February 2024

City council megaproject mulls ditching Oracle after budget balloons to £131M 2024-02-22 at 14:02 By Lindsay Clark As bankrupt local authority slashes services and hikes taxes, consultants enjoy £1k-a-day while system still can’t offer auditable accounts Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in Europe, is considering ditching Oracle as its main ERP and HR […]

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Prompt engineering is a task best left to AI models 2024-02-22 at 12:47 By Thomas Claburn Machine-learning boffins find open source neural nets can optimize their own queries Large language models have given rise to the dark art of prompt engineering – a process for composing system instructions that elicit better chatbot responses.… This article

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Cybercriminals Weaponizing Open-Source SSH-Snake Tool for Network Attacks 2024-02-22 at 12:46 By A recently open-sourced network mapping tool called SSH-Snake has been repurposed by threat actors to conduct malicious activities. “SSH-Snake is a self-modifying worm that leverages SSH credentials discovered on a compromised system to start spreading itself throughout the network,” Sysdig researcher Miguel Hernández said. “The worm

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A New Age of Hacktivism 2024-02-22 at 12:46 By In the past 2 years, we have observed a significant surge in hacktivism activity due to ongoing wars and geopolitical conflicts in various regions. Since the war against Ukraine began, we have witnessed a notable mobilization of non-state and state-backed actors alike, forming new groups or

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Russian Government Software Backdoored to Deploy Konni RAT Malware 2024-02-22 at 12:46 By An installer for a tool likely used by the Russian Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MID) has been backdoored to deliver a remote access trojan called Konni RAT (aka UpDog). The findings come from German cybersecurity company DCSO, which linked the activity

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Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and openSUSE to get better installation 2024-02-22 at 11:47 By Liam Proven Fedora, though, won’t – until at least the version after next Installation remains a pain point for many Linux distros, but everyone is working hard on it. Some of those efforts are bearing fruit… but not all of them.… This article

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Boeing-backed air taxi upstart Wisk plans to fly you across town at UberX prices by 2030 2024-02-22 at 10:46 By Laura Dobberstein Absence of an on-board pilot will lower costs and raise blood pressure, starting soon in Texas Boeing-backed autonomous aircraft startup Wisk expects to be operational by the end of the decade, at which

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Google releases Gemma – LLMs small enough to run on your computer 2024-02-22 at 09:31 By Katyanna Quach Your own personal chatbot awaits Google has released a family of “open” large language models named Gemma, that are compact enough to run on a personal computer. … This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Giant leak reveals Chinese infosec vendor I-Soon is one of Beijing’s cyber-attackers for hire 2024-02-22 at 08:47 By Simon Sharwood Trove reveals RATs that can pop major OSes, campaigns against offshore and local targets A cache of stolen document posted to GitHub appears to reveal how a Chinese infosec vendor named I-Soon offers rent-a-hacker services

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U.S. Offers $15 Million Bounty to Hunt Down LockBit Ransomware Leaders 2024-02-22 at 07:48 By The U.S. State Department has announced monetary rewards of up to $15 million for information that could lead to the identification of key leaders within the LockBit ransomware group and the arrest of any individual participating in the operation. “Since

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Crowning glory of GOV.UK websites updated, sparking frontend upgrades 2024-02-22 at 06:32 By Simon Sharwood His Majesty’s Royal Cypher adopted the Tudor Crown, so a new icon was needed Logowatch  GV.UK websites this week started implementing a major change: a new crown icon.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React

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Gelsinger splits Intel in two to advance foundry vision 2024-02-22 at 04:47 By Tobias Mann Separation of church and state? More like separation of Product and Foundry FDC  Pat Gelsinger wants to make Intel the world’s second largest chip manufacturer by 2030, and that means serving businesses the x86 giant has traditionally seen as competitors.…

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Nvidia revenue grows 265 percent with more to come as new GPUs and Ethernet near 2024-02-22 at 03:46 By Simon Sharwood Jensen Huang defends colossal GPU purchases made by hyperscalers, claims they’re ‘fairly allocated’ Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has claimed responsibility for hyperscalers’ decisions to extend the operating life of their server fleets, and suggested

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