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AWS Architecture Blog

How CSIRO built scalable, cost-optimized genomic variant querying on AWS

Learn how researchers at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, built Serverless Beacon (sBeacon), a scalable serverless solution for securely querying genomic variant data on AWS. sBeacon implements the GA4GH Beacon standard using Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Athena to support production-scale clinical and research applications.

Amazon AthenaAmazon DynamoDBAmazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
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ExternalCybersecurity
SecurityWeek

In Other News: Ransomware Developer Sentenced, Plugin4Shell AI Attack, Critical SAP Flaw

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Mandiant's 2026 AI risk report, PhantomRaven malware used by bug bounty hunter, WordPress plugin bug exploited. The post In Other News: Ransomware Developer Sentenced, Plugin4Shell AI Attack, Critical SAP Flaw appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Artificial IntelligenceCybercrimeVulnerabilities
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BleepingComputer

Secure enterprise sharing with access reviews for Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 makes sharing files easy, but access can remain long after its original purpose has ended, leaving organizations with little visibility into who can still reach sensitive data. tenfold Software explains how centralized access governance and owner-driven reviews can help identify and remove unnecessary access. [...]

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DZone

RAG, Vector Databases, and MCP: Wiring Them Together for Production

Why This Combination Matters Most RAG tutorials stop at the same point: embed some documents, stuff them into a vector store, retrieve the top-k chunks, and paste them into a prompt. That gets you a demo. It does not get you a system another team can call, monitor, version, and trust. Three pieces close that gap:

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