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NASA's planet hunter shakes off reaction wheel woes and gets back to work - (pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 15:15:06 GMT)No more stress for TESSNASA has confirmed that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has recovered from a reaction wheel problem and resumed making observations.… |
iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' - (pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 14:30:13 GMT)So long SODIMM? Only in new Thinkpad so far, but memory format may well spread across marketLPCAMM2 memory is getting the thumbs up from the team at iFixit, which hailed it as a return to the upgradeable laptop and reckons the writing is on the wall for models with soldered-down, non-serviceable memory.… |
One year on, universities org admits MOVEit attack hit data of 800k people - (pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 14:00:10 GMT)Nearly 95M people in total snagged by flaw in file transfer toolJust short of a year after the initial incident, the state of Georgia's higher education government agency has confirmed that it was the victim of an attack on its systems affecting the data of 800,000 people.… |
Exchange Server SE set to debut just before 2019 version breathes its last - (pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 13:30:10 GMT)Administrators, start your enginesMicrosoft has finally broken its silence on the fate of on-premises Exchange, and administrators will need to move quickly to keep their servers supported.… |
Amazon and Epson accuse a bunch of traders of selling knockoff print ink - (pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 13:01:15 GMT)Multiple Marketplace accounts sold fake bottles, cartridges for 2 years+, claim companiesAmazon and printer manufacturer Seiko Epson have filed a joint action against firms in Turkey and the UK which they claim sold counterfeit printer bottles and cartridges on the global online retailer's platform.… |
Tesla devotee tests Cybertruck safety with his own finger – and fails - (pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 12:30:07 GMT)Faith in frunk flunksWe know that Tesla Cybertruck owners are very special, and their mothers love them very much, but perhaps the most special of all is the one who "broke" his finger attempting to demonstrate the safety of the "frunk" closing mechanism.… |
Google Cloud misconfiguration takes down Australian fund for a week - (pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 12:00:10 GMT)That pesky 'previously unknown software bug' strikes againAustralian superannuation fund UniSuper is lumbering back to life after an "unprecedented occurrence" at Google Cloud knocked its systems offline.… |
UK opens investigation of MoD payroll contractor after confirming attack - (pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 11:15:13 GMT)China vehemently denies involvementUK Government has confirmed a cyberattack on the payroll system used by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) led to "malign" forces accessing data on current and a limited number of former armed forces personnel.… |
US commerce department yanks back Huawei export licenses - (pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 10:30:09 GMT)Intel and Qualcomm reportedly among those cut offUpdated The US Commerce Department has revoked some of the licenses held by tech companies to supply Chinese megacorp Huawei.… |
Intel's quantum leap in wafer-wide cryo-testing sets cool new standard - (pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 09:31:14 GMT)Approach could help make forever upcoming tech more reliableIntel says it has made two advancements towards realizing silicon-based quantum processors which involves optimizing a standard fabrication process and developing a means to test the quality of resulting individual devices across a full 300mm wafer.… |
Uni staff fall back on Excel to work around mis-coded transactions in Oracle system - (pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 08:30:14 GMT)Two years after going live, the project that left employees unpaid still needs workUpdated The fallout from Edinburgh University's ill-fated Oracle HR and finance implementation continues with one department recording thousands of mis-coded transactions relating to more than £300,000 in spending.… |
Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight - (pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 07:31:15 GMT)On the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable careerInterview This year is an unfortunate anniversary for information security: We're told it's a decade since ransomware started infecting corporations.… |
Add AI servers to the list of iDevices Apple Silicon could soon power - (pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 06:32:13 GMT)Where have you been, Cupertino?Analysis We can add Apple to the list of tech titans developing their own custom AI accelerators – at least that's what unnamed sources are telling the Wall Street Journal.… |
From infosec to skunks, RSA Conference SVP spills the tea - (pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 04:03:06 GMT)Keynotes, physical security, playlists … the buck stops with Linda Gray MartinInterview The 33rd RSA Conference is underway this week, and no one feels that more acutely than the cybersecurity event's SVP Linda Gray Martin.… |
UnitedHealth's 'egregious negligence' led to Change Healthcare ransomware infection - (pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 02:58:12 GMT)'I'm blown away by the fact that they weren't using MFA'Interview The cybersecurity practices that led up to the stunning Change Healthcare ransomware infection indicate "egregious negligence" on the part of parent company UnitedHealth, according to Tom Kellermann, SVP of cyber strategy at Contrast Security.… |
MITRE promises a cute little 17-PFLOPS AI super for the rest of Uncle Sam's agencies - (pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 01:51:11 GMT)No child process left behindLater this year, MITRE is getting its hands on a modest supercomputer and is planning to use it to divvy out AI computing time to US government agencies.… |
Dell to color-code staff based on how hybrid they really are in RTO push - (pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 00:17:40 GMT)Sources slam aggressive 'back to school' grading system as HR vows to track VPN use, badge swipesExclusive Dell has told workers it will track the onsite presence of hybrid employees – those who work part remotely, part in the office – using electronic badge swipes, VPN monitoring, and a rather creepy color-coding system.… |
