingConfig parameter) to distribute model copies across multiple Availability Zones, meeting their Multi-AZ high availability compliance requirements without sacrificing the cost efficiency of multi-model co-hosting.

MAPS: Netflix’s Multimodal Asset Personalization at Scale

Deliberate Decoupling: 6 Architectural Patterns From a Regulated WAS-to-AWS Migration

Key Takeaways In regulated industries, cloud migration success is determined less by technology selection and more by how deliberately you decouple risk vectors — compliance risk, organizational hesitation, user adoption gaps, and integration changes — so no single failure can derail the whole program. You can successfully migrate an application to AWS while keeping data on-premises by routing through a REST API abstraction (e.g., IBM’s DB2 REST API layer) paired with dedicated AWS security grou

Relaunching HashiCorp Validated Designs with improved usability

HashiCorp Validated Designs (HVDs) provide prescriptive, enterprise-focused guidance for deploying, operating, and using HashiCorp products in production. They are designed to go beyond feature documentation and general best practices by giving customers an opinionated, end-to-end path for achieving specific outcomes.   This guidance is shaped by thousands of customer engagements across our field organization, including Solutions Engineers and Architects, Professional Services, and Forward Deplo

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ownCloud Flaw Exploited to Steal Nuclear Records From Philippine Research Body

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical security flaw impacting ownCloud to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog following reports that a Chinese-speaking threat actor weaponized the vulnerability to target a nuclear research body in the Philippines. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-49105 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a case of

Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording

Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.