Jasper Hamill

'Rotate your keys now': Sensitive data could be accessible in deleted or private Github repositories

Researchers claim to have found 40 API keys belonging to a unnamed AI company inside a deleted fork on Github

Jasper Hamill July 26, 2024

AI-generated data causes LLM model collapse: Researchers

AI

AI-generated data causes LLM model collapse: Researchers

"Indiscriminately learning from data produced by other models causes... a degenerative process whereby, over time, models forget the true underlying data distribution."

Jasper Hamill July 26, 2024

CISO

"We're becoming scapegoats": How have CISOs responded to SEC cyber risk disclosure rules?

On the anniversary of the new rules, we speak to industry experts to find out how (and if) things have changed.

Jasper Hamill July 26, 2024

Meta Llama 3.1 405B LLM trained on mammoth GPU farm

Find out where Mark Zuckerberg might be spending his beefed-up capex budget of up to $40 billion

Jasper Hamill July 24, 2024

Basecamp researchers carry out genetic research in Costa Rica (Image: Basecamp Research)

Biotech

CTO

Interviews

CTO contends with data challenges and the origins of life to build ‘ChatGPT for enzymes’

"Here’s a bag of soil and here's a purchase order from a big pharma company. Your job is to build the tech stack that makes one go from the other.”

Jasper Hamill July 23, 2024

Supercomputer cluster planned for site of shut-down European fusion reactor

Project aims to support AI compute demands with new "large scale" data centres on campus that once housed the world's most advanced fusion research facility

Jasper Hamill July 22, 2024

crowdstrike

Outages

Crowdstrike CEO apologises after content update "defect" caused global blue screen of death outage

"I don’t think it’s too early to call it: this will be the largest IT outage in history," celebrity cybersecurity specialist announces

Jasper Hamill July 19, 2024

Intel

olympics

Intel RAG chatbot leaps data hurdles at Paris Olympics

Chip hurler shares lessons for enterprises from the International Olympic Committee's test of retrieval-augmented generation

Jasper Hamill July 18, 2024

Cisco

vulnerabiities

Critical Cisco vulnerability CVE-2024-20419 lets unauthenticated attackers change admin passwords

"A successful exploit could allow an attacker to access the web UI or API with the privileges of the compromised user."

Jasper Hamill July 18, 2024

GenAI

What 'went wrong' with GenAI in business and the enterprise? Princeton professor warns of 'unsolved challenges'

'The AI-in-your-face approach by Microsoft and Google has led to features that are occasionally useful and more often annoying.'

Jasper Hamill July 17, 2024

Gartner

IT spending

Gartner cuts IT spending forecast, warns of ongoing 'CIO team fatigue'

"Generative AI is being felt across all technology segments and subsegments, but not to everyone’s benefit."

Jasper Hamill July 16, 2024

'Enormous business potential': Microsoft on why GraphRAG outperforms naive RAG

Redmond opens up to discuss its new tool, which can extract data from unstructured text using large language models.

Jasper Hamill July 16, 2024

Wells Fargo

AI

"We'll move slowly": Wells Fargo CEO reveals bank's cautious approach to Generative AI

"There is traditional AI - and then there is GenAI..."

Jasper Hamill July 15, 2024

Department of Defense

Over budget and under-performing: Department of Defense IT challenges in the spotlight

Costs soar across the DOD as "budget constraints remain a challenge" and agile processes struggle to take root

Jasper Hamill July 15, 2024

Should accountants be worried - or is their job about to get a lot easier? (Image: Tim Gouw, Unsplash)

Microsoft unveils a large language model that excels at encoding spreadsheets

New LLM has the "potential to transform data management and analysis, paving the way for more intelligent and efficient user interactions."

Jasper Hamill July 15, 2024

Is Snowflake the 'third-party cloud platform' caught up in massive AT&T data heist?

The customer of records of almost 110 million people have been stolen - and it's claimed that a familiar name may be at the centre of the story

Jasper Hamill July 12, 2024

EU AI Act enters into law: Businesses face "potentially lethal" compliance risks, expert warns

AI

EU

EU AI Act enters into law: Businesses face "potentially lethal" compliance risks, expert warns

"Astronomical fines, sweeping scope, and unclear definitions. The scariest thing about AI is now, unequivocally, AI regulation itself."

Jasper Hamill July 12, 2024

Jane Fraser at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2022 (Image: World Economic Forum)

Citigroup

finance

Citigroup fined $136 million: Regulator warns of "enterprise-wide deficiencies”

Banking group facing huge payout after allegedly making "insufficient progress" on risk and data quality management transformation

Jasper Hamill July 11, 2024

Microsoft promises HCI on EU clouds as it settles complaint – but AWS, Google, other critics lash out

"CISPE has given Microsoft the benefit of the doubt"

Jasper Hamill July 11, 2024

This is what ChatGPT thinks will happen when it arrives at Los Alamos (Image generated by The Stack)

Biosecurity

OpenAI sends frontier model LLMs to fight bioterrorism at Los Alamos Lab

"Measuring and understanding any potential dangers or misuse of advanced AI related to biological threats remain largely unexplored."

Jasper Hamill July 11, 2024

Global fintech investment slump worsens: UK suffers 'steep drop'

The slowdown in funding activity during 2024 comes after a year so bad it was described as a "bloodbath" for fintech startups.

Jasper Hamill July 10, 2024

DARPA

research

DARPA is creating “reprogrammable microorganisms” to produce petrochemicals

Secretive US military research wing "aims to enable new concepts of operation for biomanufacturing that provide novel capabilities for national security.”

