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Automated PII redaction for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL audit logs

In this post, we show you how to deploy a serverless pipeline that creates an irreversibly redacted, queryable archive of Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL audit logs. The pipeline permanently removes Social Security numbers (SSNs), credit cards, email, names, and more than 30 types of personally identifiable information (PII) before storing clean logs in Amazon S3 for query through Amazon Athena.

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'Certighost' Flaw Haunts Microsoft Active Directory Certificates

Microsoft patched a high-severity vulnerability earlier this month that allows a threat actor to escalate privileges and compromise an AD environment.

The OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scale

Report: Trump mad RFK Jr. hasn’t cut more vaccines or proven autism link

Trump is fixated on the false, long-debunked claim that vaccines cause autism.

A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants

Article URL: https://blog.doubleword.ai/you-could-have-come-up-with-kimi-delta-attention Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085909 Points: 282 # Comments: 116

Best Buy scales AI workloads and secures access with Workforce Identity Federation

As Best Buy expanded its use of Google Cloud for advanced analytics and AI, its technology teams faced two significant scaling challenges: Mitigating risk and managing administrative friction when syncing thousands of backend users from Microsoft Entra ID.  The retailer solved both problems and paved the way for a massive cloud expansion by implementing Google Cloud's Workforce Identity Federation. This direct approach allowed developers to access cloud resources securely using their existing Mi

Detect early and enforce firmly with Google Cloud's enhanced cost controls for AI spend

Generative AI can make cloud costs difficult to predict. A single five-word prompt can run complex operations and generate significant costs. Traditional metrics like requests per second no longer help you estimate your bill, increasing the risk of unexpected cost spikes. While Google Cloud offers budget alerts, you need proactive guardrails that work out of the box - without the friction of writing custom JSON policies, configuring complex roles, or maintaining bespoke scripts.   Today, we are