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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 »

How much more can nuclear power plants give?

Pushing existing reactors to produce more could help provide more clean power for data centers, quickly. But just how much additional power can we count on?   Upgrading equipment at existing nuclear power... Read more »

Pig kidneys that were “frozen” for a year have been brought back to life

“Ten years ago … I wouldn’t say I had high hopes it was actually going to work,” says Erik Finger, a transplant surgeon at the University of Minnesota who co-led the work.... Read more »

Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind

Scientists are already mapping this wiring in simpler animals. Two years ago, Seung took part in analyzing a fly brain that had been cut into paper-thin sheets and imaged with an electron... Read more »

The Download: faking blood and the future of batteries

Now, a $73 million DARPA effort aims to create shelf-stable versions of plasma, platelets, and red blood cells. The idea is to develop dried blood products that can be stored for long... Read more »

The US military’s race to make fake blood

The product, called ErythroMer, is essentially a new kind of HBOC. The membrane prevents breakdown, limits dangerous scavenging of nitric oxide, and also helps the hemoglobin take up and release oxygen. Each... Read more »

What it would take to build a city on the moon

Autonomy will be there right from the start. NASA’s new version of the moon buggy, its Lunar Terrain Vehicle, can be driven by the astronauts riding in it but can also be... Read more »

The Download: open model trade-offs and geothermal power’s promise

Subscribers can now access the full 10 Climate Tech Companies to Watch, spanning everything from sustainable cement to shipping containers packed with old EV batteries.  The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to... Read more »

Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?

But it would be a vast oversimplification to deem open models dangerous and closed models safe. The defenses that AI companies build around their closed models are far from perfect, and people... Read more »

AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models

SimpleClosure added data sales to its services in April. Its Asset Hub platform helps founders sell their code and workspace data—emails, chats, documents. Buyers include foundation AI labs, vendors that construct simulated... Read more »

The Download: moon city problems and drone traffic controllers

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 An Anthropic AI model submitted a fake tip about an unsolved murderThe tip was in a... Read more »