2023

GitHub Copilot, Amazon Code Whisperer sometimes emit other people’s API keys 19/09/2023 at 13:48 By Thomas Claburn AI dev assistants can be convinced to spill secrets learned during training GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisper can be coaxed to emit hardcoded credentials that these AI models captured during training, though not all that often.… This article […]

UK courts award CGI £60M deal to keep ancient tech alive 19/09/2023 at 13:02 By Lindsay Clark Legacy – sorry ‘heritage’ – support contract includes case managements systems The UK courts have awarded CGI a contract worth up to £60 million ($74.2 million) to keep its “heritage application” up and running after the much-delayed implementation

Over 12,000 Juniper Firewalls Found Vulnerable to Recently Disclosed RCE Vulnerability 19/09/2023 at 13:02 By New research has found that close to 12,000 internet-exposed Juniper firewall devices are vulnerable to a recently disclosed remote code execution flaw. VulnCheck, which discovered a new exploit for CVE-2023-36845, said it could be exploited by an “unauthenticated and remote attacker to execute arbitrary

Ubuntu’s ‘Mantic Minotaur’ peeks out of the labyrinth 19/09/2023 at 12:17 By Liam Proven As outline becomes visible, including the return of ZFS, kernel 6.4 glides across the Styx into eternity The next release of Ubuntu will appear in mid-October, and the latest daily builds reveal some of the features of the forthcoming interim release.…

BT confirms it’s switching off 3G in UK from Jan next year 19/09/2023 at 11:47 By Dan Robinson Time to retire that Nokia N97 at last? BT has updated the schedule to phase out 3G services from its networks a little later than planned, saying this will now start early next year.… This article is

Excel clone built for Uber China exposed Microsoft calculation error 19/09/2023 at 10:32 By Simon Sharwood Developer recounts rideshare giant’s strange Middle Kingdom journey, and its fears interns were spies A developer named Matt Basta has posted an extraordinary account of working for Uber, where he was asked to develop a substitute for Microsoft’s Excel

Transparent Tribe Uses Fake YouTube Android Apps to Spread CapraRAT Malware 19/09/2023 at 10:31 By The suspected Pakistan-linked threat actor known as Transparent Tribe is using malicious Android apps mimicking YouTube to distribute the CapraRAT mobile remote access trojan (RAT), demonstrating the continued evolution of the activity. “CapraRAT is a highly invasive tool that gives the attacker

Desktop AI isn’t happening, says AMD, and might not for quite a while 19/09/2023 at 09:35 By Simon Sharwood Chip designer has extended support for modest desktop CPUs, citing Intel setting expectations for cheap and not-so-speedy silicon AI-on-the-desktop is not yet a thing, and its uses may not be apparent for some time, according to