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Inside the AI shift in government: 11 perspectives on public sector ops transformation

Public sector transformation is advancing with the rise of AI and digital labor focused on adaptation, albeit hindered by existing systems and culture.
Key hurdles in public sector advancement include adoption challenges due to aged infrastructure and bureaucratic inertia.
The need for AI integration in the public sector is emphasized for future sustainability and competitiveness.
Amazon's AI strategy combines physical and digital defense aspects to preempt security threats proactively.
Snowflake is enhancing public sector data management by bringing AI capabilities to where data is located.
AWS is investing significantly in AI-powered green data infrastructure for efficient public sector operations.
Salesforce aims to empower government agencies with AI for streamlined and secure operations.
Public safety processes are being optimized through AI and cloud technologies, improving response times and efficiency.
AWS is fostering community partnerships to drive economic development alongside technological expansion.
Caylent Inc. highlights agentic AI as crucial for public sector services' future operational frameworks.

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Adobe posts solid earnings beat and raises its full-year guidance, but investors yawn

Adobe Inc. raised its full-year profit and revenue guidance after beating Wall Street’s targets in its latest financial results, but investors showed limited enthusiasm, causing its stock to decline in late trading.
In the second quarter, Adobe reported earnings of $5.06 per share on revenue of $5.87 billion, exceeding analysts' expectations of $4.97 per share on sales of $5.8 billion.
Adobe's net profit for the quarter was $1.69 billion, up from $1.57 billion a year ago, fueled by growing revenue in its digital media and digital experience segments.
Annual recurring revenue for Adobe's digital media segment increased by 12% to $18.09 billion, while its digital experience business saw subscription revenue rise 11% to $1.33 billion.
CEO Shantanu Narayen highlighted Adobe's AI innovation, stating that it transforms industries and enables unprecedented levels of creativity for individuals and enterprises.
The company revised its full-year earnings guidance to between $20.50 and $20.70 per share and revenue forecast to $23.5 billion to $23.6 billion, surpassing analyst estimates.
Although Adobe faces challenges amidst a competitive market, it has responded by embracing generative AI tools, such as Firefly, but some analysts view AI as a threat to its traditional creative tools.
Investors have been looking for Adobe to demonstrate strong demand for its AI tools and its ability to monetize them, but have been left wanting, as the market remains unenthused by the company's performance.
Following the latest results, Adobe's stock declined slightly, now down 7% year-to-date, impacting the company's valuation, with shares trading below its five-year average.

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Identity and access management failure in Google Cloud causes widespread internet service disruptions

An identity and access management failure within Google Cloud caused widespread internet service disruptions across various platforms during the incident.
The disruption originated from a misconfiguration within Google Cloud's IAM systems leading to outages in critical cloud components such as App Engine, Firestore, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, and Memorystore.
Cloudflare and Google Workspace apps were among the services impacted due to their reliance on Google Cloud infrastructure.
Google Workspace users faced failures in services like Gmail, Drive, Docs, Calendar, Meet, and Chat, alongside issues with Google Home, Nest devices, and search-related services.
Numerous companies relying on Google services including Spotify, Discord, Snap, Shopify, Replit, Anthropic, fuboTV, and UPS experienced partial downtime or degraded performance.
The outage led to Google Cloud's status page providing updates starting from 11:46 a.m. PDT, stating that most services were fully recovered at the time of writing.
Reports from affected users peaked around 2:30 p.m. EDT according to Downdetector, with some residual impact still seen later in the day.
Amazon Web Services might have had minor product issues during this time, and Twitch, owned by Amazon, may have been affected by network-level interdependencies due to the outage.

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Trouble accessing your favorite site? A bunch of internet platforms, including Google, were experiencing issues

Major cloud platforms, including Google, experienced outages affecting services globally on Thursday.
Google Cloud services were down, impacting sites like Replit and Cloudflare.
Google is still investigating the service disruption as of now.
Numerous major sites, especially cloud platforms, faced a mass outage on Thursday.
Google Cloud Service Health page reported wide-ranging service outages across multiple continents.
Downdetector showed over 13,000 reported incidents for Google Cloud around 11:30 a.m. PT.
Web services like Amazon Twitch, Replit, GitLab, and more experienced disruptions.
Cloudflare stated that their services were impacted due to a 3rd party service outage, confirmed to be Google Cloud.
Apps like Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and Character.AI were also affected, as per user reports.
It's unclear if all outages beyond Google were due to reliance on Google Cloud products.
Google spokesperson mentioned the engineering teams are actively working on recovery.
Google shares saw a 1% dip, while Cloudflare encountered heavier losses on Thursday.

