Open Access Data Centres Welcomes Sayuri Moodliar as Head of ESG, Advancing Sustainability
Open Access Data Centres (OADC), Africa’s rapidly growing data centre company and part of WIOCC Group, is pleased to announce the appointment of Sayuri Moodliar as the new Head of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG). With 25+ years of sustainability and infrastructure project finance experience, Sayuri has collaborated with multinational
Read MoreCyber Security Today, July 12, 2023 – Over 270 MOVEit hack victims, a record number of Patch Tuesday fixes, and more
There are now over 270 MOVEit hack victims, a record number of Patch Tuesday fixes, and more Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, July 12th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. The number of organizations victimized by the hack of
Read MoreWIOCC GROUP Appoints New Head of Product
WIOCC GROUP, the converged open-access digital infrastructure provider in Africa, is pleased to announce the appointment of Nolan Naidu as the new Head of Product. With 16+ years of telecom industry experience, Nolan brings expertise in product management, project planning, analysis, and IT strategy. Before joining WIOCC GROUP, Nolan held
Read MoreHow to Supplant Yourself With a Fine-tuned LLM
Create a Clone of Yourself With a Fine-tuned LLMUnleash your digital twinImage generated by Stable Diffusion.This article aims to illustrate how to fine-tune a top-performing LLM efficiently and cost-effectively on a custom dataset. We will explore the utilization of the Falcon-7B model with LoRA adapters using Lit-GPT.Ever wondered what it would be
Read MoreCyber insurance startup Coalition acquires privacy assistant Jumbo
San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup Coalition is acquiring Jumbo, a mobile app that lets you control your privacy on the web. I have covered Jumbo several times over the past few years, so it’s time to close the loop on this one. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, but Jumbo says
Read MoreRethinking Intellectual Property in a Digital World
Intellectual property (IP) encompasses intangible assets that result from human creativity, such as inventions, literary and artistic works, symbols, names, images, and designs used in commerce. As we transition into an increasingly digital world, where the concept of the metaverse—a single, shared, immersive, persistent, 3D virtual space—is gradually taking shape,
Read MoreWhat is All The Rage About The New Twitter Rival Threads?
Twitters new rival platform THREADS is making waves since their debut on July 6 2023, the app is officially the fastest to have reached 100 million users in just 5 days of its debut. Developed by Meta, it has officially surpassed ChatGPT as the fastest-growing consumer product. Statistics show that
Read MoreHashtag Trending Jul.12- More layoffs at Microsoft; New law to ban sale of cell phone location data; Security company show how easy it is to poison a LLM
Microsoft has more layoffs, a new law to ban sale of cell phone location data and a security company demonstrates in real time how easy it is to poison a Large Language model. These and more top tech news stories on Hashtag Trending. I’m your host Jim Love, CIO
Read MoreGmail brings in Calendly-style availability sharing from Google Calendar
On Tuesday, Google released new scheduling-related features for Gmail with Google Calendar integration including quick event creation and easy availability sharing. Gmail will now have a calendar icon at the bottom of the conversation view, which will have two options — “Create an event” and “Offer times you’re free”. Image
Read More7 Ways to Speed Up Inference of Your Hosted LLMs
7 Ways To Speed Up Inference of Your Hosted LLMsTLDR; techniques to speed up inference of LLMs to increase token generation speed and reduce memory consumption: mixed-precision, Bfloat16, quantization, fine-tuning with adapters, pruning, continuous batching, and multiple GPUsImage generated with MidjourneyCompanies, from small startups to large corporations, want to utilize the power
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