Wells Fargo
“I need to always have levers” – Wells Fargo’s platform chief
"One of the things in particular I'm looking at right now is a large competitor of yours. It presents a little bit of a risk…"
Cybersecurity
Root, but no response: 6 pre-auth RCEs in VMware ignored
"Six exploits, no configuration needed, no ports need to get opened; just straight-up RCEs, no fuss, no muss."
News
Zoom makes big call on AI. Says it will pay off. Eventually
In meantime, Q1 numbers nothing to transcribe and message home about?
semiconductors
UK fires up Semiconductor Institute
The institute is set to build on Britain's £1 billion strategy for the sector
Nutanix
VMware evicted from Treasure Island: Nutanix hits jackpot with CIO
Meanwhile, Dell PowerFlex support from AHV coming soon and streamlined certification promised for more commodity hardware.
UK government
UK MPs slam Big Tech for 'siloed' approach to misinformation
Government agencies build up 'Defending democracy' package, including tech and guidelines to keep bad actors at bay
OpenAI
OpenAI’s Sam Altman bends before wrath of Scarlett Johansson
Hollywood actor reclaims her voice. What about the rest of us?
Cybersecurity
Single host saw 70,000 servers hit with Ebury backdoor
Malware operators “have established a significant presence in data centers worldwide”
slack
Slack privacy furore: Company updates legals, says no customer data used to train genAI.
Communicating RAG/ML is hard. Engineering, legal and communications need to sit down and thrash this out in a growing number of companies.
Google offers a large “cashier’s check” to make jury trial vanish
"To prevent the tail from wagging the dog, Google has tendered the United States a cashier’s check..."
slack
Slack is scraping your messages and files to develop AI by default
"To develop AI/ML models, our systems analyse Customer Data (e.g. messages, content and files) submitted to Slack..."
OpenAI
What a cluster! OpenAI's lead engineer quits. Fresh hire seeks monster-Kubernetes wranglers
"We probably use Kubernetes differently from a lot of people"