Google, Facebook and Microsoft are some of the world’s biggest supporters of clean energy. That’s not stopping the data center giants from pushing back on a huge wind and solar project.
The first and most obvious application for Google’s AI is to better understand what the utility might expect from wind patterns in the future. This is fundamentally about averting risk.
Regulators worldwide are increasingly concerned about finance’s shift to cloud computing services supplied by a handful of tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft.
Several senior defense officials working on technological modernization have recently left the Department of Defense and expressed frustration at the slow pace of change.
Microsoft’s statement comes against the backdrop of a swell of labor organization in the U.S., including in industries and at companies where such efforts have traditionally struggled or failed.
The security firm Mandiant believes that the Evil Corp gang is now using a well-known ransomware tool named Lockbit, which is used by numerous cybercrime groups.
Illumina, which has a near monopoly on the genetic-sequencing market, said it has developed a software patch for the vulnerability and is working on a permanent fix.
