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How synthetic data powers AI innovation – and creates new risks

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:52:04 +0000

As artificial intelligence models continue to evolve at ever-increasing speed, the demand for training data and the ability to test capabilities grows alongside them. But in a world with equally growing demands for security and privacy, it’s not always possible to rely solely on real-world information – and sometimes authentic data is scarce or difficult […]

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AI hallucinations: The 3% problem no one can fix slows the AI juggernaut

Paul Gillin — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 23:50:07 +0000

Early this year Dagnachew Birru playfully asked ChatGPT how Mahatma Gandhi used Google LLC’s G Suite to organize resistance against British violence. To his surprise, the generative artificial intelligence bot obliged. Gandhi “created a Gmail account and used it to send emails and organize meetings,” it responded. “He also used Google Docs to share documents […]

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Who will win the battle for AI in the cloud? Maybe everyone

Paul Gillin — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 15:31:51 +0000

The speed with which Microsoft Corp. hired former OpenAI LP Chief Executive Sam Altman last weekend, along with the firm’s co-founder and an unspecified number of technical specialists, illustrates how high the stakes are in the $60 billion market for cloud artificial intelligence products and services. Microsoft, which by all accounts is the early leader […]

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Enterprise software developers prepare for generative AI’s ‘productivity revolution’

Paul Gillin — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:00:27 +0000

Daniel Saroff tells of a client who is going through a modernization project that involves rewriting applications created in Pick, an operating system and programming language built for mainframes in the 1960s, to run on modern infrastructure. The company found that the ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence model knew enough about the now-obscure Pick environment to […]

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Developers are embracing AI-enabled tools. Here’s how that’s changing the way they code

Kyt Dotson — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 18:00:35 +0000

Ever since generative artificial intelligence tools such as OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT and Google LLC’s Bard jumped into the limelight, the entire world has become enamored with the ability of AI’s capability to hold conversations and do impressive work — and one of the most prominent early uses is helping software developers write code. Since the […]

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How companies are scrambling to keep control of their private data from AI models

David Strom — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:56:35 +0000

Ever since artificial intelligence and large language models became popular earlier this year, organizations have struggled to keep control over accidentally or deliberately exposing their data used as model inputs. They aren’t always succeeding. Two notable cases have splashed into the news this year that illustrate each of those types of exposure: A huge cache […]

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AI model training rekindles interest in on-premises infrastructure

Paul Gillin — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 23:38:50 +0000

Enterprises have spent the last 15 years moving information technology workloads from their data centers to the cloud. Could generative artificial intelligence be the catalyst that brings some of them back? Some people think so. Interest in natural language processing has exploded since OpenAI LP’s release of the ChatGPT large language model-based chatbot last November. […]

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Attackers target the Domain Name System, the internet’s phone book. Here’s how to fight back

David Strom — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 22:16:28 +0000

The foundational Domain Name System, essentially the phone book for the internet, used to be something nobody using the net much noticed, but lately it has become more of a target, and the cost of attacks against it are huge and growing. Recent events have once again brought issues involving the DNS, as it’s called […]

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Red Hat’s code restrictions draw mostly sympathetic response from open-source providers

Paul Gillin — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 21:03:32 +0000

Over the 30 years of its existence, Red Hat Inc. has cultivated a nice-guy image for its practice of releasing all the fruits of its software development efforts as open-source code for anyone to use. But over the past three weeks that image has taken a hit. The company’s decision last month to impose restrictions […]

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Cybersecurity in the AI age: The power, the promise, the peril

Paul Gillin and Kyt Dotson — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 19:43:30 +0000

Just two months after OpenAI LLC released its ChatGPT large language model into an open beta test, researchers at WithSecure Corp. published a report demonstrating how the chatbot could be used to write convincing email messages that encouraged recipients to share corporate secrets, create tweets that hyped once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunities and even attack individuals through […]

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Will passkeys finally come to pass? A progress report

David Strom — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:52:38 +0000

We’re finally inching closer to curing our addiction to passwords. This week the FIDO Alliance put together an online event and posted a series of white papers to try to help businesses that want to move forward with passkeys — digital credentials that don’t require usernames and passwords — to host their first 12-step programs […]

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‘Zero trust’ was supposed to revolutionize cybersecurity. Here’s why that hasn’t happened yet.

David Strom — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 14:04:30 +0000

Despite more than a decade of talk, the seminal concept in cybersecurity of zero trust — the assumption that no user or device on a computer network can be trusted — hasn’t been implemented nearly as widely as one might expect from all of the attention. The problems include numerous practical and perceptual obstacles, coupled with […]

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The top five cloud cybersecurity threats – and what to do about them

David Strom — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 15:36:24 +0000

Cybersecurity threats continue to plague cloud infrastructures, and sadly these threats are still mostly the same from years’ past. But just because these threats continue doesn’t mean that cloud security, taken as a whole tapestry, isn’t as secure as on-premises equipment. That debate — which seems to have spanned a decade or more — should […]

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How Auto-GPT will revolutionize AI chatbots as we know them

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 23:55:38 +0000

Artificial intelligence chatbots such as OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT have reached a fever pitch of popularity recently not just for their ability to hold humanlike conversations, but because they can perform knowledge tasks such as research, searches and content generation. Now there’s a new contender taking social media by storm that extends the capabilities of OpenAI’s […]

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Cloud conundrum: The changing balance of microservices and monolithic applications

David Strom — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 18:43:26 +0000

Around the turn of the century, there was really just one choice for building business applications: using a server that you owned and that sat in your own data center. Then came the cloud and with it the debate over whether an app would be better run in the cloud or on-premises. As Wikibon Chief […]

