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AWS Machine Learning Blog

AI-powered BI with Snowflake and Amazon Quick

In this post, you will learn how to build an end-to-end integration between Snowflake semantic views and Amazon Quick. The sample data is user review data for a media company. You start by loading movie review data from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) into Snowflake, define a semantic view in SQL to add business meaning, explore it with natural-language queries through Cortex Analyst, and then generate an Amazon Quick dataset and dashboard. The dataset can be created manually or with a

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
DZone

AI, OAuth, and Other Platform APIs in the Core

This is the second follow-up to June 5's release post. It covers the platform APIs that moved into the framework core this release. There are two headline pieces (AI/LLM and the modern OAuth/OIDC stack) and two smaller pieces (WiFi/connectivity and share-sheet result callbacks).  This continues the direction the previous release set when we moved NFC, biometrics, and cryptography into the framework core. The full background on that earlier set is in NFC, Crypto, Biometrics, And A New Build Cloud

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Microsoft Security Blog

CNAPP evolution: How Microsoft aligns with leading cloud risk management platforms

Learn how CNAPP platforms are helping organizations prioritize exploitable risks, reduce exposure, and operationalize security across the application lifecycle. The post CNAPP evolution: How Microsoft aligns with leading cloud risk management platforms appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

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Kubernetes Blog

Spotlight on WG Device Management

The rising popularity of AI, Edge, and Telecommunications workloads on Kubernetes has led to new requirements for hardware management. We now need hardware specification beyond CPU time and memory allocations. This includes allocating GPUs, TPUs, network interfaces, and other hardware, sometimes after pod start and occasionally through time-sharing. Efficiently managing this specialized hardware is the mission of the Device Management Working Group. Their cornerstone project, Dynamic Resource Al

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The Verge Tech

Google is finally opening the Play Store to outside payments

While the court still hasn't signed off on the massive settlement resolving Epic's antitrust lawsuit against Google for having a monopoly over Android's app store with Google Play, the tech giant says it will start rolling out changes to the way it handles billing for developers worldwide. As announced in March, the flat 30 percent billing fee is being replaced by "lower, decoupled fees" that partially decouple the billing and the app store. How much of a cut Google will take from transactions n

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