Pay rates for IT security professionals are rising faster than inflation, but burnout and stress are growing faster. A survey of UK security professionals revealed the fast pace of modern security and the risk of unknown failure is causing skilled practitioners to leave the field. Would yet more pay fix the problem, or is there another way to address IT security staff retention? This and more on the Rundown.
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1:19 – Can AMD Top NVIDIA?
In her ten years as CEO of AMD, Lisa Su has turned the company around by successfully entering the datacenter CPU and GPU markets, securing major revenues and positioning AMD as a serious competitor to Intel and Nvidia. With record-high revenues, rapid growth in the Instinct GPU business, and increased sales in datacenter products, AMD is on track to potentially achieve parity with Nvidia in datacenter GPU sales and rival Intel in server CPU revenue by 2025 or 2026.
Read More: AMD Will Need Another Decade to Try to Pass NVIDIA
3:50 – Quantum AI Isn’t a Thing
Combining Quantum computing and AI seems like a recipe for headlines and funding. Bob Sutor, an experienced Quantum computing expert, suggests that Quantum computing might solve some problems better than AI but that Quantum computing is still very early. It seems that quantum computing might become another accelerator for specialised computation tasks.
Read More: AI + Quantum: Hype or True Breakthroughs? – Report Summary
7:13 – MinIO Introduces AIStor
We’ve been covering MinIO on the Rundown for years, and they’ve been a frequent Tech Field Day presenter too. Now they have introduced their next-generation enterprise product, dubbed AIStor. This release adds a complete AI storage stack, from key manager, console, to catalog, and has more tricks up its sleeve: The new promptObject capability brings self-describing metadata, AIHub is a drop-in replacement for Hugging Face, and S3 over RDMA challenges NFS over RDMA, not to mention GPUDirect.
Watch: MinIO Presents at AI Data Infrastructure Field Day 1
12:23 – Amazon Employee Details Exposed in MoveIt Breach
Doesn’t Amazon have a public cloud platform they use to build software and services for their business? It seems that a breach of the MoveIt secure file transfer service led to the work contact details of 2.8 million Amazon employees being stolen, probably by ransomware organisations.
Read More: Amazon Confirms Employee Contact Info Stolen Through Hack
15:20 – Marslink is Further Away than Starlink
Shouldn’t Starlink be called Earthlink? That would make more sense now that SpaceX proposes putting a system in orbit around Mars, probably called Marslink. Naturally, SpaceX wants NASA to fund the deployment of a satellite network service around Mars as part of Elon’s efforts to reach the red planet.
Read More: SpaceX Pitches NASA on ‘Marslink,’ a Version of Starlink for the Red Planet
18:19 – AI is writing Google’s Code
AI is generating more than 25% of Google’s code, according to Sundar Pichai. That 25% of code still needs to be reviewed by a human before it is accepted, so it is unclear how much productivity Google gains from AI code generation. We wonder whether organisations without Google’s vast code base and extensive AI experience can gain value from AI-generated code.
22:05 – Amazon Won’t Go Nuclear
Amazon’s data centers are requiring more and more power, especially now that AI is ramping up. One way that providers are trying to increase power to those data centers is by reviving the nuclear energy industry in the US. For the plants that are still in operation, companies like Amazon are trying to draw more power from the reactors while the older ones are refurbished and reactivated. The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) just issued an order that rejected Amazon’s request to draw an additional 180 megawatts of power from a Susquehanna power plant. The data center in question, built by Talen Energy and acquired by Amazon back in March, was co-located next to the plant in an effort to optimize power delivery. The FERC cited issues with what would happen if the contract for the Talen center preempted power delivery to th rest of the power grid.
Read More: Amazon’s nuclear datacenter dreams stall as watchdog rejects power deal
26:41 – Is IT Security Too Stressful for the Money?
Pay rates for IT security professionals are rising faster than inflation, but burnout and stress are growing faster. A survey of UK security professionals revealed the fast pace of modern security and the risk of unknown failure is causing skilled practitioners to leave the field. Would yet more pay fix the problem, or is there another way to address IT security staff retention?
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