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Natural IDs in Your Database. I Am Telling You for the Last Time!
Hi everyone! This is Mikhail Polivakha, tech lead of the Axelix project (btw, give us a star!). In my experience consulting teams that build enterprise applications, I keep getting asked: What about natural keys in the database? Say I have a column that lets me explicitly identify a record, should I use it as the Primary Key?
Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS
Azure Multicloud Interconnect helps simplify private connectivity between Microsoft Azure and AWS, enabling organizations to support multicloud and AI workloads with a more streamlined, cloud-native networking experience. Built on open interoperability standards, it helps reduce operational complexity while providing high-performance connectivity across cloud environments. The post Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
AI Model Rules Are Not Security Controls
OpenAI's Hugging Face attack postmortem shows agents don't care about rules — they need strong controls.
North Korean Job Fraud Expands Beyond IT Into Healthcare and Sales
Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (aka DPRK or North Korea) have been observed seeking job opportunities beyond the information technology (IT) sector, with recent investigations identifying suspected workers employed in sales and marketing and the medical profession. The ongoing insider threat is part of what has been described as the IT worker scheme,
Automate IAM Identity Center governance with continuous discovery and reporting
AWS IAM Identity Center integrates with external identity provider (IdP) to provide customers with a centralized authentication and authorization solution for AWS resources across AWS Organizations. AWS continues to invest into IAM Identity Center with a growing number of AWS services that natively integrate with IAM Identity Center. As your AWS organization scales, maintaining visibility […]
Raindrops are tiny lightning bolts, and they’re corroding cars, study finds
Finding reveals an overlooked way that water can damage surfaces.
Car owners want tech they can ignore
Automakers keep shoving more tech into their cars, despite evidence that consumers are increasingly fed up with huge screens and glitchy software. In fact, the features that car owners appreciate the most happen to be the ones they barely notice, according to the latest tech survey from JD Power. The consumer research firm surveyed 68,084 owners of new 2026 model-year vehicles after 90 days of ownership. The survey touched on 40 automotive technologies covering comfort and convenience; connecte
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