Techstrong News Recap – December 8, 2022

Hi again, everyone here the headlines for December 8th. First up the top Hospital in India is moving its way back to normalcy after a Cyber attack has hampered its operations for nearly two weeks. Online registration of patients only resumed two days ago at the all India Institute of Medical Sciences.

It is currently unknown who conducted the attack but it was followed by several failed attempts to hack into India's top medical research organization raising concerns of the security of India's Health Systems. India launched initiative to digitize health records of patients last September with over 173,000 hospitals registering for the program since this being said experts fear that the hospitals might not have the ability to keep these records safe and further action might be needed. Next the newly founded Japanese Semiconductor Company rapidus sign an agreement to collaborate with a Belgian researcher organization to develop the next generation of semiconductors for production.

Rapidus which only launched last month has already signed an agreement to team up with iMac a research organization known for nanoelectronics. the two planned to develop and mass produce a two nanometer chip by 2027 Rapidus said it will send Engineers to iMac and Forge other ties with research Labs outside of Japan as well. Japan was once a leader in the semiconductor development and production industry and with this new deal rapidus plans to bring Japan back up to the top.

In other news in the move towards clean energy sources the US auction its first ever leases to develop commercial scale floating wind farms off the West Coast. What's more is that the five leases Drew strong interest from over 43 companies from around the world? While offshore wind is established in other countries such as the UK the United States is just beginning to jump into this energy sector.

While the diversification of energy is partially need for clean energy developing offshore wind farms has become significantly cheaper approximately 60% since 20 times. Currently there's only 123 megawatts of floating offshore wind operating but it's expected to increase to 19 gigawatts by the end of 2030. The US is currently planning to other sites for auction in the next two years.

Next amidst regulatory scrutiny and delayed adoption of autonomous vehicles Uber has partnered with the driverless technology company emotional to launch a public robotaxi service in Las Vegas. This launch is part of a 10-year agreement between the companies for driverless vehicles that will drive both passengers and delivery items. Riders are currently not being charged but will be when this program will launch is commercially.

Zooming out write your platforms are pushing towards Robo taxis with both Uber and Lyft making deals with driverless technology companies. Uber plants that make a fully driverless experience available to the public by 2023 On Security Boulevard, we have an article looking at a survey showing the shift towards passwordless access. In a survey of over 500 professionals 87% says that they are moving towards some sort of passwordless approach.

However, 80% said they still use passwords as a security method showing that there's still a long way to go to learn more go to Security Boulevard calm. com. We've an article looking at the cultural and Technical challenges of SecOps.

From a global survey of over 600 it professionals 71% cited culture as the biggest barrier to the adoption of SecOps. Additionally 57% of the respondents stated that security threats were the biggest technology challenge to driving the adoption. com.

Finally on container Journal we've an article looking at our five predictions for kubernetes in 2023. Kubernetes will only continue to grow throughout next year yet. We need to ask ourselves what we need to know as kubernetes adoption spreads.

This article looks at five things. We believe you should pay attention to if kubernetes is important to your organization. com.

And that's today's texturing news recap.