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Hackers Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers

Hacker News

.” Techcrunch quoted an AT&T spokesperson saying the customer data was stolen as a result of a still-unfolding data breach involving more than 160 customers of the cloud data provider Snowflake. million current AT&T account holders and roughly 65.4 million former account holders.

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Beyond data: Cloud analytics mastery for business brilliance

Dataconomy

Data privacy and compliance : With data stored in the cloud, navigating complex data privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA becomes essential. For instance, British Airways faced a fine of £183 million ($230 million) for a GDPR breach in 2018. Poor data integration can lead to inaccurate insights.

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Behind the glory: the dark sides of AI models that big tech will not tell you.

Towards AI

The Myth of Clean Tech: Cloud Data Centers The data center has been a critical component of improvements in computing. China’s data center industry gets 73% of its power from coal, emitting roughly 99 million tons of CO2 in 2018 [4].

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How to Process LiDAR Data with Snowflake

phData

In this blog, we will focus on a single type of geospatial analysis: processing point cloud data generated from LiDAR scans to assess changes in the landscape between two points in time. LiDAR point cloud data sets can be truly massive–the data set we will showcase here contains over 100 billion points.

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Big Data – Das Versprechen wurde eingelöst

Data Science Blog

Dann etwa im Jahr 2018 flachte der Hype um Big Data wieder ab, die Euphorie änderte sich in eine Ernüchterung, zumindest für den deutschen Mittelstand.

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10 Years Later: Who’s the GOAT of Data Catalogs?

Alation

June 2018: Dresner Advisory Services names Alation the #1 data catalog in its Data Catalog End-User Market Study for the 2nd time. August 2018: Constellation Research adds Alation to its Constellation Shortlist for Data Cataloging in Q3 2018 for third consecutive time. July 2019: Alation hits 100 customers.

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IBM and Microsoft partnership accelerates sustainable cloud modernization

IBM Journey to AI blog

According to the IT Sustainability Beyond the Data Center report from the IBM Institute for Business Value, some estimates suggest that there has been a 43% absolute increase in the power capacity demand by data center operators between 2018 and 2021, and that the global data center market will grow by more than 30% between 2021 and 2027.

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