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 GUEST OPINION:  Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, generative AI has quickly become a powerful tool that is driving innovation in many areas of business.

GUEST RESEARCH: Barracuda Networks, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today published Email Threats and Trends, Vol. 1, which shows that over the last 12 months business email compromise attacks have increased to account for 10.6% of email-based social engineering. Conversation hijacking has risen by 70% since 2022, despite being a resource-intensive approach for attackers.

It's not often that you find someone writing about open source software and not bothering to make mention of the licences being used. But that's precisely what Albert Zhang of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a lobby group for big tech and foreign agencies, has done.

Cybersecurity solutions provider Bitdefender Labs says it has been monitoring the growing trend among cybercriminals who actively exploit social media networks for malvertising, and the “end goal of these attacks” is to hijack accounts and “steal personal data” through malicious software.

COMPANY NEWS: UiPath, a leading enterprise automation software company, today announced at the Google Cloud Next 2023 conference a new connector for Google Cloud, a UiPath partner, that allows developers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers to integrate generative text and chat completion into their automations.

The Semiconductor Industry Association, an American lobby group for the sector, has leaked claims that Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies is trying to get around US sanctions by acquiring chip factories and also constructing them.

Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies is making a bid to return to the 5G smartphone industry by the end of 2023, Reuters reports.

Asana's work management platform for organisations has gained new features and product integrations aimed at enterprises.

The reason why Google launches so many products and then abandons them is because only those who launch new products are in a position to chase promotions, an unnamed ex-employee and a current employee claim.

GUEST OPINION: The road to the cloud follows two common paths: via economical first-party migration tools from public cloud providers or third-party solutions from specialist vendors.

GUEST OPINION: An absolute must for all organisations planning a data migration, however complex, is to research vendors whose technology can simplify the migration – and choose the one with the most comprehensive solution and top support.

The new flagship smartphone produced by Honor Device, formerly the budget unit of Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies, will use Google's proprietary apps for its international models.

When Gmail was telling me it was "offline" earlier today, in an outage I experienced that didn't seem to affect very many, and which resolved itself after about 15 minutes, I found some very interesting tweets reminding us all of some major tech moments that happened this week in history.

GUEST OPINION by George Tsoukas, Gigamon:   For organisations that want to full benefit from their approach to the cloud, cloud-native computing may provide the answer. Unfortunately, although the benefits of the cloud-native approach are widely recognised, there is a lot of confusion about what cloud-native computing actually is.

The head of a company that makes the popular Windows game Terraria has cancelled plans for a port to Google's Stadia platform after his company's Google account was disabled with no warning.

No doubt it's just a temporary situation, but I can't get into Gmail, and both Down Detector and Tweets say the same thing.

With the US administration changing next year, it is very likely that Google will be able to get a waiver on selling the proprietary version of its Android operating system to Chinese telecommunications vendor Huawei Technologies, something it has been unable to do ever since the Trump administration put in place sanctions on the Chinese firm.

If Apple had to remove the WeChat app from its app store due to an executive order issued by US President Donald Trump, that would mean a loss of Chinese users who make up nearly a third of iPhone users around the globe, an influential Taiwanese stock analyst has warned.

Many apps that have had access to Gmail data will find their access blocked soon as Google locks down API access, with the cut off date being 15 July. The new API policy was announced in October last year.

The outage that Google experienced on Monday AEST was caused by a configuration change that was pushed out to more servers than intended, the company says in a blog post.