April 2024

TSMC sees semiconductor bounce as Q1 revenues rise 16.5% 2024-04-10 at 18:46 By Dan Robinson Early figures post a $18.44B haul for industry bellwether Semiconductor giant TSMC looks to have rebounded from last year’s doldrums with revenue up 16.5 percent for the first quarter of this year, compared with the same period in 2023.… This

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Hailo’s latest AI chip shows up integrated NPUs and sips power like fine wine 2024-04-10 at 18:11 By Matthew Connatser All your PC needs for 40 TOPS is an M.2 slot Today, users who want to interface with AI usually do so through a cloud-based service like ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, rather than locally.… This

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‘eXotic Visit’ Spyware Campaign Targets Android Users in India and Pakistan 2024-04-10 at 17:32 By An active Android malware campaign dubbed eXotic Visit has been primarily targeting users in South Asia, particularly those in India and Pakistan, with malware distributed via dedicated websites and Google Play Store. Slovak cybersecurity firm said the activity, ongoing since

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Peter Higgs, daddy of the Higgs boson, dies at 94 2024-04-10 at 17:16 By Lindsay Clark The particle bearing his name lives on Obituary  In a world dominated by instant gratification, Peter Higgs, who died earlier this week, had to wait more than half of his 94-year lifetime to see his theoretical predictions confirmed, thereby

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Raspberry Robin Returns: New Malware Campaign Spreading Through WSF Files 2024-04-10 at 16:49 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Raspberry Robin campaign wave that propagates the malware through malicious Windows Script Files (WSFs) since March 2024. “Historically, Raspberry Robin was known to spread through removable media like USB drives, but over time its distributors

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Rust rustles up fix for 10/10 critical command injection bug on Windows 2024-04-10 at 16:31 By Connor Jones BatBadBut hits Erlang, Go, Python, Ruby as well Programmers are being urged to update their Rust versions after the security experts working on the language addressed a critical vulnerability that could lead to malicious command injections on

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Beware: GitHub’s Fake Popularity Scam Tricking Developers into Downloading Malware 2024-04-10 at 16:13 By Threat actors are now taking advantage of GitHub’s search functionality to trick unsuspecting users looking for popular repositories into downloading spurious counterparts that serve malware. The latest assault on the open-source software supply chain involves concealing malicious code within Microsoft Visual

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Virtually and actually, LXC 6 and Incus 6 are here – both LTS versions 2024-04-10 at 15:38 By Liam Proven There’s a new version of Canonical’s LXD too, but its community fork seems to be thriving The community fork of what is now Canonical’s in-house virtualization tool seems to be doing well, with major new

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