TikTok was hit with a massive EU fine of 530 million euros ($600 million) Friday, accused of sending personal data of Europeans to China and failing to guarantee it was shielded from access by Chinese authorities. The Chinese-owned social media giant, which is also in the crosshairs of the United States, acknowledged during a probe … Read more
The cloud revolution has transformed how businesses deploy, scale, and manage data streaming solutions. While Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud models are often used interchangeably in marketing, their distinctions have significant implications for operational efficiency, cost, and scalability. In the context of data streaming around Apache Kafka and Flink, understanding these differences and recognizing … Read more
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined TikTok €530 million (over $601 million) for illegally transferring the personal data of users in the European Economic Area (EEA) to China, violating the European Union’s GDPR data protection regulations. The administrative fines imposed by the Irish watchdog consist of a fine of €485 million for its … Read more
Microsoft’s FY25 Q3 earnings report was dominated by cloud primarily, although AI had plenty to say during the festivities as well. Microsoft Copilot is powered by ChatGPT and other OpenAI technologies, and deeply integrates Bing Search to provide real time information from the world wide web. Microsoft announced during the earnings report that Bing had … Read more
A California man who used the alias “NullBulge” has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing Disney’s internal Slack channels and stealing over 1.1 terabytes of internal company data. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a 25-year-old named Ryan Kramer created a malicious program in early 2024 that was promoted as an AI image generation tool on … Read more
When developers hear the term GDPR, the initial reaction often involves stress and uncertainty, especially around how it might slow down development or degrade application performance. But here’s the truth: GDPR isn’t just another regulation to check off your list. It’s a framework that can help build trust, protect user rights, and improve your application’s … Read more
As AI and machine learning applications continue to proliferate, the data pipelines that power them have become more mission-critical than ever. As retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications and real-time AI systems are becoming the norm, any glitch in a data pipeline can lead to stale insights, suboptimal model performance, and inflated infrastructure costs. Working in this … Read more
While large language models (LLMs) offer valuable savings, automation, and time management, knowing and understanding their limitations—especially in defining relationships—and how to guide their output effectively can make a big difference. Let’s dive into how you can make the most of LMMs in your every day development tasks. Enjoy! Introduction Part 3 of our Unlocking … Read more
– US data eyed for details of Trump’s tariff fall-out. – Eurozone data dump largely ignored – US dollar grinds out gains-CAD and MXN outperform USDCAD: open 1.3834, overnight range 1.3817-1.3847, close 1.3834, WTI 60.06, Gold 3275.34 The Canadian dollar is inching higher in subdued trading conditions ahead of this morning’s US and Canadian economic … Read more
Commvault, a leading provider of data protection solutions, says a nation-state threat actor who breached its Azure environment didn’t gain access to customer backup data. Listed on NASDAQ since March 2006, Commvault is included in the S&P MidCap 400 Index and provides cyber resilience services to over 100,000 organizations. As the company first revealed on March … Read more