Author: Floris Hulshoff Pol

Microsoft announces 2024 version of its permanent Office LTSC

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

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xAI open sources details and architecture of their Grok-1 LLM

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

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BlackBerry: Critical infrastructure most attacked late 2023

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

date5 days ago
Microsoft patches two critical vulnerabilities in Hyper-V

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

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OutSystems introduces GenAI tool AI Builder for low-code apps

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

date7 days ago
Cloud deals and GenAI drive Oracle’s higher quarterly revenue

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). ... Read more

date7 days ago
xAI will open source ChatGPT competitor Grok this week

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

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