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EU investors including Bosch, SAP pump $500 million into "sovereign" AI firm Aleph Alpha

The investment comes as a Google DeepMind paper poured some cold water on the AI hype, finding "various failure modes of transformers and degradation of their generalization for even simple extrapolation tasks" if these are out of its training data domain.

40-hour Cloudflare outage: Tier 3 DC power failure exposes unknown software dependencies, triggers rethink

"Dependencies shouldn’t have been so tight, should have failed more gracefully, and we should have caught them"

As SEC’s SolarWinds charges reverberate, companies scrutinise cyber risk disclosures

'Do not state anything that is subjective and avoid adjectives (e.g., "state of the art," "mature," "advanced," "appropriate," "comprehensive," or "reasonable")' say experts.

boeing hack confirmed lockbit

"We are actively investigating the incident and coordinating with law enforcement and regulatory authorities.”

Biden's AI Executive Order to create standards for identifying "AI-generated content and authenticating official content"

Order also demands "strong new standards for biological synthesis screening" and follows UK concerns around

How to Shrink EBS Volumes

"Unfortunately, the size of an existing EBS volume cannot be decreased. Instead, it is possible to create a smaller volume and move the data using tools such as rsync, at the cost of pausing the system’s write operations during the migration..."

English-speaking ransomware group expanding ops, deploying diverse tools, threats

Both blunt and more advanced social engineering approaches used for initial access; the group also has sophisticated hands-on-keyboards capabilities and a diverse toolset.

Was this the most vanilla ransomware attack ever?

"VPNs pose a threat to enterprise security. They create a path in the network perimeter and provide access to network resources after authentication..."

Azure West Europe wobbles after generator failover fail

Upstream utility disturbance triggers brief bout of sweating with "a small amount of storage nodes" needing to be recovered manually in the wake of the Azure incident,

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