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.
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.
Outages
40-hour Cloudflare outage: Tier 3 DC power failure exposes unknown software dependencies, triggers rethink
"Dependencies shouldn’t have been so tight, should have failed more gracefully, and we should have caught them"
Microsoft
Microsoft pledges a dramatic software security overhaul, as Amazon veteran shakes the tree
Biggest overhaul of Redmond's security in 20 years sees promises of "code analysis [of] 100% of commercial product”, cryptographic keys to be kept in a hardened Azure HSM, more.
CISO
As SEC’s SolarWinds charges reverberate, companies scrutinise cyber risk disclosures
'Do not state anything that is subjective and avoid adjectives (e.g., "state of the art," "mature," "advanced," "appropriate," "comprehensive," or "reasonable")' say experts.