The power of purpose-built cloud infrastructure

Published: 27 August 2024
Categories: MIT Tech Review

RSS Feed Source: MIT Technology Review

While AI is accelerating cloud adoption, organizations’ reasons for migrating their systems and applications to the cloud remain relatively consistent: a desire to lower capital expenditures, increase agility in a fast-paced business environment, and improve availability of business-critical resources.

Flexera’s 2024 State of the Cloud Report underscores organizations’ consistent desire to make the most of cloud: Asked about their cloud initiatives for the year, 71% of respondents reported that they were working to optimize their existing use of cloud—making this the top cloud initiative for the eighth consecutive year. Organizations are also still working to shift more of the business to cloud: The next-most-popular initiatives were migrating more workloads to cloud (cited by 58%) and progressing on a cloud-first strategy (48%).

But while moving to the cloud will always deliver significant benefits, the demands of business are fast evolving, requiring organizations from all industries

Click this link to continue reading the article on the source website.

Inside the long quest to advance Chinese writing technology

Published: 26 August 2024
Categories: MIT Tech Review

RSS Feed Source: MIT Technology Review

Every second of every day, someone is typing in Chinese. In a park in Hong Kong, at a desk in Taiwan, in the checkout line at a Family Mart in Shanghai, the automatic doors chiming a song each time they open. Though the mechanics look a little different from typing in English or French—people usually type the pronunciation of a character and then pick it out of a selection that pops up, autocomplete-style—it’s hard to think of anything more quotidian. The software that allows this exists beneath the awareness of pretty much everyone who uses it. It’s just there.

The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age
Thomas S. MullaneyMIT PRESS, 2024

What’s largely been forgotten—and what most people outside Asia never even knew in the first place—is that a large cast of eccentrics and linguists, engineers and polymaths, spent

Click this link to continue reading the article on the source website.

Iran-based Cyber Actors Enabling Ransomware Attacks on US Organizations

Published: 23 August 2024
Categories: US-Computer Emergency Readiness Team

RSS Feed Source: MIT Technology Review

Summary

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to warn network defenders that, as of August 2024, a group of Iran-based cyber actors continues to exploit U.S. and foreign organizations. This includes organizations across several sectors in the U.S. (including in the education, finance, healthcare, and defense sectors as well as local government entities) and other countries (including in Israel, Azerbaijan, and the United Arab Emirates). The FBI assesses a significant percentage of these threat actors’ operations against US organizations are intended to obtain and develop network access to then collaborate with ransomware affiliate actors to deploy ransomware. The FBI further assesses these Iran-based cyber actors are associated with the Government of Iran (GOI) and—separate from the ransomware activity—conduct computer network exploitation activity in support of the GOI (such as intrusions enabling the theft of sensitive technical data against organizations in Israel and Azerbaijan).

This CSA provides the threat actor’s tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs), as well as highlights similar activity from a previous advisory (Iran-Based Threat Actor Exploits VPN Vulnerabilities) that the FBI and CISA published on Sept. 15, 2020. The information and guidance in this advisory are derived from FBI investigative activity and technical

Click this link to continue reading the article on the source website.

Worker Exceeded Annual Dose Limit

Published: 21 August 2024
Categories: IAEA

RSS Feed Source: MIT Technology Review

Worker Exceeded Annual Dose Limit

Print View Posted on: 21 August 2024

Event Date: 11 December 2023 Event Type: Other Event Location: United States of America, Romeoville, Illinois/ SOFIE INES Rating: 2 (Final)

On December 11, 2023, a pharmaceutical technician noted a pressure issue with a synthesis cell, which contained 11.29 GBq (305 mCi) of Fluorine-18. The pharmaceutical technician opened the synthesis cell and Fluorine-18 splashed onto their upper chest, neck, and underarm. The pharmaceutical technician could feel wetness after the incident, and decontamination efforts were initiated within 3 to 5 minutes. The skin exposure calculations, based on radiological survey results, indicated that the pharmaceutical technician received an estimated shallow dose equivalent of 0.902 Sv (90.2 rem). The dose to the employee exceeded the U.S. regulatory limit for the annual dose to the skin of the extremities of 0.5 Sv (50 rem). NRC Event Number (EN) 56923

INES Rating: 2 – Incident (Final) as per 21 August 2024

Impact on people and the environment Release beyond authorized limits? No

Click this link to continue reading the article on the source website.