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Cloud collapse: Replit and LlamaIndex knocked offline by Google Cloud identity outage

Google Cloud Service Platform and Cloudflare were affected by an outage, impacting numerous AI development tools and services.
Services like API Gateway, Google App Engine, Google Cloud Storage, Firebase, and others were disrupted.
AWS reported no issues in its services, including AI platforms like Bedrock and Sagemaker.
OpenAI revealed some user login issues but has resolved them, while Anthropic noted errors with Claude.
Developer tools like LlamaCloud, Weights & Biases, Windsurf, and Replit experienced problems.
Other services affected by the outage included Spotify, Discord, and Character AI.
The incident underscores the risks of relying on a single cloud provider and interconnected Internet.
Google Cloud has been gaining a strong position in enterprise AI, while Cloudflare partners for faster AI deployments.
Google and OpenAI recently partnered, aiming to meet the rising demands on the OpenAI platform.
Enterprises are reminded to have redundancies in place to mitigate risks from service outages.
A similar massive outage occurred in July last year, causing disruptions for Microsoft Windows users.
Despite the disruptions, some individuals used the outage as an opportunity for humor or catching up on tasks.

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Scaling GitOps in the Enterprise: Secure Secrets, Policy as Code, and Multi-Cluster Strategies

The foundational principles of GitOps have revolutionized how organizations manage infrastructure and applications, but scaling GitOps in the enterprise poses challenges with secrets management, policy enforcement, and multi-cluster strategies.
Challenges with secrets management in GitOps include secret sprawl and security risks, leading to the emergence of strategies like encrypted secrets in Git using tools like SOPS and Sealed Secrets, or reference-based management with tools like the External Secrets Operator.
Policy as code (PaC) tools like OPA Gatekeeper and Kyverno help enforce security and compliance in Kubernetes clusters by defining and automating policies stored in Git repositories.
Multi-cluster deployment strategies in GitOps utilize tools like Argo CD and FluxCD, adopting approaches such as the 'Hub-and-Spoke' model, ensuring consistent deployments across diverse environments.
Security principles for GitOps focus on least privilege, immutability, auditing, and secure CI/CD pipelines, while scaling considerations include efficient repository organization, reconciliation loop efficiency, and observability.
Future trends in GitOps include edge computing, AIOps integration, tooling maturity, and application in data and machine learning pipelines, emphasizing the continuous evolution and adoption of GitOps in the enterprise.

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DevOps to finance: Explaining CI costs to your CFO

Explaining CI costs to your CFO can be challenging, but it's crucial for DevOps teams to translate technical realities into financial terms.
DevOps focuses on delivering business value efficiently, and the CFO plays a key role in measuring that value.
To justify CI spend, relate it to speed, quality, and outcome goals set initially and highlight ROI like faster deployments.
Metrics such as lead time to production, build success rate, and infrastructure cost per build are essential to track.
Compare current CI spend against forecasts, normalize it against team size, and look for optimization opportunities.
Using benchmarks, showcase industry standards in CI/CD and highlight any recent optimization successes for cost-effective automation.
Propose efficiency improvements like auditing unused integrations, standardizing environments, and consolidating tools to the CFO.
Tie proposed changes back to business outcomes and emphasize the importance of DevOps transformation.
Prepare responses to common CFO questions about CI spend increase, ROI, cost-effectiveness, and resource scalability.
Explaining your CI performance in terms of tools chosen, outcomes, cost optimization, and resource scaling can shift the conversation from cost center to value creation.
Depot offers solutions for faster builds, reduced CI spend, and improved engineering efficiency, providing concrete numbers that finance teams appreciate for ROI discussions with the CFO.

