Google raps Iran's APT42 for raining down spear-phishing attacks
US politicians and Israeli officials among the top targets for the IRGC’s cyber unit
Research15 Aug 2024 |
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If the world had a hyperscale datacenter capital, it would be... Northern Virginia
If you guessed Beijing, sorry – but it is number 2, according to Synergy Research figures
Cloud Infrastructure Month15 Aug 2024 |
NASA pushes decision on bringing crew back in Starliner to the end of August
When is a mishap not really a mishap?
Science15 Aug 2024 | 11
Google's ex-CEO U-turns after saying staff 'going home early' killed winning
Eric Schmidt blamed WFH and work-life balance policies for Google's stumbles in AI race
Off-Prem15 Aug 2024 | 21
Russian man who sold logins to nearly 3,000 accounts gets 40 months in jail
He’ll also have to pay back $1.2 million from fraudulent transactions he facilitated
Cyber-crime15 Aug 2024 |
Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious
Comment A business breakup may be coming – but what comes after may not be better
Software15 Aug 2024 | 14
Mad Liberator extortion crew emerges on the cyber-crook scene
Anydesk is its access tool of choice
Cyber-crime15 Aug 2024 | 1
Twitter must pay over half a million to unfairly dismissed Irish exec
Remember the 'go hardcore or go home' email? Turns out: not super compatible with Irish employment law
Personal Tech15 Aug 2024 | 59
Cisco slashes thousands of staff, 7% of entire workforce, pivots into AI
Reorg of entire biz as tech giant addresses downturn in core networking segment
Networks15 Aug 2024 | 7
AI stole my job and my work, and the boss didn't know – or care
Column Everyone knows automation will happen, which is why everyone needs proof of human involvement
AI + ML15 Aug 2024 | 27
Over 40 million Kakao Pay users' data somehow ended up with Alipay
Payment arm of Korean messaging app denies any illegal activity
Security15 Aug 2024 | 6
China-linked cyber-spies infect Russian govt, IT sector
No, no, go ahead, don't let us stop you, Xi
Research15 Aug 2024 | 10
Actors can license AI voice clones in union deal
Thesps at least get final say on what their doppelgängers will say
AI + ML15 Aug 2024 | 2
GitHub rolls back database change after breaking itself
Git blame an infrastructure update
Cloud Infrastructure Month14 Aug 2024 | 9
IRS has loads of legacy IT, still has no firm plans to replace it
Treasury questions the retirement of the, er, Technology Retirement Office
Public Sector14 Aug 2024 | 19
Microsoft tweaks fine print to warn everyone not to take its AI seriously
Don't use LLMs for anything important and don't try to reverse engineer it
Software14 Aug 2024 | 15
Delays? We're still shipping 'small quantities' of Nvidia's GB200 in Q4, Foxconn insists
Production ramp won't kick off until Q1 2025
Systems14 Aug 2024 | 1
Russian cyber snoops linked to massive credential-stealing campaign
Citizen Lab also spots a COLDWASTREL swimming in the Rivers of Phish
Cyber-crime14 Aug 2024 |
Texas sues GM for selling driver data to analytics, insurance companies
Lone Star State alleges GM cashed in with "millions in lump sum payments" from the sale
Security14 Aug 2024 | 22
Enzo Biochem ordered to cough up $4.5 million over lousy security that led to ransomware disaster
Three state attorneys general probed the company and found plenty to chastise
Cyber-crime14 Aug 2024 | 3
NASA's VIPER rover might still reach the lunar surface after all
Intuitive Machines tosses hat into the ring for NASA's canceled trundlebot
Science14 Aug 2024 | 11
Icelandic group demos private cloud powered by renewables
Sited in Reykjavík, datacenter running on geothermals and hydropower
Cloud Infrastructure Month14 Aug 2024 | 6
Building high performance fabrics with Ethernet
How Dell is helping its customers to be GenAI ready
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Microsoft squashes bug that sent Windows devices to BitLocker recovery
A patch to fix the patch that caused admins to scamper for their recovery keys
OSes14 Aug 2024 | 13
SiFive offers potential Neoverse N2 rival – the P870-D RISC-V core for datacenters
Chip upstart takes aim at Arm with design that can scale up to 256 cores
Systems14 Aug 2024 | 3
Palo Alto Networks execs apologize for 'hostesses' dressed as lamps at Black Hat booth
Biz admits turning human women into faceless, sexualized furniture was a 'tone deaf' marketing ploy
Security14 Aug 2024 | 115
AI or bust? Only one part of US tech economy keeps growing, says analyst
Investors still shovelling money into AI but 'path to monetization' still far
AI + ML14 Aug 2024 | 6
Apple-flavored Opera One brings its browser AI show to iOS
iPhone version of mobile browser sees surge of interest in wake of EU competition rules
Software14 Aug 2024 |
UK's 'electricity superhighway' gets green light just in time for AI to gobble it all up
500 km transmission cable promises enough power for two million homes, or a heck of a lotta GPUs
On-Prem14 Aug 2024 | 121
Is Lenovo a blind spot in US anti-China security measures?
