Microsoft and Oracle both released announcements on their recent agreement to connect Azure and Oracle Cloud services. This will allow users to connect to both using a unified single sign-on experience.
More information on this service is available at www.oracle.com/cloud/oci-azure.html.
Apple has a voluntary recall and free battery replacement program for certain 15-inch MacBook Pro models sold between 2015 and 2017. These units can be identified by serial number at support.apple.com/15-inch-macbook-pro-battery-recall.
This recall is currently one of the programs available at Apple’s Exchange and Repair Extension Program page.
Apple also announced a partnership with Best Buy which designates their stores as Apple authorized repair locations.
Google announced the upcoming general availability of Dynamic email for Gmail on July 2nd 2019. AMP for Gmail allows email users to use emails like web pages for data entry and other purposes. Users who wish to send this type of email must be approved by Google first.
Salesforce, an industry leader in Cloud Customer Relationship Management (CRM), announced plans to buy data analytics company Tableau. Tableau has released a public FAQ about the merger detailing support options for customers of both companies.
Apple made several major announcements at its Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June 2019, including:
Intel released information regarding a new set of CPU vulnerabilities called Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS). A list of affected Intel products may be found here.
Updates are available from major technology companies for this issue, including:
AMD states that their CPUS are not affected by this vulnerability.
Quest Diagnostics issued a statement that billing collections service American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) had potential unauthorized activity on AMCA’s web payment page, which could have compromised the data of about 11.9 million Quest patients. Lab results were not affected by this incident. Quest Diagnostics is continuing their investigation.