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At times, the enormous BlueWalker 3 telecommunications satellite is brighter than some of the most iconic stars visible from Earth

Talking about how we scale Istio Sidecars in our workloads, and how we consider the relationship of Sidecar resources tightly coupled to the application.

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Operations have always been foundational to competitive advantage, but the nature of this relationship is shifting: Historically, the strategic goal of operations was to achieve scale in order to create a sustainable efficiency advantage. In recent years, winners have focused more on ensuring their operations and strategies were adaptive to changing and unforeseen circumstances, with resilience driving outperformance. In the era of radical uncertainty we are now entering, the next frontier of operations will be to enable optionality, which entails an even closer integration with strategy.

One flaw is in open source code known as "libvpx," which is involved with handling media such as images. The other issue is with software known as WS_FTP.

Introduction In the ever-changing landscape of cloud computing, organizations continue to face the challenge of effectively managing their virtual network environments. To address this challenge, many organizations have embraced shared Amazon virtual private clouds (VPCs) as a means to streamline network administration, and reduce costs. Shared VPCs not only provide these advantages but also enable […]

Author: Kaslin Fields The 2023 Steering Committee Election is now complete. The Kubernetes Steering Committee consists of 7 seats, 4 of which were up for election in 2023. Incoming committee members serve a term of 2 years, and all members are elected by the Kubernetes Community. This community body is significant since it oversees the governance of the entire Kubernetes project. With that great power comes great responsibility. You can learn more about the steering committee’s role in their charter.

How developers interpret and understand open source licenses, with a love letter to good research.

Friendly Reminder: ZIP Metadata is Not Encrypted, Author: Didier Stevens

- A set of lessons aimed at anyone learning LLM and generative AI concepts, with sections on operations and security, as well as development. Using code & langchain we'll explain how all these cool new applications work under the hood.Code : https://github.com/jedi4ever/learning-llms-and-genai-for-dev-sec-ops/Framework: https://langchain.com#devops #devsecops #genai #langchainBig thanks to Techstrong for the hackaton , London Devops for hosting this talk, Devops Weekly for the promotion and last but not least Langchain for sharing all the incredible learnings.00:00 Introduction, Shoutout and Link to code01:26 Building an app - the developer point of view33:11 Looking at it from rom the operational side44:33 A whole new world Security goodies54:10 Questions and closing thoughtsLessons overview:*Developer*- Calling a simple LLM using OpenAI- Looking at debugging in Langchain- Chatting with OpenAI as model- Using prompt templates- Use of Docloader to read your local files and prepare them for the LLM- Explain the calculation and use of embeddings- Understand how splitting and chunking is important- Loading embeddings and documents in a vector database- Use a chain for Questions and Answers to implement the RAG pattern (Retrieval Augmented Generation)- Show the use of OpenAI documentation to have the llm generate calls to find realtime informationImplement an Agent and provide it with tools to get more realtime information*Operations*- Find out how much tokens you are using and the cost- How to cache your calls to an LLM using exact matching or embeddings- How to cache the calculation of embeddings and run the calculation locally- Run your own local LLM (using Ollama)- Track your calls and log them to a file (using a callback handler)- Impose output structure (as JSON) and have the LLM retry if it's not correct*Security*- Explain the OWASP top 10 for LLMS- Show how simple prompt injection works and some mitigation strategies- How to detect prompt injection using a 3rd party model from Hugginface- Detect project injection by using a prompt- Check the answer llms provide and reflect if it ok- Use a huggingface model to detect if an LLM output was toxicShow a simple prompt for asking the llm's opinon on Kubernetes and Trivy vulnerabilities

NASA has a lot riding on these initiatives.

Progress Software patches multiple flaws in its WS_FTP Server product, including a pair of critical flaws, one with a maximum CVSS rating of 10

Today we delve into the world of Kubernetes resources, Custom Resources (CRs), Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), and Operators. Learn how these work togeth...

Author : Kaslin Fields The 2023 Steering Committee Election is now complete. The Kubernetes Steering Committee consists of 7 seats, 4 of which were up for election in 2023. Incoming committee members serve a term of 2 years, and all members are elected by the Kubernetes Community. This community body is significant since it oversees the governance of the entire Kubernetes project. With that great power comes great responsibility. You can learn more about the steering committee’s role in their charter . Thank you to everyone who voted in the election; your participation helps support the community’s continued health and success. Results Congratulations to the elected committee members whose two year terms begin immediately (listed in alphabetical order by GitHub handle): Stephen Augustus (@justaugustus ), Cisco Paco Xu 徐俊杰 (@pacoxu ), DaoCloud Patrick Ohly (@pohly ), Intel Maciej Szulik (@soltysh ), Red Hat They join continuing members: Benjamin Elder (@bentheelder ), Google Bob Killen (@mrbobbytables ), Google Nabarun Pal (@palnabarun , VMware Stephen Augustus is a returning Steering Committee Member. Big Thanks! Thank you and congratulations on a successful election to this round’s election officers: Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout ) Davanum Srinavas (@dims ) Kaslin Fields (@kaslin ) Thanks to the Emeritus Steering Committee Members. Your service is appreciated by the community: Christoph Blecker (@cblecker ) Carlos Tadeu Panato Jr. (@cpanato ) Tim Pepper (@tpepper ) And thank you to all the candidates who came forward to run for election. Get Involved with the Steering Committee This governing body, like all of Kubernetes, is open to all. You can follow along with Steering Committee backlog items and weigh in by filing an issue or creating a PR against their repo . They have an open meeting on the first Monday at 9:30am PT of every month . They can also be contacted at their public mailing list steering@kubernetes.io . You can see what the Steering Committee meetings are all about by watching past meetings on the YouTube Playlist . If you want to meet some of the newly elected Steering Committee members, join us for the Steering AMA at the Kubernetes Contributor Summit in Chicago . This post was written by the Contributor Comms Subproject . If you want to write stories about the Kubernetes community, learn more about us.

Ford’s pause of its $3.5 billion battery plant last week has been portrayed in many circles as a victory against Chinese technology. Many members of Congress, from Marco Rubio to Mike Gallagher, who have staked their political career on being permanently anti-China, were quick to claim credit for

You may already own a Chromebook Plus device, and new ones release October 8.

Toy highly-available Kubernetes cluster on NixOS. Contribute to justinas/nixos-ha-kubernetes development by creating an account on GitHub.

GlobalFoundries is manufacturing more of the world's critical chips, gaining significance with U.S.-China tension and big deals like one with General Motors

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) said it brought in French authorities to investigate. ETSI has more than 900 member organizations from over 60 countries.

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Less than half of workers in the information sector shared a positive outlook of their employer as concerns persist.

The bug, first published Sept. 27, affects the Cisco Group Encrypted Transport VPN (GET VPN) feature of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software.

BunnyLoader, the latest malware-as-a-service, is up for sale in the dark web. It can steal your data, replace your crypto address

Quick and easy guide for securing macOS systems, for both laymen and security enthusiasts. Last updated for Ventura (13.3).

Most basic kits lack supplies that can be critical when waiting for paramedics to arrive.

In the midst of industry discussions about productivity and automation, it’s all too easy to overlook the importance of properly reckoning with complexity.

The "Zero Day Initiative" site has posted a number of advisories (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) describing a number of flaws in the Exim mail server, some of which are exploitable remotely. These problems, allegedly, were first reported to the project in June 2022, well over one year ago. There is some disagreement over the timing of events, with Exim developer Heiko Schlittermann claiming that no actual information was received until last May, and an anonymous ZDI representative disputing that story.

Best practices for open source ecosystems researchers.