Jasper Hamill July 10, 2024

Patch Tuesday brings a Hyper-V vulnerability exploited in the wild, trio of CVSS 9.8 bugs in RDS

Admins face prioritising 143 patches including two known-exploited.

Jasper Hamill July 09, 2024

Nvidia intern’s team beats OpenAI’s GPT-4 LLM in ‘knowledge-intensive’ showdowns

Nvidia intern’s team beats OpenAI’s GPT-4 LLM in ‘knowledge-intensive’ showdowns

Researchers give "RankRAG" large language models a dose of performance-enhancing instruction tuning and a pinch of ranking data before steering them to victory

Jasper Hamill July 09, 2024

A CPSO helps the board shine a light into the sometimes murky world of product security

Cybersecurity

enterprise

Should more companies hire Chief Product Security Officers?

“Many organisations have teams working in silos, so security doesn’t have the chance to review and advise the product team before it is too late."

Jasper Hamill July 09, 2024

enterprise

Africa

USA and China fighting 'enterprise tech trade war' in Middle East and Africa, analysts warn

The region "is emerging as a battleground for international tech supremacy" in areas including cloud, networks for enterprise 5G, and artificial intelligence

Jasper Hamill July 05, 2024

‘Evil’ botnet unleashes ‘record-breaking’ DDoS attack

“This could be a new era for packet rate attacks: with botnets possibly capable of issuing billions of packets per second. It could seriously challenge how anti-DDoS infrastructures are built and scaled."

Jasper Hamill July 05, 2024

Marc Benioff, CEO, speaks at the World Economic Forum (Image: Wikimedia)

‘On-device agentic AI is here!’ Salesforce makes big claims about its ‘Tiny Giant’ LLM

Marc Benioff, CEO, shares his excitement about an LLM he claims is the world’s top-performing “micro-model” for function-calling

Jasper Hamill July 03, 2024

BT's Dave Harcourt speaks at Zscaler's conference in The Hague

"Our infrastructure is not designed for it": BT security leader reveals the challenges of deploying zero trust

How do you protect legacy technology from the threats of tomorrow? Security chief at world's oldest telecoms firm shares rare insights into its move towards a post-trust world

Jasper Hamill July 02, 2024

The UK's Home Office is building a "national facial matching service"

The UK's Home Office is building a "national facial matching service"

The Home Office wants to expand mobile biometric services "into the modality of face” by “exploiting the ubiquitous imaging capability now omnipresent in smartphones.”

Jasper Hamill July 02, 2024

The company formerly known as Facebook is the latest big tech giant to take flak from the European Commission

Meta suffers major blow to critical ad model as EU threatens huge fines

Company formerly known as Facebook slammed over "pay or consent" model which "fails to comply" with EU rules designed to stimulate competition in digital markets.

Jasper Hamill July 01, 2024

Kaspersky

Kaspersky CTO among 12 executives hit with US sanctions one day after antivirus sales ban

"Today’s action against the leadership of Kaspersky Lab underscores our commitment to ensure the integrity of our cyber domain and to protect our citizens against threats."

Jasper Hamill June 21, 2024

MPs want to use AI tools to save themselves from onerous tasks like reading emails (Photo: James Newcombe on Unsplash)

British MPs are preparing to test Microsoft's Copilot AI - despite security fears and US Congress ban

Controversial artificial intelligence assistant will be trialled at the end of 2024, prompting warnings that it could cause "increased risk"

Jasper Hamill June 21, 2024

Jay Chaudhry, CEO, Chairman and Founder of Zcaler, speaks at its "Zero Trust Meets AI" conference

"Fighting AI with AI": Zscaler leaders on new threats and how to defeat them

Threat actors are already using large language models to enhance their attack capabilities - but it's not just the bad guys that can deploy Generative AI to their advantage.

Jasper Hamill June 21, 2024

"GenAI has fallen short": Can Databricks' compound models perform better?

LLMs “tend to fail” when faced with the “messy data, ambiguous language, and nuanced complexities of actual data analysis."

Jasper Hamill June 17, 2024

Microsoft's President grilled over multiple security failures, defends controversial "Recall" handling

Says State Department cyber team deserve a medal for spotting intrusion based on Microsoft security issue before Microsoft's own team did.

Jasper Hamill June 14, 2024

Critical vulnerability and creepy Wi-Fi bug fixed on a rather tame Patch Tuesday

Patch Tueday

Critical vulnerability and creepy Wi-Fi bug fixed on a rather tame Patch Tuesday

"It’s not clear how many affected systems are exposed. Now would be a good time to audit your networks to ensure TCP port 1801 is not reachable.”

Jasper Hamill June 12, 2024

Oracle declares itself a "high-growth cloud business" after record-breaking Q4

"I started talking about this tipping point four years ago, and you've seen it continue to play out in our results since then.”

Jasper Hamill June 12, 2024

Arm's GPU kernels are having a bad year for vulnerabilities in 2024 (Image credit: Isai Ramos, Unsplash)

Arm

Arm GPU vulnerability under active attack

So far in 2024, Arm has highlighted eight vulns affecting its Bifrost GPU and 10 impacting Valhall.

Jasper Hamill June 11, 2024

Nightshade lets artists "poison" images to break AI models trained on them

Adobe

privacy

Adobe privacy crisis deepens as users threaten “Nightshade” attacks

"They think they can use anything you upload for AI training purposes? I'm filling up my entire 20 GB storage with poisoned images..."

Jasper Hamill June 11, 2024

Cloud

Microsoft's "power" may cause "harm" to cloud market competition, watchdog warns

"Customers are left with no economically reasonable alternative but to choose Azure, even if they prefer the prices, quality, security, innovations and features of rivals."

Jasper Hamill June 10, 2024

CISO