Techstrong News Recap – January 9, 2023

Hi again, everyone here the headlines for January 9th. First up Microsoft is planning to use openai's chat GTP technology to give Bing more human-like answers to searches in an effort to better compete with Google. Currently both Bing and Google provide relevant information through Links at the top of search results.

But Google is better searching about information for people places and things. Check GTP gained a lot of attention recently for its ability to generate answers and authentic looking essays on various topics, but it also has been criticized for biases and presenting false information. Currently is unclear how Microsoft plans integrate child GTP into Bing or if it will be available to all users.

This being said though. The new feature is expected to be launched by the end of March. Next the European Union has fined meta over 414 million dollars for violating privacy laws and is banned meta from requiring users in the EU to agree to personalize ads based on their activity.

The fines which were imposed by Ireland's data protection Commission in two cases could affect meta's business model of targeting ads to users. Meta has said that it plans to appeal the decision but this rules follows four previous fines for data privacy violations imposed on meta totaling over 1 billion dollars in a number of ongoing cases against Silicon Valley companies. Additionally meta is also facing antitrust charges from EU officials in Brussels who have accused the company last month of messing with competition in its classified ads.

In other news Mercedes-Benz announced its plans to build a worldwide network of electric vehicle charging stations starting in North America. 05 billion dollars. One is completed.

The network will feature 400 charging stations with over 2,500 high power plugs with Mercedes-Benz planning to expand the network to Europe China and other markets by the end of the decade. This move will allowed Mercedes to compete in the electric vehicle sector against the likes of Tesla, which currently has 40,000 charging ports worldwide mainly for exclusive use by Tesla drivers. Next up in an effort to increase Broadband access.

The state of Georgia is awarding 234 million dollars in federal covid-19 relief funds to provide broadband internet access to rural areas that currently lack connections. The grants will be used to connect people from approximately 77,000 locations in 28 counties and will be matched by 220 million dollars from the utility companies that receive the funds. 5 billion dollars.

The plan is to use these funds to provide download and upload speeds of a hundred megabytes per second, but still keep it affordable for its users. On Security Boulevard, we have an article looking at how F5 is increasing the reach of its Cloud security platform to include infrastructure that it gained from the acquisition of threat stack. The overall goal is to provide an integrated zero trust approach to cybersecurity that uses machine learning to track everything across the distributed computing environment.

com. com. We have an article looking at a survey highlighting the cloud and API expertise skill Gap from a survey done by axway 86% of respondents feared in expertise Gap in the coming years.

com. Finally on container Journal we have an article looking at instant kubernetes platform engineering for the cloud. The article gives a summary of platform engineering using kubernetes as well as showing the difference between devops and SRE.

com. And that's today's Tech strong news recap.