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The under-the-radar tech revolution that could change how the internet works

GeekWire

The company’s CEO, Jay Graber , spoke at the conference). Contrary to X/Twitter and Threads, the AT Protocol and, for instance, Bluesky provides the mechanism for a decentralized open social web. That alone is a meaningful change to how we build social apps today. players that you came to love and hate. More on that later.

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Talent gap complicates cost-conscious cloud planning

Network World

The same CIO complained that the very companies that were certifying their architects in cloud technology were often subtly recruiting them. Could you perhaps shed all the special features and just host containers or VMs with no web services at all? What cloud features did you pick? Could you find ones that cost less?

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Microsoft creates new AI platform and tools division, led by former Facebook engineering chief

GeekWire

(Microsoft Photo) Microsoft is creating a new engineering division, led by the former global head of engineering at Facebook (now Meta), that will be responsible for building fundamental AI technologies and tools for the company and its customers. Nadella described the company’s focus on AI agents as part of the memo.

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IT companies join Ukraine war sanctions against Russia

CIO Business Intelligence

Almost all major IT companies have joined the West’s global economic sanctions against Russia in recent weeks. The following is an overview — without claiming to be exhaustive — of companies from all over the world that have temporarily suspended all or part of their business in Russia. How the IT industry reacted. Huawei: The U.K.’s

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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. When we learned of this activity, we acted quickly to shut down the relevant infrastructure and accounts,” an Amazon Web Services spokesperson confirmed to The Verge. AWS wasn’t the only service NSO apparently used.

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REST vs SOAP, the difference between soap and rest : spf13.com

SPF13

My background is building great internet companies. RESTs sweet spot is when you are exposing a public API over the internet to handle CRUD operations on data. s own protocol and focuses on exposing pieces of application logic (not data) as services. web services â?? Web servicesâ?? He asked â??whatâ??s

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After reaching $40B in revenue in record time, Amazon Web Services hints at its own reinvention

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy with a chart showing AWS revenue growth at the company’s virtual re:Invent conference this week. He did not acknowledge the AWS outage that impacted a large swath of the internet last week. Nor did he seek to alleviate concerns about Amazon Web Services’ market power.