February 2024

Angry mob trashes and sets fire to Waymo self-driving car 2024-02-12 at 07:16 By Simon Sharwood San Franciscans turn on empty robotaxi without apparent motive An angry mob has destroyed a Waymo self-driving taxi in San Francisco.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Better software supply chain security through SBOMs 2024-02-12 at 07:16 By n today’s interconnected digital landscape, the integrity and security of software components used in products and services are of paramount importance. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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U.S. Offers $10 Million Bounty for Info Leading to Arrest of Hive Ransomware Leaders 2024-02-12 at 06:46 By The U.S. Department of State has announced monetary rewards of up to $10 million for information about individuals holding key positions within the Hive ransomware operation. It is also giving away an additional $5 million for specifics that could

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Australia passes Right To Disconnect law, including (for now) jail time for bosses who email after-hours 2024-02-12 at 05:16 By Simon Sharwood Rushed law will lose criminal sanction, but debate about its utility is fierce Australia last week passed a Right To Disconnect law that forbids employers contacting workers after hours, with penalties including jail

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U.S. DoJ Dismantles Warzone RAT Infrastructure, Arrests Key Operators 2024-02-11 at 13:31 By The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) on Friday announced the seizure of online infrastructure that was used to sell a remote access trojan (RAT) called Warzone RAT. The domains – www.warzone[.]ws and three others – were “used to sell computer malware used by cybercriminals to secretly

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ANZ Bank test drives GitHub Copilot – and finds AI does give a helping hand 2024-02-10 at 23:32 By Thomas Claburn Expert Python programmers saw the most benefit GitHub Copilot has steered software engineers at the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ Bank) toward improved productivity and code quality, and the test drive was

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Sam Altman’s chip ambitions may be loonier than feared 2024-02-10 at 17:32 By Tobias Mann $7 trillion will buy you a helluva lotta fabs or every chip biz of consequence Opinion  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s dream of establishing a network of chip factories to fuel the growth of AI may be much, much wilder than

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50 years ago, the all-rookie, final Skylab crew returned to Earth 2024-02-10 at 12:48 By Richard Speed Around The World in 84 days It is 50 years this week since Skylab’s final crew departed the station after a record-setting 84 days of flight.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React

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Search chatbots? Pah, this startup’s trying on Yahoo’s old outfit of web directories 2024-02-10 at 11:17 By Thomas Claburn AI is here to stay though conversations won’t necessarily replace queries Interview  Web search, long dominated by Google, is in play again, at least among incumbents and entrepreneurs if not frustrated web searchers.… This article is

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Alert: New Stealthy “RustDoor” Backdoor Targeting Apple macOS Devices 2024-02-10 at 09:25 By Apple macOS users are the target of a new Rust-based backdoor that has been operating under the radar since November 2023. The backdoor, codenamed RustDoor by Bitdefender, has been found to impersonate an update for Microsoft Visual Studio and target both Intel and Arm architectures.

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Meet VexTrio, a network of 70K hijacked websites crooks use to sling malware, fraud 2024-02-10 at 05:48 By Jessica Lyons Some useful indicators of compromise right here More than 70,000 presumably legit websites have been hijacked and drafted into a network that crooks use to distribute malware, serve phishing pages, and share other dodgy stuff,

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Amazon screws over shoppers with Buy Box algorithm, another lawsuit claims 2024-02-10 at 04:16 By Katyanna Quach We’re allegedly paying too much for some stuff because the Bazaar of Bezos buries bargains Amazon has been sued by two customers in the United States who claim the internet titan artificially inflates prices, hitting shoppers in the

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Ivanti discloses fifth vulnerability, doesn’t credit researchers who found it 2024-02-09 at 23:47 By Connor Jones Software company’s claim of there being no active exploits also being questioned In disclosing yet another vulnerability in its Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA gateways, Ivanti has confused the third-party researchers who discovered it.… This article is an

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US regulators crack down on AI playing doctor in healthcare 2024-02-09 at 23:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Code might get things wrong for patients but we must think of the corporate profits AI algorithms used to determine eligibility for US government healthcare coverage are increasingly verboten, the federal agency Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

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Nvidia wants a piece of the custom silicon pie, reportedly forms unit to peddle IP 2024-02-09 at 22:17 By Tobias Mann Don’t want a GPU? How about some intellectual property or design help? Nvidia is reportedly putting together a business unit to peddle its intellectual property and design services to the likes of AWS, Microsoft,

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