EuroHPC lines up AI upgrade for Leonardo supercomputer And it's Eviden who has no reason to moan over LISA upgrade - though questions over funding remain Italy's Leonardo supercomputer is to get an AI upgrade to beef up support for the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) and multi-modal generative AI, in addition to the 13 AI factories now being procured around the EU.… #theregister #IT
EuroHPC awards contract for Leonardo super
Updated: And it's Eviden who has no reason to moan over LISA upgrade - though questions over funding remain
Ransomware scum have put a target on the no man's land between IT and operations Defenses are weaker, and victims are more likely to pay, SANS warns Criminals who attempt to damage critical infrastructure are increasingly targeting the systems that sit between IT and operational tech.… #theregister #IT
Ransomware crims targeting systems between IT and operations
: Defenses are weaker, and victims are more likely to pay, SANS warns
US tech titans rejoice in $600B Saudi shopping spree Prince Mohammed bin Bone Saw will take a few hundred thousand GPUs with his missiles and fighter jets The Saudi government on Tuesday announced a massive $600 billion investment in US defense, transportation, energy, and IT infrastructure.… #theregister #IT
US tech titans rejoice in $600B Saudi shopping spree
: Prince Mohammed bin Bone Saw will take a few hundred thousand GPUs with his missiles and fighter jets
Apple patched one first, but Microsoft’s blasted five exploited flaws this Pa-Tu Plus: All the fun and frolic of fixes from Adobe, SAP, Ivanti Patch Tuesday  It's that time of the month again, and Microsoft has made it extra spicy by revealing five flaws it says are under active exploitation – but rates as important rather than critical fixes.… #theregister #IT
Microsoft, Apple fix exploited flaws on Patch Tuesday
Patch Tuesday: Plus: All the fun and frolic of fixes from Adobe, SAP, Ivanti
NSF director memo to staff: Don't worry about those job cuts, at least for now Court orders halt to layoffs – as folks steering American innovation wonder how long injunction will last Employees at Uncle Sam's National Science Foundation (NSF) are relieved that the Trump administration's plan to downsize the federal government collided with the US court system on Friday – but they'… #theregister #IT
US National Science Foundation pauses staff cuts
: Court orders halt to layoffs – as folks steering American innovation wonder how long injunction will last
Trump ends Biden-era dream to cap US AI chip exports Ding dong, diffusion is dead Biden's controversial AI Diffusion rules, which were set to restrict the sale of American GPUs and AI accelerators beginning this week, are officially dead.… #theregister #IT
Trump kills Biden-era AI chip export controls
: Ding dong, diffusion is dead
Intel's data-leaking Spectre defenses scared off yet again ETH Zurich boffins exploit branch prediction race condition to steal info from memory, fixes have mild perf hit Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have found a way around Intel's defenses against Spectre, a family of data-leaking flaws in the x86 giant's processor designs that simply won't die.… #theregister #IT
Intel data-leaking Spectre defenses scared off once again
Updated: ETH Zurich boffins exploit branch prediction race condition to steal info from memory, fixes have mild perf hit
Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare Air Force Dumb The Trump administration is set to accept a $400 million luxury 747-8 from the royal family of Qatar – a lavish "palace in the sky" meant as a temporary Air Force One. But getting it up to presidential security standards could take years and cost hundreds of millions more.… #theregister #IT
President Trump
: Air Force Dumb
Microsoft boots 3% of staff in latest cull - middle managers first in line Redmond talks up new technologies and capabilities for productivity, just don’t call it AI Microsoft is axing 3 percent of its global workforce - its biggest purge since chopping 10,000 jobs in early 2023 - this time to flatten its management structure.… #theregister #IT
Microsoft chops 3% - mid-managers top the list
: Redmond talks up new technologies, capabilities for productivity ... just don’t call it AI
Commvault fixes critical Command Center issue after flaw finder alert Pay-to-play security on CVSS 10 issue is now fixed An update that fixed a critical flaw in data protection biz Commvault's Command Center was initially not available to a significant user subset – those testing out a free trial version of the product. That is, until a security researcher pointed out the problem.… #theregister #IT
Commvault Command Center patch incomplete: researcher
: Pay-to-play security on CVSS 10 issue is now fixed