Techstrong News Recap – October 4, 2022
On Oct. 4, William Willis covered Google’s discontinuation of Google Translate in mainland China, Iran’s launch of 5G services and Meta’s Make-A-Video AI model. He also talked about Cloudflare’s tests of a CAPTCHA alternative. Finally, he previewed articles from Security Boulevard, Container Journal and DevOps.com which covered how hackers are using Telegram, Signal and the Dark Web to aid Iranian protestors, a survey looking at cloud-native applications and IT data and Cosmonic’s preview of its deployment platform for distributed Wasm applications.
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Hi again, everyone here the headlines for October 4th. First up Google has discontinued its Google translate service in mainland, China. This is one of Google's last remaining services that was still provided in the country.
The app in the website and it will now direct Chinese users to its page in Hong Kong which is blocked in China. Who will stated that the service was discontinued in China due to its low use but Google is always had a different cult relationship with China starting back in 2010. When Google pulled its search engine after it was unwilling to abide by China's censorship rules.
Next India is announced this launch of 5G the launch will happen and select cities and we'll eventually expand to the entire country and a move to provide seamless coverage less delay in internet connectivity and highly reliable Communications. The government has stated that the economic impact of 5G on India is expected to be 450 billion dollars by 2035 and projections of over 369 million subscriptions. India will be just behind China in the US and world rankings of 5G by 2026.
In other news meta has announced make a video project which turns text prompts into video. Well, we have all seen the text to image models before such as Dolly moving from Stills to moving images. Is it difficult challenge for machine learning?
Matter has stated that the makeup video follows a similar model to creating images. It will first create the image in the determine what the following frame should look like That being said to make a video project is currently not available to the public and is still being tested but several example videos have already been released. Next cloudflare is in the process of testing a new kind of captcha that tests your browser instead of you.
So the days of clicking on stoplights could rapidly be coming to an end. The test which is called turnstile, we'll apply one of several browser challenges including proof of work proof of space and probing for web apis to look for human behavior. According to cloudflare turnstile will dramatically reduce the time it takes to complete a test down to one or two seconds from the average of 32 seconds.
It takes to complete a captcha. Turn Styles now available to use in beta form for everyone. On Security Boulevard, we have an article looking at how hackers are using telegram signal and the dark web in order to Aid the efforts of Iranian protesters.
With Iran's telecommunications sector being entirely state-owned several anti-governmental groups are using these tools to avoid State censorship. com On container Journal we have an article looking at a survey on cloud native apps in it data. From a survey of over 1,300 cios and Senior it practitioners 71% believe that the explosion of data from cloud native technology is beyond our ability to manage.
More concerning the respondents noted that they only have observability across nine percent of their environments. com. com.
We have an article looking at how cosmonic has previewed a deployment platform for Walzem apps. Cosmonica stated that the platform will help developers experiment with this new type of software to build a new class of cloud native applications. com.
And that's today's text wrong news recap.
