Colombian police comb through cloud forest searching for soccer star’s abducted father

Police in Colombia have deployed air and land patrols to search for soccer player Luis Diaz’s father, who was kidnapped over the weekend along with Diaz’s mother ByMANUEL RUEDA Associated Press October 30, 2023, 7:18 PM Liverpool’s Luis Diaz ahead the Europa League Group E soccer match between Liverpool and Toulouse, at Anfield in Liverpool, … Read more

Google Cloud, AWS, and Cloudflare report largest DDoS attacks ever

Monster DDoS attacks hit Google Cloud and other major internet services. Google Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks may be one of the least sophisticated types of cyberattacks but they can do real damage. Now Google and other top cloud companies are reporting new records for the largest DDoS attacks ever. The Google Cloud was hit … Read more

Shadow launches Windows-based cloud PCs for $9.99 per month

While Shadow is better known for its high-end cloud PCs with a dedicated Nvidia GPU, the company is introducing a new tier called Shadow PC Essential. As the name suggests, Shadow isn’t targeting gamers with this offering. This is a computer in the cloud that runs Windows and that you can access from any device … Read more

Watch Angus Cloud in One of His Final Roles in ‘Your Lucky Day’ Trailer

“I keep thinking about that old question — what would you do if you had a million dollars?” That’s the central conflict in the upcoming thriller Your Lucky Day, which features late Euphoria star Angus Cloud in one of his final roles. In the film from director Daniel Brown, Cloud plays a young man who … Read more

UK Investigating AWS, Microsoft Anticompetitive Cloud Practices

On Thursday, UK regulators initiated a competition probe into Microsoft, Google, and Amazon’s cloud computing practices. The investigation is based on a study by media watchdog Ofcom which forwarded its findings to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to examine U.S. big tech companies’ competitive practices. Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever … Read more

Amazon and Microsoft face UK cloud computing competition probe

Britain’s anti-competition regulators have been tasked with investigating Microsoft and Amazon’s dominance of the cloud computing market. Media watchdog Ofcom on Thursday referred its inquiry for further investigation to the Competition and Markets Authority, kickstarting the process. Ofcom said that it had identified features which make it more difficult for U.K. businesses to switch cloud providers, or use … Read more

AWS, Microsoft, and Google face UK competition probe over cloud lock-in practices

The U.K. cloud market has been thrust firmly into the regulatory crosshairs, with news that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching a full-scale investigation into whether the big cloud infrastructure companies make it difficult for businesses to switch, or use multiple providers. The news comes a full year after Ofcom revealed it was … Read more

There’s big risk in not knowing what OpenAI is building in the cloud, warn Oxford scholars

OsakaWayne Studios/Getty Images One of the seminal events in artificial intelligence (AI) in 2023 was the decision by OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, to disclose almost no information about its latest large language model (LLM), GPT-4, when the company introduced the program in March.  That sudden swing to secrecy is becoming a major ethical issue … Read more

NASA’s Cloud Observing Satellite Bids Farewell After 17 Years

After blasting beams of energy through the clouds for the past 17 years, NASA’s lidar satellite mission came to an end this past August, the agency has revealed. Meet Microsoft’s New Surface Laptops CALIPSO, a joint mission by NASA and the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), had exhausted its fuel reserves. Due to … Read more