April 2024

Ukraine Targeted in Cyberattack Exploiting 7-Year-Old Microsoft Office Flaw 2024-04-27 at 16:02 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a targeted operation against Ukraine that has been found leveraging a nearly seven-year-old flaw in Microsoft Office to deliver Cobalt Strike on compromised systems. The attack chain, which took place at the end of 2023 according to Deep Instinct, employs […]

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Raspberry Pi adds more memory to the Compute Module 4S 2024-04-27 at 15:34 By Richard Speed Compute Module 5 still on track for later this year New memory variants were this week launched for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module family. Customers can now specify a 4S with 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB, as well as the

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The hyper-clouds are open source’s friends 2024-04-27 at 14:34 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols No, really. Look at the evidence Opinion  One of the knee-jerk arguments made by companies abandoning their open source roots is that they can’t make money because the bad hyper-cloud companies “steal” their open source services. True, at one time, the hyper-clouds

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Workday abandons new-build Dublin office project 2024-04-27 at 12:33 By Lindsay Clark Continues to expand EMEA HQ in existing buildings instead SaaS biz application vendor Workday has pulled out of a new-build development in Dublin as it rethinks plans to expand EMEA HQ.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React

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NASA’s Psyche hits 25 Mbps from 140 million miles away – enough for Ultra HD Netflix 2024-04-27 at 11:32 By Richard Speed Laser beam comms are fast, so long as the weather cooperates NASA’s optical communications demonstration has hit 25 Mbps in a test transmitting engineering data back to Earth from 140 million miles (226

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Bogus npm Packages Used to Trick Software Developers into Installing Malware 2024-04-27 at 09:02 By An ongoing social engineering campaign is targeting software developers with bogus npm packages under the guise of a job interview to trick them into downloading a Python backdoor. Cybersecurity firm Securonix is tracking the activity under the name DEV#POPPER, linking it to North Korean threat

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Big Cloud is still making bank – Is this AI adoption, price rises, or what? 2024-04-27 at 03:16 By Iain Thomson Shareholders are loving it. What are customers getting out of it all? Kettle  This week a chunk of Big Tech reported its latest quarterly financial figures, and our beady eyes were on whether the

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Ex-Space Shuttle boss corrects the record on Hubble upgrade mission 2024-04-27 at 02:18 By Richard Speed Under Flight Rules, the crew should have turned back to Earth Former Space Shuttle Program Manager Wayne Hale has posted a correction to NASA’s history of STS-109, which he claims “is a lie” – although that may be a

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Jensen Huang and Sam Altman among tech chiefs invited to federal AI Safety Board 2024-04-27 at 01:17 By Matthew Connatser Stacking the deck – we’ve heard of it Leaders of the world’s most prominent AI companies are being recruited for the Homeland Security Department’s new advisory group.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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ASML caves to US pressure to cease servicing some kit used by Chinese customers 2024-04-27 at 00:17 By Matthew Connatser Not even maintenance is OK in the eyes of the Uncle Sam Under US pressure, Dutch photolithography giant ASML will no longer service certain chipmaking equipment purchased by Chinese customers.… This article is an excerpt

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