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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO

Last summer, a faulty CrowdStrike software update took down millions of computers, caused billions in damages, and underscored that companies are still not able to manage third-party risks, or respond quickly and efficiently to disruptions. Its worth doing that extra step of diligence because it can save you problems down the road, she says.

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Passwordless authentication startup Descope lands whopping $53M seed round

TechCrunch

Take Descope , for example, which today announced that it raised a whopping $53 million in seed funding for its “developer-first” authentication and user management platform. In tight economies, organizations feel the pressure to shift software development efforts to initiatives that’ll move the needle for business.

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Accelerate AWS Well-Architected reviews with Generative AI

AWS Machine Learning - AI

As systems scale, conducting thorough AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews (WAFRs) becomes even more crucial, offering deeper insights and strategic value to help organizations optimize their growing cloud environments. This time efficiency translates to significant cost savings and optimized resource allocation in the review process.

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IT leaders brace for the AI agent management challenge

CIO

Agentic AI systems require more sophisticated monitoring, security, and governance mechanisms due to their autonomous nature and complex decision-making processes. Durvasula also notes that the real-time workloads of agentic AI might also suffer from delays due to cloud network latency. IT employees? Not so much.

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Code analysis tool AppMap wants to become Google Maps for developers

TechCrunch

The 10/10-rated Log4Shell flaw in Log4j, an open source logging software that’s found practically everywhere, from online games to enterprise software and cloud data centers, claimed numerous victims from Adobe and Cloudflare to Twitter and Minecraft due to its ubiquitous presence. Image Credits: AppMap.

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Integrate foundation models into your code with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

In this post, we explore how to integrate Amazon Bedrock FMs into your code base, enabling you to build powerful AI-driven applications with ease. For this post, we run the code in a Jupyter notebook within VS Code and use Python. This client will serve as the entry point for interacting with Amazon Bedrock FMs.

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Truepic, which just raised $26M in a Microsoft-led round, aims to verify the authenticity of photos and videos

TechCrunch

Truepic, a digital image verification software provider, has raised $26 million in a Series B funding round led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund. Provenance-based media authentication is the most promising approach to universal visual trust online.”. Truepic’s camera technology is software-based, and runs on mobile devices.