News
AWS’s new CEO started as an intern: Faces slowing growth, AI battle
Spitting feathers about an obsession with stochastic parrots? Matt Garman's view is likely to be customer-shaped.
meta
A requiem for Workplace by Facebook: The CIO’s leftfield choice
"It became a Fortune 500-heavy, frontline-friendly business by accident. We thought only tech companies would use Workplace, until Clay Johnson, back then CIO of Walmart, told us he wanted Workplace for 100% of their employees"
Veeam
Veeam to offer Proxmox support
GA scheduled for Q3
Oracle
Oracle goes vegan: Dumps Terraform for OpenTofu
Oracle E-Business Suite tells customers to shift to latest update built on open source. We guess OpenTofu is enterprise-ready!
UK government
UK.gov ministers clam up on just how decrepit their IT systems are
Succession of secretaries serve up cut and paste answers on progress identifying "red-rated" systems
TikTok
TikTok promises AI labels, as its lawyers fight “unconstitutional” divestment Act
ByteDance spins up new “Influence Operations Intelligence” team in a further bid to head off complaints.
ransomware
Fresh Black Basta TTPs revealed as CISA says CNI hit
Ransomware group using "Backstab" to kill EDR processes.
AI
UK’s new supercomputer comes online, awaits further 5,280 GPUs
Government has also joined Europe's EuroHPC programme; encourages researchers to tap large pot of cash.
DWP
A hard reset: UK’s digital “Pension Dashboard Programme” stumbles
Costs climb $54 million as government department calls for project owner to “develop a deliverable plan” with “robust governance”
Wales
UK's first national SOC opens in Wales -- local authorities encouraged to onboard
18 local authorities along with fire and rescue services to get onboarded to centrally funded Security Operations Centre.
healthcare
One of the US's largest hospital providers, Ascension, fired IT staff in a cost-cutting drive; now it’s sucking up a cyber attack
"Unusual activity on select technology network systems" causes nationwide medical chaos as doctors lose access to EMR.
AI
Microsoft just released an “air-gapped” LLM for spies: GCHQ doesn't sound wild about the tech...
"Every time someone breathlessly gets excited about how LLMs do reasoning, it turns out it was..."