Month: August 2024

An Architect’s Guide to the Top 10 Tools Needed to Build the Modern Data Lake

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I previously wrote about the modern data lake reference architecture, addressing the challenges in every enterprise — more data, aging Hadoop tooling (specifically HDFS) and greater demands for RESTful APIs (S3) and performance — but I want to fill in some gaps.  The modern data lake, sometimes referred to as a data lakehouse, is one-half … Read more

Chinese government hackers targeted U.S. internet providers with zero-day exploit, researchers say

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A group of hackers linked to the Chinese government used a previously unknown vulnerability in software to target U.S. internet service providers, security researchers have found.  The group known as Volt Typhoon was exploiting the zero-day flaw — meaning the software maker was unaware of it before having time to patch — in Versa Director, … Read more

Sony’s PlayStation PC push now includes a controller customization app

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Sony will now let you customize your PlayStation 5’s DualSense Edge controller on your PC. The new Accessories app for Windows lets you customize button assignments, change stick sensitivity, adjust trigger deadzones, and more. This replaces the “Firmware updater for DualSense wireless controller” app introduced in 2022. … Read more

X is testing a video conferencing tool

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Elon Musk’s X has already declared it aims to compete with LinkedIn for job listings and PayPal for payments. Now, it wants to take on the likes of Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams with a video conferencing tool. One of X’s employees, Chris Park, posted last week that the company had its first internal … Read more

Data infrastructure startup Cribl raises $319M at a $3.5B valuation

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San Francisco-based data infrastructure startup Cribl has raised $319 million in a Series E funding tranche led by new investor GV (Alphabet’s corporate venture arm) with participation from GIC, CapitalG, IVP and CRV. Bringing Cribl’s total raised to $600 million, the cash injection values the company at $3.5 billion — up around 40% from Cribl’s … Read more

Can a YouTube video really fix your wet phone?

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Phones have been getting wet for years — but now they’re getting better at dealing with it. | Photo: The Verge Millions of viewers are turning to videos to get the water out of their phones. I tried to figure out whether they actually work. Continue reading…

Airtel teams with Apple for streaming deals in India, closes Wynk Music app

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Airtel, India’s second-biggest telecom operator, said it has struck a “strategic” partnership with Apple to provide special Apple TV+ and Apple Music offers to its high-tier customers. As part of the move, Airtel said it will be discontinuing its own Wynk Music streaming platform. An Airtel spokesperson said in a statement that Wynk Music employees … Read more