Cybersecurity
Known exploited list: 15 million systems still exposed
... and probably shot to high heaven with malware.
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PC sales plummet: Apple fares worst with 40% fall
Inventory glut set to persist despite heavy discounting...
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Siemens Smart Infrastructure CTO: It's got far cheaper to link major devices
Smart buildings may be growing in popularity but they remain dwarfed by their dumb, if functional, relations. However, with energy bills through the roof and a growing mandate for sustainability, that may well change very soon: “Less than 5% [of commercial buildings] are digital and smart, so there’s a
Cloud
UK regulators scrutinise hyperscaler "data egress" fees.
Should they also be having another conversation?
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Introducing 6 new Top Level open source ASF projects
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has graduated six new open source software projects to “Top Level” status in Q1 of 2023. (Getting Top-Level Project status is essentially a vote of confidence in a project’s community and product governance.) Perhaps interestingly to some, more than half (four of the six)
Enterprise IT
BT launches new “BT Business” unit, appoints Hena Jalil as CIO
Management and support consolidation to save BT £100 million.
Cybersecurity
$18 billion revenue Western Digital hacked: Multiple systems breached
Storage services knocked offline after the incident...
Enterprise IT
Shell appoints former CISO as new Group CIO
Shell is appointing former CISO Robbert Van Rutten as its new group CIO, effective July 1, 2023 The appointment comes after veteran CIO Jay Crotts announced that he was stepping down after a 37-year career at the energy supermajor, which has involved responsibility for the IT Function globally since 2015.
AI
Pssssst, CTOs: Free, open source ChatGPT alternatives are landing
A complete RLHF pipeline that includes supervised data collection, supervised and reinforcement learning fine-tuning
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HM Treasury cybersecurity salary triggers fresh outcry
Private sector equivalent in the UK would be triple
Cybersecurity
Recovering from ransomware: Are your backups enough?
Some victims can't start restoring because their backup solution requires AD to log in
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Wozniak, Musk, CEOs call for AI moratorium
"Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders.”