Infrastructuurwitwassen: cybercriminelen gebruiken grote cloudproviders https://www.trendingtech.news/trending-news/2025/01/52002/infrastructuurwitwassen-cybercriminelen-gebruiken-grote-cloudproviders #cybercriminelen #cloudproviders #infrastructuurwitwassen #Amazon AWS #Microsoft Azure #Trending #News #Nieuws
#cloudproviders
"TLDR: Don’t buy H100s. The market has flipped from shortage ($8/hr) to oversupplied ($2/hr), because of reserved compute resales, open model finetuning, and decline in new foundation model co’s. Rent instead."
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#DataSecurity #Reliability #Backup #backups #CloudComputing #Egresscosts #BandwidthAlliance #CostOptimization #CloudProviders #Infrastructure #ObjectStorage #Kubernetes #Terraform #Wasabi #Civo
»#Crowdstrike: #China is not as reliant on #Microsoft as the rest of the world. Domestic companies such as #Alibaba, #Tencent and #Huawei are the dominant #cloudproviders.« https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3g01y047pdo?eicker.news #tech #media
#Google #UniSuper #CloudProviders #Apple #SmartPhone
Basically implementing something like the (Disney owned) "Movies Anywhere service... except not corporate owned and not full of advertising, tracking and invasive analytics.
The same should be true for all digital purchases... Music, Movies, Apps, TV shows, etc.
#Google #UniSuper #CloudProviders #Apple #SmartPhone
If I buy a Game on Gplay, Google should be capped being paid for 10% of the purchase price w/ the rest withheld until they have registered my purchase w/ an independent (not for profit + advertising free) organization that I can then tie to other digital video game storefronts (example, GOG or Itch), where I can download a DRM-free copy w/o needing Google at all.
#Google #UniSuper #CloudProviders #Apple #SmartPhone
To phrase that differently, when customers pay to purchase an app or movie, both the storefront provider (Apple, Google, Amazon, etc.) & the seller should have a percentage of the original sale price withheld until both can certify that DRM free data portability has been completed
#Google #UniSuper #CloudProviders #Apple #SmartPhone
There also needs to be a series of systems in place that guarantees that all data and purchases are portable (in a DRM free format) to another provider.
I.E. I should be able to access purchased books or movies on any platform available in my country. Same with games, services, & other apps.
This portability should absolutely be required w/ a portion of their "app store" payout reserved until DRM free data portability has been ensured
#Google #UniSuper #CloudProviders #Apple #SmartPhone
World govts need to be working on legislation that;
- prevents service providers from completely locking you out of your accounts/deleting your data
- creates harsh penalties for cloud providers who fail to maintain the 'CIA" for your data
- creates significant penalties for building systems that allow for accounts or account data to easily be stolen by 3rd parties/ attackers
#Google #UniSuper #CloudProviders #Apple #SmartPhone
You can have 'everything':
- intellectual property/ creative works
- games, media, etc.
- services that you've already paid for
- years worth of pictures, videos, and other memories.
- proof of purchase
- legal agreements w/ other providers
- the ability to complete MFA or account recovery (for other services)
- basically your entire "digital life" stolen and/or deleted on a whim, with no accountability from the provider
#Google #UniSuper #CloudProviders #Apple #SmartPhone
If you're in the US, SCOTUS has (effectively) perpetually decided in favor of US corporations having an eternal ability to be able to retroactively change Terms of Service/ Terms of Use in their own favor to deny you any accountability, despite the fact that the vast majority of US residents do not possess the capability to read & comprehend thousands of pages of legal docs that these companies generate every year (across services)
#Google #UniSuper #CloudProviders #Apple #SmartPhone
There are countless stories about people getting wrongfully locked out of Google accounts (forever) for "belated" copyright strikes that are filed against them years after posting something (that almost assuredly counted as fair use) to a YouTube far in the past
Or stories about people getting locked out of their account for (G-rated) pics of their own kids getting swept up in one of Google's filters
#Google #UniSuper #CloudProviders #Apple
If you own a #SmartPhone (most of us DO), you're absolutely reliant on Google and/or Apple, who can choose to F*** you over through malice , complacency, or incompetence at any time
There are countless stories where people are locked out of their accounts for some vague reason & the most they can do is complain, then start over
This Wired reporter wrote about how "all of his data was destroyed" a few years ago:
https://www.wired.com/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/
#Google recently deleted the entire account (+all data) for #UniSuper the company that manages retirement funds for "all of Australia"
Luckily, UniSuper was also sending backups off to another provider, which they (later) restored from
This of course should bring up renewed conversation about being "locked in" to various #CloudProviders who control a significant portion of your life (and associated data).. who could also F*** you over at any time.
While I think that the cloud providers are pushing a toxic behavior where there is no contribution to the products they’re selling as a “managed service”, I think Redis is using this situation as a excuse to change their license to a proprietary one.
If you are choosing to release your software with a permissive license, like the BSD, you are telling that is fine for you that your software can be used even in a third party proprietary solution.
Whining that someone ACTUALLY did that and made profits greater than yours is just hypocritical.
"Sozzi is fair, pointing out that this bubble feels different from the #cannabis and #crypto crazes; among other things, #chipmakers and #cloudproviders are reporting big high-margin revenues for real actual products. But he hammers the central point: What we’re seeing is FOMO-driven dumb money thrown at technology by people who have no hope of understanding it."
#aibubble V. @timbray
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/yep-you-are-living-in-a-nvidia-led-tech-bubble-110014738.html
EU Commission mulls cloud providers regulation, update of fair share tax https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/eu-commission-mulls-cloud-providers-regulation-update-of-fair-share-tax/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #cloudproviders #DigitalNetworksAct #fairshare #senderspay
"Beyond #AI & #chips, the #cloudcomputing industry comes to mind as a key—yet often overlooked—player.
…multiple software companies, including #Uber and #Zoom, have publicly mentioned that they would not be able to function without their #cloudproviders.
Likewise, #privacy preserving technologies touted as solutions to invasive corporate surveillance often requires computational and connectivity resources owned by companies known for invasive #corporatesurveillance."
This paper finds a range of factors mentioned in the literature that influence #AI adoption in public administration. Including those to do with:
- IT assets
- IT capabilities
- Perceived benefits
- Organisational culture
- Leadership
- Inertia
- pressures from internal and external organisations and institutions
A skim of the abstracts of the most hopeful citations does not indicate that cloud is a particular consideration for any of these studies
So is #cloud hosting of AI still rare in the #publicsector, or is it simply under the radar?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X22001101
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