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"The executable in question was built using the LockBit 3 ransomware builder tool leaked in 2022, so this particular sample may not have originated with the actual LockBit developers"
"Building production-grade RAG remains a complex and subtle problem... unlike traditional software, every decision in the data stack directly affects the accuracy of the full LLM-powered system."
"In Gartner's mind, everyone's moving away from VPNs; VPNs don't exist anymore. But this is not a ‘rip out an appliance, and then shove something else in' job..."
"The number of IT resources that are available to do manual processing of IT workloads is constrained and sophisticated observability and application security [is becoming] more critical..."
"The layoffs seem to be helping their stock prices, so these companies see no reason to stop..."
Atos employs over 105,000 staff; handling tasks as eclectic as running 111 data centres in 43 countries, and building hardware for the French military.
"You can ask Amazon Q for Data Integration to ‘read JSON files from S3, join on ‘accountid’, and load into DynamoDB’ and in response, it will return an end-to-end data integration job that can perform that action"
Incident forces huge hygiene effort, as Cloudflare rotates 5,000 credentials, triages 4,893 systems, reimages and reboots every machine after compromise.