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.
Citrix 1 Citrix bug alone triggered 13 “nationally significant” UK cybersecurity incidents You filthy animals are **** at network architecture, and it may be "necessary to expand threat hunting" says NCSC.
NVIDIA NVIDIA looks to bring monster AI capabilities to cloud, enterprise, with HGX H200 An eight-way HGX H200 provides over 32 petaflops of FP8 deep learning compute and 1.1TB of aggregate high-bandwidth memory
Members only Nike Nike appoints Amazon Fashion President as its new Chief Technology Officer A big ERP overhaul, sustaining app-led revenue growth and a focus on supply chain optimisation are priorities at Nike...
Kubernetes Public Kubernetes API server numbers pass one million, as attackers start to consider K8s a "central target" "Once an attacker is past the initial access, the opportunities are ample for lateral movement and privilege escalation within a cluster..."
SysAid IT support software from SysAid being exploited in the wild Clear IOCs, guidance and documentation: A commendable response from SysAid.
ransomware World’s Biggest Bank hacked: ICBC may have failed to patch "Citrix Bleed" vulnerability Courier dispatched with a USB stick carrying trade settlement details after systems disrupted...
DDoS ChatGPT says major outages may be due to DDoS attacks Incident follows record HTTP2 "Rapid Reset" attack warnings as well as CISA note on exploitation of Service Location Protocol vulnerability for DDoS purposes.
GitHub "Refounded" GitHub boasts new AI tools to spot insecure code in real-time, let devs use natural language “Our model targets the most common vulnerable coding patterns, including hardcoded credentials, SQL injections, and path injections" says "refounded" company.
developers India to have the world's most developers on GitHub by 2027 Report also captures rapid growth in Python use and an explosion in AI projects.
data centers Data center heat will warm thousands of homes through this innovative project More than just hot air: waste heat is a problem for data centres, and using it to warm up cold homes could be the answer.
telco Nationwide Aussie telco outage cause "too technical" to explain: The answer may be in a (heavily redacted) Canadian report How not to share a root cause analysis: Lessons from Australia's Optus and Canada's Rogers...
ChatGPT ChatGPT suffers major (but swiftly fixed) outage Two outages back-to-back came the day of OpenAI's new models and services launch and appear to have grown more severe today...
0days Why firewalls, VPNs and hypervisors are a hacker's new favourite target TTPs and telemetry suggest a real focus on zero days and appliances by Chinese APTs.
Members only C-Suite “I just starved the legacy, it was untenable anyway” BT’s CDIO Harmeen Mehta on taking mainframes to the cloud, data transformation and digital value "Is there a path to accelerate the shit out of this?"
utilities UK's crisis-wracked largest water company seeks help from “Digital Twins” amid crisis Training, software, analysis, data migration support and more needed as company goes to market.
OpenAI OpenAI unveils new models, capabilities OpenAI has pushed out a flurry of updates at its first developer conference – including the release of its new GPT-4 Turbo which can fit the “equivalent of more than 300 pages of text in a single prompt” – and the ability to train and run LLMs powered by proprietary datasets. Calling
AI EU investors including Bosch, SAP pump $500 million into "sovereign" AI firm Aleph Alpha The investment comes as a Google DeepMind paper poured some cold water on the AI hype, finding "various failure modes of transformers and degradation of their generalization for even simple extrapolation tasks" if these are out of its training data domain.