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BleepingComputer

Webinar: Which Google Workspace security controls actually matter?

Fast-growing companies face countless recommendations for securing Google Workspace, but not every control provides the same value. This webinar examines real-world breaches to explore which security controls matter most, which may be overrated, and where lean security teams should focus their resources. [...]

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

Introducing Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway is a Kubernetes-native, GPU-aware routing add-on for Amazon EKS. It uses real-time GPU signals to send each inference request to the best-suited pod, cutting first-token latency by up to 82% with no changes to your model servers or client applications.

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DZone

Stop Blaming Executor Memory: The Real Reasons Your Spark Jobs Are Slow

After a decade of building and debugging large-scale data pipelines across financial services, payments processing, and analytics platforms, I can tell you that almost every slow Spark job I've investigated had the same root cause — and it wasn't the one the team thought it was.  The default response when a Spark job is slow is to add more executor memory, increase the number of executors, or bump spark.sql.shuffle.partitions. Sometimes that helps. Usually it doesn't. What I've found, consistent

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The Hacker News

Microsoft Patches CVSS 10.0 Azure AI Foundry Flaw Enabling Unauthorized Privilege Escalation

Microsoft has released fixes for a maximum-severity security flaw in Azure AI Foundry that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation. No customer action is required. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85889, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. "Missing authentication for critical function in Azure AI Foundry allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network,"

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