Dell Technologies, which is moving ahead in selling the Apex infrastructure-as-a-service platform it launched last October, announced an agreement on July 22 with a well-known client, GE, to upgrade its IT infrastructure through a new private cloud. The two companies have extended a product-and-services contract they originated in 2017 to now include Dell’s management of GE’s IT infrastructure through the Apex system. Apex ostensibly will enable GE to more efficiently scale its IT infrastructure across its global customer base, which encompasses 170 countries, Deepak Patil, senior vice-president of Dell Technologies, told ZDNet....

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Instead of perusing forums for answers, GitHub wants users to use its search engine, which is currently in beta. Also: Memory safe programming languages are on the rise. Here’s how developers should respond Rust is consistently the most loved (but not most widely used) programming language among developers, according to developer question and answer site, Stack Overflow. As a new project, it is an interesting reference for Rust, which is usually adopted for building new features in projects previously written in C/C++, and is popular for systems programming versus building apps....

In a way, the GMMK Pro is Glorious’ attempt to prove that it’s as worthy a competitor within the high-end PC gaming market as it is in the midrange. The keyboard is, from top to bottom, designed to feel premium and to compete with the best retail keyboards and even some custom mechanical keyboards. What might look like a relatively typical keyboard from the outside hides several features that elevate it above competing options from the big boys....

First reported by The Verge, the unsealed court document was submitted as part of Epic Game’s lawsuit against Google in the United States. Epic Games has a similar lawsuit filed against Google in Australia. In the document [PDF], Epic claims Google was threatened by its plans to sidestep Google’s official Play Store commission by distributing Fortnite through other channels. To address those concerns, Google allegedly considered buying “some or all of Epic Games” to remove the games developer as a competitor....

Google said it decided to invest in the underlying platform after seeing 4.8 billion apps installed in Google Workspace and more than 5,300 public apps in the Google Workspace Marketplace. “Developers have been able to build applications that integrate with Gmail, Drive, and Docs for years. And today, we’re announcing significant enhancements to the Google Workspace platform by making it just as easy for developers to build applications and integrate with Google Meet, Chat and Spaces,” Google explained....

The Tau virtual machines are the “best price-performance in the industry for scale-out applications,” said Google Cloud vice president of infrastructure Sachin Gupta in an interview with ZDNet. Scale-out applications, in this case, can include internet applications such as the kind that might be run by social media. Twitter and Snap are debut customers who were quoted lauding the qualities of the Tau VMs. Snap and Twitter use the VMs with containers, as Google provides its Google Kubernetes Engine running on top of the instances....

Deploying these programs has been a serious challenge for state and local governments. For instance, recent Treasury Department data showed that just a fraction of the $46.5 billion allocated by Congress for housing assistance has been spent. Given the scale and complexity of these programs, state and local governments are often bogged down by technical infrastructure that can’t meet their needs. Google Cloud is aiming to step in and help alleviate those issues with a new series of “public benefits solutions” – a suite of Google tools and capabilities packaged together for specific social services challenges....

Google disclosed that it had patched the two high-severity zero-day flaws in release notes for the stable release of Chrome version 95.0.4638.69 for Windows, Mac and Linux. Any version number higher than that will have the fixes. It’s a good idea to check out Google’s support page for Chrome updates, which explains how Chrome can be set to automatically update when patches become available. Otherwise, Chrome has an ‘Update’ button that is coloured red if an update is at least a week old, indicating that it should be installed....

According to CNBC, Google Cloud Platform will reduce the commission it takes from Google Cloud Marketplace app store sales from 20% to 3%. Google’s Marketplace is used to distribute software-as-a-service apps to enterprise customers. SEE: Remote working jobs row shows how much tech has changed Google hasn’t announced the change but confirmed to CNBC that it is changing its Marketplace fee structure and will have details soon. It didn’t confirm the amount of the reduction....

