April 2024

Software engineer helped put Sam Bankman-Fried behind bars, say prosecutors 2024-04-03 at 19:02 By Dan Robinson CTO shared code from his laptop with investigation after FTX collapsed Crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried’s conviction was expedited by the cooperation of the chief software engineer at his FTX crypto exchange, prosecutors have revealed.… This article is an excerpt from […]

U.S. Cyber Safety Board Slams Microsoft Over Breach by China-Based Hackers 2024-04-03 at 19:01 By The U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) has criticized Microsoft for a series of security lapses that led to the breach of nearly two dozen companies across Europe and the U.S. by a China-based nation-state group called Storm-0558 last year.

US reckons it’s about time the Moon had its own time zone 2024-04-03 at 18:47 By Richard Speed What’s a few milliseconds between friends? Quite a lot actually NASA, which isn’t known for timeliness, has been tasked by the White House with implementing a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) zone for the Moon traceable to Coordinated

Opera browser dev branch rolls out support for running LLMs locally 2024-04-03 at 18:16 By Matthew Connatser 150 variants from about 50 families to choose from Opera has added experimental support for running large language models (LLMs) locally on the Opera One Developer browser as part of its AI Feature Drop Program.… This article is

Outlook.com trips over Google’s spam blocking rules 2024-04-03 at 17:46 By Richard Speed Microsoft has a workaround but it’s not a great look Emails from users with Outlook.com country domains may not be reaching Gmail addresses but fear not – Microsoft has a workaround.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Microsoft lays out plans, pricing for Windows 10 life support 2024-04-03 at 17:17 By Richard Speed Want security updates? It’s gonna cost you Microsoft has laid out the ground rules for getting Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) as market share figures indicate users are still giving Windows 11 a wide berth.… This article is

Google Chrome Beta Tests New DBSC Protection Against Cookie-Stealing Attacks 2024-04-03 at 17:17 By Google on Tuesday said it’s piloting a new feature in Chrome called Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) to help protect users against session cookie theft by malware. The prototype – currently tested against “some” Google Account users running Chrome Beta –

Bon Jovi, Billy Eilish, other musicians implore AI devs to think of humanity 2024-04-03 at 16:46 By Lindsay Clark Using copyrighted material to train models affects artists’ livelihoods, says open letter The Artist Rights Alliance has launched a petition to end the use of AI that infringes upon or devalues the work of humans.… This