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  • Extended Support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL is now billing

    If you run PostgreSQL 11, 12 or 13 on Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server, a quiet billing change went live on September 1. Azure automatically enrolled servers on unsupported PostgreSQL versions in Extended Support when standard support ended on July 31. A one-month grace period covered August at no charge. The meter started running…

  • Defender for Cloud brings serverless container posture to Azure Container Apps

    Microsoft has made Azure Container Apps environments available in Defender for Cloud’s Serverless Containers Posture experience, now generally available. Security teams can pull their Container Apps estate into posture management from a single workflow instead of treating each serverless platform separately. The capability also covers Azure Container Instances and Amazon ECS on AWS Fargate. The…

  • OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

    In May, someone flooded RubyGems with more than 2,000 malicious packages over a couple of days. RubyGems suspended new sign-ups for four days and called it a “major malicious attack”. Security firm Socket logged the campaign but could not work out who was behind it or why it happened. The packages scraped data from UK…

  • Tottenham Hotspur cut VMware licensing costs by 85 percent with HPE Morpheus

    Tottenham Hotspur cut its virtualization licensing bill by more than 85 percent by moving its stadium infrastructure off VMware. The English Premier League club confirmed this week that it replaced VMware with HPE’s Morpheus VM Essentials, delivered through HPE’s GreenLake hybrid cloud platform, and that the savings were the biggest single reason for the switch.…

  • Human Atlas puts 2,234 selectable anatomy meshes in your browser

    There is a new entry in the small category of open source projects that make the web feel like the future we were promised in the 1990s: Human Atlas, an interactive 3D anatomy explorer built with React, Three.js, and shadcn/ui. It takes the BodyParts3D adult male reference model and breaks it into 2,234 individually selectable…

  • Cisco firewall manager flaws pulled three hacking groups into the same appliances

    Cisco Talos published research this week on three separate hacking groups that broke into customers through two flaws in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center, the central management server for Cisco firewalls. One group dropped ransomware. Another is tied to Sandworm, the hacking unit linked to Russian military intelligence. The third stole credentials through a web…

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