Google’s launch of the Pixel 5a had, on the Richter scale of surprises, all the force of a pebble being tossed into a lake by a four-year-old. Some may see it as a perfectly nice phone – one that looks remarkably like the perfectly nice Pixel 4a. Others may rejoice that Google is being true to a constant reinforcement of the Pixel brand. Yet, just as the company has promised to put the full weight of marketing behind the Pixel 6, I wanted to see what Google had to say about the 5a....

Also: The 5 best VPN services Prior to today’s announcement, Google’s VPN feature was only included with Premium 2TB plans, which started at $9.99 a month or $99.99 a year. Going forward, the VPN tool will be available starting with the $1.99 per month/100GB Basic plan and up. You can use VPN by Google One on Android, iOS, Windows and Mac – and you can even share VPN access with up to five people who are also part of your Google One plan....

The cloud vendor’s Asia-Pacific cloud regions include Singapore, Indonesia, and South Korea, each comprising three zones. There are two cloud regions each in Japan, Australia, and India. The three new regions also will each have three zones to safeguard against service disruptions, and will be supported by Google’s existing interconnect locations in Auckland, Bangkok, as well as Kuala Lumpur and Cyberjaya. These provide direct connections between a customer’s on-premises network and Google’s global cloud network, according to Google Cloud’s Asia-Pacific vice president Karan Bajwa....

For the past year, Google has been taking steps to make its productivity suite more expansive and comprehensive. As workers merge their personal and professional tools and environments, in a new model of “hybrid work,” Google is following suit. The official Workspace suite includes Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Meet and other tools. Back in June, Google announced a new feature for Workspace called Spaces, which is now live for all users....

Open source projects, ran by individuals and teams of developers worldwide, are relied upon by everything from enterprise players to SMBs. Open source components are stored and shared publicly, and can range from full operating systems to libraries, educational tools, and server software, among many other functions. In a recent survey, the Linux Foundation and edX found that the demand for open source programmers and experts continues to climb, but 92% of managers are facing challenges when it comes to finding the talent required to fill current job postings....

DDoS attacks are a relatively simple, but potent, form of cyberattack in which cyber criminals overload services with web traffic, slowing them down or taking them offline entirely, preventing others from being able to use them. The attacks can range from short campaigns that last a few minutes to attacks strung out over extended periods of time. These attacks often rely on malware-infected computers, servers and Internet of Things devices being connected into a botnet, which then overwhelms the target of the DDoS with web traffic....

The makers of Poly Network, a “DeFi” or decentralized finance platform that works across blockchains, said on Tuesday that an attacker stole about $600 million in cryptocurrencies. The team behind Poly Network appealed to the hackers to “return the hacked assets”. “The amount of money you hacked is the biggest one in defi history. Law enforcement in any country will regard this as a major economic crime and you will be pursed....

The latter figure was higher than their counterparts in the Americas, 41% of whom were similarly more concerned than before about their organisation’s ability to mitigate cyber threats, revealed EY’s 2021 Global Information Security Survey. Conducted in March and May this year, the study polled 1,010 respondents worldwide, with 20% from Asia-Pacific, 36% in the Americas, and the remaining 43% from Europe, Middle East, India, and Africa (EMEIA). Just 20% in Asia-Pacific said the cybersecurity teams were part of the planning stage of any digital transformation initiative, the study found....

Research by security think tank the Ponemon Institute and cybersecurity company DTEX Systems suggests that over half of companies find it impossible or very difficult to prevent insider attacks. These businesses are missing indicators that something might be wrong. Those include unusual amounts of files being opened, attempts to use USB devices, staff purposefully circumventing security controls, masking their online activities, or moving and saving files to unusual locations. All these and more might suggest that a user is planning malicious activity, including the theft of company data....

Every day when I had a little time, I went out to the workshop to do a little bit more building. Every day, once I was done with that day’s build, I filmed a short video log about that day’s build experience, which I then posted on social media sites. These video logs became a build diary of sorts. The accompanying video shows all thirteen of those build logs, at about a minute each....