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Google Drive users have reported files mysteriously disappearing from the cloud service, with some users claiming months of data have vanished. Google is investigating the issue and has advised users not to disconnect their account or delete/move the app data folder. Users are recommended to make a copy of the app data folder until the sync issue is resolved.
Google is investigating reports from Google Drive for desktop app users who claim that their personal files have disappeared from the cloud service. The issue seems to be a sync problem affecting a limited subset of users using Google Drive desktop versions 84.0.0.0 through 84.0.4.0. Google's support team has been assisting affected users with data recovery attempts, but so far, no solution has been found. Users are advised not to disconnect their accounts or delete/move the app data folder, and it is recommended to create a backup copy of the app folder as a precaution.
Nvidia is considering leasing its own data center space to power its cloud service, DGX Cloud, which currently operates with servers located in the data centers of Microsoft, Oracle, and Google. This move would put Nvidia in direct competition with traditional cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, who are the biggest buyers of Nvidia's graphics processing units.
Microsoft is bringing OpenAI's language-producing models, including GPT-4 and GPT-3, to U.S. federal agencies using its Azure cloud service. This marks the first time Microsoft is bringing the GPT technology to Azure Government, which offers cloud solutions to U.S. government agencies, and the first such effort by a major company to make the chatbot technology available to governments. Government customers can adapt the language models for specific tasks including content generation, language-to-code translation, and summarization.
Toyota has revealed that the vehicle data of 2.15 million users in Japan, including those of its luxury brand Lexus, had been publicly available for a decade due to human error. The incident, which began in November 2013 and lasted until mid-April, stemmed from a cloud system being set to public instead of private. The data could include vehicle locations and identification numbers of vehicle devices, but there were no reports of malicious use. Toyota said it would introduce a system to audit cloud settings, establish a system to continuously monitor settings, and thoroughly educate employees on data handling rules.
Microsoft is investigating a partial outage that is affecting some users' ability to use Microsoft 365 cloud service and Teams admin centers. The issue began on Thursday morning, with Microsoft stating that it was looking into errors within its caching infrastructure. A range of Microsoft 365 online services are affected, including Excel, Teams admin centers, SharePoint Online, and Planner. Microsoft has battled its share of outages in recent months, including a four-hour outage of Azure Resource Manager in Europe in March.
Amazon has launched Bedrock, a cloud-based API for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows developers to use and customize AI tools that generate text or images. Bedrock offers a choice of Amazon’s Titan foundation model and several startups’ models, including Anthropic’s Claude, AI21’s Jurassic-2, and Stable Diffusion. AWS customers can use Bedrock to write, build chatbots, summarize text, classify images, and more based on text prompts. The toolset is currently available through a waitlist, and Amazon has not yet announced pricing.