Microsoft
Microsoft unveils “the last puzzle piece” – its own semiconductors
Big claims by Satya Nadella, big news for the industry, but no benchmarks or hard specifications yet.
Patch Tuesday
Three Windows zero days are under attack: Patch up.
"Loaded by default on just about every version of Windows, so it provides a broad attack surface"
NVIDIA
NVIDIA looks to bring monster AI capabilities to cloud, enterprise, with HGX H200
An eight-way HGX H200 provides over 32 petaflops of FP8 deep learning compute and 1.1TB of aggregate high-bandwidth memory
Kubernetes
Public Kubernetes API server numbers pass one million, as attackers start to consider K8s a "central target"
"Once an attacker is past the initial access, the opportunities are ample for lateral movement and privilege escalation within a cluster..."
DDoS
ChatGPT says major outages may be due to DDoS attacks
Incident follows record HTTP2 "Rapid Reset" attack warnings as well as CISA note on exploitation of Service Location Protocol vulnerability for DDoS purposes.
telco
Nationwide Aussie telco outage cause "too technical" to explain: The answer may be in a (heavily redacted) Canadian report
How not to share a root cause analysis: Lessons from Australia's Optus and Canada's Rogers...
ChatGPT
ChatGPT suffers major (but swiftly fixed) outage
Two outages back-to-back came the day of OpenAI's new models and services launch and appear to have grown more severe today...
utilities
UK's crisis-wracked largest water company seeks help from “Digital Twins” amid crisis
Training, software, analysis, data migration support and more needed as company goes to market.
OpenAI
OpenAI unveils new models, capabilities
OpenAI has pushed out a flurry of updates at its first developer conference – including the release of its new GPT-4 Turbo which can fit the “equivalent of more than 300 pages of text in a single prompt” – and the ability to train and run LLMs powered by proprietary datasets. Calling
AI
EU investors including Bosch, SAP pump $500 million into "sovereign" AI firm Aleph Alpha
The investment comes as a Google DeepMind paper poured some cold water on the AI hype, finding "various failure modes of transformers and degradation of their generalization for even simple extrapolation tasks" if these are out of its training data domain.
Outages
40-hour Cloudflare outage: Tier 3 DC power failure exposes unknown software dependencies, triggers rethink
"Dependencies shouldn’t have been so tight, should have failed more gracefully, and we should have caught them"
CISO
As SEC’s SolarWinds charges reverberate, companies scrutinise cyber risk disclosures
'Do not state anything that is subjective and avoid adjectives (e.g., "state of the art," "mature," "advanced," "appropriate," "comprehensive," or "reasonable")' say experts.