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
News ServiceNOW unwraps NetACE buy as it targets creaking telcos As it cuddles up to AI darling Nvidia in Barcelona to generate telco friendly products
utilities National Grid eyes £50 million service desk, digital workforce overhaul, as changes loom A UK net zero target and fossil fuel vehicle ban are likely to result in as many as 1,600 connections to the grid each day. Current application processes are inadequate.
OpenAI US watchdog warns on "security, equity, civil rights" risks of open LLMs - launches consultation Open models hold potential for “substantial harms, such as risks to security, equity, civil rights, or other harms due to, for instance, affirmative misuse, failures of effective oversight, or lack of clear accountability mechanisms”
ConnectWise Leaked LockBit malware deployed in ScreenConnect attacks – 600+ IPs seen attacking 8,200 instances "The executable in question was built using the LockBit 3 ransomware builder tool leaked in 2022, so this particular sample may not have originated with the actual LockBit developers"
NVIDIA NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang sees a “giant suite” of AI robots coming soon... "The amount of inference that we do is just off the charts now”
Members only HSBC HSBC shakes up technology governance, plans new NED-led Board committee "We continue to upgrade many of our IT systems and are transforming how software solutions are developed..."
Members only LLMs PDFs, RAG, and LlamaParse: Generative AI's "Swiss Army Knife" adds a welcome new toolkit "Building production-grade RAG remains a complex and subtle problem... unlike traditional software, every decision in the data stack directly affects the accuracy of the full LLM-powered system."
vulnerabilities CVSS 10 ConnectWise vulnerability “extremely trivial to reverse and exploit” as POC lands, attacks start "There might be active exploitation attempts across common AWS IP space"
Members only spyware Massive “i-Soon” leak reveals Chinese firm's hacking tools, targets, including NATO Tools, gripes of contractor working for China's Ministry of Public Security dumped online in landmark breach
AI Microsoft plans to rain billions on AI in Spain AI-berian investent follows a $3.44 billion boost to Germany, and a $3.2 billion training investment in the UK.
space Up, up and beyond: Italy looks to push HPC beyond the cloud and into space While UK looks for partners as it hitches a ride with Axiom Space
News National Crime Agency smashes LockBit infrastructure, grabs 1,000 decryption keys Did NCA, FBI deploy an exploit for PHP vulnerability CVE-2023-3824 to break the prolific group's systems?