Pwn.ai demonstrates Firecracker guest escape on a host running it as root
Pwn.ai says it escaped a Firecracker microVM and executed a chosen operation as root on the host while the virtual machine remained accessible over SSH.
Brightspeed seeks multibillion-dollar funding lifeline in creditor talks
Brightspeed is negotiating with creditors over a multibillion-dollar funding lifeline, Bloomberg reports. The broadband provider faces a heavy debt burden while carrying out a capital intensive fiber internet rollout.
Google buys Crusoe's Wyoming data centre site to build it itself
Google has bought Crusoe's data centre site in southeast Wyoming and will build the project itself, Crusoe said Friday. The acquisition follows Google's announcement a day earlier that it would spend $17B on its first Wyoming data centre in Laramie County.
Protesters enter Microsoft data center construction site in Amsterdam
About a hundred protesters entered a Microsoft data center construction site in Amsterdam, Tom's Hardware reported, citing Reuters. Pure Data Centers, which owns the site, asked those present to leave safely and discuss their concerns.
Nvidia releases Reshard implementation to speed reinforcement learning weight transfers
Nvidia has made an open source implementation of Reshard available to transfer updated model weights between training and inference GPUs. The company reports speedups of 2.7x to 5.7x over conventional gather-and-broadcast transfers in NeMo RL benchmarks.
Vercel makes tracing generally available and enables it for new Next.js projects
Vercel says its tracing service is generally available on all plans, adding dashboard and command-line searches across traces that record application activity. Pricing is unchanged from beta. Users previously could open individual request traces only through the Logs page.
