August 2023

Generative AI won’t steal your job, just change it, says UN 23/08/2023 at 13:24 By Katyanna Quach Unless you’re a woman in a clerical position, in which case your role might never come into existence Generative AI will probably not replace most current workers, with its impact instead confined to automating some tasks for a

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Spacecolon Toolset Fuels Global Surge in Scarab Ransomware Attacks 23/08/2023 at 12:49 By A malicious toolset dubbed Spacecolon is being deployed as part of an ongoing campaign to spread variants of the Scarab ransomware across victim organizations globally. “It probably finds its way into victim organizations by its operators compromising vulnerable web servers or via brute forcing

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Want tech cred? Learn how to email like a pro 23/08/2023 at 11:47 By Liam Proven Distinguish tech pros from tech poseurs with this one weird trick Feature  The Reg FOSS Desk, as you might imagine, gets a lot of mail from companies keen to promote their wares. How someone emails instantly betrays real techies,

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Criminals go full Viking on CloudNordic, wipe all servers and customer data 23/08/2023 at 10:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle IT outfit says it can’t — and won’t — pay the ransom demand CloudNordic has told customers to consider all of their data lost following a ransomware infection that encrypted the large Danish cloud provider’s servers

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Over a Dozen Malicious npm Packages Target Roblox Game Developers 23/08/2023 at 10:16 By More than a dozen malicious packages have been discovered on the npm package repository since the start of August 2023 with capabilities to deploy an open-source information stealer called Luna Token Grabber on systems belonging to Roblox developers. The ongoing campaign, first detected

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IBM shows off its sense of humor in not-so-funny letter leak 23/08/2023 at 09:49 By Simon Sharwood Internal memos detail discontinued Dad-joke products It turns out IBM, the elder statesman of global IT and a paragon of corporate seriousness, has a sense of humor – but the real joke may be on its customers.… This

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Space junk targeted for cleanup mission was hit by different space junk, making more space junk 23/08/2023 at 08:47 By Laura Dobberstein Of all the spacecraft in all the orbits around the world, it slams into mine On Tuesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that a decade-old piece of space junk it had targeted

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