Opinion Questions raised as one of the world's largest PC makers joins America's critical defense team
Security14 Aug 2024 | 35
Still waiting for a Pi 500 and wondering what do this summer?
The team knows you want one, but in the meantime why not make one yourself?
Personal Tech14 Aug 2024 | 47
Microsoft pushing, pushing, pushing Edge in Defender slammed as a 'dark pattern'
Is it an ad? Or serious infosec advice?
Personal Tech14 Aug 2024 | 46
Indian telcos to cut off scammy, spammy, telemarketers for two whole years
There's a blockchain involved so it's totally going to stop you getting those calls
Public Sector14 Aug 2024 | 26
Intel, already adrift, now Armless too
Sells stake in rival chip designer, keeps its MariaDB shares
Offbeat14 Aug 2024 | 9
India shuffles away draft law treating influencers like real broadcasters
Online celebs might find that flattering – but not if it means a committee must approve their next livestream
Public Sector14 Aug 2024 | 12
NIST finalizes trio of post-quantum encryption standards
Nicely ahead of that always-a-decade-away moment when all our info becomes an open book
Security14 Aug 2024 | 12
Microsoft patches scary wormable hijack-my-box-via-IPv6 security bug and others
Patch Tuesday Plus more pain for Intel which fixed 43 bugs, SAP and Adobe also in on the action
Patches14 Aug 2024 | 19
Biden tries to cut through fog of confusion caused by deliberately deceptive customer service tricks
Targets impossible unsubscribes, elusive human assistance, and other wallet-draining time sinks
Public Sector13 Aug 2024 | 42
Google brings more Gemini AI features to Android, saves the best for Pixel 9
Video And four more phones. Woo. Yay.
Personal Tech13 Aug 2024 | 17
Akeana debuts RISC-V CPU designs on $100M budget, longs for an Arm wrestle
Whatever happened to the team behind Marvell’s ThunderX2 chips? Oh, hello
Systems13 Aug 2024 | 2
Another GPU cloud emerges. This time, upstart Foundry
Biz set sights beyond just another rent-an-accelerator cluster provider
Systems13 Aug 2024 | 1
Six ransomware gangs behind over 50% of 2024 attacks
Plus many more newbies waiting in the wings
Cyber-crime13 Aug 2024 |
FTC urges judge to spank Google over Android App market monopoly
Pay no attention to web giant's whining about the cost of compliance, watchdog argues
Legal13 Aug 2024 | 8
InSight data suggests plentiful water lies beneath Mars' surface
There's water in them thar hills, but it'll be really hard to get to
Science13 Aug 2024 | 21
US accuses man of being 'elite' ransomware pioneer they've hunted for years
Authorities allege 'J.P. Morgan' practiced ‘extreme operational and online security’
Cyber-crime13 Aug 2024 | 5
Linux Foundation wades into AI as Open Model Initiative joins ranks
Penguins reiterate commitment to 'fostering open, collaborative' development, licensing
AI + ML13 Aug 2024 | 4
Feds bust minor league Radar/Dispossessor ransomware gang
The takedown may be small but any ransomware gang sent to the shops is good news in our book
Cyber-crime13 Aug 2024 | 4
SpaceX tries to wash away Texas pollution allegations
Updated Elon Musk: Aiming for Mars, but sometimes ends up with Mercury?
Science13 Aug 2024 | 37
Huawei's Ascend 910 launches this October to challenge Nvidia's H100
US sanctions may make things hard for Huawei, but the tech titan still has big GPU ambitions
Systems13 Aug 2024 | 1
Demand for AI servers causing a run on enterprise SSDs, hiking prices
Bad news if you're buying personal kit as consumer flash starts getting $$$
Storage13 Aug 2024 | 4
US standards body proposes atomic clocks in lunar orbit to keep Moon time
Knowing precise time on satellite essential if we want accurate GPS-like system for exploration
Science13 Aug 2024 | 17
Orion SA says scammers conned company out of $60 million
Incident sounds like a BEC fraud targeting an unwitting staffer
Cyber-crime13 Aug 2024 | 6
Who uses LLM prompt injection attacks IRL? Mostly unscrupulous job seekers, jokesters and trolls
Because apps talking like pirates and creating ASCII art never gets old
AI + ML13 Aug 2024 | 16
Getting up close and personal with Concorde, Concordski, and Buran
Geek's Guide The Reg flies to Germany to visit the Speyer and Sinsheim palaces of engineering marvels
Geek's Guide13 Aug 2024 | 57
UK semi industry exposed to supply chain risk, China state ownership
Report suggests govt get cracking on a proper ownership structure survey and ... hang on, did they forget the Midlands?
