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1 week ago | 
devops.com | Jeffrey Burt
GitHub is linking developers with security pros to reduce the number of vulnerabilities that may be hiding in code that already is in workflows. The highly popular Microsoft-owned code repository this week said its security campaigns, which were released in public preview in October 2024, are now generally available to GitHub Advanced Security and GitHub Code Security developers.
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2 weeks ago | 
nextplatform.com | Jeffrey Burt
It is funny how companies can find money – lots of money – when they think IT infrastructure spending can save them money, make them money, or do both at the same time. This is the hope with AI, and everyone is trying to benefit from it in those ways. GenAI, which is where a lot of the excitement is coming from, is evolving from prompt-and-respond chatty interfaces to more sophisticated AI agents and reasoning models that are more thoughtful and can be entrusted to take actions.
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3 weeks ago | 
nextplatform.com | Jeffrey Burt
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3 weeks ago | 
nextplatform.com | Jeffrey Burt
The way that Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang sees it, his company’s role in the ever-emerging quantum computing field is no different than that in other industries where AI and accelerated computing play roles. Nvidia is an enabler and facilitator. It makes things happen.
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3 weeks ago | 
nextplatform.com | Jeffrey Burt
The injection of generative AI into the bloodstream of the tech titans and now businesses of all sizes and stripes over the past two years has forced IT vendors, from hardware makers to component providers to enterprise application developers, to quickly rework their roadmaps to address the particular demands of and opportunities presented by this emerging technology.
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3 weeks ago | 
nextplatform.com | Jeffrey Burt
In a panel discussion during GPU Technical Conference a few weeks ago, Nvidia co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang suggested to executives of several quantum computing companies that are calling their systems “computers” may be a misnomer and that a better tag might be “instruments.”Sitting next to Huang was Alan Baratz, his counterpart at quantum computing company D-Wave, who said he was struggling with the idea.
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1 month ago | 
nextplatform.com | Jeffrey Burt
If you are going to be the full-stack, hardware-to-software-to-developer tools leader in the brave new world of AI, as Nvidia most certainly is, then you have to be able to adapt to the myriad environments that the emerging technology is threading itself through. During his keynote address at Nvidia’s GPU Technical Conference 2025 this week in San Jose, company co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang said the accelerated computing leader planned to do just that.
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1 month ago | 
devops.com | Jeffrey Burt
A popular GitHub Action used in more than 23,000 code repositories has been compromised in a supply chain attack by attackers who introduced a malicious commit aimed at leaking secrets like passwords held in public repositories.
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1 month ago | 
devops.com | Jeffrey Burt
In early February, threat researchers with developer-focused security platform provider Socket detailed a three-year-old typosquatting campaign in which bad actors targeted developers with a backdoor that impersonated a widely used database module written in the Go programming language.
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1 month ago | 
nextplatform.com | Jeffrey Burt
In a scene from the movie Gladiator, Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, worried about the fragility of his empire, tells his general, Maximus: “There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish.”The same could be said qubits. They are foundational components of quantum computers, and are one of thornier challenges in getting stable and usable systems up and running.
