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PyPI loophole puts thousands of packages at risk of compromise

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Thousands of applications that have taken advantage of open source Python Package Index (PyPI) software packages may be at risk of hijacking and subversion by malicious actors, opening up the possibility of major supply chain attacks affecting even greater numbers of downstream organisations and users. That is according to threat researchers at jFrog, who identified…

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NCSC and allies call out Russia’s Unit 29155 over cyber warfare

5 minutes of reading / Atlassian, DNS, Git, GitHub, Microsoft, open source, Tech, VPN / By / Leave a Comment

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its counterpart bodies in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have joined partners from Czechia, Estonia, Germany, Latvia and Ukraine to identify a Russian military cyber unit that has been conducting a sustained campaign of malicious activity over the past four years. Part of the Main Directorate of…

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Riding the cloud database wave

6 minutes of reading / agile, AI, Alibaba, Amazon, automation, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Database, Google, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Netflix, open source, Oracle, Salesforce, Tech, Workday / By

It would seem that the adoption of cloud databases – those delivered via a cloud consumption model – is ramping up. Referred to as dbPaaS (database platform as a service) by analyst Gartner, the market for cloud databases is dominated by public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Alibaba are among…

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AMD’s new FSR 3.1 loses first round fight to Nvidia DLSS in battle of the frame rate boosters

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AMD’s FSR 3.1 only launched last week, on June 27, with support for a handful of games to begin with, but already some fresh testing has revealed that DLSS 3.7, the latest take on Nvidia’s rival upscaling solution, is still miles ahead with its image quality.Digital Foundry’s testing also showed off how FSR 3.1’s frame…

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Innovations to power secure-by-design development

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Security leaders and software developers will benefit from deeper visibility into their organisations’ software development security posture as they work, bolstering moves towards the nirvana of so-called secure-by-design code, with the introduction of an industry-first solution from sector specialist Secure Code Warrior (SCW). SCW Trust Agent comes hot on the heels of the introduction of…

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Apple debunks reports that it trained AI on stolen YouTube videos

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This week, a report by Wired revealed that Apple, NVIDIA, and other tech companies were using hundreds of thousands of YouTube videos to train their AIs. The YouTube Subtitles dataset had video transcripts from education and online learning channels, from MIT and Harvard to Mr. Beast, MKBHD, and PewDiePie.After the controversy, Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac…

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Trends in the cloud database market

7 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Azure, business continuity, Cloud, compliance, containers, Database, disaster recovery, Google, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, open source, Oracle, Oracle Cloud, Salesforce, SAP, serverless, Tech, Workday / By

The cloud holds a large – and growing – percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend on structured data, stored in databases.   The global market for databases grew by 12.8% last year, according to analysts at Gartner, and…

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Fewer than half of organisations achieve GenAI efficiency gains

3 minutes of reading / AI, Hitachi, open source, Tech / By

Research based on a survey of 800 IT leaders has found that less than half of the organisations polled have seen improvements in operational efficiency (43%) after deploying generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) initiatives. The Hitachi Vantara sponsored report from Enterprise Strategy Group highlights the importance of ensuring enterprise IT infrastructure is ready to support GenAI.…

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Kubernetes at 10: Building stateful app storage and data protection

5 minutes of reading / AI, API, Cloud, cloud-native, containers, disaster recovery, Docker, Git, Google, Kubernetes, open source, Snap, Tech / By

Kubernetes is 10 years’ old. Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. That decade started as containers emerged as a new way to virtualise applications, but storage and data protection functionality was practically non-existent. Now, Kubernetes offers a mature container platform for cloud-native applications, with all that’s required for the storage…

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Kubernetes at 10: Persistent storage matures, helped by Operators

7 minutes of reading / AI, automation, cloud-native, containers, Docker, Google, Kubernetes, open source, Tech / By

Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. It’s a decade that started with containers emerging as a novel way of virtualising applications but storage and data protection that was practically non-existent. Now, Kubernetes offers a mature container platform for cloud-native applications with all the functionality required for the…

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