April 2024

Tesla asks shareholders to reinstate Musk’s voided $56B pay package 2024-04-17 at 20:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Given the electric car maker’s annus horribilis so far in 2024, does the chief even deserve it? A Delaware court may have voided Elon Musk’s $56 billion Tesla pay package in February, but now the board is asking shareholders

Sandia National Lab takes delivery of Intel’s latest brain in a box 2024-04-17 at 19:16 By Tobias Mann Hala Point system crams more than a thousand neurochips into a 6U chassis to tackle real-time AI Intel Labs revealed its largest neuromorphic computer on Wednesday, a 1.15 billion neuron system, which it says is roughly analogous

Samsung boosts LPDDR5X to 10.7 Gbps, ups efficiency and capacity for mobile and servers 2024-04-17 at 18:47 By Matthew Connatser Guess what it’s great for? Go on, have a guess… 20 points if you muttered an abbreviation starting with A and ending in I Samsung has revealed its upgraded LPDDR5X memory modules, which features improved

Crypto conferences liquidated after biblical flooding in Dubai 2024-04-17 at 18:17 By Richard Currie There’s something nice about seeing Web3 fanatics in ankle-deep water And the Lord looked down upon the crypto bros and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will send down upon thee a flood to wash out

AlmaLinux 9.4 beta prepares to tread where RHEL dares not 2024-04-17 at 17:46 By Liam Proven CIQ also has an alternative approach to compatible kernels with RockyLinux The bigger RHELatives continue to diverge slightly from Red Hat, with additional drivers and newer kernel versions.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Whistleblower cries foul over alleged fuselage gaps in Boeing 787 Dreamliner 2024-04-17 at 17:16 By Richard Speed Company rejects claims as ‘inaccurate’ A Boeing whistleblower has called for the embattled aircraft manufacturer’s fleet of 787s to be grounded for gap checks.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Russian APT Deploys New ‘Kapeka’ Backdoor in Eastern European Attacks 2024-04-17 at 17:01 By A previously undocumented “flexible” backdoor called Kapeka has been “sporadically” observed in cyber attacks targeting Eastern Europe, including Estonia and Ukraine, since at least mid-2022. The findings come from Finnish cybersecurity firm WithSecure, which attributed the malware to the Russia-linked advanced persistent threat

Exploit code for Palo Alto Networks zero-day now public 2024-04-17 at 16:31 By Connor Jones Race on to patch as researchers warn of mass exploitation of directory traversal bug Various infosec researchers have released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for the maximum-severity vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS used in GlobalProtect gateways.… This article is an excerpt

ASML profits plunge 40% amid dip in chipmaking tool orders 2024-04-17 at 16:16 By Dan Robinson Except in China, where customers accounted for almost half of the photolithography giant’s top line Chipmaking kit maestro ASML generated almost half of its sales from China in calendar Q1, amid a wider downturn in orders and plunging profits.…