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AWS to invest $5.3 to build data centers in Saudi Arabia to bolster tech in the region

CIO Business Intelligence

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the latest high-tech giant to announce a major stake in Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning technology industry, unveiling a plan this week to invest more than $5.3 billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region. billion to launch new cloud areas.

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Amazon Web Services bans accounts linked with Pegasus spyware

The Verge

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has banned NSO Group, the company behind the Pegasus spyware program. AWS wasn’t the only service NSO apparently used. NSO allegedly favored servers in Europe and the United States, particularly “the European data centers run by American hosting companies.”

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Symantec Government Symposium 11 March 2014 at the Renaissance Hotel Washington DC

CTOvision

All those factors together make the Symantec Government Symposium of 11 March 2014 one to pay attention to. The Symantec Government Symposium features 10 sessions where attendees will: Explore how agencies can develop a process for incident response prioritization and use actionable intelligence throughout the entire threat lifecycle.

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Former Seattle entrepreneur and husband will get back most of funds seized by FBI in Amazon case

GeekWire

government that will return most of their personal funds seized by the FBI as part of an investigation into Carleton Nelson’s activities in his past role as an Amazon real estate transaction manager. 2 yrs ago, @amazon told FBI they'd been charged inflated lease prices for data centers & my husband committed a crime.

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Amazon’s Project Kuiper highlights new connections to AWS and partners in Japan

GeekWire

(Amazon Photo) As Amazon gears up to build and launch thousands of satellites for its Project Kuiper constellation , it’s talking up the space-based broadband network’s potential to enable new options for managing data traffic with Amazon Web Services — including private connectivity services that never touch the public internet.

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Macquarie Government: Providing Australia’s Federal Agencies with the Cloud and Security Solutions They Need to Safeguard the Most Sensitive Data

CIO Business Intelligence

Today, 42% of the nation’s federal agencies rely on Macquarie Government’s cloud solutions and services to address the most stringent security and sovereignty requirements. We also took the opportunity to see what he sees as the greatest misconception about data sovereignty. Our customers use and trust VMware,” he says.

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4 paths to sustainable AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Everything from geothermal data centers to more efficient graphic processing units (GPUs) can help. Rather than training the model on all the training data at once, Salesforce trains the model in multiple “epochs” in which a portion of the data is slightly modified in each one based on the results of the earlier training.