America's War on Drugs and Crime will be AI powered, says Homeland Security boss - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 23:47:16 GMT)Or at least it might well be if these trial programs work out, with some civil lib oversight etc etc etcRSAC AI is a double-edged sword in that the government can see ways in which the tech can protect and also be used to attack Americans, says US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.… |
Watch out for rogue DHCP servers decloaking your VPN connections - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 21:50:23 GMT)Avoid traffic-redirecting snoops who have TunnelVisionA newly discovered vulnerability undermines countless VPN clients in that their traffic can be quietly routed away from their encrypted tunnels and intercepted by snoops on the network.… |
IBM says these back-office, network edge Power 10 servers would be sweet for – yes, you guessed it – AI - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 20:39:11 GMT)Short on cores, big on threads and matrix mathNot to be left out of the AI infrastructure game, on Tuesday IBM unveiled a pair of tiny Power 10 servers designed to preprocess data at the network edge.… |
CISA's early-warning system helped critical orgs close 852 ransomware holes - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 19:58:11 GMT)In the first year alone, that's saved us all a lot of money and woeInterview As ransomware gangs step up their attacks against healthcare, schools, and other US critical infrastructure, CISA is ramping up a program to help these organizations fix flaws exploited by extortionists in the first place.… |
Apple unveils M4 chip with neural engine capable of 38 TOPS, and some other kit - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 19:15:14 GMT)Oh, right – there's new iPad Pro and Air models, a pencil and some other stuffApple held its anticipated iPad event today, and the most attention-grabbing news wasn't the new device models or the refreshed iPad Air lineup - it was the unveiling of Apple's homegrown M4 chip with a surprisingly powerful neural processing unit (NPU). … |
TikTok sues America to undo divest-or-die law - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 19:02:13 GMT)Nothing like folks in Beijing lecturing us on the ConstitutionTikTok and its China-based parent ByteDance sued the US government today to prevent the forced sale or shutdown of the video-sharing giant.… |
Windows Insiders to fly solo while Copilot rollout frozen - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 18:30:37 GMT)Perhaps just make sure the stuff that is already there works properly?Microsoft will temporarily halt the rollout of Copilot features based on feedback from Windows Insiders.… |
Infineon trims financial forecast amid order slowdown - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 17:45:13 GMT)Chipmaker outlines plans to save hundreds of millions and, hey presto, share price magically jumpsInfineon, maker of chips for the automotive and industrial sectors, told investors that it is embarking on a cost purge after lowering revenue estimates for the full financial year amid weakened demand.… |
Lightweight Dillo browser springs back to life, still doesn't care about JavaScript - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 17:00:05 GMT)First new version in almost a decade now boasts TLSThe Dillo web browser has returned with a new release, version 3.1. It's nearly nine years after version 3.05 appeared on the last day of June 2015.… |
US State Department launches cyber and digital policy strategy - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 16:16:06 GMT)Part of the race with Beijing to set standards and advance normsRSAC The US State Department's latest cybersecurity strategy will not be wildly different from current stances, but offers an alternative path to those presented by the country's adversaries.… |
Tesla layoff circus runs into fourth week with another round of cuts - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 15:30:15 GMT)Musk continues quest to make Tesla leaner, meaner, more profitableAnother week, another round of layoffs at Tesla to report, and this time engineers are caught up in the mix. … |
Cops finally unmask 'LockBit kingpin' after two-month tease - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 15:08:58 GMT)Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev's $10M question is answered at lastUpdated Police have finally named who they firmly believe is the kingpin of the LockBit ransomware ring: Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.… |
VMware waves goodbye to AWS middleman as Broadcom takes the reins - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 14:30:06 GMT)Customers brace for bumpy rideUpdated Broadcom has ended the right of Amazon Web Services to resell VMware Cloud on AWS, meaning customers will now have a direct relationship only with VMware by Broadcom, casting doubt over the long-term future of the product.… |
Valve vexation: Boeing's Starliner grounded again - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 14:00:06 GMT)Problems with Centaur rocket keeps first crewed flight on terra firmaBoeing's long-delayed Starliner crewed launch, which was scheduled for today, has been postponed yet again, this time due to a valve problem on the Centaur upper stage. Managers pushed back the next attempt to no earlier than May 10.… |
Palantir's CEO calls 'woke' a 'central risk to Palantir, America and the world' - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 13:30:10 GMT)Oh, and Alex Karp's forecasts disappoint the market after strong revenue growthAnalytics platform biz Palantir saw its share price dip yesterday despite posting on-the-nose revenue growth of 21 percent year-over-year to reach $634 million in the first calendar quarter.… |
TSMC fully booked on advanced packaging until 2025 - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 13:00:11 GMT)TrendForce warns of 'potential crowding out effects on HBM'TSMC's advanced packaging capacity is fully booked for the next two years, thanks to Nvidia and AMD needs, according to reports that echo an earlier earnings call.… |
