AI
Apple quietly open sources AI tools in a landmark move
Release under an MIT licence "may be Apple's biggest move on open-source AI so far" says one senior NVIDIA research scientist.
Windows 10
Support for Windows 10 to end October 2025: Prepare to open your wallets, or love Ubuntu
Extended Security Updates of up to three years will be available...
Quantum computing
New quantum chip, modular computer and SDK revealed by IBM
Of heavy-hexes, tunable couplers, superpositions and SDKs for cryogenic computing in the cloud...
New Relic
New Relic says customer accounts were breached, but not via the hack of its staging environment...
Hackers gained access to an employee account and pivoted to staging environment, but did not move laterally, company says.
AWS
Home Office inks £450m AWS contract
Home Office CTO has highlighted a focus on “streamlining our technology and data estates and unifying systems” and “open source and cloud technologies that are scalable and maintainable.”
Cloud
GPU-centric cloud provider CoreWeave raises at a $7 billion valuation, as NVIDIA backs buyers
"We like big bursts and we cannot lie..."
AWS
“Folks thought this was nuts” - A re:Invent 2023 recap as AWS gets spacey, chippy, AI-happy
Anyone need 65 exaflops of compute on-demand? Amazon should be able to sort you out...
CISA
CISA's going to name and shame vendors on insecure software
"When we see a vulnerability or intrusion campaign that could have been reasonably avoided if the software manufacturer had aligned to secure by design principles, we’ll call it out"
AI
AI startup Imbue spends $150m on Dell servers as it eyes foundation model progress
The startup is running workloads in the data centres of non-profit AI compute provider Voltage Park.
banks
Banks need to do better on operational resilience: Basel
"There is still work to do on developing appropriate business continuity and contingency plans and exit procedures where third parties provide critical operations"
AWS
From Sun Ray, to Fire: With its WorkSpaces Thin Client, can AWS make DaaS hot again?
From Sun Ray, to Fire: With its WorkSpaces Thin Client, can AWS make DaaS hot again?
AWS
AWS reveals new Cost Optimization Hub, adds welcome customisations to Compute Optimizer
A longer "lookback" period of utilisation history, centralised cost savings hub and more. But don't rely on it alone...