July 2024

China plans to boost national compute capacity thirty percent by 2025 2024-07-08 at 06:01 By Simon Sharwood From 230 Exaflops to 300, with Tesla a part of the plan for energy storage, – and cars China has offered a glimpse at the processing power of its national compute capacity, and pointed to plans to grow

React to this headline:

A friendly guide to containerization for AI work 2024-07-07 at 18:46 By Tobias Mann Save the headaches, ship your dependencies Hands on  One of the biggest headaches associated with AI workloads is wrangling all of the drivers, runtimes, libraries, and other dependencies they need to run.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

React to this headline:

Algorithmic wage discrimination: Not just for gig workers 2024-07-06 at 19:46 By Thomas Claburn What’s in the box! No seriously, what’s in there that sets our wages Interview  Algorithmic wage discrimination, as described in an academic paper last year by UC Irvine law professor Veena Dubal, involves “the use of granular data to produce unpredictable,

React to this headline:

Epic accuses Apple of foul play over iOS access, wants EU to show DMA red card 2024-07-06 at 12:01 By Matthew Connatser After button brouhaha, CEO rages Cupertino ‘must be stopped’ Apple has twice unfairly blocked Epic Games from opening its iOS app portal in the EU, the Fortnite maker claims, and thus is in

React to this headline:

Devs claim Apple is banning VPNs in Russia ‘more effectively’ than Putin 2024-07-06 at 00:31 By Matthew Connatser Mozilla shows guts with its extensions – but that’s the way the Cook, he crumbles At least two VPNs are no longer available for Russian iPhone users, seemingly after the Kremlin’s internet regulatory agency Roskomnadzor demanded Apple

React to this headline:

FCC: T-Mobile US unit gave blind customer the runaround in massive tech support fail 2024-07-05 at 23:16 By Jude Karabus Assurance Wireless must sort out accessibility after handing customer a phone without a screen reader In January 2021, Kenneth Geaniton, a blind consumer who subscribed to the Lifeline service provided by T-Mobile US offshoot Assurance

React to this headline:

Texas court blocks FTC noncompete ban, and you can blame SCOTUS 2024-07-05 at 21:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo That was quick: Supremes’ gutting of Chevron deference is already paying dividends Regulatory dominoes have begun to fall in the wake of the Supreme Court’s gutting of federal agency rulemaking authority, with the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on

React to this headline:

Cancer patient forced to make terrible decision after Qilin attack on London hospitals 2024-07-05 at 20:16 By Connor Jones Skin-sparing mastectomy and breast reconstruction scrapped as result of ransomware at supplier Exclusive  The latest figures suggest that around 1,500 medical procedures have been canceled across some of London’s biggest hospitals in the four weeks since

React to this headline:

Nvidia forecast to bounce back in China to make $12B selling GPUs 2024-07-05 at 18:46 By Dan Robinson Company’s sales in the region have dropped under US plan to curb country’s AI hopes Nvidia is forecast to make $12 billion from selling GPUs into China this year despite US trade restrictions aimed at curbing Beijing’s

React to this headline:

Paessler pulls subscription licensing switcheroo on PTRG Network Monitor 2024-07-05 at 17:16 By Dan Robinson Customers seek alternatives after claiming costs up from perpetual Exclusive  Fears that VMware’s switch to subscription-based licensing would lead other vendors to follow suit may be coming true after Paessler confirmed to The Reg it has introduced new subscription pricing

React to this headline:

Webinar Alert: Learn How ITDR Solutions Stop Sophisticated Identity Attacks 2024-07-05 at 16:16 By Identity theft isn’t just about stolen credit cards anymore. Today, cybercriminals are using advanced tactics to infiltrate organizations and cause major damage with compromised credentials. The stakes are high: ransomware attacks, lateral movement, and devastating data breaches. Don’t be caught off

React to this headline:

OVHcloud Hit with Record 840 Million PPS DDoS Attack Using MikroTik Routers 2024-07-05 at 16:16 By French cloud computing firm OVHcloud said it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in April 2024 that reached a packet rate of 840 million packets per second (Mpps). This is just above the previous record of 809 million

React to this headline:

Latest Ghostscript vulnerability haunts experts as the next big breach enabler 2024-07-05 at 15:47 By Connor Jones There’s also chatter about whether medium severity scare is actually code red nightmare Infosec circles are awash with chatter about a vulnerability in Ghostscript some experts believe could be the cause of several major breaches in the coming

React to this headline: