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The N.B.A. Champion May Literally Be the Last Team Standing By Sopan Deb and Marc Stein from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/3hqBfL2 Sports Injuries, National Basketball Assn, Playoff Games, NBA Championship, Atlanta Hawks, Antetokounmpo, Giannis (1994- ), Harden, James, Irving, Kyrie, Brooklyn Nets, Utah Jazz, Paul, Chris (1985- ), Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Clippers, Leonard, Kawhi

World Leaders Commit $40 Billion to Advancing Gender Equality By Alisha Haridasani Gupta and Emma Goldberg from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/368xch6 Women and Girls, Women's Rights, Philanthropy, Politics and Government, United Nations Women, Mlambo-Ngcuka, Phumzile, United Nations, Clinton, Hillary Rodham, Speeches and Statements

Pandemic Surges Again in Many Parts of the World, Fueled by Variants By Hannah Beech and Livia Albeck-Ripka from NYT World https://ift.tt/3ybI1LC Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Vaccination and Immunization, Travel Warnings, Bangladesh, Europe, Far East, South and Southeast Asia and Pacific Areas, Portugal, Great Britain

Ethiopia Leader, Stung by World Condemnation, Denies Troops Were Defeated By Simon Marks from NYT World https://ift.tt/3h4ENUr Tigrayans (Ethnic Group), War and Armed Conflicts, Human Rights and Human Rights Violations, International Relations, Ahmed, Abiy, Tigray People's Liberation Front, Ethiopia

Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today By Jonathan Wolfe and Amelia Nierenberg from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3y89hKS Russia, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, Disease Rates, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Masks, Vaccination and Immunization, Protective Clothing and Gear

Heat Wave, Bill Cosby, Summer Grilling: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing By Remy Tumin from NYT Briefing https://ift.tt/3dujHwD

Behind Biden’s Pledge to Share 80 Million Vaccine Doses: Lots of Bureaucratic Hurdles By Noah Weiland from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3ybwE6c Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Vaccination and Immunization, Drugs (Pharmaceuticals), Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, United States International Relations, United States Politics and Government, Biden, Joseph R Jr, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, State Department, Moderna Inc, Pakistan

A Houston doctor who was fired after a late-night scramble to use expiring vaccine will not be indicted. By Dan Barry from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3yakxGF Gokal, Hasan (1972- ), Houston (Tex), Vaccination and Immunization, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

Final trial results confirm that CureVac’s mRNA vaccine is far less protective than others. By Carl Zimmer from NYT Science https://ift.tt/3qJtl3J CureVac GmbH, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Vaccination and Immunization, RNA (Ribonucleic Acid)

The W.H.O. calls out unequal access to vaccines for Latin American and Caribbean countries. By Daniel Politi from NYT World https://ift.tt/3x81cFP Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Vaccination and Immunization, Pan American Health Organization, World Health Organization, Brazil, Caribbean Area, Latin America, Central America

Vaccinated and Confused? Answers About Masks, the Delta Variant and Breakthrough Infections By Tara Parker-Pope from NYT Well https://ift.tt/3ye7Jz7 Vaccination and Immunization, Coronavirus Risks and Safety Concerns, Masks, Disease Rates, Protective Clothing and Gear, Content Type: Service, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Medicine and Health, Supermarkets and Grocery Stores, Deaths (Fatalities)

Inside Betsey Johnson’s Malibu Dream House By Molly Creeden from NYT T Magazine https://ift.tt/2Td2GjD Johnson, Betsey, Interior Design and Furnishings, Textiles, Wallpaper, Fashion and Apparel, Design, Malibu (Calif)

Everyday we’re reinventing ourselves. Whether we’re reinventing knowledge through learning, or technology through development, nothing stays stagnant and disruption makes sure of that. In a TechStrong TV segment, MediaOps Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief Alan Shimel sits down with Brad Feld, current managing director at Foundry Group and author of “The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for […] The post No More Status Quo: Disruption and Reinvention through The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche appeared first on DevOps.com . from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/3y7dbnh

