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🚀 Amazon expanded availability of TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.2 to US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), and Europe (Frankfurt) via Amazon Bedrock. Pegasus 1.2 is a video-first language model optimized for long-form video understanding, video-to-text generation, and temporal reasoning across visual, audio, and textual signals. The regional rollout brings the model closer to customers' data and end users, reducing latency and simplifying deployment architectures. Developers can now build enterprise-grade video intelligence applications in these regions.

🔒 Today's complex IT environments — multi-cloud, hybrid work, and AI — have expanded the attack surface, exposing limits of fragmented point solutions. The article argues that unifying networking and security on a natively integrated platform like VersaONE reduces blind spots, enforces consistent policies, and enables real-time threat detection and automated response using built-in AI. With zero trust access and microsegmentation, the platform aims to minimize lateral movement and simplify operations compared with bolt-together or 'platformized' vendor offerings.

🔒 WhatsApp is rolling out passkey-encrypted chat backups on iOS and Android, allowing users to secure backups with biometrics or a device screen lock instead of a password. Passkeys rely on a device-generated private/public key pair so the private key never leaves the device, reducing exposure to credential theft. Users can enable the feature under Settings > Chats > Chat backup > End-to-end encrypted backup. Meta has begun a global rollout that will reach users over the coming weeks and months.

🔒 Android applies layered Google AI to anticipate and block mobile scams before they reach users. Built-in protections—such as Google Messages spam filtering and on-device Scam Detection, plus Phone by Google automatic call blocking and Call Screen—identify conversational scam patterns and surface real-time warnings. Android blocks over 10 billion suspected malicious calls and messages monthly and recently stopped more than 100 million suspicious numbers from using RCS. Protections are ephemeral, on-device where possible, and continuously updated to adapt to evolving threats.

🔒 Amazon S3 Access Grants are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) Regions. The feature maps corporate identities—such as Microsoft Entra ID or AWS IAM principals—to S3 datasets, enabling administrators to automate and scale dataset access. This reduces manual policy overhead and helps ensure consistent, auditable permissions. Check the AWS Region Table and product page for regional availability and details.

🚀 Amazon ECS now supports built-in linear and canary deployment strategies to give teams finer control over traffic shifts during container rollouts. Linear deployments shift traffic in equal percentage steps with configurable step percentage and step bake time, while canary deployments route a small portion of traffic to the new revision for a configurable canary bake time before completing the shift. Both strategies provide a post-deployment bake time, support deployment lifecycle hooks, and can use Amazon CloudWatch alarms to detect failures and trigger automated rollbacks. The feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions and is supported via Console, SDK, CLI, CloudFormation, CDK, and Terraform for services using ALB or ECS Service Connect.

📱 Google says built-in scam defenses on Android prevent more than 10 billion suspected malicious calls and messages every month and have blocked over 100 million suspicious numbers from using RCS. The company uses on-device artificial intelligence to filter likely spam into the "spam & blocked" folder in Google Messages and recently rolled out safer link warnings for flagged messages. Analysis of user reports in August 2025 identified employment fraud as the most common scam type, while scammers increasingly employ group-message tactics and time-of-day scheduling to increase success rates.

🔖 Starting today, Split Cost Allocation Data for Amazon EKS can import up to 50 Kubernetes custom labels per pod as cost allocation tags. You can attribute pod-level costs in the AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) using labels such as cost center, application, business unit, and environment. New customers enable the feature in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console; existing customers will have labels automatically imported but must activate them as cost allocation tags. After activation labels appear in CUR within 24 hours and can be visualized via the Containers Cost Allocation dashboard in Amazon QuickSight or queried with Amazon Athena.

🔒 Google Cloud has been migrating its infrastructure toward post-quantum cryptography for nearly a decade to mitigate Store Now, Decrypt Later (SNDL) risks. The company has deployed the standards-based ML-KEM (FIPS 203) for key exchange across internal traffic and the Google Cloud networking stack, and introduced ML-KEM capabilities in Cloud KMS (preview) for key generation, encapsulation, and decapsulation. It also added native support for ML-DSA and SLH-DSA in Cloud KMS to protect long-lived digital signatures, and is phasing quantum-safe certificate support into Certificate Authority Service to enable future PQC-ready PKI. Administrators will receive tooling to opt in, audit cryptographic assets, and manage transitions to hybrid or pure PQC deployments as standards mature.

☁️ Global Payments partnered with Google Cloud to design a multi-region, highly available database architecture using Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus. The deployment spans three regions with zonal replication, read replicas, cascading replication, and Cloud SQL Auth Proxy integration to support low-latency reads and rapid failover. This configuration yields near-zero planned downtime, sub-minute RTO and zero RPO for Tier 1 workloads, while meeting PCI DSS, GDPR, and NIST requirements.

