LLMs
Databricks releases most powerful open LLM yet
Inference “up to 2x faster than LLaMA2-70B” for new model, trained on 12 trillion tokens.
CISA
CISA talks up "game-changing" new data collection powers under Circia
CISA is moving into what it hopes is the home stretch for drafting and enforcing stricter reporting rules for cybersecurity incidents
Policy
Spying on MPs and breaking encryption: New UK legislation damned as “unprecedented” – and “deeply troubling”
Apple says new rules “significantly widen the powers and exacerbate the flaws inherent in the Investigatory Powers Act”
vulnerabiities
Two zero days exploited weekly: GPU drivers, browsers targeted
macOS goes apparently untouched, says Google, despite iOS exploits that do impact the Apple operating system.
News
EU drops election “guidelines” on online giants, points to massive DSA fines for deviation
More moderators, less deep fakes, s'il vous plait
Atos
Atos carnage continues as CEO Nourdine Bihmane walks, company warns on liquidity
"Strategy misalignment"? There's been no shortage of that...
Zoom
Zoom turns to AI to reinvent itself as much more than just video calling
Zoom bets big on its AI powered collaborative workspace
micron
Memory is hot property amid AI boom, as Micron sells out of HBM through 2025
For LLMs “GPU RAM is actually one of our most valuable commodities. It's frequently the bottleneck, not compute…”
Redis
Battle of the Redis forks?
The starting gun has been fired and AWS’s Madelyn Olson was one of the first out of the gate after Redis dropped its BSD licence..."
News
OpenTelemetry promises run-time "profiling" as it guns for graduation
eBPF ftw, as Elastic, Splunk donate key technology...
open source
Stick a fork in me, I'm done: Redis slaps MongoDB’s SSPL licence on its OSS core, blames cloud, complexity
The kiss of death for open-source Redis? A reasonable commercial decision? The end of a community?
Cloud
Scoop: Fujitsu spilled private client data, passwords into the open unnoticed for a year
It takes a special kind of stupid to export a LastPass vault and dump it into a public bucket along with a bunch of AWS keys. How do these people win critical government contracts again, please?