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What to expect during the ‘Broadcom Delivers the Modern Private Cloud’ event: Join theCUBE June 17

The modern private cloud is increasingly important for enterprise infrastructure, addressing challenges like AI, security, and cost predictability.
Enterprises are shifting towards modern private cloud for controlled innovation with governance.
Platform engineering and cloud maturity frameworks guide this shift towards resilient environments.
The 'Broadcom Delivers the Modern Private Cloud' event will focus on infrastructure strategies for AI complexity and governance.
Broadcom and partners are simplifying private cloud deployment and aligning with business outcomes.
VCF is positioned as a foundation for modern private environments, aiming to accelerate deployment and eliminate silos.
New tools in VCF 9 cater to AI workloads with enhanced resource visibility and governance capabilities.
The event explores reshaping infrastructure for AI integration, cost management, and regulatory requirements.
Exclusive interviews and insights will cover advancements in modern private cloud by Broadcom and partners.
The event will feature industry leaders like Krish Prasad, Prashanth Shenoy, and Paul Turner discussing infrastructure innovations.

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Google Cloud outage brings down a lot of the internet

A Google Cloud outage on Thursday caused widespread internet disruptions affecting services like Cloudflare and popular apps like Spotify.
Google Cloud started investigating service issues affecting customers at 11:46 a.m. PT with no estimated time for services to be restored.
Cloudflare also reported service disruptions around the same time but later started to see services recover.
Cloudflare stated that the outage was caused by a Google Cloud issue affecting a limited number of services that use Google Cloud.
Apps like Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and others experienced outages during the afternoon, according to reports on DownDetector.
Spotify spokesperson mentioned they were monitoring Google Cloud's status page for updates on the situation.
AWS reported no service disruptions on Thursday, and Microsoft Azure did not report any outages.
Efforts are being made to bring services back online, and disruptions like these are usually resolved within a few hours.

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Can't access Spotify or a part of Google? Everything we know about this outage impacting major services

Issues have been reported affecting parts of Google and Spotify since around 2 PM ET, as shown on outage tracker Down Detector.
Google has confirmed issues impacting various services including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chat, and others.
Spotify has not yet commented on the reported issues despite significant outage reports.
TechRadar team has not encountered issues with Google services but some staff members are facing Spotify loading problems.
Down Detector's homepage at 3:25 PM ET shows multiple services facing issues, with Google, Google Cloud, Spotify, Discord, and AWS at the forefront.
Google and Google Cloud saw a spike in outage reports reaching over 10,000, while Spotify exceeded 44,000 reports.
Google's status page acknowledged a 'Service Disruption' impacting various services and teams are investigating the issue.
The G-Suite services affected include Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive, and others. Some users reported problems with Messages, Google Cloud, and Google Voice.
Spotify has over 45,000 reports of issues on Down Detector with no official statement from the company yet.
Most reported issues began after 2 PM ET and have continued for over an hour.

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Micron Increases US Investment Amid Trump Onshoring Drive

Micron Technology is increasing its investment in the United States in response to the onshoring drive and tariff threats of US President Donald Trump.
Micron plans to invest an additional $30 billion in manufacturing and research and development in the United States, bringing its total investment to $200 billion in the country.
The company received $6.1 billion from the US Chips and Science Act of 2022 for projects in Idaho and New York.
There are negotiations to potentially revise grants to semiconductor firms from the Biden administration.
Former President Donald Trump had shown intentions to axe the US Chips and Science Act, signaling possible threats to Micron's expansion plans.
Micron's US expansion vision includes building high-volume fabs in Idaho and New York.
Micron broke ground for a $15 billion memory chip plant in Boise, Idaho, in September 2022.
The company also plans to construct a new memory fab in New York and modernize its existing manufacturing fab in Virginia.
Micron aims to invest in advanced capabilities and research to drive innovation and technology leadership in the US.
The investments are intended to meet market demand, maintain market share, and produce 40 percent of its DRAM in the US.
Micron, an American producer of computer memory and data storage media, is in competition with China's memory maker Yangtze Memory Technologies Co.
In response to the US adding YMTC to the Entity List blacklist, Chinese regulators investigated Micron and banned its products from critical infrastructure in 2023.

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PCIe 7.0 has been announced, offering superfast speeds for the components inside your PC – but don’t get excited just yet

