Carlyle Italy’s Marco De Benedetti: “To build a €1 billion company, the product alone is not enough”
Published October 21, 2025 “It is not impossible to build a €100 million company if…
Your VMDR Year in Review: Making Security Progress Visible and Actionable
Security Teams Rarely Stop to Reflect When a security program is working well, very little seems to happen. That is by design. There is no alert for the incident that was prevented. No visibility into the attack path that was quietly closed. No recognition for the vulnerability that was fixed before it could be exploited….
Elon Musk’s Grok ‘Undressing’ Problem Isn’t Fixed
Elon Musk’s X has introduced new restrictions stopping people from editing and generating images of real people in bikinis or other “revealing clothing.” The change in policy on Wednesday night follows global outrage at Grok being used to generate thousands of harmful non-consensual “undressing” photos of women and sexualized images of apparent minors on X….
Safeguard generative AI applications with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails
Enterprises aiming to automate processes using AI agents or enhance employee productivity using AI chat-based assistants need to enforce comprehensive safeguards and audit controls for responsible use of AI and processing of sensitive data by large language models (LLMs). Many have developed a custom generative AI gateway or have adopted an off-the-shelf solution (such as…
Build a generative AI-powered business reporting solution with Amazon Bedrock
Traditional business reporting processes are often time-consuming and inefficient. Associates typically spend about two hours per month preparing their reports, while managers dedicate up to 10 hours per month aggregating, reviewing, and formatting submissions. This manual approach often leads to inconsistencies in both format and quality, requiring multiple cycles of review. Additionally, reports are fragmented…
How the Amazon AMET Payments team accelerates test case generation with Strands Agents
At Amazon.ae, we serve approximately 10 million customers monthly across five countries in the Middle East and North Africa region—United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Türkiye, and South Africa. Our AMET (Africa, Middle East, and Türkiye) Payments team manages payment selections, transactions, experiences, and affordability features across these diverse countries, publishing on average five…
Babies in Midlands and North ‘more likely to die around birth’
Getty Images Babies in the Midlands and North of England are more likely to die before, during or shortly after birth than those in the South, a new study has found. Researchers analysed data from 121 maternity services in England to see which centres repeatedly produced outcomes better or worse than the average between 2013…
Livestream: Welcome to the Chinese Century
Whether you realize it or not, you’re already living in the Chinese century. From batteries to milk to electric vehicles, China is undoubtably doing it better—while the rest of us kick our feet up and watch. China is soaring ahead of the US in a space race called by Trump; China is putting up buildings…
Serverless Security Risks 2026: Mitigating Identity & SSRF RCE Threats
Key Takeaways Serverless shifts security risk from infrastructure to identity, permissions, and configuration, where small design choices can have an outsized impact. Short-lived cloud credentials reduce persistence but remain powerful; when exposed, they enable authenticated access, escalation, and lateral movement. The most damaging serverless breaches stem from routine issues such as public invocation, excessive permissions,…
Scale creative asset discovery with Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings unified vector search
Gaming companies face an unprecedented challenge in managing their advertising creative assets. Modern gaming companies produce thousands of video advertisements for A/B testing campaigns, with some organizations maintaining libraries with more than 100,000 video assets that grow by thousands of assets monthly. These assets are critical for user acquisition campaigns, where finding the right creative…
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS trust declares critical incident
Rising demand for services has led an NHS trust serving Suffolk and Essex to declare a critical incident. East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust told the BBC it was facing “significant pressure”, including hospitals in Ipswich and Colchester. Earlier this month, the NHS reported a rise in flu and other winter viruses after…
