I'm running some tests as part of "getting out of AWS" on #Scaleway and so far pretty happy with my experience. Highlights:
- Terraform provider: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/scaleway/scaleway/latest/docs
- Fast, helpful and nice tech support even for the basic level user
- Good UI/UX
- Reasonable prices even though they're in EUR
- Europe-based because I value my privacy

Looks like I'll be moving my infra there.

A crazy development at the crossroads of government efficiency and AI: The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an initiative led by Elon Musk, utilized Meta's AI model (Llama 2) to review and classify email responses from federal workers. The core aim? To assess job necessity based on responses to the famous "Fork in the Road" email asking employees to justify their work.

This scenario prompts some vital points:
AI in Governance: How are private AI models being deployed to evaluate public sector roles and productivity?
Data Privacy Concerns: The use of federal worker emails raises significant questions regarding sensitive government data and privacy safeguards.
Ethical Oversight: What frameworks are in place to ensure fair and unbiased AI analysis in such critical contexts?
Transparency Imperative: Understanding the full scope and implications of such AI applications is crucial for public and professional trust.

This highlights the complex and evolving relationship between tech, governance, and workforce management. What about the ethical and practical considerations when AI is used to evaluate government functions?

#AI #GovernmentEfficiency #DataPrivacy #ElonMusk #MetaAI #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-used-meta-ai-model-review-fork-emails-from-federal-workers/

NEW: A misconfigured database exposed over 184 million plaintext login credentials (emails and passwords) and other sensitive data, likely harvested using #infostealer malware.

Read: https://hackread.com/database-leak-184-million-infostealer-emails-passwords/

Gelugor, Penang.

Red Hat AI Inference Server umożliwia działanie generatywnej sztucznej inteligencji w dowolnym modelu i dowolnym akceleratorze w chmurze hybrydowej. Dzięki modelowi vLLM oraz technologiom Neural Magic, Red Hat AI Inference Server zapewnia szybsze, wydajniejsze i bardziej opłacalne mechanizmy wnioskowania sztucznej inteligencji w chmurze hybrydowej. https://linuxiarze.pl/red-hat-ai-inference-server-umozliwia-dzialanie-generatywnej-sztucznej-inteligencji-w-dowolnym-modelu-i-dowolnym-akceleratorze-w-chmurze-hybrydowej/ #linux #redhat #server #cloud #sztucznainteligencja

Where the cloud goes from here: 8 trends to follow and what it could all cost https://www.zdnet.com/article/where-the-cloud-goes-from-here-8-trends-to-follow-and-what-it-could-all-cost/ by @sjvn

Gartner and I don't see eye-to-eye on where the #cloud is going, but here's an overview of our thoughts.

xAI's Grok 3 Comes To Microsoft Azure - An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Microsoft on Monday became on... - https://slashdot.org/story/25/05/19/2033214/xais-grok-3-comes-to-microsoft-azure?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #cloud

Hi! I'm **Fabio Alessandro Locati**, mostly known as **Fale**
Principal Specialist Solution Architect @ Red Hat
Open Source
FESCo @ Fedora
Published author (5 books)
Speaker (90+ talks)
Multi-certified (30+ current certs)
More about me: https://fale.io
Always happy to chat automation, Linux, security, cloud, or F/OSS!

#introduction #linux #opensource #fedora #ansible #security #cloud #oss

Worried about our reliance on the #cloud? Yeah me too, but not because of #privacy or #surveillance:

My report for the critical infra lab about the deeper harms of cloudification of internet governance is out!

https://www.criticalinfralab.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CIL010.pdf

there's a lot of interesting nuggets in the 2024 CNCF Annual Survey

the one I'm keen to know more about is that 46% of respondents reported that

"cultural challenges with the development team were the biggest
problem with using containers"

full survey report is here and ungated (woo!):
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/hubfs/Research%20Reports/cncf_annual_survey24_031225a.pdf?hsLang=en

التخزين السحابي الحر: بدائل مفتوحة المصدر للخصوصية والتحكم في البيانات

#التخزين #السحابي #الحر #nextcloud #owncloud #Syncthing #Seafile #Cloud #Storage #gnutux #linux #لينكس

https://wp.me/p9aAZ6-nc

Wir merken gerade ziemlich deutlich, wie unklug eine technologische #Abhängigkeit von US-amerikanischen IT-Konzernen ist. Wie passend, dass gerade ziemlich viele Bibliotheken in Deutschland zu #ALMA wechseln und ihre Daten in die dortige #Cloud geben. (Inh. Clarivate Analytics, USA).

Es gibt bereits viele Alternativen zu US-Diensten egal ob #EMail, #Hosting, #Cloud etc. Auch bei #SocialMedia gibt es Alternativen zu den US-Diensten #Facebook #Instagram #X #Bluesky sie heissen #Friendica #Pixelfed und #Mastodon - #BlockTrump nutze #UseEuropean #UseEuropeanApps
https://european-alternatives.eu/categories
https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/114527986018795415

Building a Flat-Hunting Shortlist with AI and a Polyglot Cloud Backend

https://simoncrowe.hashnode.dev/building-a-flat-hunting-shortlist-with-ai-and-a-polyglot-cloud-backend
#ai #cloud #Infrastructure #LLMs

Just a random reminder that just because some proprietary service is offering you a separate "server", it doesn't mean it's decentralized. It just means that the marketing people are looking for suckers.

UK Needs More Nuclear To Power AI, Says Amazon Boss - In an exclusive interview with the BBC, AWS CEO Matt Garman said the UK must expan... - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/05/16/2133225/uk-needs-more-nuclear-to-power-ai-says-amazon-boss?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #cloud