April 2024

RISC-V AI chip upstart Rivos plans to undercut Nvidia, helped by a quarter-billion in VC lucre 2024-04-17 at 04:01 By Tobias Mann With Apple lawsuit behind it, focussed on finalizing its designs RISC-V chip designer Rivos has raised $250 million in series-A funding to bankroll production of its first accelerator for generative AI and data

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Fire in the Cisco! Networking giant’s Duo MFA leaks message logs 2024-04-17 at 03:16 By Jessica Lyons Also warns of brute force attacks targeting its own VPNs, Check Point, Fortinet, SonicWall and more Cisco is fighting fires on a couple fronts this week after security incidents involving its Duo multi-factor authentication (MFA) service and its

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FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all on sale for a price 2024-04-17 at 01:17 By Matthew Connatser Of course there’s an enterprise plan for the Feds and AI trainers Internet-scraping outfit Spy.pet claims to have harvested more than four billion public messages made by nearly 620 million users on

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MGM says FTC can’t possibly probe its ransomware downfall – watchdog chief Lina Khan was a guest at the time 2024-04-16 at 23:46 By Jessica Lyons What a twist! MGM Resorts wants the FTC to halt a probe into last year’s ransomware infection of the mega casino chain – because the watchdog’s boss Lina Khan

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YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids 2024-04-16 at 23:01 By Thomas Claburn EFF lambastes latest ‘lazy and deliberately malicious move’ YouTube says it will intentionally cripple the playback of its videos in third-party apps that block its ads.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this

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China scientists talk of powering hypersonic weapon with cheap Nvidia chip 2024-04-16 at 22:31 By Dan Robinson Jetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models Analysis  Researchers in China have reportedly demonstrated how a low-cost Nvidia Jetson module could theoretically be used to direct a hypersonic weapon.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Gentoo Linux tells AI-generated code contributions to fork off 2024-04-16 at 21:46 By Matthew Connatser A good PR move opines community member AI-generated and assisted code contributions are no longer allowed in the Gentoo Linux distribution.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Latest AMD Ryzen Pro chips are similar silicon, more smarts 2024-04-16 at 21:16 By Matthew Connatser That other processor company really wants you to use AI at work AMD has brought its 4 nm Hawk Point and Phoenix APUs to business users in the form of the Ryzen Pro 8040 series for laptops and Ryzen

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Torvalds intentionally complicates his use of indentation in kconfig 2024-04-16 at 20:46 By Liam Proven The paramount penguin forces more robust whitespace handling Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has made the use of indentation in kernel config files more ambiguous – intentionally, to weed out inferior parsers.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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