Amazon AWS launches AI assistant “Amazon Q”, offers fine tuning for models on Bedrock "Administrators can also configure allowed topics and blocked topics and words so that the responses are controlled. In addition, administrators can enable or disable the upload file feature for their end users..."
cybersecurity ownCloud users could get badly owned as exploitation starts of CVSS 10 bug, with 11,000 instances exposed ownCloud claims 200,000 installations, 600 enterprise customers, and 200 million users with customers including the European Commission.
AI AI startup Imbue spends $150m on Dell servers as it eyes foundation model progress The startup is running workloads in the data centres of non-profit AI compute provider Voltage Park.
banks Banks need to do better on operational resilience: Basel "There is still work to do on developing appropriate business continuity and contingency plans and exit procedures where third parties provide critical operations"
AWS From Sun Ray, to Fire: With its WorkSpaces Thin Client, can AWS make DaaS hot again? From Sun Ray, to Fire: With its WorkSpaces Thin Client, can AWS make DaaS hot again?
AWS AWS reveals new Cost Optimization Hub, adds welcome customisations to Compute Optimizer A longer "lookback" period of utilisation history, centralised cost savings hub and more. But don't rely on it alone...
Microsoft 20,000+ EOL Exchange Servers are still sitting there and sucking it up Attacks on Exchange Server Attacks in 2022 were so rife that threat groups were observed cleaning up .aspx and .bat files to remove other attackers
Citrix Boeing shares ransomware incident TTPs as Citrix Bleed attacks ramp up Hey criminals! Fire an HTTP GET request. Grab system memory including session cookies issued post-authentication. Don't worry about logs. Pillage and loot. Thanks, Citrix.
New Relic New Relic warns its 15,000 customers of cyber incident Incident comes weeks after the Application Performance Monitoring firm was taken private in a $6.5 billion buyout
NVIDIA NVIDIA sees a sovereign AI infrastructure race – as Europe plans 24,000-chip supercomputer "National investment in compute capacity is a new economic imperative... countries are awakening to the need to invest in sovereign AI infrastructure" says Jensen Huang
Post Office Post Office spunks a fresh £36 million on Fujitsu Horizon after cloud migration fails When your digital transformation failure is associated with "total corporate psychopathy, a mad Kafka-esque nightmare"
NHS Palantir lands £330 million NHS "Federated Data Platform" contract "Each NHS organisation will be the data controller for their ‘federated’ platform instance. The use of the data will always remain under the full control and protection of the NHS
OpenAI Sam Altman to return as OpenAI CEO as ludicrous soap opera continues From "not consistently candid" to just "not consistent"? Do you care any longer? Should you?
Members only CIO The Big Interview: Oracle CIO Jae Sook Evans On tough decisions, fixing the “broken middle rung”, wearing two hats at work, experiences modernising Oracle's IT estate and having an "unconventional" background as a CIO...
Members only vmware Broadcom to close VMware buyout this week. Nervous? Consider this... "There is a lot of anxiety about the Broadcom-VMware acquisition around pricing, support and other issues"
CISO The Big Interview: JPMorgan’s Global CISO, Pat Opet "Industry has gotten good at identifying vulnerabilities in the supply chain; SBOMs and so on [but not at] at insidious backdoors and logic issues that are built into software, and update mechanisms that could cause implants..."
OpenAI Sam Altman joins Microsoft as Nadella pounces - and OpenAI appoints former Twitch CEO "We’ve learned a lot over the years about how to give founders and innovators space to build independent identities and cultures within Microsoft"
Ubuntu Canonical’s newly GA “MicroCloud” aims to take a small bite out of vSphere MicroCloud can scale from three servers to around 50-node clusters and it is lightweight enough, claims Canonical, to run on a developer laptop.
OpenAI OpenAI abruptly fires CEO Sam Altman -- days after Microsoft briefly blocked access to ChatGPT over "security and data" concerns Altman was "not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.”
cybersecurity New report sheds light on “Scattered Spider”’s ability to take over identity providers The group "register their own MFA tokens [and] add a federated identity provider to the victim’s SSO tenant and activate automatic account linking..."
developers Code quality: Is this indicator of a well-run software business going overlooked by investors? "The significance of code quality goes beyond mere functionality—it reflects the development team's culture and, by extension, the potential for scalability and synergy generation..."
Members only DevOps BoE, Deutsche Börse, Fidelity on the challenges of maintaining security without sacrificing innovation "That’s definitely the hottest topic right now in tech for us across the bank,”
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.