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Ocean’s roar of generative AI and expanding dark web capture security world’s attention at RSA

Mark Albertson — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 19:45:39 +0000

The cybersecurity world has many problems to confront, but the most pressing one at the moment is speed. The introduction of OpenAI’s ChatGPT language-based artificial intelligence engine has become a central focus for businesses and society at large as the adoption curve continues to expand at a dramatic pace. It took Instagram two and half […]

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An open standard threatens to disrupt the cloistered world of wireless networking

Paul Gillin — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 03:01:34 +0000

Suppose you’re a major supplier of fertilizer to the agriculture market and you have ambitions of digitally transforming your business. Your idea is to place thousands of sensors in 10-foot-by-10-foot blocks across the fields your customers farm. The sensors will continually report on soil and atmospheric conditions, enabling customers to adjust their fertilizer allocations to […]

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How 5G will help blaze the trail to the long-awaited metaverse

Kyt Dotson — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 20:57:54 +0000

The metaverse has become a major buzzword as people begin to flock to these immersive digital worlds in virtual and augmented reality, promising to transform how people work, socialize and entertain themselves. But there’s a key obstacle in the way of that vision: Metaverse applications tend to be resource-intensive because they need to send, receive […]

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How ChatGPT will – and won’t – change the face of business

Paul Gillin — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 19:18:35 +0000

ChatGPT has been hailed as everything from the future of search to the end of term papers, but it’s far from a sentient being. While OpenAI LLC’s chatbot is a wonder at explaining the infield fly rule in Shakespearean English, detractors have noted that its answers can be overly simplistic, confusing or just plain wrong. […]

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Moving to the supercloud means rethinking data management

Paul Gillin — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 20:00:28 +0000

In becoming the largest privately held freight transportation company in North America, Estes Express Lines Inc. created a lot of data silos. Following years of acquisitions, diversification and geographic expansion, by 2021 the data fragmentation picture across the company was “pretty bad,” said Bob Cournoyer, senior director of data strategy, business intelligence and analytics. Core […]

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How the industrial metaverse will transform manufacturing

Kyt Dotson — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 19:00:23 +0000

Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc. is one of the world’s largest makers of welding equipment, with more than 42 manufacturing locations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America — and its business depends on making sure enough welders are certified to use its equipment. For that reason, it felt it needed a […]

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Cloud marketplaces transform how business software is bought and sold

Paul Gillin — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 23:40:30 +0000

Palo Alto Networks Inc. has seen the future and it is in marketplaces. Although it won’t provide a lot of details, the cybersecurity giant, with nearly $7 billion in annual revenue, believes that the marketplaces operated by the big hyperscale cloud platform providers will be its biggest source of revenue growth going forward. “It’s not […]

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How AI has made hardware interesting again

Paul Gillin — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 15:57:09 +0000

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has long been one of the world’s largest consumers of supercomputing capacity. With computing power of more than 200 petaflops, or 200 billion floating-point operations per second, the U.S. Department of Energy-operated institution runs supercomputers from every major U.S. manufacturer. For the past two years, that lineup has included two newcomers: […]

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‘Stupid pill’: Fees for moving data around the cloud persist despite rising customer ire

Paul Gillin — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:15:21 +0000

When it comes to the fees the big cloud platform providers charge for customers to retrieve their data, Vince Kellen is pretty blunt. “It’s a stupid pill,” he said. “I believe they do this because they believe it will keep me from leaving them. I call that ‘value subtract competition.’” Kellen, who is the chief […]

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Walmart blazes trails with its enterprise ‘supercloud’

Paul Gillin — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 18:29:54 +0000

When Walmart Inc. commits to something, it tends to think big. Building a supercloud is no exception. For the past two years the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retail giant has been putting in place an abstraction layer that masks the distinctions between its preferred public cloud providers, internal hybrid cloud and edge computing nodes in 10,000 locations […]

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The Ethereum ‘Merge’ is coming and it’s about to change everything in crypto

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:05:27 +0000

The Ethereum blockchain that underlies the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is about to go through a historic software upgrade that will change it forever. The upgrade, known as “the Merge,” has been in the works for more than two years after being delayed multiple times. It will reduce the network’s power consumption by more […]

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Inside the rush to build ‘superclouds’

Paul Gillin — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:51:07 +0000

Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. is in the midst of a massive cloud migration that will affect more than 40,000 systems and applications across the globe running on everything from Windows servers to mainframes. The company has already moved 68% of its workloads to the public cloud and aims to slim down from three data centers […]

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What recession? Tech spending stays robust as digital transformation plans forge ahead

Paul Gillin — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 20:52:04 +0000

In announcing second-quarter earnings on July 18, IBM Corp. Chief Executive Arvind Krishna commented that his business is not only not showing any signs of suffering from recessionary pressures but may actually be benefiting from them. “We see technology as deflationary,” he said. “It acts as a counterbalance to all of the inflation and labor […]

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Conquering ‘shadow IT’: How enterprises are trying to tame the cloud software beast

Paul Gillin — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 14:49:13 +0000

Like many companies, high-performance sporting equipment maker Catapult Sports Pty Ltd. used to give its employees wide latitude to choose their own software-as-a-service applications. But as its information technology department prepared a campaign to achieve compliance with a key security standard, its lack of visibility into the services employees was using became a liability. “There […]

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CIOs welcome users’ bid for more IT budget control – mostly

Paul Gillin — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:23:24 +0000

When Richard Wiedenbeck became chief information officer of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. 12 years ago, he encountered a siloed business structure in which each business unit fulfilled its own information technology needs. “IT was treated as back-office order-taking operation to an unhealthy level,” he said. “Businesspeople were making software application and design decisions who had […]

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