AWShas released new policy optionsto secure instance credentials and reduce the risk of attackers stealing and abusing them. - There are multiple techniques for containing compromised instance credentials, but the easy ones are most likely to break things. - More creative options are available to lo.. read more  

Server-side request forgery (SSRF)attack is a type of exploit that can be used to manipulate the input parameters of an application that interacts with external systems. - An attacker can inject a special URL to force an application to access an internal resource that is not intended to be exposed. .. read more  

The article discusses how language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT work and their strengths and weaknesses. - These models use a probabilistic approach to generate text based on training data, and word embedding to understand the meaning of words. - They can also learn relationships between words and t.. read more  

PwC US will invest $1 billion over the next three years to expand its AI offerings and harness the power of generative AI. - The investment will enable PwC to deliver human-led and tech-powered solutions, generating richer insights, driving productivity, and developing new products and services whil.. read more  

The blog post introduces Koala, a chatbot trained by fine-tuningMeta’s LLaMAon dialogue data gathered from the web. - The model is evaluated against ChatGPT and Stanford’s Alpaca, showing competitive performance to existing models. - The results suggest that models that are small enough to be run lo.. read more  

The article discusses the development of sequence models that can handle longer sequences with more context. - While traditional attention-based Transformers scale quadratically with sequence length, the authors have developed models based on structured state space models (SSMs) that scale nearly li.. read more  

Doublespeak.chatis a text-based AI escape game where players attempt to extract a secret name from the OpenAI's Large Language Model (LLM). - In the first two weeks since its launch, the developers have learned that LLMs cannot do math but are more reliable when they output the intermediary steps to.. read more  

This article discusses the evolution of software architecture from monolithic to microservices and serverless. It suggests following a step-by-step process for software system design and evolving from monolithic to microservices. - Refactoring architectures with different aspects of microservices pi.. read more  

The cloud skills gap is a major challenge for organizations looking to adopt cloud computing, and is impacting timelines for cloud migration and maturity. - The gap is caused by a shortage of skilled professionals, escalating salaries, cultural issues, and lack of training. - Retraining existing sta.. read more  

GitHub hasmore than 18.6 petabytes of Git data, most of which comes from repository contents. Some of this data is junk, such as files that are no longer important, and is considered unreachable. - Normally, GitHub doesn't remove this data, but occasionally does so to remove sensitive information. -.. read more