Generative AI products are getting so good that they can clone your voice with just a few samples. OpenAI has already produced such a tool, and I immediately thought voice cloning might be the most dangerous thing coming out of genAI app development. Sure, the ability to clone voices can come in handy in a…
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While data has the potential to boost the UK economy significantly, the links between data and AI are not sufficiently understood. If we are to seize this potential and position the UK as a global AI superpower, as the National AI Strategy aims to do, we must get a grip on data infrastructure in order…
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While the public sector has adopted open source technologies, there remains little understanding of it, the latest edition of OpenUK’s State of open report has warned. Phase two: The open manifesto urges policymakers to build skills in open source software, enable the UK public sector to do open source software better and ensure artificial intelligence…
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Kubernetes is 10 years’ old. Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. That decade started as containers emerged as a new way to virtualise applications, but storage and data protection functionality was practically non-existent. Now, Kubernetes offers a mature container platform for cloud-native applications, with all that’s required for the storage…
Kubernetes at 10: Building stateful app storage and data protection Read More »
WWDC 2024 kicks off on Monday. A last-minute leak reveals all the main features Apple is expected to unveil during its developer conference. It’s important to note that MacRumors and AppleInsider have shared most of the details, and now Bloomberg is corroborating several of them.According to Mark Gurman’s latest report, half of WWDC 2024 will…
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Once again, a critical security vulnerability has shone a light on the reality of open source today. Unpaid hobbyists maintaining so-called ‘Nebraska projects’, named for the now ubiquitous XKCD comic, ‘Dependency’, bear the weight of the modern world on their shoulders. All software has bugs, including critical security vulnerabilities. Proprietary vendors are famous for Patch…
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has this week added a vulnerability that was first disclosed in January in the GitLab open source platform to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue, prompting a flurry of warnings urging users of the service to apply available patches immediately. Tracked as CVE-2023-7028 and discovered through GitLab’s…
Patch GitLab vuln without delay, users warned Read More »
One of the best things about ChatGPT is the huge library of third-party plugins that can make the AI chatbot do far more than OpenAI originally designed it for. From plugins that make running computations easier to those that allow you to pull information from your outside accounts, a cybersecurity firm has issued a stark…
A pair of newly disclosed vulnerabilities in a widely used remote desktop access application beloved of managed services providers (MSPs) is drawing comparisons to the July 2021 cyber attack on Kaseya, with security experts describing exploitation as trivial. The product in question, ConnectWise ScreenConnect, is widely used by remote workers and IT support teams alike.…
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Threat researchers at ReliaQuest have shared intelligence on how one of the organisation’s customers was impacted by a cyber attack originating via the Scattered Spider group that has made a speciality of abusing identity and authentication services to attack its victims, and has left cops struggling to respond. The highly dangerous English-speaking group is also…
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