UsingOIDCto authenticate in AWS and Azure pipelines is a good practice, removes the need for access keys, and makes pipeline infrastructure secure and less fragile. This blog covershow to authenticate using OIDC in AWS and Azure pipelines via GitHub actions, and the benefits include granular contro.. read more  

Microsoft Azure has a design flawwhere sharing key authorization is enabled by default when creating a storage account, which could lead to an attacker gaining full access to an environment. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue, and investigation by their Security Response Center is ongoing. The i.. read more  

Get ready forCitus Con, the annual PostgreSQL event! This year's virtual conference features keynote speakers Simon Willison (Co-creator of Django) and Marco Slot (Principal Software Engineer on the Citus team at Microsoft), plus several sessions on Citus and Postgres, hosted by experienced speaker.. read more  

OpenAI has introduced an "utterance suggestion" feature for their conversational language understanding (CLU) services. This feature leverages their GPT model and Azure, allowing developers to create customized models that can detect user intent and extract relevant information. This feature provid.. read more  

Labviva, an AI-driven life sciences digital marketplace,has raised $20 million in Series Afinancing led by Biospring Partners, with participation from existing investors Senator Investment Group, B Capital Group, and Glasswing Ventures. The funds will be used to accelerate deployment of Labviva’s p.. read more  

Microsoft has reportedly ordered at least two rival search engines to cut access to Bing's search index. The basis for the order involves AI chatbots that have been using Bing's index to feed their AI chat tools. NeevaandYou.comare among the companies at odds with Microsoft. While Google is the co.. read more  

iCad, a New Hampshire-based company developing imaging and radiotherapy technologies for cancer detection and treatment, has announcedlayoffs affecting approximately 28% of its workforce. The company's restructuring plan will costan estimated $300,000 in severance and benefits payments, with the ma.. read more  

The University of Oxfordis using artificial intelligence and large language models, like ChatGPT andVisual-GPT, to transform education. The Azure OpenAI service is being integrated to offer a personalized learning experience and create vertical-specific chatbots, like a strategy chatbot for agricult.. read more  

Survival modelingis a statistical technique used to analyze and model time-to-event data, such as the time until death, failure of a mechanical device, or occurrence of a disease. The article discusses using survival modeling forpredicting customer churnand understandingcausal mechanisms. The propo.. read more