March 2024

Tiny Corp launching Nvidia-powered AI computer because ‘it just works’ 2024-03-25 at 20:32 By Matthew Connatser Startup criticizes AMD over buggy firmware After a weeks-long struggle to get its AMD RX 7900XTX-based TinyBox working on open source firmware, Tiny Corp says it will be launching an Nvidia RTX 4090 version for users who want something

Over 170K users hit by poisoned Python package ruse 2024-03-25 at 20:17 By Matthew Connatser Supply chain attack targeted GitHub community of Top.gg Discord server More than 170,000 users have been affected by an attack using fake Python infrastructure with “successful exploitation of multiple victims.”… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Google’s AI-powered search results are loaded with spammy, scammy garbage 2024-03-25 at 19:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo If you’re seeing AI-generated results in Google Search and you didn’t opt in, be careful what you click Google’s new AI-generated search results feature is suffering from the same problem that its regular results have had of late: Spammy,

AI bubble or not, Nvidia is betting everything on a GPU-accelerated future 2024-03-25 at 19:03 By Tobias Mann LLMs powering generative AI may be moving GPUs, but Huang and co already looking at next big opportunity Comment  For many, apps like ChatGPT, Copilot, Midjourney, or Gemini are generative AI.… This article is an excerpt from

Woz calls out US lawmakers for TikTok ban: ‘I don’t like the hypocrisy` 2024-03-25 at 18:48 By Dan Robinson ‘Look at what we’re accusing TikTok of, and then go look at Facebook and Google…’ Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has criticized the US government’s targeting of TikTok, saying it is hypocritical to single out one social

Evaluating Your Security Posture: Security Assessment Basics 2024-03-25 at 18:31 By David Broggy This is Part 4 in my ongoing project to cover 30 cybersecurity topics in 30 weekly blog posts. The full series can be found here. This article is an excerpt from SpiderLabs Blog View Original Source

ZTNA Plus DLP Equals a Strong Approach to Secure Access 2024-03-25 at 18:17 By Aileen Kara Hudspeth Ensuring Only the Right People Access the Right Data This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

ZenHammer comes down on AMD Zen 2 and 3 systems 2024-03-25 at 18:17 By Thomas Claburn Boffins demonstrate Rowhammer memory meddling on AMD DDR4 hardware ZenHammer would be the perfect name for a heavy metal band, but alas, it’s an AMD-focused variant of the decade-old Rowhammer attack that compromises computers by flipping bits of memory.…

Tech trade union confirms cyberattack behind IT, email outage 2024-03-25 at 17:47 By Connor Jones Systems have been pulled offline as a precaution Exclusive  The Communications Workers Union (CWU), which represents hundreds of thousands of employees in sectors across the UK economy including tech and telecoms, is currently working to mitigate a cyberattack.… This article

Mozilla fixes $100,000 Firefox zero-days following two-day hackathon 2024-03-25 at 17:17 By Connor Jones Users may have to upgrade twice to protect their browsers Mozilla has swiftly patched a pair of critical Firefox zero-days after a researcher debuted them at a Vancouver cybersec competition.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

GoFetch security exploit can’t be disabled on M1 and M2 Apple chips 2024-03-25 at 16:47 By Matthew Connatser For now, cryptographic work should be run on slower Icestorm cores The GoFetch vulnerability found on Apple M-series and Intel Raptor Lake CPUs has been further unpacked by the researchers who first disclosed it.… This article is

Boeing top brass stand down amid safety turbulence 2024-03-25 at 16:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo They were all planning on leaving anyway, company claims The door plug on Boeing’s C-suite has flown off, taking the CEO, board chair, and head of its commercial airplane division with it.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View