April 2024

Banned Nvidia GPUs sneak into sanction-busting Chinese servers 2024-04-23 at 22:34 By Matthew Connatser Graphics giant and partners say they’re clean – it’s all technically legit More banned Nvidia GPUs are making their way into Chinese universities, local governments, and private companies.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to

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Miles of optical fiber crafted aboard ISS marks manufacturing first 2024-04-23 at 22:18 By Brandon Vigliarolo ZBLAN fibers made in space hopefully don’t crystallize and are far less brittle, opening the path to faster photonics Fiber optics of the future may be manufactured in space if the results of a recent ISS experiment prove its

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Seagate joins the HDD price hike party, blames AI for spike in demand 2024-04-23 at 21:31 By Dan Robinson Expect ongoing supply shortages this year, say storage analysts Seagate has joined Western Digital in increasing the prices of hard drives, with rising demand due to the huge data requirements of AI taking the blame. AI

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SpaceX workplace injury rates rocket for second year running 2024-04-23 at 20:47 By Matthew Connatser Musk outfit’s figures almost 10 times worse Workplace safety data reported to the US government for 2023 indicates that SpaceX’s injury rate continues to surpass the industry average.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React

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Miracle-WM tiling window manager for Mir hits 0.2.0 2024-04-23 at 19:47 By Liam Proven What are Mir and Wayland all about anyway? Mir-based tiling window manager Miracle-WM version 0.2.0 is here, building on the basis of the initial release. Will Mir bring peace and harmony and convergence after all?… This article is an excerpt from

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GM shared our driving data with insurers without consent, lawsuit claims 2024-04-23 at 19:02 By Jude Karabus Motorists file class action alleging breach of contract and more after their premiums went up Two New Jersey drivers claim they now pay more for their car insurance because General Motors (GM) and its OnStar app snooped on

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New research discovers vulnerability in an archived Apache project 2024-04-23 at 19:01 By Research has discovered a vulnerability in an Apache project that could lead to remote code execution inside of the production environment.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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iPhone sales dive 19.1% in China as Huawei comeback hits Apple in the high end 2024-04-23 at 18:47 By Matthew Connatser From first place to third as local brands grow iPhone sales in China – the world’s largest smartphone market – slipped by 19.1 percent in Q1 year-over-year while many domestic brands rose, pushing Apple

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Apache Cordova App Harness Targeted in Dependency Confusion Attack 2024-04-23 at 18:31 By Researchers have identified a dependency confusion vulnerability impacting an archived Apache project called Cordova App Harness. Dependency confusion attacks take place owing to the fact that package managers check the public repositories before private registries, thus allowing a threat actor to publish a malicious package

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Microsoft shrinks AI down to pocket size with Phi-3 Mini 2024-04-23 at 18:17 By Richard Speed Language model focused on reasoning fits on a smartphone and runs offline Microsoft claims the latest incarnation of its lightweight Phi-3 Mini AI model rivals competitors such as GPT-3.5 while being small enough to be deployed on a phone.…

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