Delta Variant in N.Y.C.: What to Know By Troy Closson from NYT New York https://ift.tt/3h2jvH0 New York City, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Vaccination and Immunization, World Health Organization, de Blasio, Bill, Fauci, Anthony S

As the Virus Rages, Putin Pushes Russians to Get a (Russian) Vaccine By Anton Troianovski from NYT World https://ift.tt/3jpLyln Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Vaccination and Immunization, Putin, Vladimir V, Russia

Fireworks-Related Injuries and Deaths Jumped During Pandemic, Report Shows By Eduardo Medina from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3x8Ses6 Fireworks, Independence Day (US) (July 4), Consumer Product Safety Commission, Consumer Protection, Deaths (Fatalities), Content Type: Service

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Delta Variant in N.Y.C.: What to Know By Troy Closson from NYT New York https://ift.tt/3w7314P New York City, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Vaccination and Immunization, World Health Organization, de Blasio, Bill, Fauci, Anthony S

Competition Is Good — Even With China By Farah Stockman from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3y9jBCs Politics and Government, United States Economy, Economic Conditions and Trends, United States International Relations, Xi Jinping, Communist Party of China, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Shambaugh, David

Tokyo Says It Is Ready for Covid-19. What About Earthquakes? By John Branch and Motoko Rich from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/3hjDv6W Earthquakes, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Olympic Games (2020), Politics and Government, Disasters and Emergencies, Police Department (NYC), University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Fukushima (Japan), Japan, Nagano (Japan), Sapporo (Japan), Tokyo (Japan)

Eric Adams Says He’s the ‘Face of the New Democratic Party.’ Is He Right? By Thomas B. Edsall from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3hn7B9p Police Reform, Presidential Election of 2020, Black Lives Matter Movement, Black People, Blacks, Police Brutality, Misconduct and Shootings, Voting and Voters, United States Politics and Government, Elections, Primaries and Caucuses, Democratic Party, Adams, Eric L, Garcia, Kathryn, Mollenkopf, John H

For those responsible for managing infrastructure, the concept of governance is common, especially as it relates to cloud services. For cloud services, it’s defined as a framework that guides how end users use these services by defining and creating policies to control costs, minimize security risks, improve efficiency and accelerate deployment. The term is often […] The post Managing Cloud Governance Costs Collaboratively appeared first on DevOps.com . from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/2SANI6y

We’ve come a long way over the last few decades. A ton of stuff about IT has changed, even in the last five years. And it is true in IT that the only constant is change. We like to have control of our environment to provide the most stable platform for user satisfaction that we […] The post The Forces Massing Against the Data Center appeared first on DevOps.com . from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/3dsFJzT

Your Wednesday Briefing By Natasha Frost from NYT Briefing https://ift.tt/3qMNN3X

North Korea reports a ‘great crisis’ in its Covid response. By Choe Sang-Hun from NYT World https://ift.tt/362z0Z6 North Korea, Kim Jong-un, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

‘We Are Waiting for You’: An Agonizing Vigil for Surfside Families By Richard Fausset from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3duSwlk Surfside, Fla, Building Collapse (2021), Surfside (Fla), Deaths (Fatalities)

Masks Again? Delta Variant’s Spread Prompts Reconsideration of Precautions. By Roni Caryn Rabin, Apoorva Mandavilli and Shawn Hubler from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3AaSKaQ your-feed-science, Coronavirus Reopenings, Coronavirus Risks and Safety Concerns, Vaccination and Immunization, Disease Rates, Masks, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), World Health Organization, Los Angeles County (Calif), United States, Content Type: Service, Medicine and Health

Your Wednesday Briefing By Melina Delkic from NYT Briefing https://ift.tt/2Ue4KIg

Why Can’t Americans Go to Canada? By Elaine Glusac from NYT Travel https://ift.tt/2TbndVP Politics and Government, Travel and Vacations, Vaccination and Immunization, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Canada, Buffalo (NY)

Meet the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Team 🔥 By Juliet Macur from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/3doN2sk Olympic Games (2020), Gymnastics, Chiles, Jordan (2001- ), Biles, Simone

