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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.

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.

With Agent Substrate, Google chases a Kubernetes moment for AI agents

Two new Apache 2.0 projects achieve 97% better hardware efficiency for bursty bursty agentic workloads. Want to get involved?

US eyes physics-based engineering to protect water systems from cyber attacks

Control systems – and the entire software supply chain – needs work too, but even air-gapping isn't sufficient mitigation, Congress told.

The creators of Next.js launch an AI-friendly language (but humans can read it too)

Vercel's new Zero is a strictly experimental effort to make machine interpretability a first-class systems concern, and it shows some momentum.

Salesforce tools up for 100K big, concurrent chats with AI data distribution layer

Kafka lag, uneven tenants, Postgres hotspots and real-time AI consistency: Salesforce says scaling conversational AI infrastructure turned into a distributed systems problem.

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