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The Register: Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware to address bigger Broadcom bills

Feb 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/rackspace_vmware_planet9_migration/ Source: The Register Title: Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware to address bigger Broadcom bills Feedly Summary: New home, Planet9, says it’s also helping a Fortune 500 company to migrate 40,000 VMs Exclusive Rackspace is moving some of its back-office workloads off VMware and onto a platform called Private…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation

Feb 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/5/o3-mini-documentation/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation Feedly Summary: o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation I wanted to refresh my knowledge of how the Datasette permissions system works today. I already have extensive hand-written documentation for that, but I thought it would be interesting…

The Register: DeepSeek rated too dodgy down under: Banned from Australian government devices

Feb 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/australia_deepseek_ban/ Source: The Register Title: DeepSeek rated too dodgy down under: Banned from Australian government devices Feedly Summary: As American big tech companies lashed for their slow efforts to prevent harms Australia’s Department of Home Affairs has banned the use of DeepSeek on federal government devices.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Australia’s…

Irrational Exuberance: Our own agents with their own tools.

Feb 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://lethain.com/our-own-agents-our-own-tools/ Source: Irrational Exuberance Title: Our own agents with their own tools. Feedly Summary: Entering 2025, I decided to spend some time exploring the topic of agents. I started reading Anthropic’s Building effective agents, followed by Chip Huyen’s AI Engineering. I kicked off a major workstream at work on using agents, and I…

The Register: Who’s afraid of DeepSeek’s impact on AI hardware sales? Not AMD CEO Lisa Su

Feb 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/amd_q4_fy2024/ Source: The Register Title: Who’s afraid of DeepSeek’s impact on AI hardware sales? Not AMD CEO Lisa Su Feedly Summary: Predicts more efficient ML architectures will drive adoption, see Instinct sales accelerate, shares dive AMD’s chief exec Lisa Su has predicted the chip designer’s Instinct accelerators will drive tens of billions of…

The Register: Google torpedoes ‘no AI for weapons’ rules

Feb 5, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/google_ai_principles_update/ Source: The Register Title: Google torpedoes ‘no AI for weapons’ rules Feedly Summary: Will now happily unleash the bots when ‘likely overall benefits substantially outweigh the foreseeable risks’ Google has published a new set of AI principles that don’t mention its previous pledge not to use the tech to develop weapons or…

The Register: Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number

Feb 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/google_amd_microcode/ Source: The Register Title: Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number Feedly Summary: Malicious microcode vulnerability discovered, fixes rolling out for Epycs at least Googlers have not only figured out how to break AMD’s security – allowing them to load unofficial microcode into its…

Slashdot: Panasonic To Cut Costs To Support Shift Into AI

Feb 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/04/1738246/panasonic-to-cut-costs-to-support-shift-into-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Panasonic To Cut Costs To Support Shift Into AI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Panasonic is shifting focus from consumer electronics to AI data centers, indicating a significant transformation in its business strategy. This pivot could be particularly relevant for professionals in AI and cloud computing…

The Register: Poisoned Go programming language package lay undetected for 3 years

Feb 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/golang_supply_chain_attack/ Source: The Register Title: Poisoned Go programming language package lay undetected for 3 years Feedly Summary: Researcher says ecosystem’s auto-caching is a net positive but presents exploitable quirks A security researcher says a backdoor masquerading as a legitimate Go programming language package used by thousands of organizations was left undetected for years.……

Krebs on Security: Who’s Behind the Seized Forums ‘Cracked’ & ‘Nulled’?

Feb 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/whos-behind-the-seized-forums-cracked-nulled/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Who’s Behind the Seized Forums ‘Cracked’ & ‘Nulled’? Feedly Summary: The FBI joined authorities across Europe last week in seizing domain names for Cracked and Nulled, English-language cybercrime forums with millions of users that trafficked in stolen data, hacking tools and malware. An investigation into the history…

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