At its online Future of Testing: Mobile event, Applitools today previewed the ability to apply visual artificial intelligence (AI) to applications that run natively on a mobile computing platform. Accessed via a cloud service that is currently available for free on a limited basis, the Ultrafast Test Cloud for Native Mobile offering will extend the […] The post Applitools Extends Visual AI Testing to Native Mobile Apps appeared first on DevOps.com . from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/36181NO

W.H.O. officials, concerned about the Delta variant, urge vaccinated people to keep wearing masks. By Roni Caryn Rabin, Abdi Latif Dahir and Aina J. Khan from NYT World https://ift.tt/3dqwpwg Vaccination and Immunization, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Masks, World Health Organization, Los Angeles (Calif)

What Won’t the Nelk Boys Do? By Taylor Lorenz from NYT Style https://ift.tt/3y2rJEI YouTube.com, Video Recordings, Downloads and Streaming, Content Type: Personal Profile, Social Media, Nelk Boys

Fugue today unveiled a 1.0 release for Regula, an open source policy engine for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) security that comes with prebuilt libraries for implementing hundreds of policies that validate configurations on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud services. Regula is based on the Open Policy Agent (OPA) software being advanced under the […] The post Fugue Aims to Simplify Securing Infrastructure-as-Code appeared first on DevOps.com . from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/3x8uHY4

JFrog today announced it has agreed to acquire Vdoo for $300 million in cash to gain a set of analytics tools that discover vulnerabilities in application binaries. Vdoo’s scanning tools, infused with machine learning algorithms, will be fully integrated with the JFrog Xray vulnerability detection tools along with the rest of the JFrog continuous integration/continuous […] The post JFrog Acquires Vdoo to Advance DecSecOps appeared first on DevOps.com . from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/3qADGiA

Time to Get Some Ranked-Choice Voting Results By Mihir Zaveri from NYT New York https://ift.tt/3jpdhmf New York City, Ranked-Choice Voting, Elections, Mayors, Adams, Eric L, Primaries and Caucuses, Wiley, Maya, Garcia, Kathryn, Greenwich Village (Manhattan, NY)

Concern over the Delta variant triggers lockdowns in the Asia-Pacific region. By Livia Albeck-Ripka, Saif Hasnat, Yu Young Jin and Mujib Mashal from NYT World https://ift.tt/3A7iULD Australia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Vaccination and Immunization, Quarantines, World Health Organization, Javid, Sajid (1969- )

A Few Tennis Pros Make a Fortune. Most Barely Scrape By. By Michael Steinberger from NYT Magazine https://ift.tt/361nBZu Tennis, Djokovic, Novak, Pospisil, Vasek, Federer, Roger, Income Inequality, Labor and Jobs, International Tennis Federation, Professional Tennis Players Assn, Ackman, William A

It’s Not Too Late for a Fourth of July Travel Deal By Elaine Glusac from NYT Travel https://ift.tt/3Aa5Gh9 Travel and Vacations, Budget Travel

Why You Still Might Want to Have a Home Covid Test on Hand By Tara Parker-Pope from NYT Well https://ift.tt/3h3jQZT Coronavirus Risks and Safety Concerns, Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Content Type: Service, Vaccination and Immunization, Parties (Social), Weddings and Engagements, Influenza

Confronting the Threat of QAnon By Seyward Darby from NYT Books https://ift.tt/3h5jsua Books and Literature, Right-Wing Extremism and Alt-Right, QAnon, Storming of the US Capitol (Jan, 2021), Conspiracy Theories, Pastels and Pedophiles: Inside the Mind of QAnon (Book)

Cloud computing is now mainstream, with almost all organizations running at least some resources in the public cloud—whether software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) or infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Security teams have been scrambling to adapt to cloud environments, and with the growing adoption of DevSecOps, they are working together with DevOps teams to secure cloud systems from the […] The post Best Practices for Cloud Incident Response appeared first on DevOps.com . from DevOps.com https://ift.tt/3jnhWVw