News US regulators investigate who should investigate Microsoft/OpenAI If only there was a chatbot they could ask...
job of the week Job of the Week: Head of IT Transformation, Allianz Allianz more broadly has successfully ditched mainframe-based core IT applications for x67 servers with Linux operating systems.
AI Britain wants Talent: Will AI whizzes switch to the public sector? "More and more of the people we speak to want the opportunity to use their skills for the benefit of others"
cybercrime Data breach compilation indexes over 12 terabytes of hackers' greatest hits Over 26 billion records compromised in newly discovered trove of multiple breaches.
cyberattack Ransomware attackers jack up attacks on tech companies "Over 102.4 million records were breached via ransomware attacks on tech companies in 2023–a staggering 2,300 percent increase on 2022’s figure of 4.26 million. It’s also the highest number recorded across any industry since we began tracking confirmed ransomware attacks in 2018..."
european union Europe's controversial cyber resilience law gets a rewrite -- now not as terrible as it was A rewritten EU cyber resiliency act removes the biggest threats to open source but much standards work still to be done, says Linux Foundation Europe
AWS AWS invests $15 billion in Japan - as Oracle mops up big customers AWS is expanding its operations in Japan by building on its infrastructure capacity in Tokyo and Osaka.
AI WEF: AI dominates talks but to what gain? "Artificial intelligence by the name is not something that you can actually govern," says Dubai Futures CEO. But the World Economic Forum tries, nonetheless.
Members only fedramp FedRAMP is 14 years old – and Feds are still relying on unauthorized cloud services Some CSPs also moaned that its was “costly and time consuming” to meet FedRAMP’s technical and process requirements...
Microsoft Russian group hacks emails of Microsoft’s “senior leadership” and cybersecurity staff "We will act immediately to apply our current security standards to Microsoft-owned legacy systems and internal business processes..."
vulnerabilities vCenter Server vulnerability went exploited for two years unnoticed. Attacks are ongoing There are no workarounds that remove the vulnerability, which allows unauthenticated remote command execution on vulnerable systems. A patch is available.
LLMs Llama 3 is in training – as Meta vows to add another 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to its infrastructure this year Goldman Sachs CIO says "there’s a great opportunity for capital to move towards the application layer, the toolset layer. I think we will see that shift happening..."
Members only AI “We’re not going to be chasing shiny objects” – What leaders at America’s biggest banks are saying about AI
Members only GCHQ UK’s spy agencies grapple with IT modernisation– as GCHQ ramps up hacking capabilities MI5 is off to the cloud; GCHQ is ramping up Computer Network Exploitation capabilities; MI6 needs cultural changes to get a new IT platform running smoothly...
Members only vmware VMware is "killing off" 56 products amid "tectonic" infrastructure shift Goodbye vSphere Hypervisor. Goodbye Aria Operations. Goodbye NCX. Goodbye HCX. Goodbye more acronyms than we know what to do with; though Broadcom does; at least as standalone SKUs...
Formula E Porsche's "Formula E" team is speeding up performance by junking server racks The 2023 season was “the first season we travelled with our whole IT equipment without any server rack..."
AI Microsoft open-sources “TaskWeaver” AI framework Stateful. A Web UI. Customisable plugins. Six LLMs supported. Nice work, Microsoft.
TikTok Trending on TikTok: A catchy Korean jingle, “life-changing” shapewear – and tech layoffs Clumsily or coldly firing staff? Be prepared for prime time on social media...
Sponsored CTO Nick Fryer on how Dojo rebuilt in the cloud to disrupt the payments market "The entire system is event-driven. Everything is on the public cloud and the things that have very high availability requirements are on multiple public clouds. You’re not lifting and shifting some other person's nasty 1980s software. This is all brand new microservice-based software."
networks Opinion: It's time to level up the network for the hybrid workforce "Enterprises are deploying a mix of technologies for secure remote access, including VPN, ZTNA, SD-WAN and SASE – on average respondents are using 2.3 different solutions, but..."
Cybersecurity Ivanti VPN appliance exploitation now happening at scale VPN appliances "all appear to have been constructed with the code equivalent of string, stamped with the word ‘secure’ and then just left to decay for 20 years..."
Citi Citi retires 6% of its legacy applications – and 20,000 people People take the hit to offset huge spending on tech, risk.
Members only cybersecurity OpenAI, TikTok, X hunt insider threat specialists -- on widely diverging salary bands
Cloudflare “Extremely traumatising” – Cloudflare sales executives get sacked, take it badly; CEO weighs in "When we’re doing performance management right, we can often tell within three months or less of a sales hire, even during the holidays, whether they’re going to be successful or not..."
Cloud Google Cloud is NOT magicking away data egress fees GCP's somewhat limited move to drop "cloud switching" charges is aimed squarely at Microsoft.