🏆 Fortinet received two 2025 Crime Stoppers International awards—the Cybersecurity Leadership Award and the Corporate Leadership in Crime Prevention Award—for its global efforts to disrupt cybercrime through intelligence sharing, partnership, and workforce development. FortiGuard Labs and the Fortinet Training Institute are cited for delivering actionable threat intelligence and scalable education. The honors validate more than a decade of sustained public‑private collaboration and data‑driven prevention.

🔧 AWS Clean Rooms now supports advanced runtime configurations to improve Spark SQL query performance. Customers can set Spark properties—such as shuffle partition counts and autoBroadcastJoinThreshold—select compute sizes or custom worker counts, and opt to cache existing or newly created tables containing query results to accelerate complex, large-scale queries. These controls enable collaborators to tune performance, scale, and cost for workloads like advertising lift analysis without changing SQL logic.

🔍 AWS Step Functions now provides a unified metrics dashboard in the console that centralizes usage and billing metrics for both account and state-machine levels. The dashboard covers standard and express workflows and surfaces existing metrics such as ApproximateOpenMapRunCount. It is available in all Regions where the service operates and can be opened from the Step Functions console.

🚀 AWS has announced general availability of the Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservation Topology API, providing a hierarchical, per-account view of the relative location of capacity reservations for AI/ML and HPC workloads. The API represents reservations as a network node set so customers can assess proximity without launching instances. Paired with the Instance Topology API, it enables consistent job scheduling, capacity planning, and node ranking across distributed parallel workloads and is available in most major AWS regions.

🚀 AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Amazon Corretto 25 on the Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) platform, enabling developers to build and deploy applications with the newest Java 25 runtime and language features. The update brings improvements such as compact object headers, ahead-of-time (AOT) caching, and structured concurrency to Beanstalk-managed environments. Developers can provision Corretto 25 instances via the Elastic Beanstalk Console, CLI, or API, with general availability in commercial regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

📊 Amazon GameLift Servers now includes built-in telemetry metrics across all server SDKs and game engine plugins, powered by OpenTelemetry, to generate, collect, and export client-side metrics for game-specific insights. The feature can be configured to collect and publish telemetry from game servers running on managed Amazon EC2 and container fleets, supporting both pre-defined and custom metrics and exporting to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus or Amazon CloudWatch. Visualizations are available via Amazon Managed Grafana and Amazon CloudWatch dashboards to help optimize resources, improve player experience, and surface operational issues. Telemetry is available in all supported regions except AWS China; see the GameLift Servers documentation for details.

🛡️ Small and medium-sized businesses often find enterprise-grade MXDR solutions overwhelming; instead, they need a partnered approach that builds internal expertise while delivering managed detection and response. The ideal MXDR for SMBs is adaptive to maturity, reduces false positives through tailored rules, offers transparent incident reporting and dashboards, and provides threat intelligence and targeted employee training. Kaspersky's Next MXDR Optimum exemplifies this model by combining expert-led support, accessible XDR tools, and role-specific training to foster a security culture.

🤖 Microsoft is extending Copilot functionality across its Microsoft 365 companion apps, with People and Files already supported and Calendar due in the coming weeks. These taskbar mini-apps—available only to enterprise and business Microsoft 365 customers—surface contextual info like contact details, org-wide search and OneDrive file results. Microsoft says Copilot now offers instant suggestions such as recaps, flagged comments, and updates from top collaborators, and supports seamless handoff to the full Microsoft 365 Copilot app for deeper inquiries. There is no indication that Copilot can be disabled within these companion apps.

🤖 The new Jules extension for Gemini CLI lets developers delegate routine engineering tasks—like bug fixes, dependency updates, and vulnerability patches—to an autonomous background agent. Jules runs asynchronously and can work on multiple GitHub issues in parallel, preparing fixes in isolated environments for review. It also composes with other extensions to automate security remediation, crash investigation, and unit test creation, returning ready-to-review branches so you can stay focused on higher-value work.

🔍 Amazon ECS Service Connect now captures per-request telemetry with Envoy access logs to improve visibility into service-to-service traffic for tracing, debugging, and compliance. Access logging is enabled via the ServiceConnectConfiguration and emits Envoy logs to STDOUT alongside application logs, flowing through the existing ECS log pipeline without extra infrastructure. Query strings are redacted by default and the feature supports HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC, and TCP protocols. The capability is available in all regions where Service Connect is supported.