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- Identity as the new perimeter: National Oilwell Varco’s approach to stopping the 79% of attacks that are malware-freeby Louis Columbus on April 18, 2025 at 8:54 pm
NOV’s CIO led a cyber strategy fusing Zero Trust, AI, and airtight identity controls to cut threats by 35x and eliminating reimaging.
- From ‘catch up’ to ‘catch us’: How Google quietly took the lead in enterprise AIby Matt Marshall on April 18, 2025 at 8:14 pm
Google has surged ahead in the enterprise AI race after perceived stumbles. VentureBeat details the Gemini models, TPU advantage & agent ecosystem driving its turnaround.
- Nintendo reschedules Switch 2 American preorders for April 24by Rachel Kaser on April 18, 2025 at 6:29 pm
Nintendo has set a new date for Switch 2 pre-orders in the U.S., and while the console won’t be more expensive, some accessories will be.
AWS News Blog Announcements, Updates, and Launches
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon S3 Express One Zone price cuts, Pixtral Large on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Nova Sonic, and more (April 14, 2025)by Elizabeth Fuentes on April 14, 2025 at 6:32 pm
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit 2025 season launched this week, starting with the Paris Summit. These free events bring together the global cloud computing community for learning and collaboration. AWS Community Day Romania, held on April 11th, showcased how the local community creates opportunities for collective growth and inclusion. Last week’s launches Announcing up
- Announcing up to 85% price reductions for Amazon S3 Express One Zoneby Channy Yun (윤석찬) on April 10, 2025 at 9:04 pm
Amazon S3 Express One Zone announces significant price reductions, including reducing pricing for storage by 31%, PUTs by 55%, and GETS by 85%. In addition, S3 Express One Zone has reduced its per-gigabyte data upload and retrieval charges by 60% and now applies these charges to all bytes rather than just portions of requests exceeding 512 kilobytes.
- AWS announces Pixtral Large 25.02 model in Amazon Bedrock serverlessby Sébastien Stormacq on April 8, 2025 at 9:29 pm
Mistral AI’s multimodal model, Pixtral Large 25.02, is now available in Amazon Bedrock as a fully managed, serverless offering with cross-Region inference support, multilingual capabilities, and a 128K context window that can process images alongside text.