News Apple Partner tells The Stack what went wrong (and right) with Cupertino's magic VR The user in the middle of the Apple Vision Pro saga says communication is key
AWS AWS took 6 months to fix Security Token Service bug - IAM policy simulator inadequate, says Stedi "No system is infallible. Sometimes, it is AWS..."
AI “Scant evidence” – Google’s AI chemistry claims were very misleading AI discovered 2.2m new "materials" said DeepMind. Chemistry professors investigated, found hallucinations, repetition, known crystals.
News How Japan's space agency used dashboards in its race to the moon Space observations now matched with observability
AI Google Distributed Cloud: AI, on-premises, without the drama? "Because we manage the stack remotely, our customers generally get concerned about what data is getting in between the two environments. So we built a tool for you..."
Patch Tuesday Monster Patch Tuesday sets new record: RCE bugs galore God speed to those pushing fixes.
News Grafana rolls up fresh features, data sources at Amsterdam get together Users get to explore logs AND metrics in Grafana and Loki
News Chinese hackers using fake profiles to sow chaos in US Threat actors in China have been using fake profiles and AI engines to generate inflammatory content around major news and election events in the US
News US government pitches civil rights on AI platforms A number of US government agencies are making the case to manage AI systems in a way that will protect civil rights
Members only datacentre Digital Realty: CIOs have "no clue" about data centre performance, energy KPIs
News Hackers hit Hoya hard, optics company blinded by malware incident Japanese optics maker Hoya is picking up the pieces following what it called an IT System Incident that disrupted production
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"
Members only Intel Intel’s Foundry loses $7 billion. Gelsinger: Want to go from famine to feast? You have to plant seeds. "The US and the Western world became far behind our Asian peers..."
cybercrime OneCoin fraudster gets four years hard time A former exec with OneCoin has been sentenced to four years in prison for their role in the cryptocurrency pyramid scheme
Microsoft Microsoft’s “top notch” China hack post-mortem was "troubling" speculation "The loss of a signing key is a serious problem, but the loss of a signing key through unknown means is far more significant... Microsoft’s customers did not have essential facts needed to make their own risk assessments."
Microsoft Microsoft roasted over “cascade of security failures” – authentication system utterly broken "A corporate culture that deprioritized both enterprise security investments and rigorous risk management."
News UK police award £10m contract to automate document redaction Less time in Acrobat, more time fighting crime
NSA “Bring memes”: Dave Luber takes over as NSA Director of Cybersecurity from Rob Joyce As well as coming under immediate pressure on social media chatterati to be immediately amusing and bring his meme A-game, Luber faces other challenges too...
Members only Rubrik Rubrik files for IPO, reveals rapid growth, $354 million loss Data security and backup firm's SEC filing shows it sees a TAM of $36.3 billion by the end of 2024.
Members only 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...
xz-utils xz-utils Github repository disabled as Linux maintainers assess blast radius of backdoor, earlier commits Incident suggests a state actor exploiting overstretched maintainer of an "unpaid hobby project"
cybersecurity Malicious backdoor, CVSS 10, slipped onto major Linux distributions Poisoned Easter eggs for all: Apparent supply chain attack caught mercifully early…
Ubuntu Password-leaking Ubuntu bug sat silent for 11 years A newly-discovered Linux bug could allow for password leaks. Worse yet, it has sat undiscovered in the OS for the last 11 years
Redis AWS, Google, Oracle back Redis fork “Valkey” under the Linux Foundation "Valkey will be community-driven without surprise license changes that break trust and disrupt a level open source playing field" says the Linux Foundation.