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Black Hat USA: Startup breaks secrets management tools

4 minutes of reading / Amazon, API, AWS, open source, Tech / By

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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Meta and Alan Turing Institute back open source AI fellowship

3 minutes of reading / AI, Meta, open source, Tech, Technology / By

The government has unveiled a $1m fellowship grant, backed by Meta and the Alan Turing Institute, to build technology for public services. The 12-month secondment in government will see fellows use open source artificial intelligence (AI) models such as Meta’s Llama 3.5 to help create new tools to deliver Labour’s Plan for Change.  “Open source…

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Execs shy away from open models and open source AI

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A poll of major businesses from the Capgemini Research Institute has found that while using artificial intelligence (AI) for automating repetitive business tasks offers significant savings, the tasks being improved are relatively simple. A significant number of the business leaders surveyed also say they prefer proprietary AI implementations over open source alternatives. According to the…

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Dutch cloud pioneers face the hard limits of digital sovereignty

8 minutes of reading / AI, Amazon, Apple, AWS, Cloud, compliance, Google, IBM, Kubernetes, Microsoft, open source, Oracle, Tech / By

When Dutch hosting provider mijn.host launched what it claimed was “one of the Netherlands’ first digitally sovereign public clouds” late last year, it struck a chord with a growing European anxiety. Built entirely on open source Apache CloudStack technology and hosted exclusively within Dutch borders, the platform promised businesses a genuine alternative to American cloud…

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Sweden gets help pulling its sovereign AI socks up

6 minutes of reading / ABB, AI, Computer, Ericsson, GDPR, HP, Intel, open source, robotics, Tech / By

Financiers picked up the pace of funding in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in Sweden last month, after an urgent government AI Commission warned that a lack of private investment was hindering the country’s scientific and economic development.  In the space of a fortnight at the end of May, the nation with one of the least…

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Apple encryption row: Does law enforcement need to use Technical Capability Notices?

5 minutes of reading / Apple, compliance, e-commerce, Facebook, Intel, open source, social media, Tech / By

How far are criminal investigations inhibited by the wide availability of end-to-end encryption (E2E)? The Home Office and UK law enforcement agencies think the problem is urgent, hence the politically tricky decision to use a little-known feature of the Investigatory Powers legislation – the Technical Capability Notice – to seek to impose back-door conditions on…

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AI Summit London: Managing legacy IT and the pace of AI development

4 minutes of reading / AI, Intel, open source, Tech, Technology / By

Panel members on the AI as a Competitive Advantage session held at the AI Summit in London this week discussed the reality businesses face when trying to move artificial intelligence projects into production. Data presented in the Summit’s AI at Scale stream, suggests that 80% of proof-of-concept AI projects fail to move into production. While…

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