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How Crowdstrike fails

Frankly Speaking • 305 implied HN points • 15 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Cybersecurity Companies Cloud Acquisitions Challenges
  1. Crowdstrike initially succeeded by focusing on incident response, not just products, which differentiated them from competitors like Symantec.
  2. The company's expansion into adjacencies and acquisitions, like PAM and logging, is an effort to move from endpoint protection to a broader platform play for sustained growth.
  3. Crowdstrike may face challenges if they don't adapt successfully to selling to DevOps, security engineers, and managing acquisitions, risking plateauing growth and loss of market interest.

Console #178 - Top open source projects of this week

Console • 413 implied HN points • 08 Oct 23
🕹 Technology Open Source AI Cloud
  1. Top open source projects featured in Console #178 this week include Clickvote, gpt-pilot, and Kestra.
  2. Projects cover a range of languages like TypeScript, Python, and Java, offering various functionalities from upvotes to workflow orchestrating.
  3. The projects highlighted have a significant number of stars and recent commits, showcasing ongoing development and community interest.

The desktop and its disappearance

Kosmik’s Newsletter • 98 implied HN points • 18 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Computers Software Web Cloud
  1. The development of the desktop metaphor started with making computers more approachable and user-friendly.
  2. Over time, the desktop evolved to include features like Mission Control to help users manage an increasing number of apps and files.
  3. Advancements in web technologies have led to a shift towards cloud-based desktop environments like Kosmik 2.0, offering users a more flexible and productive digital habitat.
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Re-Introduction

Interconnected • 384 implied HN points • 07 Jun 23
🕹 Technology Politics Cloud Startup Global
  1. The author provides a re-introduction of their background in three phases: US Politics, Foreign Policy, Washington DC; Cloud Infrastructure, Open Source, Startup Operator; Global Lens, GitHub, Investing and Writing.
  2. Their experience ranges from working in the Obama administration, studying law and computer science, to engaging in early stage investing and working at GitHub.
  3. They emphasize the importance of achieving bilingual information symmetry between English and Chinese through their writing.

🔊Capital Allocators China - Generative AI Panel

Interconnected • 200 implied HN points • 14 Aug 23
🕹 Technology AI Cloud Data Centers Open Source Geopolitics
  1. Generative AI requires a significant amount of electricity and power for training, leading to data centers being located near cheap energy sources.
  2. Open source technologies are challenging closed source in the generative AI space, with implications for competition and innovation.
  3. Chinese AI model makers are emerging in unexpected places like niche internet companies and academic research institutes, showing diversity in the AI landscape.

The Ways Microsoft Security Copilot Can Enhance Security Operations with Microsoft Intune

Rod’s Blog • 59 implied HN points • 08 Dec 23
🕹 Technology AI Security Cloud Management Integration
  1. Microsoft Security Copilot is an AI-powered security solution that supports security professionals in various scenarios like incident response and threat hunting, using plugins for wider threat visibility and context.
  2. Security Copilot integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Intune, aiding in managing user access to organizational resources, simplifying device management, and supporting the Zero Trust security model.
  3. Security Copilot helps analysts manage identities and devices, deploy apps, and monitor compliance and security posture using natural language commands, queries, and AI-generated dashboards and reports.

Which PC genres convert pre-launch interest the best?

The GameDiscoverCo newsletter • 294 implied HN points • 15 May 23
🕹 Technology Gaming Cloud Hardware Market Streaming
  1. Consider that the best-converting PC genre tag is 'Escape Room', but creating these games may pose challenges like online co-op mechanics.
  2. While 'Sports' is another well-converting genre, success in niche games might not guarantee significant financial results.
  3. Cloud gaming competition concerns arise as Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard is cleared by the EU, with conditions, amid regulatory scrutiny.

Microsoft Sentinel SOC 101: How to Detect and Mitigate a VIP Account that has Multiple Failed Logons within a Threshold with Microsoft Sentinel

Rod’s Blog • 99 implied HN points • 17 Oct 23
🕹 Technology Security Microsoft Cyberattacks Cloud Automation
  1. Microsoft Sentinel helps in detecting and mitigating brute-force attacks on VIP accounts, which are high-level privileged user accounts in organizations.
  2. Brute-force attacks involve trying multiple passwords to gain unauthorized access to accounts or systems, making VIP accounts attractive targets.
  3. Organizations can use Microsoft Sentinel to set thresholds for failed logon attempts, create custom detection rules, investigate alerts triggered by VIP accounts, and take necessary response actions.