Systems13 Aug 2024 | 14
AI chatbots amplify creation of false memories, boffins reckon – or do they?
We can misremember it for you wholesale
AI + ML13 Aug 2024 | 14
DEF CON badge disagreement gets physical as firmware dev removed from event stage
DEF CON Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing?
Black Hat and DEF CON13 Aug 2024 | 37
'Digital arrest' scams are big in India and may be spreading
Bad guys claim they're cops, keep you on hold for hours until you pay to make loved ones' crimes go away
Cyber-crime13 Aug 2024 | 5
Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS
Once-great platform tanks another major political livestream, bigly
Off-Prem13 Aug 2024 | 252
AMD won’t patch Sinkclose security bug on older Zen CPUs
Kernel mode not good enough for you? Maybe you'll like SMM of this
Patches13 Aug 2024 | 10
Small datacenters face the axe under China's new energy policy
Tech industry told to clean up its act – and help others to do likewise – in pursuit of 2035 'Beautiful China' goal
Off-Prem13 Aug 2024 |
Apple is coming to take 30% cut of new Patreon subs on iOS
You don't get to be the biggest business in the world by being nice
Applications12 Aug 2024 | 100
Before we put half a million broadband satellites in orbit, anyone want to consider environmental effects?
SpaceX 'WasteX' Starlink said to make up 60% of sats circling Earth
Networks12 Aug 2024 | 64
Intel's microcode fix to save Raptor Lake chips may only work with default power settings
All those BIOS options that promise better performance? Enabling them might kill your processor
Systems12 Aug 2024 | 27
DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure
Def Con Voting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included
Black Hat and DEF CON12 Aug 2024 | 2
Cisco plans to slash thousands more jobs amid AI, cybersecurity push
Updated Cuts reportedly to come as soon as Wednesday's earnings release
Networks12 Aug 2024 | 13
Data survival or commercial disaster?
How to strengthen your protection against ransomware attacks
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What a glimpse inside the Black Hat NOC reveals about infosec pros' security habits
Black Hat Basic Auth among web traffic? Possible flaw in a well-known commercial VPN product? 'Security has to watch its own things'
Black Hat and DEF CON12 Aug 2024 | 3
Attacker steals personal data of 200K+ people with links to Arizona tech school
Nearly 50 different data points were accessed by cybercrim
Cyber-crime12 Aug 2024 | 7
It's all drying up: Microsoft to erase 3D Paint from digital store
Unloved multi dimensional doodler set for axe as its predecessor gets an AI update
Applications12 Aug 2024 | 19
Mega money, unfathomable violence pervade thriving underground doxxing scene
Black Hat It also attracts exactly the type of unempathetic people you would think it does
Cyber-crime12 Aug 2024 | 9
Twitter's former chairman sues X over unpaid options
Seeks $23 million in damages over Musk's alleged reluctance to pay his bills
Personal Tech12 Aug 2024 | 31
Google-commissioned report claims early adopters already enjoying fruits of gen-AI labor
Analysis 43% of the time, it really, really works 45% of the time
AI + ML12 Aug 2024 | 45
CrowdStrike president cheered after accepting 'Epic Fail' Pwnie award
DEF CON Michael Sentonas hopes trophy will remind staff that failure is unacceptable
Offbeat12 Aug 2024 | 52
India’s Bharti Enterprises now largest shareholder in UK's BT Group
'Surprising move' for Indian megacorp but less so for French seller Altice
Networks12 Aug 2024 | 8
In celebration of Curiosity's successful landing on Mars
Forget the woes of Starliner with an audacious NASA landing on another planet that went very very right
Science12 Aug 2024 | 5
Evolve your cloud security knowledge
Let SANS help you get to grips with the shifting landscape of cloud security
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LLM-driven C-to-Rust. Not just a good idea, a genie eager to escape
Opinion Automatic for the people? Don’t mind if we do
Software12 Aug 2024 | 81
Cigarette break burned out a huge chunk of Africa's internet
who, me? A fake hacker trying to take credit didn't help much, either
Networks12 Aug 2024 | 66
Former YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, 56, succumbs to cancer
A career and life so classically Silicon Valley
Personal Tech12 Aug 2024 | 28
Trump campaign cites Iran election phish claim as evidence leaked docs were stolen
Dots have been joined, but hard evidence is not apparent
Security12 Aug 2024 | 73
Alibaba Cloud claims K8s service meshes can require more resources than the apps they run
SIGCOMM 2024 Built its own replacement – Canal Mesh – that it says leaves Google's Istio and Ambient eating dust
Cloud Infrastructure Month12 Aug 2024 | 9
The UN unanimously agrees that cybercrime is bad, mkay?
