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Microsoft says it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever recorded

The Verge

It also exceeds the peak traffic volume of 2.3Tbps, the previous largest attack, which was directed at Amazon Web Services last year. DDoS attacks are typically used to force websites or services offline, thanks to a flood of traffic that a web host can’t handle. “The

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ChatGPT, the rise of generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

ChatGPT was trained with 175 billion parameters; for comparison, GPT-2 was 1.5B (2019), Google’s LaMBDA was 137B (2021), and Google’s BERT was 0.3B (2018). Some examples are originating from Microsoft , Amazon Web Service , Google , IBM , and more, plus from partnerships among players.

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Amazon preps for a ‘multi-robot’ world: RoboRunner cloud service builds on its own warehouse tech

GeekWire

The company separately announced a new AWS Robotics Startups Accelerator , in partnership with MassRobotics , to help robotics startups incorporate Amazon’s cloud technologies into their products and services.

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Microsoft and FedEx team up against Amazon with new tech and logistics partnership

GeekWire

2 public cloud platform behind Amazon Web Services, as well as Microsoft’s Dynamics 365, which competes with Salesforce and other business software platforms. Amazon debuted a new delivery program in June 2018 in Seattle. The newly announced partnership will rely heavily on Microsoft Azure, the No.

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Microsoft reports a Majorana development in its quest to build quantum computers

GeekWire

The phenomenon, known as a Majorana zero mode, is expected to smooth the path for topological quantum computing — the technological approach that’s favored by Microsoft’s Azure Quantum program. In 2018, a team of researchers reported that they had created the phenomenon, only to retract their claims three years later.

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Salesforce sister companies Slack and Tableau look to bring Marc Benioff’s master plan to fruition

GeekWire

Salesforce spent $50 billion from 2018 to 2021 for Slack, Tableau and integration software company Mulesoft. He filled a vacancy created when his predecessor, Adam Selipsky, was named CEO of Amazon Web Services , taking over for Andy Jassy, who is succeeding Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO.

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Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotech co-founders join life sciences SPAC; new edtech execs; and more

GeekWire

Harlan Robins is chief scientific officer at Adaptive Biotechnologies and was formerly head of the computational biology program at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He joined Promethean in 2018 and was most recently executive vice president of operations. Lance Solomon. Promethean Photo).