Airflow DAGs and tasks can be improved with Deferrable Operators, which can suspend themselves and free up worker slots when idle, allowing for better resource utilization in Cloud Composer. This feature helps reduce wasted resources on idle operators and sensors, enabling more efficient task concurrency.

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In a world where 96% of people want sustainability, businesses need to take action. ChromeOS and ChromeOS Flex can help by embracing circularity and extending device support from 8 to 10 years. This allows businesses to get more mileage out of their existing device fleet.

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North Korea's digital military machine, APT45, has been active since 2009, with a focus on government agencies and the defense industry since 2017. Its operations have shifted to align with Pyongyang's priorities, including nuclear issues and energy. APT45 is distinct from other North Korean operators in its suspected interest in ransomware, and may be carrying out financially-motivated cybercrime.

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Google Cloud has announced the expanded availability of Partner Companion to its Services Partners, leveraging generative AI technology from Vertex AI to deliver instant information and elevate professional services. This AI-powered collaborator is designed to amplify the customer engagement journey of Google Cloud partners, ensuring customers receive high-quality Google Cloud solutions.

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Google Cloud's VPC Service Controls can help organizations mitigate data exfiltration risks by creating isolation perimeters around cloud resources and networks. The service now supports private IP addresses, allowing traffic from specific internal networks to access protected resources. This feature helps prevent data exfiltration to unauthorized Cloud organizations, folders, projects, and resources.

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Google Cloud's unified data platform, comprising BigQuery and Dataproc, is designed to meet the evolving needs of companies building generative AI applications. The platform provides a path to data modernization with built-in capabilities for data lakehouse architectures, enabling organizations to unlock their data's full potential and drive innovation.

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Google Cloud is the first hyperscaler to introduce Codestral, Mistral AI's open-weight generative AI model for code generation tasks, as a fully-managed service in Vertex AI Model Garden. The service is available today, and Mistral AI's latest large language models, including Mistral Large V2 and Mistral Nemo, are also available via Model-as-a-Service endpoints.

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Mandiant's Red Team uses AI-powered voice spoofing to test defenses, demonstrating the effectiveness of this increasingly sophisticated attack technique. Attackers can use AI-powered voice cloning in various phases of the attack lifecycle, including initial access, lateral movement, and privilege escalation. Scammers have leveraged voice cloning and deepfakes to steal over HK$200 million from an organization.

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The process of RSS feed ingestion involves extracting the message URL, fetching the RSS feed, and verifying if the article has not been indexed. New articles are then pushed into the datastore BigQuery, and relevant information such as author, source, and publish date is extracted. GKE Autopilot Spot Pods are used to optimize costs, and extracted information is stored in BigQuery for efficient storage and querying.

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UC Berkeley migrated to Filestore for JupyterHub, achieving impressive results with no noticeable impact on other users. The test instance was intentionally pushed to its limits, and Filestore's ability to isolate workloads and ensure consistent performance was demonstrated. UC Berkeley was particularly impressed by Filestore's read/write/latency performance, which met or exceeded their expectations.

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