February 2024

Multiple billions up for grabs as UK government launches cloud services tenders 2024-02-26 at 13:05 By Lindsay Clark Two major procurement initiatives aim to beef up public sector tech UK government has launched two tenders for cloud services that could jointly see up to £7.5 billion ($9.5 billion) spent under framework agreements.… This article is

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Three Tips to Protect Your Secrets from AI Accidents 2024-02-26 at 13:05 By Last year, the Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) published multiple versions of the “OWASP Top 10 For Large Language Models,” reaching a 1.0 document in August and a 1.1 document in October. These documents not only demonstrate the rapidly evolving nature

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The self-created risk in Broadcom’s big VMware kiss-off 2024-02-26 at 12:21 By Rupert Goodwins Arise, the new Migration Nation Opinion  It looked like the most cynical corporate move of the last couple of years, at least in IT. A year and a half after it was announced, so it has proved to be. Broadcom’s $61

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Banking Trojans Target Latin America and Europe Through Google Cloud Run 2024-02-26 at 12:21 By Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a spike in email phishing campaigns that are weaponizing the Google Cloud Run service to deliver various banking trojans such as Astaroth (aka Guildma), Mekotio, and Ousaban (aka Javali) to targets across Latin America (LATAM) and Europe. “The infection chains

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Starting over: Rebooting the OS stack for fun and profit 2024-02-26 at 11:32 By Liam Proven Making full effective use of new persistent memory means tearing up the rulebook FOSDEM  Non-volatile RAM is making a comeback, but the deep assumptions of 1970s OS design will stop us making effective use of it. There are other

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Lenovo debuts AI PCs that have specs a lot like vanilla PCs with this year’s accelerated CPUs 2024-02-26 at 09:37 By Simon Sharwood While you ponder that, look – or try to – at a concept transparent lappie Lenovo has used Mobile World Congress (MWC) to debut a clutch of updated ThinkPads for business users

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It’s crazy but it’s true: Apple rejected Bing for wrong answers about Annie Lennox 2024-02-26 at 08:42 By Simon Sharwood Cupertino only wanted to be with Google for search – despite the prospect of buying Bing outright Bad search results for the query “Annie Lennox first band” were among the reasons Apple rejected an approach

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Gen AI and cloud optimization help Asian SuperApp Grab turn a profit 2024-02-26 at 08:02 By Laura Dobberstein Headcount down 18 percent as content creation time shrinks from 99 hours to 90 minutes Singapore-based superapp Grab logged its first ever positive net profit late last week, and revealed it was helped by cutting cloud costs

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LockBit Ransomware Group Resurfaces After Law Enforcement Takedown 2024-02-26 at 07:21 By The threat actors behind the LockBit ransomware operation have resurfaced on the dark web using new infrastructure, days after an international law enforcement exercise seized control of its servers. To that end, the notorious group has moved its data leak portal to a new .onion

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VMware’s end-user compute unit reportedly headed to private equity firm KKR 2024-02-26 at 04:38 By Simon Sharwood As users report Broadcom massively hikes license costs, consultant advises negotiation tactics used for Oracle or Microsoft will apply VMware’s end-user compute business unit is set to be acquired by private equity firm KKR, according to a Reuters

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Security is hard because it has to be right all the time? Yeah, like everything else 2024-02-25 at 18:17 By Larry Peterson It takes only one bottleneck or single point of failure to ruin your week Systems Approach  One refrain you often hear is that security must be built in from the ground floor; that

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