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  • Slashdot: Major US Grocery Distributor Warns of Disruption After Cyberattack

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/09/1656213/major-us-grocery-distributor-warns-of-disruption-after-cyberattack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Major US Grocery Distributor Warns of Disruption After Cyberattack Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** United Natural Foods (UNFI) experienced a cyberattack that disrupted its operations, particularly impacting its ability to fulfill customer orders. The breach prompted the company to implement shutdowns of certain IT systems, leading…

  • The Register: IBM Cloud login breaks for second time in a fortnight

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/ibm_cloud_outage/ Source: The Register Title: IBM Cloud login breaks for second time in a fortnight Feedly Summary: Sev-1 incident downs support portals down and means application data paths ‘may be affected’ IBM’s Cloud has experienced a second Severity One incident in a fortnight. Both meant users could not log in to the Big…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Scarcity signals: Are rare activities red flags?

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/scarcity-signals-are-rare-activities-red-flags/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Scarcity signals: Are rare activities red flags? Feedly Summary: Talos analyzed six months of PowerShell network telemetry and found that rare domains are over three times more likely to be malicious compared to frequently contacted ones. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The presented research by Cisco…

  • Cloud Blog: Train AI for less: Improve ML Goodput with elastic training and optimized checkpointing

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/elastic-training-and-optimized-checkpointing-improve-ml-goodput/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Train AI for less: Improve ML Goodput with elastic training and optimized checkpointing Feedly Summary: Want to save some money on large AI training? For a typical PyTorch LLM training workload that spans thousands of accelerators for several weeks, a 1% improvement in ML Goodput can translate to…

  • Scott Logic: Tools for measuring Cloud Carbon Emissions (updated for 2025)

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    Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/05/20/tools-for-measuring-cloud-carbon-emissions-updated-for-2025.html Source: Scott Logic Title: Tools for measuring Cloud Carbon Emissions (updated for 2025) Feedly Summary: In this post I’ll discuss ways of estimating the emissions caused by your Cloud workloads as a first step towards reaching your organisation’s Net Zero goals. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides a comprehensive…

  • Cloud Blog: AI Hypercomputer developer experience enhancements from Q1 25: build faster, scale bigger

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/ai-hypercomputer-enhancements-for-the-developer/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: AI Hypercomputer developer experience enhancements from Q1 25: build faster, scale bigger Feedly Summary: Building cutting-edge AI models is exciting, whether you’re iterating in your notebook or orchestrating large clusters. However, scaling up training can present significant challenges, including navigating complex infrastructure, configuring software and dependencies across numerous…

  • Cloud Blog: Understand why your metrics moved with contribution analysis in BigQuery ML, now GA

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/bigquery-ml-contribution-analysis-models-now-ga/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Understand why your metrics moved with contribution analysis in BigQuery ML, now GA Feedly Summary: The key to effective data-driven decision making is quickly processing and extracting insights from large amounts of data. However, doing this efficiently and at scale is a challenge.  Imagine a retail scenario where…

  • NCSC Feed: Ransomware: ‘WannaCry’ guidance for enterprise administrators

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    Source URL: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/ransomware-wannacry-guidance-enterprise-administrators-1 Source: NCSC Feed Title: Ransomware: ‘WannaCry’ guidance for enterprise administrators Feedly Summary: Guidance for enterprise administrators who want to reduce the likelihood of being held to ransom by WannaCry (or other types of ransomware). AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides guidance for enterprise administrators seeking to mitigate risks associated…

  • SC Media: CSA: Cloud missteps fuel real-world breaches

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    Source URL: https://www.scworld.com/brief/csa-cloud-missteps-fuel-real-world-breaches Source: SC Media Title: CSA: Cloud missteps fuel real-world breaches Feedly Summary: CSA: Cloud missteps fuel real-world breaches AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Cloud Security Alliance’s newly released report outlines significant cloud security breaches and recommends proactive measures to mitigate similar incidents in the future. It emphasizes the importance of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/4/llm-sampling/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling Feedly Summary: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling This is an extremely useful, detailed set of explanations by @AlpinDale covering the various different sampling strategies used by modern LLMs. LLMs return a set of next-token probabilities for every token in their…