LLMs
Nvidia intern’s team beats OpenAI’s GPT-4 LLM in ‘knowledge-intensive’ showdowns
Researchers give "RankRAG" large language models a dose of performance-enhancing instruction tuning and a pinch of ranking data before steering them to victory
operational technology
Scottish electricity firm plans £150m OT security spend
New requirements for utilities on cybersecurity under an “enhanced” Cyber Assessment Framework (e-CAF) is driving significant spend and the energy sector is...
cybercrime
NCSC issues urgent security alert over Chinese threat actor's 'evolving' techniques
A group called 'APT40' working for China's Ministry of State Security is allegedly capable of exploiting POCs within hours or days of public release
Cybersecurity
Should more companies hire Chief Product Security Officers?
“Many organisations have teams working in silos, so security doesn’t have the chance to review and advise the product team before it is too late."
vulnerabilities
Fake OpenSSH "exploit" is a real exploit. Just not the one you thought.
Cisco says 42 products confirmed exposed to CVE-2024-6387 -- but OpenSSH exploit is malicious: Beware bogus POCs says Kaspersky
Outages
Is the Wayback Machine down? Internet Archive suffers mysterious outages
Treasure trove of altered or deleted websites brought offline after power cut as it fights legal appeal against decision which forced the removal of 500,000 books
UK
Where new technology minister Peter Kyle may focus, as Labour pledges national renewal
Energy, national security both ripe for significant technology investment but DSIT's mandate and regulatory focus are...
AI
Block bots in one click: Cloudflare 'easy button' fends off crawlers and scrapers
Growing numbers of businesses and consumers are no longer willing to let AI feast on their content, so are looking for a way of keeping the bots at bay
enterprise
USA and China fighting 'enterprise tech trade war' in Middle East and Africa, analysts warn
The region "is emerging as a battleground for international tech supremacy" in areas including cloud, networks for enterprise 5G, and artificial intelligence
public sector
From AI to open source: Tech leaders' recommendations for the new Labour Government
Leading industry figures set out key priorities for Sir Kier Starmer's new government, including employing Chief AI Officers in Whitehall and more open source in the public sector
IBM
LzLabs vs IBM: The latest from court
The latest from London’s Technology & Construction Court as companies clash over mainframe migration software.
DDoS
‘Evil’ botnet unleashes ‘record-breaking’ DDoS attack
“This could be a new era for packet rate attacks: with botnets possibly capable of issuing billions of packets per second. It could seriously challenge how anti-DDoS infrastructures are built and scaled."