Interesting Data Gigs # 79: Want a job today as Sofware Engineer? Learn COBOL and Exilir ASAP

Interesting Data Gigs Weekly • 19 implied HN points • 10 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Programming AI Cloud Software Engineering
  1. Rob Mee and his team at Mechanical Orchard are leveraging Generative AI to modernize critical, old code running on mainframes efficiently and properly.
  2. Legacy systems in the U.S. still heavily rely on languages like COBOL, offering job opportunities for those skilled in it.
  3. Mechanical Orchard's use of COBOL and Elixir highlights the demand for modernizing old systems and the potential for increased profits after such modernization.

Cloud, Data, AI, GenAI

Laszlo’s Newsletter • 37 implied HN points • 03 Jan 24
🕹 Technology Cloud Data AI GenAI
  1. Cloud computing provides flexibility in resources and enables experimentation without high upfront costs.
  2. Establishing a strong data stack is crucial before implementing AI/GenAI to ensure data quality and reliable insights.
  3. Traditional AI involves well-defined tools for extracting business-relevant information from data, while generative AI like Prompt Engineering and Finetuning require sophisticated infrastructures and specific business goals.

The Ways Microsoft Security Copilot Can Enhance Security Operations with Microsoft Sentinel

Rod’s Blog • 39 implied HN points • 06 Dec 23
🕹 Technology Security AI Cloud Analytics Automation
  1. Security teams face challenges such as complexity in handling large volumes of security data from various sources like logs and alerts, making analysis overwhelming, especially during cyberattacks.
  2. There is a skills gap in the market for skilled security professionals, leading to a lack of resources and expertise within security teams to manage all security tasks effectively.
  3. To address challenges, security teams need solutions that simplify security data and tasks, empower them with AI and machine learning capabilities, and protect the organization from cyberthreats by leveraging the latest threat intelligence.

Frankly Speaking - The rise of the technical security leader

Frankly Speaking • 203 implied HN points • 22 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Security Cloud API Innovation Leadership
  1. Establishing a foundational security strategy integrated into the engineering process is crucial for tech companies.
  2. The rise of security engineering leaders will be inevitable for growth companies of all sizes.
  3. Strong security design and fast iteration processes require a security engineering team rather than a traditional risk-focused security organization.

Middleware - Bringing observability up to speed

Termsheet by Attack Capital • 4 HN points • 04 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Observability AI Cloud Microservices Startup
  1. Founder Laduram Vishnoi's frustration with high costs of cloud observability tools led to the creation of Middleware.
  2. Middleware addresses challenges with traditional observability tools by offering a comprehensive and unified solution for cloud-native and microservices.
  3. Middleware uses AI-powered algorithms, is vendor agnostic, and correlates data from various sources to provide real-time observability and streamline issue debugging.

Microintelligences or AIs talking to AIs in the cloud

Metacritic Capital • 2 HN points • 26 May 23
🕹 Technology AI Automation Software Cloud Artificial General Intelligence
  1. Microintelligences can perform tasks in open scopes that traditional APIs couldn't handle.
  2. Software is evolving to have systems communicate with each other through APIs, shifting from human-to-software interactions.
  3. Generative AI conversing in the cloud can help reduce randomness and create more predictable outcomes by leveraging architectures like Google's ReAct.

The Challenge of East-West Traffic

Systems Approach • 1 HN point • 24 Jul 23
🕹 Technology Networking Security Data Centers Cloud
  1. The distinction between North-South and East-West traffic in datacenter security is crucial for addressing security concerns.
  2. Historically, perimeter security with centralized appliances at ingress/egress points was common but proved inadequate in protecting against lateral attacks.
  3. Network virtualization allows for a more effective approach to securing East-West traffic by implementing distributed firewalls.

Underdog joins the fight

ML Under the Hood • 0 implied HN points • 05 Oct 23
🕹 Technology AI Cloud Models ML
  1. Anthropic partners with Amazon in a $4B deal, offering access to second best LLM model through an API on AWS Bedrock
  2. Cloudflare introduces Workers AI to run low-power LLM models worldwide, aiming for data localization compliance
  3. Mistral AI releases a powerful 7B model with Apache 2.0 license, outperforming larger models and providing true open-source capability

Bas' Take on Tech: Tech Industry Economics, Cloud, Buzz, Roberto's Thoughts

Bas' Take on Tech • 0 implied HN points • 07 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Economics Cloud Programming Hardware
  1. Tech industry is facing challenges like layoffs and funding pullback, making it tough for job seekers and startup founders.
  2. Cloud and systems domain is evolving with multi-cloud infrastructure, benchmarking, and developer experience insights.
  3. Buzz section highlights new launches like M3 iMacs and 15" MacBook Air, along with unique offerings from companies like Match and Twitter.