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Microsoft wants to make it simpler to build AI apps with its new developer tool
Microsoft has launched several new AI-powered tools designed to improve the developer experience as well as the brand new GitHub Copilot for Azure, a coding assistant that will be embedded in popular development environments like Visual Studio Code. Amanda Silver, CVP of Product for Microsoft’s Developer Division, said in an…
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Worrying WordPress plugin security flaw could let hackers hijack your site
LiteSpeed Cache, an immensely popular WordPress plugin for site performance optimization, suffered from a vulnerability which allowed threat actors to gain admin status. With such elevated privileges, they would be able to perform all sorts of malicious activities on the compromised websites. According to researchers from Patchstack, the vulnerability was…
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Microsoft reveals major Chinese botnet is attacking users across the world
A major Chinese botnet called Quad7 is being utilized to mount password spray attacks against organizations in the west, Microsoft experts have warned. In a new report, the company’s researchers say the group, called Storm-0940, then use the passwords to establish persistence, steal even more credentials, and ultimately engage in…
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US Army tests a new AI-powered robot dog — armed with a high-power rifle
The US Army has conducted tests in Saudi Arabia featuring an armed and AI-powered robot dog able to shoot down drones. The Vision 60, developed by Ghost Robotics, is equipped with a range of high-tech features designed to enhance battlefield capabilities. Primarily aimed at anti-drone operations, the Vision 60 is…
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The shift toward carrier-neutral Internet Exchanges is revolutionizing data center connectivity, providing geographical diversity, redundancy, and flexibility to meet the increasing demands of AI, cloud services, and data-heavy applications.
New research has claimed the shift toward carrier-neutral Internet Exchanges (IXs) is revolutionizing data center connectivity, providing geographical diversity, redundancy, and flexibility to meet the increasing demands of AI, cloud services, and data-heavy applications. Over the past decade, there has been a 600% growth in the deployment of IXs in…
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San Francisco is paying millions to end reliance on this iconic, but ancient technology — floppy disks still powering the Muni Metro light rail system on DOS software
Smartphones can perform a million tasks, self-driving cars are just around the corner, and AI is everywhere… yet floppy disks – those relics of the 1980s – are still clinging to relevance in some places. The Japanese government finally waved goodbye to floppy disks in administrative procedures earlier in 2024,…
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