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Nasa and IBM apply artificial intelligence to tackle solar digital disruption

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IBM and Nasa have made available on Hugging Face an open source artificial intelligence (AI) model called Surya, trained to understand and predict how solar activity affects Earth and space-based technology. Surya applies AI to solar image interpretation and space weather forecasting research. According to IBM, it can be used to help protect GPS navigation,…

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Warlock claims more victims as cyber attacks hit Colt and Orange

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Warlock, the emergent cyber crime gang that claims it is holding UK network and telecoms services provider Colt’s data to ransom, appears to have hit multiple other victims in the past few weeks, it has emerged. This is according to data supplied through the open source RansomLook.io information service, which is currently tracking 475 ransomware…

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The Amazon Appstore Is Finally Dead On Android – Thank Goodness

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sf_freelance/Shutterstock We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. What could have been one of the biggest alternative app stores is finally shutting down on Android. Amazon originally shared plans to kill off the Android-based Amazon Appstore back in February of 2025, with the cut off date for support set for August 20,…

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An introduction to platform engineering

6 minutes of reading / agile, AI, Cloud, cloud-native, compliance, DevOps, digital transformation, Git, GitHub, Google, Kubernetes, open source, software engineering, Tech / By

Enterprise software development has seen several revolutions, which began with the big bang waterfall approach of project delivery and progressed to agile methodologies. Then came the “shift-left” mantra, whereby developers were given greater and greater responsibility to deliver their code into a production environment, leading to DevOps. These changes in approach have been needed to…

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AI advances clear path to software development careers

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Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence (AI), starting a career as a novice software developer or retraining to become a software engineer is now far easier, and people with the right skills can often command higher salaries than the national average. Data published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) shows that the average salary…

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OpenAI now offers open AI models, but CIOs need to assess the risk

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OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, has released two large language models (LLMs) under the Apache 2.0 open source licence. The models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b are open-weight language models, which OpenAI claimed deliver strong real-world performance at low cost.  According to OpenAI, the new models outperform similarly sized open models on reasoning tasks and are optimised…

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Black Hat USA: Startup breaks secrets management tools

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A total of 14 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) spanning CyberArk’s Conjur and HashiCorp’s Vault enterprise secrets management platforms have been addressed and disclosed this week, after being discovered by researchers at Cyata, an emergent, Israel-based startup working in the field of agentic identity. Taken as a whole, the critical issues demonstrated “complete compromise” of…

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US seeks ‘unquestioned’ AI dominance

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The US government this week unveiled its artificial intelligence (AI) action plan, stating in no uncertain terms that the current administration of president Donald Trump believes it is in a race to achieve unchallengeable and unquestionable worldwide dominance in the field. Describing the AI-driven future as a potential “golden age of human flourishing”, Washington said…

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Meta AI training will be challenged at Europe’s highest court, says data protection chief

7 minutes of reading / AI, cloud computing, Computer, Facebook, GDPR, Meta, open source, social media, Tech / By

Europe’s baulked attempt to curb Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) training will persevere and culminate at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), said the data protection commissioner who is leading the challenge. Within days of European Union (EU) privacy commissioners giving Meta licence to train its popular open source Llama large language model (LLM) on public posts…

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Podcast: Container storage challenges and how to overcome them

7 minutes of reading / automation, business continuity, containers, Google, Kubernetes, Microsoft, open source, Tech / By

In this podcast, we talk to Pure Storage’s Venkat Ramakrishnan about customer challenges when dealing with containers and storage and data protection. Ramakrishnan, vice-president of products and engineering for Portworx, talked about customers who take on container deployments without thinking through the future scale, technical requirements and cost they are likely to accrue. Here, Ramakrishnan…

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