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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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Scientists share a wiring diagram tracing connections for 200,000 mouse brain cells

GeekWire

The data collection, which is now publicly available online , was developed as part of the Machine Intelligence From Cortical Networks program, or MICrONS for short. What is the program?” “The final step is to interpret this network, at which point we may be able to say we can read the brain’s program.”

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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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Big tech’s first generation of founders are starting to step aside

The Verge

Amazon — In July 2021, Jeff Bezos officially handed the CEO position of Amazon over to former Amazon Web Services head Andy Jassy. Instagram — In September 2018, Instagram’s co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger announced they were stepping down, reportedly after major disagreements with Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg.

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