Microsoft announces 2024 version of its permanent Office LTSC
Microsoft is introducing a new permanent standalone version of Office LTSC this year. This version is a slightly simpler version of the cloud-based Microsoft 365 suite of productivity applications.
Microsoft has been providing a so-called Office Long-Term Service Channel (LTSC) license version o... Read more
xAI open sources details and architecture of their Grok-1 LLM
Elon Musk's AI developer xAI has finally made the basic model, underlying parameters and architecture of the Grok-1 LLM open source. This was previously announced.
In a short blog post, Elon Musk's AI development startup provides more details on the part of the network architecture of the Grok-... Read more
BlackBerry: Critical infrastructure most attacked late 2023
Organizations that are part of critical infrastructure face the most cyber attacks in September-December 2023.
That's according to BlackBerry researchers. Attacks mainly targeted the government, financial services, healthcare and communications sectors. In total, these sectors suffered 62% of th... Read more
New Microsoft Teams app lets users switch more easily between accounts
Users of Microsoft Teams will soon need only one application of the video conferencing platform for both work and private accounts, the company recently announced in the release notes of its Insider program.
Starting this April, Microsoft is rolling out a new version of its Teams app for Windows... Read more
Microsoft patches two critical vulnerabilities in Hyper-V
Microsoft addressed two critical vulnerabilities in the virtualization software Hyper-V during this month's Patch Tuesday update. The company said exploits of both vulnerabilities are not likely, but patching is important.
The vulnerabilities in question are CVE-2024-21407 and CVE-2024-21408. Th... Read more
Rubrik Enterprise Proactive Edition provides visibility into sensitive data
Rubrik has introduced Enterprise Proactive Edition (EPE), helping companies gain visibility into all sensitive data
With the new Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) solution, companies can better manage data distributed across all their environments. This should help with trends such as AI a... Read more
OutSystems introduces GenAI tool AI Builder for low-code apps
As a low-code player, OutSystems naturally also has a GenAI roadmap. On that front, it recently announced within the OutSystems Developer Cloud platform the GenAI tool AI Builder. With it, developers can more easily and securely integrate GenAI into their applications and accomplish various develop... Read more
Cloud deals and GenAI drive Oracle’s higher quarterly revenue
Strong growth in cloud and GenAI infrastructure sales delivered Oracle a slightly higher revenue in the third quarter of fiscal 2024. Overall, quarterly revenue rose 7 percent to 12.17 billion euros ($13.3 billion). Net sales rose 18 percent to a total of about 2.2 billion euros ($2.4 billion).
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xAI will open source ChatGPT competitor Grok this week
xAI, Elon Musk's AI development company, will this week open source the Grok GenAI chatbot. This would counterbalance OpenAI, which, according to the eccentric tech entrepreneur, makes its tools "closed sourced" again.
By making Grok open source, Elon Musk may want to debate further whether GenA... Read more
Thousands of websites infected via vulnerable Popup Builder plugin for WordPress
Hackers have infected more than 3,300 websites with malware in recent weeks, despite the fact that the vulnerability was discovered late last year. The vulnerability is present in outdated versions of the Popup Builder plugin.
The cross-site scripting vulnerability CVE-2023-6000 in Popup Builder... Read more