Reassess HCI, GPU Tooling, and Threat Naming for Sourcing

Security So much for Microsoft and CrowdStrike’s plans for consistent names across the industry Google has created a new taxonomy to describe cybercrime outfits, seemingly abandoning a Microsoft-led effort to create consistent names. The Big G announced its new schema on Saturday in a post that notes its 2022 acquisition of Mandiant and its subsequent incorporation into a new team called the Google Threat Intelligence Group (CTIG)

Google has decided on the following names:CASTLE to describe crews from the People’s Republic of ChinaION for threats from IranNEPTUNE for North Korean attackersRELIC for RussiansCOMET for cybercrims who aren't backed by a stateGoogle’s post notes that other infosec industry players have developed their own schemas for describing threat actors and says the web giant is therefore “intentionally seeking to keep this system as simple as possible to streamline operations and facilitate mapping to other naming taxono

Security So much for Microsoft and CrowdStrike’s plans for consistent names across the industry Google has created a new taxonomy to describe cybercrime outfits, seemingly abandoning a Microsoft-led effort to create consistent names

ASIA IN BRIEF Taiwanese mega-manufacturer Foxconn has adopted Singaporean hyperconverged infrastructure vendor (HCI) Arcrfra for some GPU virtualization workloads and to replace VMware in some remote offices. Arcfra launched in 2024 and the next year earned a place on analyst firm Gartner’s Market Guide for Full-Stack HCI Software

Last week, Arcfra launched an update to its Neutree model-as-a-service platform, adding native GPU virtualization and model governance capabilities

Arcfra also hosts Foxconn's DevTest environments and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure workloads

But as The Register pointed out previously, the text of the Ratepayer Protection Pledge makes no mention of enforcement

The Ratepayer Protection Pledge was created earlier this year, partly as a response to growing anti-datacenter sentiment among ordinary Americans, especially those who were seeing their utility bills jump. Much of the concern stems from the need for energy firms to invest heavily in new generation capacity and grid upgrades to serve the facilities being built, many for the AI market

ON-prem Pinkie promise gains 200-plus new participants and precisely zero enforcement President Trump has expanded his Ratepayer Protection Pledge to include power companies, datacenter developers, cooperatives, and state governments, saying the move will shield consumers from rising energy costs driven by the datacenter boom. In a speech at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) HQ in Washington, Trump said the pledge will now extend across the full chain of parties whose decisions determine household bills

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One of these tools is an automated workload performance optimization system called Hyperloom

In testing on AMD’s newly launched Helios racks, this process, Elangovan claims, was able to boost model performance by 38 percent over baseline. “We want to give you the ability to eke out the maximum performance,” he said