Access Point: Weekly News Roundup For IT Executives - April 26, 2024

Access Point is a weekly roundup of major tech news for midmarket IT executives on the go. This edition covers April 22-26

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In this week's news for midmarket IT executives MES Computing's sister site, Computing, published a comparative look at the sustainability metrics of the three big cloud computing vendors: Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services? Which one is truly walking the walk of sustainability and not just talking the talk? Find out here.

Hacking

Also, this week, a hacking group called GhostR claimed it stole a massive database from World-Check and threatened to leak it soon, with its first leak targeting "thousands of individuals, including [Britain's] royal family members."

Microsoft

Microsoft had some newsworthy announcements. The software giant released the latest preview build of Windows 11 (fixing some bugs reported by early testers and adding some new capabilities since the last build).

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella took to X to announce a multiyear, artificial intelligence partnership with The Coca-Cola Company.

And Microsoft also announced its release of its miniaturized artificial intelligence model, the Phi-3 Mini.

Politics and Tech

Politics and technology are increasingly becoming intertwined, and this week's news included that often strange and strained relationship.

Apple pulled two messaging apps from its App Store, following the orders of the Chinese government. Here's why.

The social media platform formerly known as Twitter, X, said it will not heed a demand from the Australian government to remove posts about the stabbing of a bishop in Sydney.

Other Tech News And Info

MES Computing rounded up five choice books for CIOs to level up their business strategy.

Cybersecurity company 1Kosmos—a provider of digital identity verification with technology including biometrics and passwordless authentication—unveiled its new Credential Service Provider (CSP) managed service for identity verification in government agencies.