November 2023

Where do humans feel most at risk of being pwned? The pub 01/11/2023 at 12:03 By Lindsay Clark Pints, pork scratchings and password-free wifi: the nearly perfect brew for the British pint puller It may be a place of refuge for world-weary Brits, but the humble boozer is where they most fear wi-fi attacks.… This […]

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Don’t feel left out, chip designers. Nvidia’s made a chatbot assistant for you, too 01/11/2023 at 11:17 By Tobias Mann In the lab, anyway As AI finds its way into some chip design workflows – resulting in neural networks helping design better processors for neural networks – Nvidia has shown off what can be done

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Turla Updates Kazuar Backdoor with Advanced Anti-Analysis to Evade Detection 01/11/2023 at 10:46 By The Russia-linked hacking crew known as Turla has been observed using an updated version of a known second-stage backdoor referred to as Kazuar. The new findings come from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which is tracking the adversary under its constellation-themed

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Date night from hell looms for Apple as Netherlands says: ‘It’s not me, it’s you’ 01/11/2023 at 10:17 By Thomas Claburn Watchdog reportedly well and truly out of love with App Store concessions and fee cuts Apple’s amended App Store rules for dating apps in the Netherlands reportedly remain anticompetitive in the eyes of the

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Samung’s results hint it’s time to RAM some money into your memory budget 01/11/2023 at 09:17 By Laura Dobberstein Chaebol reckons memory is recovering and prices will rise. Analysts agree Samsung has posted another loss, but its semiconductor and memory business has shown signs of life, as inventories normalized and applications like AI drove demand

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Alert: F5 Warns of Active Attacks Exploiting BIG-IP Vulnerability 01/11/2023 at 09:01 By F5 is warning of active abuse of a critical security flaw in BIG-IP less than a week after its public disclosure that could result in the execution of arbitrary system commands as part of an exploit chain. Tracked as CVE-2023-46747 (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability allows

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Indian politicians say Apple warned them of state-sponsored attacks 01/11/2023 at 08:17 By Simon Sharwood Nobody knows which state, but India’s government never quite shrugged off claims it uses spyware Indian politicians and media figures have reported that Apple has warned them their accounts may be under attack by state-sponsored actors.… This article is an

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IBM outlines Asian growth ambitions with acquisition of Indonesian ERP consultancy 01/11/2023 at 06:02 By Simon Sharwood SAP and Oracle services provider Equine Global becomes part of Big Blue IBM has acquired Indonesian ERP consultancy Equine Global and signalled the buy represents a sign of its plans “to grow its footprint in the region”.… This

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Apple swipes left on the last Touch Bar Mac, replaces it with a pricier 14″ model 01/11/2023 at 04:01 By Tobias Mann Proper function keys are the norm once more and the dream of a touchscreen Mac appears to be dead Comment  Apple appears to have decided its controversial Touch Bar is no longer needed,

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As NASA struggles to open OSIRIS-REx’s asteroid sample can, probe heads off to next rock 01/11/2023 at 03:17 By Katyanna Quach Screw it… no wait, unscrew it, cry boffins NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample-collecting spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has had its mission extended – and will next visit Apophis, a near-Earth object expected to fly as close as

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