Mary Branscombe

Mar 4, 2025 | thestack.technology | Mary Branscombe |Ed Targett

Broadcom warned today that a trio of VMware zero days are being exploited in the wild – and can be used to “escape” from a virtual machine (VM) to the underlying hypervisor itself, with root privileges. Yes, that’s a “yikes.” That's potentially a hacker going from compromising a meagre single VM to your entire VMware private cloud.

Feb 28, 2025 | thenewstack.io | Mary Branscombe

Whether you were building a web site or an application, hosting choices used to be about bandwidth, latency, security and availability (as well as cost), with content delivery networks (CDNs) handling static assets and application delivery networks relying on load balancing for scale. All those things still matter, but there are also many more choices to take into account — from the backend implications of frontend decisions, to where your development environment lives.

Feb 24, 2025 | lemondeinformatique.fr | Mary Branscombe

L'IA générative ne se résume plus à des chatbots à qui l'on pose des questions. Elle est en passe de devenir un outil à même de réaliser des opérations - l'IA agentique étant l'expression un peu maladroite pour désigner cette approche. Et il devient de plus en plus évident que la GenAI est la plus utile et la plus appréciée des employés lorsqu'elle est personnalisée.

Feb 19, 2025 | thenewstack.io | Mary Branscombe

Microsoft’s new state of matter promises true quantum computing with a million qubits — maybe by 2033. The company is also announcing its own quantum chip, the Majorana 1, in a form factor that can scale up to a one million qubit Quantum Processing Unit, ready to attach to a dilution refrigerator and slot into an Azure data center. The promise of quantum computing is being able to accurately model the laws of physics and the systems of the natural world.

Feb 3, 2025 | cio.com | Mary Branscombe

If you’re searching for a playbook for successful gen AI adoption, look back at what works for citizen developers.