January 2024

Tesco techies and Azure jockeys hit the floor during weekend of outages 2024-01-22 at 14:32 By Richard Speed Every little helps. Especially testing and talking to customers It was a tricky weekend for techies – not only did Microsoft’s Azure Resource Manager fall over across the globe on January 21, 2024, local UK retailing giant […]

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52% of Serious Vulnerabilities We Find are Related to Windows 10 2024-01-22 at 14:16 By We analyzed 2,5 million vulnerabilities we discovered in our customer’s assets. This is what we found. Digging into the data The dataset we analyze here is representative of a subset of clients that subscribe to our vulnerability scanning services. Assets

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NS-STEALER Uses Discord Bots to Exfiltrate Your Secrets from Popular Browsers 2024-01-22 at 14:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Java-based “sophisticated” information stealer that uses a Discord bot to exfiltrate sensitive data from compromised hosts. The malware, named NS-STEALER, is propagated via ZIP archives masquerading as cracked software, Trellix security researcher Gurumoorthi Ramanathan said in an

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Mystery German chip fab sips on Gradiant’s ultrapure water 2024-01-22 at 13:46 By Dan Robinson Most advanced semiconductor facility in Europe is being subsidized by Chips Act funding Water treatment company Gradiant has won a contract to build a plant providing ultrapure water for a chip fabrication facility being constructed in Germany by an unnamed

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ICO fines spam slinging financial services biz 2024-01-22 at 13:02 By Paul Kunert It’s all very well offering ‘Free Debt Help,’ but recipients were unwilling, says watchdog… A financial services company that illegally dispatched tens of thousands of spam messages promising to help the recipients magically wipe away their debts is itself now a debtor

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Google building datacenter campus on the outskirts of London 2024-01-22 at 12:32 By Dan Robinson Waltham Cross bit barn part of Alphabet’s plans for ‘future capacity needs’ Google has commenced construction of a $1 billion datacenter complex on the outskirts of London it says is needed to provide a reliable service to Google Cloud customers

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Veeam researching support for VMware alternative Proxmox as backup buyers fret about Broadcom 2024-01-22 at 10:47 By Simon Sharwood Product to protect Oracle virtualization is already on the backup vendor’s roadmap Exclusive  Backup software vendor Veeam is doing early research on VMware alternative Proxmox, potentially with a view to creating a product to protect data

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FTC Bans InMarket for Selling Precise User Location Without Consent 2024-01-22 at 10:01 By The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is continuing to clamp down on data brokers by prohibiting InMarket Media from selling or licensing precise location data. The settlement is part of allegations that the Texas-based company did not inform or seek consent

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Huawei prepares to split from Android on consumer devices with HarmonyOS Next 2024-01-22 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood Touts custom kernel that creams Linux, coming soon for devs and later for punters Huawei last week detailed a major release of its HarmonyOS that will see the Chinese giant break with the Linux ecosystem.… This article

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Energy breakthrough needed to build AGI, says OpenAI boss Altman 2024-01-22 at 07:47 By Katyanna Quach ALSO: Google’s geometry reasoning breakthrough; Amazon debuts experimental shopping AI AI In brief  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes that a breakthrough in energy production is required to advance increasingly capable and power-hungry AI models.… This article is an excerpt

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NASA lost contact with Mars helicopter Ingenuity, then managed to find it again 2024-01-22 at 06:47 By Laura Dobberstein ESA makes its own discovery: the most water ever found on Mars NASA regained contact with its Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, on Saturday two days after after it lost communication as the vehicle descended from its most

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