Techstrong News Recap – September 13, 2022

Hi again, everyone here the headlines for September 13th. First up the bided Administration plans to increase the restrictions on us semiconductor shipments to China the next month. The Commerce Department plans to publish a new set of regulations which will set harsh limits on exporting semiconductors as well as the chipmaking equipment that is used to produce them.

These new regulations would also go to codify the restrictions imposed on Nvidia to Halt shipments of AI Computing chips to China. Additionally, the regulations are also most likely to include further actions against China. This plan of action comes as the US government tries to maintain its dominance in the tech industries that are currently does.

While there is speculation for what else these regulations might include we will have to see next month what it entails entirely. Next Montenegro is currently wrestling with a massive Cyber attack that bear the marks of a pro-russian hacker. A coordinated attack started around August 20th that hampered online government information platforms and put their essential infrastructure at high risk.

This attack which has been called unprecedented in its intensity has been one of several cyber attacks since Russia invaded Ukraine. Montenegro officials said that a russian-speaking ransomware group called Cuba ransomware are responsible. Montenegro was once considered by Russia to be an ally before joining nato in 2017 and joining Western sanctions against Moscow.

As this attack is succeeded 20 days at this point. There's a widespread support by governments or trying to restore montenegro's computer systems as quickly as possible. In other news.

Google has spun out a high-speed Telecom project with the goal of creating a fast secure and complex Communications Network. The project was revealed to the public on Monday with the name Elyria. The new project has hit the ground running with alphabet saying it is transferred almost a decades worth of tech in IP to it.

7 million dollar government defense contract. This spinout is happening is Google and alphabet has begun to make decisions on whether to advance or shut down experimental projects. other projects that have been Advanced include verily and waymo elyria's laser light Laser Technology called type beam has been stated that it is improving satellite Communications and cell connectivity everywhere.

Next Amazon has stated that they have no plans to make workers return to office from a recent statement from Amazon CEO Angie jassy. He announced that Amazon would not force workers to come back last October Amazon announced that it would leave the jurisdiction to individual managers to determine how much time they should spend in an office and it seems that they are continuing with this approach. This statement contrasts other tech companies such as Google and apple which have made statements about requiring employees to adopt hybrid work schedules.

Approximately 69% of mid to large size businesses are requiring employees to come into office for a set number of days but Amazon's announcement could serve as a marker to the tacking corporate world as an alternative. Next with a growing demand for a short form content Roku has added a feature to include just that as part of its new software update. The updated home screen will now include a new section entitled The Buzz.

Roku will post short-form video clips trailers and interviews to engage Watchers with several Partners such as Showtime AMC plus and stars. Roku is only the most recent company to integrate short-form content as it continues to grow in popularity. Netflix expanded into the short form content space earlier this year with its fast last feature Roku has announced that it plans on expanding is short form content offerings in the future.

com. We have an article looking at the emerging role of finops. As cloud overspending is becoming a more pressing issue for companies.

Finding ways to oversee Cloud Financial operations are very important. When properly used fin Ops can act as a culture that can tie together engineering finance and business areas for cloud cost management. com.

On Security Boulevard, we have an article looking at a survey by blueboyant that found that cybersecurity of media companies is at risk. According to the survey approximately half of all the top media vendors providing content Management Solutions have potentially compromising vulnerabilities in 60% of the identified vulnerabilities are still unprotected six weeks after the Patch has been issued. Media companies face the number of issues that make them more prone to cybersecurity issues such as how they often rely on third-party vendors for Content production.

com. Finally on container Journal we have an article looking however Tana added support for containers and kubernetes clusters to its Cloud management and monitoring platform with these added functionalities vertana positions itself within the larger movement towards AI Ops that combines machine learning algorithms with real-time monitoring to learn more about vertana's recent update go to container Journal. And that's today's text wrong news recap.