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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.

Microsoft researchers derail LLM safety measures with one prompt

With little loss of utility – and it's not just language models either.

Push NIST (and cloud), Google urges governments on quantum crypto threat

Google is lobbying policymakers to unite behind the NIST post-quantum cryptography approach, and to get serious about critical infrastructure before Q-Day.

Everyone seemed to come for OpenAI on Wednesday

Google's numbers suggest it could overtake OpenAI in enterprise seats this year, as Claude vows it will never go ChatGPT's way on monetising consumers.

Iran blocked the Internet, then butchered its protestors. What's the lesson for activists?

"We did new graphs and they confirm the evolution towards one single point of interconnection between Iran’s domestic network and the global Internet..."

French company wants out of US ICE links fast, after union, customer rumblings

Less than two weeks after new attention, the tech consulting firm is exiting a subsidiary doing business with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Anthropic's Claude constitution sets limits on enterprise customisation and agents

For enterprise users, Claude's big new soul doc puts the brakes on agentic use and implies limits in using it in coding pipelines.

Baidu's 2.4 trillion param GPT rival goes GA, investors love it

Its creator claims the big-number Ernie 5.0 as a full-modal breakthrough, and is keeping it closed.

UK.gov seeks to Monzo-ise public services, save £4bn

Moving away from phone and post – and, yes, more AI – can make everything better, according to the UK government's CustomerFirst thesis.

AWS Outpost gets big S3 storage, isolated routing in another sovereignty push

Second-generation Outposts can now have 10 routing domains and 786TB S3 storage, connecting to a couple more AWS regions.

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