Tag: infrastructure sector
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Slashdot: Encryption Made For Police and Military Radios May Be Easily Cracked
Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/07/217234/encryption-made-for-police-and-military-radios-may-be-easily-cracked Source: Slashdot Title: Encryption Made For Police and Military Radios May Be Easily Cracked Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights critical vulnerabilities in an encryption algorithm widely used in radios for essential sectors, including law enforcement and military. After researchers discovered a backdoor in the original algorithm,…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/6/qwen3-4b-instruct-and-thinking/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking Feedly Summary: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking Yet another interesting model from Qwen—these are tiny compared to their other recent releases (just 4B parameters, 7.5GB on Hugging Face and even smaller when quantized) but with a 262,144 context length, which Qwen suggest is essential…
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Slashdot: Cyberattack Cripples Russian Airline Aeroflot
Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/07/28/2018201/cyberattack-cripples-russian-airline-aeroflot?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Cyberattack Cripples Russian Airline Aeroflot Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes a cyberattack on Russia’s Aeroflot airline, attributed to Ukrainian and Belarusian hacker groups. This incident exemplifies the vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure and the importance of robust cybersecurity measures, particularly in sectors such as…
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The Register: US DoE taps federal sites for fast-track AI datacenter and energy builds
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/doe_ai_infra/ Source: The Register Title: US DoE taps federal sites for fast-track AI datacenter and energy builds Feedly Summary: Private sector invited to colocate at legacy nuclear facilities The US Department of Energy (DoE) has identified four sites where private sector firms will be invited to colocate datacenters and energy generation projects, in…
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The Cloudflare Blog: The White House AI Action Plan: a new chapter in U.S. AI policy
Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-white-house-ai-action-plan-a-new-chapter-in-u-s-ai-policy/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: The White House AI Action Plan: a new chapter in U.S. AI policy Feedly Summary: The White House AI Action Plan is a pivotal policy document outlining the current administration’s priorities and deliverables in AI to establish American AI as the gold standard for AI worldwide. AI…
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Slashdot: Funding For Program To Stop Next Stuxnet From Hitting US Expired Sunday
Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/22/2250221/funding-for-program-to-stop-next-stuxnet-from-hitting-us-expired-sunday Source: Slashdot Title: Funding For Program To Stop Next Stuxnet From Hitting US Expired Sunday Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The expiration of government funding for a key cyber defense program, the CyberSentry Program, has left critical infrastructure in the U.S. vulnerable to potential cyberattacks. This cessation impacts the…
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The Register: Google plugs AI into nuclear reactor biz – what could possibly go wrong?
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/16/google_westinghouse_ai_nuclear/ Source: The Register Title: Google plugs AI into nuclear reactor biz – what could possibly go wrong? Feedly Summary: Westinghouse taps Big G’s cloud smarts to speed up atomic plant builds and keep the grid humming While AI systems are known to spew wrong information and make up facts, Google and Westinghouse…
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The Register: Alibaba Cloud reveals DB cluster manager it says can beat rival hyperscalers
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/alibaba_cloud_eigen_plus_cluster_manager/ Source: The Register Title: Alibaba Cloud reveals DB cluster manager it says can beat rival hyperscalers Feedly Summary: ‘Eigen+’ finds instances likely to cause out of memory errors and makes sure they can’t do damage Alibaba Cloud has revealed a cluster manager it says allows it to run databases more efficiently than…