Tag: production

  • Hacker News: Securing Hardware and Firmware Supply Chains

    Source URL: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-infrastructure-blog/securing-hardware-and-firmware-supply-chains/ba-p/4268815 Source: Hacker News Title: Securing Hardware and Firmware Supply Chains Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses critical innovations in hardware and firmware security within cloud data centers, particularly emphasizing Microsoft’s collaboration with the Open Compute Project (OCP) on the Caliptra initiative and the OCP Security Appraisal…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: mistral.rs

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/19/mistralrs/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: mistral.rs Feedly Summary: mistral.rs Here’s an LLM inference library written in Rust. It’s not just for that one family of models – like how llama.cpp has grown beyond Llama, mistral.rs has grown beyond Mistral. This is the first time I’ve been able to run the Llama 3.2…

  • Cloud Blog: From Cassandra to Bigtable: Database migration tips from Palo Alto Networks

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/palo-alto-networks-migrates-from-cassandra-to-bigtable/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: From Cassandra to Bigtable: Database migration tips from Palo Alto Networks Feedly Summary: In today’s data-driven world, businesses need database solutions that can handle massive data volumes, deliver lightning-fast performance, and maintain near-perfect uptime. This is especially true for companies with critical workloads operating at global scale, where…

  • Cloud Blog: Introducing Google Cloud’s new Vulnerability Reward Program

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/google-cloud-launches-new-vulnerability-rewards-program/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Introducing Google Cloud’s new Vulnerability Reward Program Feedly Summary: Vulnerability reward programs play a vital role in driving security forward. By incentivizing security research, vulnerabilities can be found and fixed by vendors before they are potentially exploited by malicious actors, protecting users and strengthening security posture. Also known…

  • The Register: Samsung releases 24Gb GDDR7 DRAM for testing in beefy AI systems

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/17/samsung_gddr7_dram_chip/ Source: The Register Title: Samsung releases 24Gb GDDR7 DRAM for testing in beefy AI systems Feedly Summary: Production slated for Q1 2025, barring any hiccups Samsung has finally stolen a march in the memory market with 24 Gb GDDR7 DRAM being released for validation in AI computing systems from GPU customers before…

  • The Register: Microsoft crafts Rust hypervisor to power Azure workloads

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/17/microsoft_preps_rust_hypervisor_for/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft crafts Rust hypervisor to power Azure workloads Feedly Summary: OpenVMM touts stronger security, but not ready for prime time just yet Microsoft earlier this month published code for a new hypervisor, or virtual machine monitor (VMM), written in Rust.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has…

  • Wired: Filmmakers Are Worried About AI. Big Tech Wants Them to See ‘What’s Possible’

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/filmmakers-are-worried-about-ai-big-tech-wants-them-to-see-whats-possible/ Source: Wired Title: Filmmakers Are Worried About AI. Big Tech Wants Them to See ‘What’s Possible’ Feedly Summary: Amazon is hosting AI filmmaking competitions. Meta is letting directors test Movie Gen. As tech companies develop new tools, they need filmmakers to show they can be used responsibly. AI Summary and Description: Yes…

  • The Register: Infrastructure giant Schneider Electric powers up with $850M liquid cooling deal

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/17/schneider_850m_stake_motivair/ Source: The Register Title: Infrastructure giant Schneider Electric powers up with $850M liquid cooling deal Feedly Summary: Snags controlling stake in Motivair Corporation, rest to come by 2028 Schneider Electric is taking a controlling interest in Motivair Corporation, a specialist in liquid cooling and thermal management tech for high-performance computing (HPC) systems.……

  • Cloud Blog: How to benchmark application performance from the user’s perspective

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/benchmarking-how-end-users-perceive-an-applications-performance/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How to benchmark application performance from the user’s perspective Feedly Summary: What kind of performance does your application have, and how do you know? More to the point, what kind of performance do your end users think your application has?  In this era of rapid growth and unpredictable…

  • Alerts: CISA Releases Seven Industrial Control Systems Advisories

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/10/17/cisa-releases-seven-industrial-control-systems-advisories Source: Alerts Title: CISA Releases Seven Industrial Control Systems Advisories Feedly Summary: CISA released seven Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on October 17, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-24-291-01 Elvaco M-Bus Metering Gateway CMe3100 ICSA-24-291-02 LCDS LAquis SCADA ICSA-24-291-03 Mitsubishi Electric CNC…