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3 best practices for cloud security monitoring

As powerful as the cloud may be, it’s not magic. If you have a problem before you transition to the cloud, it won’t… just go away once you make the switch. Cloud... Read more »

How to conduct proper AWS vulnerability scanning in 3 steps

AWS provides a set of security controls to protect its own infrastructure, but it’s important to be aware that… the security of the individual servers is the responsibility of the client —... Read more »

Enhancing agent experience with AI contact centers

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Contact centers hold significant value for businesses, but they often have to deal with a disengaged workforce and... Read more »

Crypto is weathering a bitter storm. Some still hold on for dear life.

Algorithmic stablecoins, however, are different. They are a DeFi experiment that aren’t pegged to fiat money and don’t hold collateral assets to stabilize their value. Instead, they are usually supported by a... Read more »

The Download: the cancer vaccine renaissance, and working towards a decarbonized future

Last week, Moderna and Merck launched a large clinical trial in the UK of a promising new cancer therapy: a personalized vaccine that targets a specific set of mutations found in each... Read more »

Cancer vaccines are having a renaissance

Personalized cancer vaccines like the ones Moderna and BioNTech are developing are tailored to each patient’s particular cancer. The researchers collect a piece of the patient’s tumor and a sample of healthy... Read more »

Why new ethanol aviation fuel tax subsidies aren’t a clear climate win

Corn, like any plant that uses photosynthesis to produce food, sucks up carbon dioxide from the air. But using corn for fuel rather than food also creates pressure to clear more land... Read more »

The Download: Sam Altman on AI’s killer function, and the problem with ethanol

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has a vision for how AI tools will become enmeshed in our daily lives.  During a sit-down chat with MIT Technology Review in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he described... Read more »

Three takeaways about the current state of batteries

We’ve started to see this play out in California. Renewables are able to supply nearly all the grid’s energy demand during the day on sunny days. The problem is just how different... Read more »

A US push to use ethanol as aviation fuel raises major climate concerns

Corn, like any plant that uses photosynthesis to produce food, sucks up carbon dioxide from the air. But using it for fuel rather than food also creates pressure to clear more land... Read more »

Sam Altman says helpful agents are poised to become AI’s killer function

It’s a leap from OpenAI’s current offerings. Its leading applications, like DALL-E, Sora, and ChatGPT (which Altman referred to as “incredibly dumb” compared with what’s coming next), have wowed us with their ability... Read more »

The Download: mysterious radio energy from outer space, and banning TikTok

When our universe was less than half as old as it is today, a burst of energy that could cook a sun’s worth of popcorn shot out from somewhere amid a compact... Read more »

The depressing truth about TikTok’s impending ban

That 2020 executive order came to nothing in the end—it was blocked in the courts, put aside after the presidency changed hands, and eventually withdrawn by the Biden administration. Yet the idea—that... Read more »

Inside the quest to map the universe with mysterious bursts of radio energy

As a leader in the field and a key player in the advancement of FRB research, Macquart would have been interviewed for this piece. But he died of a heart attack one... Read more »