Patch Tuesday
Monster Patch Tuesday sets new record: RCE bugs galore
God speed to those pushing fixes.
Sponsored
From the Marines to the “4 Cs”: BigID’s Brenton Gumucio on code camps, preventing data exposure and working with MongoDB
“We are pretty tightly aligned with the MongoDB product team. That allowed us to scale up and attack use cases where we're scanning petabytes of data, and solving really hard problems for customers.”
DataStax
DataStax snaps up Langchain-democratiser Langflow
"You have to chain user input, system prompts, and DB data to feed the LLM and then lots of processing to deliver that magic AI agent experience to the user"
utilities
Water company dangles £10m for MSSP support
Assessment by the NCSC of previous industry breaches has seen an “enhanced” Cyber Assessment Framework (e-CAF) created that requires...
cybersecurity
UK nuclear waste firm Sellafield Ltd. prosecuted over cyber failings
Prosecution follows allegations of extensive pwnage, desperately poor hygiene, and as CISO falls on his sword.
LLMs
Databricks releases most powerful open LLM yet
Inference “up to 2x faster than LLaMA2-70B” for new model, trained on 12 trillion tokens.
vulnerabiities
Two zero days exploited weekly: GPU drivers, browsers targeted
macOS goes apparently untouched, says Google, despite iOS exploits that do impact the Apple operating system.
Redis
Battle of the Redis forks?
The starting gun has been fired and AWS’s Madelyn Olson was one of the first out of the gate after Redis dropped its BSD licence..."
cybersecurity
China's I-Soon-linked threat group hit 70 organisations in 45 countries
Group screwed up their opsec, let Trend Micro pull samples, configuration files, and log files from attackers' servers.
Dynatrace
From operational resilience to application performance – whilst cutting your carbon footprint
At an exclusive event from The Stack, sponsored by Dynatrace, speakers from Citi, HSBC and Morningstar joined...
LLMs
Musk open-sources 314-billion parameter LLM "Grok" (including weights), but...
Apache 2.0 licence and weights, but no training code/reproducible datasets.
Africa
“Multiple major fiber cables” reaching Africa are broken
Microsoft vows to "add additional fiber links within the region over the weekend, and then further capacity into next week"