Spanish startups say 'no más' to Microsoft cloud dominance - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 12:31:12 GMT)Group alleges anticompetitive behaviorUpdated Microsoft is facing a complaint over alleged anticompetitive practices in the Spanish cloud market.… |
The truth about KEV: CISA’s vuln deadlines good influence on private-sector patching - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 11:30:11 GMT)More work to do as most deadlines are missed and worst bugs still take months to fixThe deadlines associated with CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog only apply to federal agencies, but fresh research shows they're having a positive impact on private organizations too.… |
Brit security guard biz exposes 1.2M files via unprotected database - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 10:30:07 GMT)Thousands of ID cards plus CCTV snaps of suspects found onlineExclusive A UK-based physical security business let its guard down, exposing nearly 1.3 million documents via a public-facing database, according to an infosec researcher.… |
A tale of two Chinas: Our tech governance isn't perfect, but we still get to say no - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 09:35:14 GMT)Too many folks who should know better saying info-slurping tactics of Big Tech are just as badOpinion Which China do you want? The innovative good global citizen, adding to the storehouse of knowledge while making better products and services? Or the autocracy, determined to advance the interests of the leadership through any and all means, untrammeled by legal safeguards within its borders and, wherever possible, outside them?… |
First 9front release of the year is called DO NOT INSTALL - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 08:30:08 GMT)Possibly its most helpful codename yet9front, the most active project continuing development of the sequel to Unix, Plan 9 from Bell Labs, emitted a new version. We did not follow its advice.… |
Council claims database pain forced it to drop apostrophes from street names - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 07:29:07 GMT)What next, trouble at tmill?A row in the UK has locals and council members at odds over apostrophes, and yes – this does actually have a tech angle. … |
Ransomware crooks now SIM swap executives' kids to pressure their parents - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 02:10:30 GMT)Extortionists turning to 'psychological attacks', Mandiant CTO saysRSAC Ransomware infections have morphed into "a psychological attack against the victim organization," as criminals use increasingly personal and aggressive tactics to force victims to pay up, according to Google-owned Mandiant.… |
Meta, Spotify break Apple's device fingerprinting rules – new claim - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 01:05:27 GMT)And the iOS titan doesn't seem that bothered with data leaking outUpdated Last week, Apple began requiring iOS developers justify the use of a specific set of APIs that could be used for device fingerprinting.… |
Dear Stack Overflow denizens, thanks for helping train OpenAI's billion-dollar LLMs - (pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 00:35:17 GMT)Microsoft-backed super-lab gets direct access to answers – and code forum gets its own AIStack Overflow, a community-driven Q&A site, and OpenAI, maker of AI models, have agreed to work to improve each other's products, the latest deal in a series of tie-ups to feed machine learning models' thirst for data.… |
Fed-run LockBit site back from the dead and vows to really spill the beans on gang - (pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 23:42:35 GMT)After very boring first reveal, this could be the real dealUpdated Cops around the world have relaunched LockBit's website after they shut it down in February – and it's now counting down the hours to reveal documents that could unmask the ransomware group.… |
Semiconductor digital twins to sip $285M from America's CHIPS Act funding pool - (pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 21:22:15 GMT)Fake it until you make it, literallyThe US government on Monday earmarked $285 million in CHIPS Act funding for the development of semiconductor digital twins.… |
Mastodon delays firm fix for link previews DDoSing sites - (pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 19:50:11 GMT)Decentralization is great until everyone wants to grab data from your web serverUpdated Mastodon has pushed back an update that's expected to fully address the issue of link previews sparking accidental distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.… |
Warren Buffett voices AI fears, likens tech to atom bomb - (pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 18:45:11 GMT)'Used in a pro-social way, it's got terrific benefits to society. But, I don't know how you make sure that happens'Video You can add Berkshire Hathaway chief Warren Buffett to the list of folks worried about the implications of artificial intelligence on society.… |
Cheyenne supercomputer sells at auction for just $480K - (pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 17:45:10 GMT)And you thought consumer electronics suffered from depreciationThe Cheyenne Supercomputer, a 5.34 peak PFLOPS behemoth that was once one of the fastest systems in the world, has just been sold at auction for $480,085. … |
Consultant charged over $1.5M extortion scheme against IT giant - (pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 17:00:11 GMT)Accused of stealing data after losing his jobA cybersecurity expert could face a 20-year prison sentence after being accused of trying to extort a multinational IT infrastructure services biz to the tune of $1.5 million.… |
Three years on from Biden infosec EO, and we're still trying to check all the boxes - (pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 15:00:14 GMT)It's taking time, but isn't a dead issue, US Government Accountability Office security director Marisol Cruz Cain saysinterview It's been several years since President Biden signed an executive order to improve America's cybersecurity. The US Government Accountability Office said recently there's still a number of critical goals stemming from that order to accomplish.… |
CISA says 'no more' to decades-old directory traversal bugs - (pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 13:37:07 GMT)Recent attacks on healthcare thrust infosec agency into alert modeCISA is calling on the software industry to stamp out directory traversal vulnerabilities following recent high-profile exploits of the 20-year-old class of bugs.… |
