The Linux Foundation’s latest project tackles confidential computing with a group of companies that reads like a who’s who of cloud providers, chipmakers, telecom operators, and other tech giants.

Google also rolled out BigQuery Omni, a multi-cloud analytics service that extends BigQuery across on-premises environments, rival cloud AWS and, coming soon, Azure.

Data in use briefly lacks secure encryption, and hackers understand how to exploit this gap. Confidential computing secures data during processing, closing this key vulnerability. Confidential ...