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Amazon’s total Washington state employment declines for the first time, new numbers show

GeekWire

The net decrease in the state comes as Amazon builds up its workforce in downtown Bellevue, but sees its overall employment decline at its main headquarters campus north of downtown Seattle. The net decline in Washington state comes as Amazon spreads its workforce across what it calls its “Puget Sound headquarters.”

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Protesters block entrances at Amazon HQ, objecting to planned use of fossil fuels in Oregon

GeekWire

Last week, the Troublemakers sent a letter to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, asking him to cancel plans to tap into the GTN Xpress gas pipeline and use the fuel for its data centers, which house powerful computers that create the backbone for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Troublemakers activist group protesting at Amazon's Day 1 building.

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Bechtle: Pursuing a Multi-Faceted Sustainability Strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

Providing hardware, software, and IT solutions and services, the company also delivers an extensive array of cloud offerings from dedicated private clouds to deployments with the world’s largest hyperscalers, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

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Amazon renewable power leader on AI’s energy strain, a political dust-up in Oregon, and more

GeekWire

As the retail, cloud and entertainment giant strives to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040, most of its carbon cuts so far have come from its shift to renewables. ” Charley Daitch, the Amazon Web Services director of energy and water strategy. “And we moved in a really meaningful way to do that.”

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Jeff Bezos to hand over Amazon CEO role to Andy Jassy on July 5, anniversary of company’s creation

GeekWire

Jassy, the longtime leader of the Amazon Web Services cloud business, “is going to be an outstanding leader, and he has my full confidence,” Bezos said. And the IT industry too, of course, is thriving. And of course, we recognize that with success comes scrutiny, and we welcome it.

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Deception and Forensics for the Next Generation – Part 7: Device Forensics in a Deception Environment

SecureWorld News

It is a challenge because the deception net is, or should be, configured to prevent access to the outside—including the internet, as well as local networks—by any code running inside the device. We need a better solution for this problem and, fortunately, we have one: device memory forensics is built into the deception net.

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Inside Nasdaq’s AI-fueled pivot to SaaS provider

CIO Business Intelligence

The company, which reported net revenues of $3.6 As the first company to store data under regulation on the cloud, Nasdaq’s cloud roots go way back, says Peterson, whose IT department embraces Amazon Web Services as its primary cloud provider, relying on Amazon Redshift Spectrum for data analytics and warehousing.

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