2023

Wayland heading for default status as Mint devs mix it into Cinnamon 6 bun 27/10/2023 at 22:37 By Liam Proven Plus Linux Mint 22 to be based on Ubuntu ‘Noble Numbat’ The creators of Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop are experimenting with the Wayland protocol – and so is the original developer of Xfce.…

Daily malware activity doubled year over year for small businesses 27/10/2023 at 21:51 By Small business cybersecurity was analyzed in a recent Comcast report, finding that daily malware activity in 2023 roughly doubled since 2022. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Cruise blues: Robotaxi firm pauses all driverless operations 27/10/2023 at 21:39 By Brandon Vigliarolo Decision comes after CA revokes firm’s driverless license and NHTSA signal an investigation Robotaxi operator Cruise’s bad week just keeps getting worse: Now the GM-backed business has paused driverless operations across the entire fleet.… This article is an excerpt from The

F5 hurriedly squashes BIG-IP remote code execution bug 27/10/2023 at 20:48 By Connor Jones Fixes came earlier than scheduled as vulnerability became known to outsiders F5 has issued a fix for a remote code execution (RCE) bug in its BIG-IP suite carrying a near-maximum severity score.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Russia hustles to fill impending void left by the ISS 27/10/2023 at 19:25 By Richard Speed First module of new space station to be launched in 2027 Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a project to build an Orbital Station following a meeting regarding the development of the country’s space industry.… This article is an

The battle between open source and ‘sort of’ open source is as old as software 27/10/2023 at 18:33 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols There’s nothing new about HashiCorp leaving the principle behind Opinion  At the Linux Foundation Members Summit in Monterrey, California, topic number one was artificial intelligence and open source. Number two was about HashiCorp

N. Korean Lazarus Group Targets Software Vendor Using Known Flaws 27/10/2023 at 18:33 By The North Korea-aligned Lazarus Group has been attributed as behind a new campaign in which an unnamed software vendor was compromised through the exploitation of known security flaws in another high-profile software. The attack sequences, according to Kaspersky, culminated in the deployment of

Missouri school district announces data breach 27/10/2023 at 18:17 By Reeds Spring School District discovered in late September that threat actors had gained access to files between April 26, 2023 and May 18, 2023.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Tenfold electric vehicles on 2030 roads could be a shock to the system 27/10/2023 at 17:47 By Paul Kunert Robust policies for renewables needed to increase energy mix to nearly 50% There could be ten times the number of electric cars on the road by 2030 and stronger renewable energy policies are needed not just

AWS CEO talks up AI to focus minds of Wall Street types 27/10/2023 at 17:21 By Paul Kunert Q3 sales below forecasts, profits up, and conversation centers on LLMs and GenAI Amazon’s cloud biz disappointed analysts with lower-than-expected sales as customers generally continue to look for ways to cut costs rather than spin up new