Members only earnings Capita hits the fan as ransomware, local government crises flush revenues - but a tech overhaul looms
CIO Pepsi’s Seth Cohen to take over as Global CIO at P&G as Vittorio Cretella announces his retirement "The reputation of the team and the digital capabilities that Procter & Gamble has developed under Vittorio Cretella is world class. I’m excited to join such a great organization to carry that momentum forward..."
AWS AWS throws customers (and regulators) a bone on data exit/cloud transfer costs Cross-AZ traffic, NAT gateways, elastic IPs, overprovisioning: Hell for your CFO. Jumping ship? Now a little cheaper.
APIs The Big Interview: Kong CTO Marco Palladino API management startup has hit $100m in ARR, achieved a rare profitability and is still in hyper-growth mode. What next? Well, AI opportunities, of course.
Members only AI India rushes to regulate AI as citizens get ready to head to the polls Critics wonder if new laws are no more than a knee-jerk reaction to chatbots describing the country's PM's policies as "fascist"
News AI rush means bugs are a question of security AND safety Bugcrowd founder says now is the time for the crowd to identify bias and other AI threats
AWS AWS buys a data centre campus with two nuclear plants attached Will suck up 40% of two nuclear power stations' output under Talen Energy deal.
Cybersecurity CI/CD platform TeamCity exposed to critical pre-auth RCE bug, amid disclosure spat JetBrains' platform "a suitable vector to position an attacker to perform a supply chain attack" if compromised warns Rapid7.
apple EU takes $2bn bite out of Apple for 'abusive' App Store rules on music streaming apps "Apple’s rules muzzled Spotify... from sharing with our users directly in our app about various benefits—denying us the ability to communicate with them..."
News techUK launches multistage programme for gov to boost nation's standing in the space economy Less regulation, more visas need to help sector that's already worth £17.5bn
AI Researchers go back to the 80s to jailbreak LLMs :-) Generative AI models can be fooled using ASCII art, while "rainbow teaming" pushes LLM semantic defenses to limit...
Members only News Bank of England praised for streamlined risk approach -- but staff keep sending emails awry
Members only Cybersecurity A Russian spy simply dialled into a sensitive German military call on WebEx - and went unnoticed "Unfortunately, there are indications that a Russian participant has obviously dialed into the WebEx"
HMRC Digital dinosaur? HMRC slammed over “extraordinary” tech failings “Digitisation is only a solution if it works for the users… HMRC are failing the taxpayer population."
Sustainability Sustainability software sales to top $1 billion in 2024: Deloitte "It’s clear that ESG reporting is going to fall under greater scrutiny — which means that the dotted line that exists between finance, sustainability and audit teams needs to be strengthened"
Nutanix Nutanix delivers record quarter as VMware hikes hit – but CIOs are loath to make hasty decisions Nutanix CEO sees some cloud repatriation as well as VMware refugees, as rumours of an $8 million > $100 million renewal circulate.
CNI Less talk, more action on CNI cyber resilience, say White House advisors "Almost no information is currently available to indicate how an organization is preparing for future cyber-physical challenges. This has to change."
Rust “Rewrite it in Rust”? Joe Biden is living the meme -but is a focus on memory corruption healthy? New White House report cites a 2019 Microsoft paper. But analysis this month showed that memory corruption accounted for just 19.5% of “known exploited” vulnerabilities in 2023
Kubernetes Kubernetes clusters are typically using just 13% of CPU: CIOs could save a small fortune Overprovisioning CPU and memory will keep the lights on, but it is costly. Underprovisioning them risks CPU throttling and out-of-memory kills, which cause applications to perform poorly or even crash."
Members only NIST NIST’s CSF 2.0: Governance now at the heart of new cybersecurity framework. Is it helpful?
News Does Microsoft's Mistral deal take wind out of EU's sails on AI regulation? Sometimes one AI player just isn't enough
retail Wendy’s to use AI to bring “surge-pricing” to burgers "Beginning as early as 2025, we will begin testing more enhanced features like dynamic pricing and day-part offerings along with AI-enabled menu changes"
Russia Beat the bear's cloud incursions with canaries says Five Eyes Service accounts, MFA bombing and residential proxies are being widely deployed by APT29.
Reddit Reddit user posts will fuel Google’s LLM – others should think twice before trying to do the same Changing T/Cs retrospectively ain't gonna work