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The head of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has called on government organizations to be faster and more nimble when it comes to developing and working with AI tools . Speaking at the Dreamforce 2024 event in San Francisco, Alejandro N. Mayorkas, US DHS Secretary, noted there was a desire to do more with AI in government, but some roadblocks remained. Asked by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff what the biggest surprise in working with technology industry giants is, Sec. Mayorkas noted, "the sense of partnership in realizing the incredible opportunity that AI presents." Realizing potential "AI technology is amazing, but it can move in directions that we may not want it to move," Benioff had prompted Mayorkas during their conversation. In reply, Mayorkas noted many people believe his agency is of the mindset of imposing restrictions on AI development and innovation - but this is not the case. "What we want to do is create the space for its potentia

Google Cloud users in the United States are getting a host of upgraded security features that should make the platform more resilient to cyberattacks. The company announced Mandiant’s Managed Defense for Google Security Operations is now available in the country, offering users real-time threat detection and response . The threat hunting and incident investigation feature will be integrated into Google’s built-in security operations platform. Practical advice Mandiant’s Managed Defense for Google Security Operations is a cybersecurity service designed to enhance threat detection, investigation, and response for organizations using Google Cloud . It combines Mandiant’s threat intelligence and expertise in incident response with Google Cloud’s security tools, such as Chronicle and Google Security Command Center. The service offers continuous monitoring, advanced analytics, and proactive threat hunting to identify and mitigate cyber threats, and helps organizations manage their secu

A cybercriminal claims to have breached Temu and stolen millions of customer records, but the ecommerce giant is vehemently denying the claims. A hacker with the alias ‘smokinthashit’ took to BreachForums, one of the most popular underground forums out there, and advertised a new database, allegedly stolen from the company. “Temu company database for sale. +87M lines. Source: temu.com. The data has never been sold before. Only one copy will be sold,” the ad reads. It's all false, says Temu The ad also came with a small sample, as proof of the database’s authenticity. The sample apparently contains usernames and IDs, IP addresses, full names, birth dates, gender, shipping addresses, phone numbers, and hashed passwords. Should the archive prove to be authentic, it would put many people at risk of identity theft , wire fraud, and more. But whether or not the archive is authentic remains to be seen. In a statement given to BleepingComputer , Temu denied claims of data theft, say

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee has announced plans, via X/Twitter, to retire its Summit supercomputer in November 2024. After six years of service and over 200 million node hours of research, Summit’s decommissioning marks the end of the road for what was, in 2018, the world’s most powerful supercomputer. Summit's infrastructure includes 9,216 IBM Power 9 processors and 27,648 Nvidia Volta GPUs. With a peak performance of 148.6 petaflops, it has since been surpassed by newer technologies and now ranks ninth globally. Its successor, Frontier, has already claimed the title of the world’s first exascale supercomputer, significantly outpacing Summit's computational power. Although it is currently ranked number one in the world, Frontier itself faces stiff competition from several challengers, including Oracle and Elon Musk's xAI . Goodbye, Summit!Attendees gathered on the final day of the 2024 OLCF User Meeting to sign a piece of @ORNL's Summit #su

The future of AI is set to be powered by agents able to provide a customizable and personalized experience like never before, Salesforce's CEO has declared. "This is the third wave of AI - agents," Marc Benioff said in his opening keynote at the company's Dreamforce 2024 event in San Francisco, championing its new Agentforce platform as the next major leap for the technology. "This is what AI was meant to be," he declared. Third wave of AI This year's Dreamforce keynote was heavily focused towards AI, with Agentforce taking center stage during the event. Announced a few days before the event, Agentforce is designed to improve productivity and efficiency across sales, marketing, commerce and customer service. Benioff was keen to emphasize that this was a new era for AI - one that does away with "DIY AI" and doesn't require customers to do the heavy lifting when it comes to implementing AI. "Agentforce has to be the biggest bre

Editor's Note In the interest of fairness, I’d like to address some of the predictions I’ve made in the below article. Readers and industry figures alike have reached out, concerned that I’m claiming that lightweight laptops with integrated graphics are on the verge of rendering discrete graphics cards completely redundant. That’s not going to happen anytime soon. While I stand by my assessment that iGPUs are improving at a faster rate than dedicated GPUs, there’s still a wide performance gap to be closed, and it’s likely that powerful dGPUs will remain prevalent in high-end gaming and industries such as animation for a long time yet. I’m talking about a timeline that will likely be measured in decades here, not months or years. It should be mentioned that the gaming GPU market is still growing right now, with Nvidia seeing 16% more gaming revenue this quarter compared to the same period last year. Nvidia caught more flak than most in this article, and it’s only fair to point

A major report on the state of the AI industry has revealed some key insights into potential problems for companies and the industry at large as its growth continues to boom following the release of ChatGPT and other AI models.  WEKA, commissioned by S&P Global Market Intelligence, recently released its 2024 Global Trends in AI report, surveying over 1,500 different tech executives and decision-makers on underlying trends across a broad range of topics.  Some of the most interesting insights related to the supply of AI-capable GPUs , almost all of which are made by Nvidia, although companies like AMD, as well as start-ups, are gaining some ground.  The main takeaway, as per WEKA, is that AI applications are "now pervasive in the enterprise", which is probably something most employees can feel already. However, scaling these AI apps is often tricky, mostly due to legacy data architectures.  Generative AI has also taken organisations by storm, with the report noting 8