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A sophisticated cloud-credential stealing and cryptomining campaign targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments for the past several months has now expanded to Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) as well. And, the tools used in the campaign share considerable overlap with those associated with TeamTNT, a notorious, financially motivated threat actor, researchers have determined. The broader targeting appears to have begun in June, according to researchers at SentinelOne and Permiso, and is consistent with a continuous series of incremental refinements that the threat actor behind the campaign has been making to it since the series of attacks began in December. In separate reports highlighting their key takeaways,…

The AI compute market is seeing somewhat of a renaissance with the boom in generative AI. At the same time, research into alternative methods of accelerating AI workloads have also been in full swing. Researchers from the University of Washington, in conjunction with a researcher from Microsoft, have found a way to serve LLM workloads in a more efficient way. They published their findings in a paper termed ‘Chiplet Cloud’, detailing their plan to build an AI supercomputer based on the chiplet manufacturing process. Compared to general-purpose GPUs, this computing model achieves a whopping 94x improvement. Even when pitted against…

Cloud computing adoption fuels several revolutionary tech developments, such as AI and IoT. Businesses will continue to employ cloud services to gain access to new technology in 2024. These trends will also allow them to drive operational and process efficiency. 1. Edge Computing: Edge Computing stores and processes data at the network’s edge. It reduces latency and bandwidth needs by allowing quicker and more efficient data processing. It provides strong privacy, fast data transfer, and greater efficiency. Moreover, edge computing will be crucial to the cloud approach. 2. Multi and Hybrid Cloud Solutions: Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud systems combine on-premise, private, and public clouds. Companies may…

After faculty protests and a debate over racial equity, the state’s public universities reconsider whether high school students can skip a foundational course. That year, public universities in the state — including Berkeley and U.C.L.A. — loosened their admissions criteria, telling high schools that they would consider applicants who had skipped Algebra II, a cornerstone of math instruction. In its place, students could take data science — a mix of math, statistics and computer science without widely agreed upon high school standards. Allowing data science, the universities said, was an “equity issue” that could send more students to college. But it…

The cloud has been a boon for enterprises trying to manage the massive amounts of data they collect every year. Cloud providers don’t have the same scaling issues that dog on-premises environments. But storing the data is only part of the problem. Pulling valuable business information from data housed in highly distributed IT environments – in the cloud, on premises, at the edge – to drive better business decisions is an ongoing challenge. As we noted last year, cloud data warehouse provider Snowflake over the past several years has established itself as a place companies can house all or most of…

Enterprises have moved quickly in recent years to implement sweeping digital transformation projects designed to improve IT processes in support of optimal business operations. Many organizations have shifted application workloads from traditional data centers to the cloud. Network modernization — in which enterprises apply intelligent network automation, programmability, and virtual network and security functions — is a foundational element in effectively connecting highly distributed resources. With more application workloads deployed to multiple cloud and hybrid work models, the need to update the network infrastructure becomes imperative. Effective cybersecurity is one of the drivers behind network modernization because through things like network functions…

Australia’s competition watchdog on Monday asked consumers, businesses and other relevant stakeholders to provide their views about the business practices of data brokers in an attempt to regulate the country’s digital platform services sector. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will consider products and services supplied by major data brokers including Oracle, Equifax, Ireland headquartered Experian and global tech firm LiveRamp among other several providers to make a report on the sector. There is little transparency and awareness of how data brokers operate in Australia despite the vast amounts of information they collect about Australian consumers and the central role they play in enabling the exchange of information between…

The U.S. dollar retreated in early European hours Friday, but is still on course for small gains this week after robust labor data, with the monthly payrolls report still to come, raised the prospect of higher-for-longer Federal Reserve interest rates. At 03:55 ET (07:55 GMT), the Dollar Index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six other currencies, traded 0.2% lower to 102.710 but is still on track to record a small gain this week having climbed above 103 during the previous session. Nonfarm payrolls due later Data released Thursday showed that ADP private payrolls surged in June in the biggest rise…

Over the weekend, Google updated its privacy policy to allow the company to collect and analyze information people share online to train its AI models. Google says it will use this information to improve its services and develop new AI-powered products. A Shift from “Language” Models To “AI” Models The updated policy marks a clear shift from Google’s previous terms of service. Before this weekend’s update, Google’s policy said it used people’s data to improve “language” models. Now, Google reserves the right to use people’s data to improve all its “AI” models and products, including translation systems, systems that generate text, and…

For the past half-decade, tremendous progress has been made in the field of artificial intelligence, or AI, especially as deep learning and machine learning algorithms have become more sophisticated, and more computing power and data have become available. However, this progress was largely tracked only by those genuinely interested in AI or digital technology in general. Then, in November last year, OpenAI released ChatGPT and DALL-E and showed people what these could do with simple commands in natural language. Overnight, ChatGPT and AI became conversation starters in drawing rooms and corner offices. People rus