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Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet started in journalism as an honest B2B IT-sector reporter before straying into business, politics, and international affairs. He is currently in recovery, studying AI while writing about everything from hardware to infosec policy.

Red Hat's $5 billion answer to Mythos: fix all the code

Project Lightwell will seek to achieve many things, Red Hat tells us, but most importantly it will fix the code enterprise actually run – with those paying a premium deciding the priorities.

Multi-billion install cURL takes security reports summer holiday

For a month over the Northern Hemisphere summer, your security issues will have to wait, unless you pay for support.

"It's a Microsoft trojan horse", shrieks LibreOffice of new rival Euro-Office

OSS Office wars. Bald men fighting over a comb?

UK gets $1.5bn AI Hardware Plan, and a big-coalition sovereign model plan too

Britain plans to build another "AI supercomputer", while training a sovereign model backed by HSBC and BAE on the existing Isambard.

Fake IT support staff are walking in to US law firms to steal data

Mandiant backs up an FBI warning that UNC3753 uses failed phishing as a pretext to physically access machines.

Tokenmaxxing is dead, but finops for AI is not cut and dry

Enterprises find AI adoption metrics are a lousy substitute for cost-per-outcome, but AI finops is tricky.

Multicloud gets sweeter with a 500 Mbps free private link, at least between AWS and Oracle

With regulators watching, AWS offers 160 TB of data per month for free if you want to spread workloads, with Oracle matching that at least for now.

NVIDIA, MS tease tighter agent-native security primitives in Windows

Deep in a chip announcement, the suggestion that Microsoft is turning AI agents into first-class operating-system entities, with OpenClaw ready to use it.

A new vendor-neutral foundation to stop MySQL slipping?

OurSQL is so vendor-neutral that it does not include MySQL's owner, but its board features folks from AliSQL.

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