January 2024

That runaway datacenter power grab is the best news for net zero this century 2024-01-29 at 11:46 By Rupert Goodwins We’ve been working on the solution for 70 years. It’s there if we want it Opinion  Datacenter power is a shocking business. The latest report from the International Energy Agency makes some hair-raising predictions, such […]

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ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain to do the same job as 192.168.x.x 2024-01-29 at 09:47 By Simon Sharwood The plan is to keep the world at bay by never recording it in the DNS root – like may already do with a subdomain for an intranet The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

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NSA Admits Secretly Buying Your Internet Browsing Data without Warrants 2024-01-29 at 09:23 By The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has admitted to buying internet browsing records from data brokers to identify the websites and apps Americans use that would otherwise require a court order, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden said last week. “The U.S. government

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Eyeing China, US may require clouds to report when foreign actors rent kit to build AI models 2024-01-29 at 08:32 By Laura Dobberstein What’s the point of hardware export bans if foreign entities can access what they want on the cloud? US-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) operators could soon be required to strengthen know-your-customer (KYC) procedures in

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Malicious PyPI Packages Slip WhiteSnake InfoStealer Malware onto Windows Machines 2024-01-29 at 08:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have identified malicious packages on the open-source Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that deliver an information stealing malware called WhiteSnake Stealer on Windows systems. The malware-laced packages are named nigpal, figflix, telerer, seGMM, fbdebug, sGMM, myGens, NewGends, and TestLibs111.

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Tencent explores a future where HPC, quantum, cloud and edge have converged 2024-01-29 at 07:47 By Laura Dobberstein Meanwhile, Huawei is hot and bothered by the tech needed to cool datacenters Chinese tech giant Tencent has predicted that high-performance computing (HPC), quantum computing, cloud computing and edge computing will soon merge.… This article is an

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Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion 2024-01-29 at 05:47 By Simon Sharwood Kernel 6.8-rc2 debuts after very robust discussion about ‘inodes’ Linus Torvalds has dished up one of his most strongly worded Linux kernel mailing list posts in years, lashing a contributor from Google for his suggestions regarding filesystems.… This article is

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Tesla hacks make big bank at Pwn2Own’s first automotive-focused event 2024-01-29 at 03:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo ALSO: SEC admits to X account negligence; New macOS malware family appears; and some critical vulns Infosec in brief  Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) held its first-ever automotive-focused Pwn2Own event in Tokyo last week, and awarded over $1.3

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Competition is decreasing in enterprise IT – and you’ll be poorer and dumber for it 2024-01-28 at 18:03 By Simon Sharwood Suppliers know they can get away with less and the cloud means alternatives are less likely to emerge Comment  HPE’s decision to acquire Juniper is bad news for enterprise IT, as yet another example

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SparkyLinux harbors a flamboyant array of desktops 2024-01-28 at 12:32 By Liam Proven Both stable and rolling releases, Pi versions, and some very unusual customizations SparkyLinux is a lightweight distro based on Debian, but it offers some choices that few if any others do.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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The pen is mightier than the keyboard for turbocharging your noggin 2024-01-28 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark Brain research could help find the right mix between handwriting and new technologies, researchers claim Scientists claim to have found evidence that handwriting promotes learning more than typing on keyboards.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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If you use AI to teach you how to code, remember you still need to think for yourself 2024-01-27 at 16:46 By Katyanna Quach Computer science teachers, software experts share their advice on ML assistants Feature  Learning how to program is perhaps now easier than ever with AI, though the tools that suggest or generate

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TSMC finds its green chips are highly sought after… the potato ones 2024-01-27 at 12:31 By Dan Robinson Crunchy, tasty, coconut flavoured… and hopefully thicker than a few nanometers TSMC is known for making advanced semiconductors, but it seems the company is now driving up the price of chips made with tastier materials than traditional

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We put salt in our tea so you don’t have to 2024-01-27 at 11:32 By Richard Currie Despite US chemistry boffin claiming it improves the taste, we respectfully disagree Poll  It’s well established that the British are an eccentric people. Among their national obsessions is drinking tea – they consider themselves experts – and one

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