Infosec in brief Also: British nuke subs get code from Russia; and BlackSuit begs for $500M
Security12 Aug 2024 | 7
Chinese satellite broadband launch rocket breaks up into space junk
Asia In Brief Plus: Vietnam's PM leads chips push; Tesla backs out of Thailand; Drones fly trash off Everest; and more
Science12 Aug 2024 | 24
Gas pipeline players in talks to fuel AI datacenter demand
Utility tapped out? Why not build your own?
Systems11 Aug 2024 | 27
How to ingeniously and wirelessly inject malware onto someone's nearby Windows PC via Google's Quick Share
DEF CON Or rather could, until the web giant was tipped off
Black Hat and DEF CON10 Aug 2024 | 16
Twilio's Segment SDK challenged with wiretapping claim
Mobile app analytics software said to surreptitiously snarf data
Applications09 Aug 2024 | 5
Raptor Lake microcode limits Intel chips to a mere 1.55 volts to prevent CPU destruction
Is that a lot? Depends on the context. GHz, no. Voltage, yes
Personal Tech09 Aug 2024 | 27
Intel's annus horribilis continues as AMD gains ground
Rival making its biggest inroads in server CPU segment
Systems09 Aug 2024 | 8
Secure Web Gateways are anything but as infosec hounds spot dozens of bypasses
DEF CON 'Vendors cannot fix' this architectural failure, SquareX founder tells us
Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2024 | 20
Understanding escalating cyber threats
Explore the latest trends in cybersecurity with expert insight from Cloudflare
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Microsoft really wants those old Exchange 2016 servers put out to pasture
Come to 2019. The in-place upgrades to the Subscription Edition will be lovely
Software09 Aug 2024 | 39
Software innovation just isn't what it used to be, and Moxie Marlinspike blames Agile
black hat Layers of abstraction and speedy development have left engineers unable to understand what lies beneath
Black Hat and DEF CON09 Aug 2024 | 66
Pro-Iran groups lay groundwork for 'chaos and violence' as US election meddling attempts intensify
Political officials, advisors targeted in cyber attacks as fake news sites deliver lefty zingers
Security09 Aug 2024 | 23
NASA's NEOWISE asteroid spotter turned off for the final time
A mission that was supposed to last for less than a year went on for more than a decade
Science09 Aug 2024 | 14
Core Python developer suspended for three months
Code of Conduct violations include allegations that posts created 'atmosphere of FUD'
Devops09 Aug 2024 | 222
Apple tries again to make EU DMA officials happy – with new fees
Meanwhile, UK watchdog contemplates breaking Cupertino's WebKit rule
Applications09 Aug 2024 | 15
UK monopoly police launch full blown probe of Amazon's Anthropic tie-up
Poor cloud titans, just trying to give a helping hand to AI startups valued at billions of dollars
AI + ML09 Aug 2024 | 5
BOFH: The true gravity of the Boss and the 3-coffee problem
Episode 15 2 bodies of arbitrary positive mass, one of which is the PFY, don't seem very influenced by the chief
BOFH09 Aug 2024 | 74
Intel's processor failures: A cautionary tale of business vs engineering
Opinion Chipzilla taking some punches but could it stay down?
Columnists09 Aug 2024 | 91
Techie told 'Bill Gates' Excel is rubbish – and the Microsoft boss had it fixed in 48 hours
On Call I'm a Mac. I'm a PC. You're both annoying me
Software09 Aug 2024 | 113
What's going on with AMD funding a CUDA translation layer, then nuking it?
Analysis We guess the House of Zen wants all you HIP kids to ROCm out with its own runtimes instead
Software09 Aug 2024 | 9
It's 2024 and we're just getting round to stopping browsers insecurely accessing 0.0.0.0
Can't reach someone's private server on localhost from outside? No problem
Research09 Aug 2024 | 39
HP Inc loves China – but wants to reduce the risks it presents
Amid reports that plenty of PC production will shift elsewhere, supply chain boss emphasizes agility
Personal Tech09 Aug 2024 | 9
Report slams Boeing and NASA over shoddy quality that's delayed SLS blastoff
Space Launch System project overspent, under-built, and is overdue, government probe finds
Science09 Aug 2024 | 51
Hello? Are you talking on a Cisco SPA300 or SPA500 IP phone? Now's the time to junk 'em
Multiple critical flaws found and they won't be fixed
Security09 Aug 2024 | 31
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