June 2024

We’re the Ryzen force in CPUs for AI PCs: AMD 2024-06-03 at 06:54 By Simon Sharwood Arm, schmarm: new 50TOPS NPUs that talk Block FP16 really make AI sing, says CEO Lisa Su Computex  Two weeks after Microsoft made the AI PC all about Arm-powered processors from Qualcomm, AMD has announced a pair of PC

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VMware by Broadcom has a licensing portability win with Microsoft 2024-06-03 at 06:54 By Simon Sharwood If only customers could find their keys after support portal migration VMware by Broadcom has won Microsoft’s support for its license portability plan.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Beware: Fake Browser Updates Deliver BitRAT and Lumma Stealer Malware 2024-06-03 at 06:54 By Fake web browser updates are being used to deliver remote access trojans (RATs) and information stealer malware such as BitRAT and Lumma Stealer (aka LummaC2). “Fake browser updates have been responsible for numerous malware infections, including those of the well-known SocGholish

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AMD reveals the MI325X, a 288GB AI accelerator built to battle Nvidia’s H200 2024-06-03 at 06:16 By Tobias Mann House of Zen hopes to catch its AI rival by moving to a year release cadence Computex  AMD’s flagship AI accelerator will receive a high-bandwidth boost when its MI325X arrives later this year.… This article is

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Cisco’s emergency caller can send emergency services to the wrong location 2024-06-03 at 05:31 By Simon Sharwood 911 is a joke Cisco has warned that its Emergency Responder product can send emergency services to the wrong location under some circumstances.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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DARPA awards in-orbit manufacturing contract to Momentus 2024-06-02 at 22:50 By Brandon Vigliarolo In the not too distant future agency wants to found factories in the sky A space company with a troubled past has been thrown a possible lifeline by DARPA, which has awarded it a contract to demonstrate the first steps towards building

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Twitter ‘supersharers’ of fake news tend to be older Republican women 2024-06-01 at 17:46 By Thomas Claburn Tiny percentage of users make X miss the spot About 80 percent of the fake news shared on Twitter during the 2020 US presidential election came from just 0.3 percent of users, according to researchers from Israel and

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Do you really need that GPU or NPU for your AI apps? 2024-06-01 at 12:16 By Chris Williams And how do we feel about Palantir selling its ML-based targeting system to the entire US military? Tune in! Kettle  There’s no avoiding AI and LLMs this year. The technology is being stuffed into everything, from office

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AI Company Hugging Face Notifies Users of Suspected Unauthorized Access 2024-06-01 at 10:46 By Artificial Intelligence (AI) company Hugging Face on Friday disclosed that it detected unauthorized access to its Spaces platform earlier this week. “We have suspicions that a subset of Spaces’ secrets could have been accessed without authorization,” it said in an advisory.

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Twitch ditches Safety Advisory Council, relaunches with vetted ‘ambassadors’ 2024-06-01 at 02:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Who needs experts when you have an army of hand-picked super users telling you what you want to hear? Twitch has reportedly dismantled its Safety Advisory Council, and apparently plans to replace the panel with chosen “ambassadors.”… This article is

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The Canon Cat – remembering the computer that tried to banish mice 2024-06-01 at 01:34 By Liam Proven Refurbishing the next machine to come from the original inventor of the Mac Feature  Vintage systems guru Cameron Kaiser documents stripping down and fixing a Canon Cat – the most revolutionary computer you’ve never heard of.… This

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Snowflake denies miscreants melted its security to steal data from top customers 2024-06-01 at 00:46 By Tobias Mann Infosec house claims Ticketmaster, Santander hit via cloud storage Infosec analysts at Hudson Rock believe Snowflake was compromised by miscreants who used that intrusion to steal data on hundreds of millions of people from Ticketmaster, Santander, and

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US senator claims UnitedHealth’s CEO, board appointed ‘unqualified’ CISO 2024-06-01 at 00:31 By Connor Jones Similar cases have resulted in serious sanctions, and they were on a far smaller scale Serial tech and digital privacy critic Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) laid into UnitedHealth Group’s (UHG) CEO for appointing a CISO Wyden deemed “unqualified”– a decision

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