Hyperdisk, a next-generation network attached block storage service, offers storage pools that can be provisioned to applications as needed, sharing capacity and performance among disks to optimize operations and cost. This helps lower storage-related Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by 30-50%. The feature is available in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) 1.2.

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Electronic Arts (EA) chose Google Cloud Armor to protect its game servers and enhance DDoS resiliency for EA Sports FC, a leading brand in the gaming industry. DDoS attacks can disrupt gameplay, prevent players from accessing games, and cause damage to game servers, leading to lost revenue and customer dissatisfaction.

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Gemini and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) improve the accuracy and relevance of LLM outputs by augmenting input prompts with relevant data from an external database. This is achieved by embedding prompts and documents into a shared vector space and ranking data by relevance. The technology is used in an online shopping demo, where user prompts are embedded in the same format as the online store's inventory to retrieve relevant items.

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The FLARE team is hosting the 11th Annual Flare-On Challenge, a reverse engineering contest that attracts thousands of players worldwide. The contest will run for six weeks, starting on September 27th, 2024, at 8:00 pm ET, and ending on November 8th, 2024, at 8:00 pm ET.

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Chief Information Security Officers must lead the cloud security component of their organization's digital transformation, a complicated task. The Google Cybersecurity Action Team can help answer questions and build engaged, robust cybersecurity teams. Financial services organizations are moving to the cloud, but there is no 'one size fits all' approach to cloud security.

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Coffee Nirvana, an AI-powered solution, uses Oracle on Google Cloud to simplify the search for the perfect cup of coffee. It allows users to input their preferred taste and strength, and the system does the rest. The solution was demonstrated at Oracle CloudWorld 2024.

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Google Cloud's Sensitive Data Protection feature can automatically discover sensitive data assets and attach tags to them based on sensitivity. This allows for automated access control across various supported resources based on attributes and classifications of the data.

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BigQuery users now have more control over their storage costs with the introduction of the physical storage billing model. This model can yield different size reductions for different data sets, with compression ratios being a key factor. BigQuery stores data in Capacitor, a columnar-oriented format similar to Apache Parquet, which provides storage efficiency by encoding similar values within a column.

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Mandiant's white paper, Standardizing Privileged Access Architecture for Multi-Cloud, highlights the risks associated with multi-cloud environments and provides a framework for establishing a robust security posture. The paper explores the vulnerabilities that arise from misconfigurations and fragmented security practices, and introduces a cloud-agnostic tiered security model.

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Since 2020, seven cyber espionage groups linked to the PRC have targeted users in Mexico, accounting for a third of government-backed phishing activity in the country. These groups have targeted not only Gmail users but also Mexican government agencies and high-profile individuals.

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