July 2024

AMD sold $1B of Instinct GPUs last quarter, driving triple-digit datacenter growth 2024-07-31 at 05:01 By Tobias Mann Which is nice, but way behind Nvidia, while other segments are soft and supply-chain pain persists AMD has told investors that its Instinct MI300X GPUs – the chip designer’s alternative to Nvidia AI accelerator hardware – landed

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DigiCert gives unlucky folks 24 hours to replace doomed certificates after code blunder 2024-07-31 at 04:46 By Jessica Lyons For the want of an underscore DigiCert has given some unlucky customers 24 hours to replace their SSL/TLS security certificates it previously issued them – due to a five-year-old blunder in its backend software.… This article

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No, Amazon, you will handle the recall of stuff sold through your site, watchdog barks 2024-07-31 at 02:46 By Thomas Claburn E-super-souk isn’t having any of it Amazon has been ordered by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to take responsibility for recalling faulty and dangerous products sold by third-party merchants.… This article is

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No love lost between Apple and Nvidia as iGiant chooses Google chips for AI training 2024-07-31 at 01:16 By Matthew Connatser Things are getting Tensor between Cupertino and Nv Apple has detailed in a research paper how it trained its latest generative AI models using Google’s neural-network accelerators rather than, say, more fashionable Nvidia hardware.…

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Can’t get Minecraft, MongoDB Cloud, others to work today? Blame that Azure outage 2024-07-30 at 22:47 By Matthew Connatser Shut the Front Door! If you’ve had or are having problems using websites and apps today, it might well be due to the Microsoft Azure outage.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Meta to cough up $1.4B to end fight over ‘unlawful’ facial recognition of friends 2024-07-30 at 22:31 By Jessica Lyons Everything’s bigger in Texas – even the settlement deals Meta will pay a record $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit with Texas, which accused the Facebook giant of breaking privacy laws by performing facial recognition on

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Delta Air Lines dials up Microsoft’s legal nemesis over CrowdStrike losses 2024-07-30 at 22:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Oh, Boies, here we go again Delta Air Lines lost hundreds of millions of dollars due to the CrowdStrike outage earlier this month – and it has hired a high-powered law firm to claw some of those lost

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Qualcomm goes budget with Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 5G chipset 2024-07-30 at 21:17 By Dan Robinson Latest silicon aims to bring Gigabit connectivity to sub-$100 handsets Qualcomm has been pushing high-end smartphone platforms recently, but its latest release targets the budget segment, aiming to deliver Gigabit 5G connectivity to sub-$100 handsets.… This article is an

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Zuck dreams of personalized AI assistants for all – just like email 2024-07-30 at 20:31 By Tobias Mann A model finetuned on your social media profile? What could possibly go wrong? SIGGRAPH  Big public AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot have become near ubiquitous over the past few years – but Meta CEO Mark

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TSMC confirms it’ll dig into Dresden for chip giant’s first fab on Euro soil 2024-07-30 at 19:46 By Matthew Connatser Partnership with NXP, Infineon, and Bosch finally gets under way TSMC and partners will break ground in Dresden, Germany, to start building the Taiwanese chip maker’s first European fab.… This article is an excerpt from

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Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities in REDCap (CVE-2024-37394, CVE-2024-37395, and CVE-2024-37396) 2024-07-30 at 19:31 By Hamza Hussain Trustwave SpiderLabs uncovered multiple stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-37394, CVE-2024-37395, and CVE-2024-37396) in REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture), a widely used web application for building and managing online surveys and databases in research environments. These vulnerabilities, if exploited,

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A report shares hacktivist targeting criteria for the Olympic Games 2024-07-30 at 19:16 By A threat intelligence report offers insights into the evolving cyber landscape surrounding the Paris 2024 Olympics.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Rising costs biggest issue for datacenter operators as demand grows 2024-07-30 at 18:32 By Dan Robinson Not to mention the skills gap, AI skepticism, and the unrelenting quest for power Datacenter operators face multiple challenges such as power and cooling requirements, while staffing issues persist and many are not tracking the right sustainability metrics. On

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‘LockBit of phishing’ EvilProxy used in more than a million attacks every month 2024-07-30 at 17:46 By Jessica Lyons Leaves a trail of ransomware infections, data theft, business email compromise in its wake Insight  The developers of EvilProxy – a phishing kit dubbed the “LockBit of phishing” – have produced guides on using legitimate Cloudflare

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Microsoft’s Azure Portal takes a worldwide tumble 2024-07-30 at 17:15 By Richard Speed Ready to talk it up to investors today, Microsoft? Breaking  Microsoft’s cloud services are having a bad day as users worldwide have reported difficulty connecting to Azure.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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