March 2024

Apple fans flooded with phony password reset requests 2024-03-28 at 00:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Beware support calls offering a fix Apple device owners, consider yourselves warned: A targeted multi-factor authentication bombing campaign is going around with the goal of exhausting iUsers into accidentally allowing a password reset.… This article is an excerpt from The Register […]

Majority of Americans now use ad blockers 2024-03-27 at 23:32 By Thomas Claburn We’re dreaming of a white list, because we’re just like the ones you used to know More than half of Americans are using ad blocking software, and among advertising, programming, and security professionals that fraction is more like two-thirds to three-quarters.… This

NASA gives IXPE observatory the Ctrl-Alt-Del treatment to make it talk sense 2024-03-27 at 23:01 By Richard Speed Hardware misbehaving in orbit? Time for a reset on the avionics NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space observatory has had a problem, prompting engineers on the ground to hit the reset button.… This article is an

‘Thousands’ of businesses at mercy of miscreants thanks to unpatched Ray AI flaw 2024-03-27 at 22:47 By Jessica Lyons Anyscale claims issue is ‘long-standing design decision’ – as users are raided by intruders Thousands of companies remain vulnerable to a remote-code-execution bug in Ray, an open-source AI framework used by Amazon, OpenAI, and others, that

Amazon finishes pumping $4B into AI darling Anthropic 2024-03-27 at 22:05 By Thomas Claburn Adds $2.75B to the ML sweepstakes ante and is counting on Claude Amazon says it has concluded its investment in AI super-startup Anthropic, which now stands at $4 billion, a figure the e-commerce colossus committed to last year.… This article is

SEC cleared to take securities beef against Coinbase to trial 2024-03-27 at 21:37 By Brandon Vigliarolo Judge says watchdog can HODL four of its five charges against crypto exchange The SEC’s lawsuit accusing cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase of operating as an unregistered securities broker has survived its first legal challenge, opening the door for the case

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite dares to game, reaching 30 FPS in Baldur’s Gate 3 2024-03-27 at 21:01 By Matthew Connatser The bare minimum performance, but suggests a beefy integrated GPU Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite has some gaming and graphics prowess as seen in a demo where a reference laptop was shown to be running Baldur’s

NASA to shoot rockets at April solar eclipse to see how it messes with the atmosphere 2024-03-27 at 20:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Boffins hope to better understand how phenomena disrupt comms tech in order to prevent future outages There’s a total solar eclipse coming up in North America, and NASA plans to shoot some rockets

Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies’ jobs 2024-03-27 at 20:16 By Liam Proven Some staff are worried – can’t think why Mutterings of alarm are emerging from the cloisters of Red Hat after the world’s largest management consultancy was hired to help the IBM subsidiary focus engineers on their

Kaby Lake-G chip back from the grave, now on NAS motherboard 2024-03-27 at 19:32 By Matthew Connatser The Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU into the processor package resurrected by Topton Kaby Lake-G, the Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU directly into the CPU package itself, was pronounced dead in 2019, but that