cyberattack
"Over 102.4 million records were breached via ransomware attacks on tech companies in 2023–a staggering 2,300 percent increase on 2022’s figure of 4.26 million. It’s also the highest number recorded across any industry since we began tracking confirmed ransomware attacks in 2018..."
european union
A rewritten EU cyber resiliency act removes the biggest threats to open source but much standards work still to be done, says Linux Foundation Europe
AWS
AWS is expanding its operations in Japan by building on its infrastructure capacity in Tokyo and Osaka.
AI
"Artificial intelligence by the name is not something that you can actually govern," says Dubai Futures CEO. But the World Economic Forum tries, nonetheless.
fedramp
Some CSPs also moaned that its was “costly and time consuming” to meet FedRAMP’s technical and process requirements...
Microsoft
"We will act immediately to apply our current security standards to Microsoft-owned legacy systems and internal business processes..."
vulnerabilities
There are no workarounds that remove the vulnerability, which allows unauthenticated remote command execution on vulnerable systems. A patch is available.
LLMs
Goldman Sachs CIO says "there’s a great opportunity for capital to move towards the application layer, the toolset layer. I think we will see that shift happening..."
AI
"We’re starting to see multimodal AI models, and I think one modality that hasn’t been fully exploited yet is that of the time series. This would be using AI to deal with data points attached to a particular timestamp..."
GCHQ
MI5 is off to the cloud; GCHQ is ramping up Computer Network Exploitation capabilities; MI6 needs cultural changes to get a new IT platform running smoothly...
vmware
Goodbye vSphere Hypervisor. Goodbye Aria Operations. Goodbye NCX. Goodbye HCX. Goodbye more acronyms than we know what to do with; though Broadcom does; at least as standalone SKUs...
AI
Stateful. A Web UI. Customisable plugins. Six LLMs supported. Nice work, Microsoft.