If you need to get your head around the concept of configuration-as-code, start here Systems Approach It’s not hard to form the impression that building and deploying cloud native systems is rapidly becoming a solved problem, with GitOps providing the roadmap.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Microsoft tackles 12 critical bugs, part of its July 2021 Patch Tuesday roundup, capping a ‘PrintNightmare’ month of headaches for system admins. …read more Source:: Threatpost

The July Patch Tuesday release also includes the out-of-band fix for the Windows Print Spooler remote code execution flaw under attack. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Drought is putting pressure on California’s already stressed-out grid. From a report: As water reservoirs run dry, there’s been a significant drop in hydroelectric generation. Without enough water pressure to quickly turn turbine blades, there could be electricity shortages right when residents need it the most. Rolling blackouts have already become a new norm for…

Just days after President Biden demanded that Russian President Putin shut down ransomware groups, the servers of one of the biggest groups mysteriously went dark. …read more Source:: Threatpost

William Lazonick and Matt Hopkins, writing at Institute for New Economic Thinking: Why has Intel fallen behind TSMC and SEC in semiconductor fabrication, and why is it unlikely to catch up? The problem is that Intel is engaged in two types of competition, one with companies like TSMC and SEC in cutting-edge fabrication technology and…

Pablo Samuel Castro, Staff Software Engineer at Google Research, writes on Google AI blog: It is widely accepted that the enormous growth of deep reinforcement learning research, which combines traditional reinforcement learning with deep neural networks, began with the publication of the seminal DQN algorithm. This paper demonstrated the potential of this combination, showing that…

The president criticizes his predecessor’s lie about a stolen election and the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the voting rights act. …read more Source:: CNet

An attack on Guess compromised the personal and banking data of 1,300 victims. …read more Source:: Threatpost

The ‘ModiPwn’ bug lays open production lines, sensors, conveyor belts, elevators, HVACs and more that use Schneider Electric PLCs. …read more Source:: Threatpost