Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. 12 November 2024 Innovating with weather data at the Met Office Share this item with your network: In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how the Met Office is using its vast stores of weather data to create innovative new products. Our latest buyer’s guide…
Red Hat has announced its intention to acquire Neural Magic, the lead developer behind the open source vLLM project. The acquisition is being positioned as a way for Red Hat and its parent IBM to lower the barrier to entry for organisations that want to run machine learning workloads without the need to deploy servers…
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Following the removal last week of Russian Linux kernel maintainers to comply with US policies, Linus Torvalds – the developer of the original Linux kernel – spoke about his concerns that there were lots of Russian trolls who could potentially infiltrate the Linux kernel. The decision to block the maintainers followed a compromise of the…
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Every digital leader likes to think their work helps boost a greater cause. For James Fleming, CIO at the Francis Crick Institute, that value-adding element is a core element of his job. “I go to sleep at night thinking that I’m helping cure cancer with computers,” he says, reflecting on his everyday roles and responsibilities.…
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Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has gone live with its Parallelstore managed parallel file storage service, which is aimed at intensive input/output (I/O) for artificial intelligence (AI) applications and is based on the open source – but developed by Intel – Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage (DAOS) architecture. Intel originally intended DAOS to be supported by its…
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There are central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and even data processing units (DPUs) – all of which are well-known and commonplace now. GPUs in particular have seen a recent rise to prominence with the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI). You may have also heard of tensor processing units (TPUs), which are a…
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Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday drop has arrived, addressing a total of five publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities – two of them exploited in the wild, and three other critical issues for attention – in a relatively large update. Although moderate in their severity, carrying CVSS scores of 7.8 and 6.5 respectively, the two exploited zero-days should…
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Threat intelligence specialist Recorded Future has revealed details of how it is now able to find – and alert – future victims of the Rhysida ransomware gang before it has a chance to deploy its ransomware locker. Rhysida, perhaps most famous in the UK for the late-2023 attack on the British Library, has been active…
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Anglian Water is the largest water and wastewater company in England and Wales. In its Water resources management plan for 2024, the company discusses the value of digital technologies to enable it to reduce water leaks. The 2024 plan revises its water leak reduction targets to a 38% reduction by 2050. In the document, Anglian…
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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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