PCIe 7.0 has been announced, offering a data rate of 128GT/s, double the speed of PCIe 6.0, with support for up to 16 PCIe lanes in a single slot and up to 512GB/s of total bandwidth.
The standard is still in its early stages and PCIe 6.0 is yet to be widely adopted, indicating that PCIe 7.0 won't be available for consumer PCs anytime soon.
PCIe 8.0 development has already begun, suggesting a long wait for PCIe 7.0 implementation.
While PCIe advancements promise faster speeds for GPUs and drives in the future, current consumer PCs may not see immediate benefits as existing GPUs are not pushing the limits of PCIe 5.0 yet.
Older PCIe standards are causing limitations for some new graphics cards, such as the RTX 5060 Ti, which experiences performance loss in PCIe 4.0 slots.
Advancing PCIe standards are crucial for maintaining connectivity standardization for PC components, although current advancements may not immediately affect most consumer PCs.
Hardware supporting PCIe 6.0 may arrive later this year or early next, while PCIe 7.0 implementation is likely towards the end of the decade, primarily for specialized tasks.
The focus on higher PCIe standards like 7.0 and 8.0 may improve compatibility with future GPUs and technologies, benefiting aging consumer PCs in the long run.
Overall, while PCIe advancements hold promise for future high-speed connections, their immediate impact on consumer PCs remains limited due to current hardware capabilities.
Progression through PCIe standards indicates a gradual roadmap towards faster and more robust connectivity solutions for PC components in the coming years.

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Amazon and Walmart Aren’t Surfing Retail-Tech’s Tidal Wave, They’re Driving It

Amazon and Walmart are no longer just retail competitors but tech conglomerates integrating AI, cloud computing, FinTech, and robotics into their operations.
Amazon announced a $20 billion investment for AI and cloud data-center campuses in Pennsylvania, focusing on advancing Amazon Web Services.
Amazon is using AI for delivery forecasting, exploring ad-supported viewing tiers on Prime Video, and integrating Whole Foods into its ecosystem for logistical synergies.
Walmart is expanding OnePay financial ecosystem to become a digital bank, offering credit programs and digital services to compete with traditional banks.
Walmart introduced Sparky, an AI shopping assistant, and is targeting younger demographics through digital marketing, mobile commerce, and AI-enhanced customer service.
Both Amazon and Walmart are investing in drone delivery for operational rollouts by 2025, aiming to solve last-mile delivery challenges with AI and robotics.

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Microsoft makes fun of macOS Tahoe’s Liquid Glass redesign for ripping off Windows Vista – but Apple could have the last laugh

Microsoft mocked Apple's Liquid Glass interface for macOS Tahoe, comparing it to Windows Vista's Aero effect on Instagram.
Apple received criticism for appearing to reinvent transparent interfaces, a concept previously introduced by Microsoft in Windows Vista.
The Aero effect in Windows Vista and 7 featured translucent windows allowing background visibility.
While Microsoft's humor was somewhat late and repetitive, they have the right to poke fun at Apple's design similarities.
Criticism towards Apple regarding unoriginality raises questions about fair judgment on UI innovations.
Apple may have anticipated backlash for Liquid Glass but continues with a sophisticated, cross-platform unification approach.
Compared to Aero, Liquid Glass aims for better performance and attention to detail in light interaction with the interface.
Concerns exist about the accessibility and clarity of Apple's transparent effects in practical use.
Apple's thorough planning for Liquid Glass involves a comprehensive integration across macOS, iOS, and other platforms.
The interface looks promising but still faces uncertainties like potential visual clutter and readability issues.

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Got ChatGPT Plus? You can now get 3 months for 50% off with this simple trick

ChatGPT Plus offers access to OpenAI's AI models and tools like Sora for a fee.
Reddit user shared a trick to get 3 months of ChatGPT Plus for 50% off.
Normal price for ChatGPT Plus is $20 per month.
Reddit user's trick allows getting ChatGPT Plus for $10 per month for 3 months.
This offer is only available if already subscribed to ChatGPT Plus.
By using the trick, users can get 4 months of Plus for $50 instead of $80.
To avail the offer, users need to cancel the plan and accept the 50% off for 3 months.
Remember to cancel auto-renewal to avoid high fees after the promotional period.
ChatGPT Plus provides extended messaging limits, access to AI models like OpenAI o3, o4-mini, o4-mini-high, and early access to new features.
Interested users can refer to a guide on whether ChatGPT Plus is worth it.
Additional content includes stories on Siri, Apple Intelligence, AI energy usage, and Sam Altman's predictions on AI.
ChatGPT Settings on desktop needs to be accessed to manage subscriptions for the discounted offer.
The trick involves selecting the 50% off for the next 3 months offer after canceling the plan.
This special rate applies for the following three months of the subscription.
Users can sign up for newsletters to receive tech news, deals, and more.
Overall, the trick provides a way to get ChatGPT Plus at a discounted rate for a limited period.

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