July 2024

Kindle sputters out: Amazon’s e-readers couldn’t download content for a day or more 2024-07-05 at 05:46 By Simon Sharwood Support line reports ‘high volume of contacts’ about the problem Owners of Amazon’s Kindle e-reader devices looking for something new to read may have had to pick up an actual book – the old-school kind, made

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We’ve banned Chinese telco kit and drones. Next: mountain bikes? 2024-07-05 at 04:01 By Laura Dobberstein DJI builds a power pack for off-road two-wheelers Nations worried about China’s ability to use its tech companies for more than trade now have a new class of kit to fret over: mountain bikes, thanks to Middle Kingdom drone-maker

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Atos shuffles debt around as curtain call nears for restructuring saga 2024-07-04 at 19:46 By Dan Robinson Investors will be hoping so anyway Crisis-prone IT services outfit Atos says it is among the top 11 percent of companies in the industry – at least when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks –

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Db2 is a story worth telling, even if IBM won’t 2024-07-04 at 17:31 By Lindsay Clark Promise of AI features, but Big Blue won’t reveal much more about next steps of its highly regarded relational database Opinion  Last week, I committed a crime. No, I did not defraud the IRS/HMRC or steal some Snyder’s Pretzels/Cheesy

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AST SpaceMobile promises the Moon with seamless satellite phone service 2024-07-04 at 16:01 By Dan Robinson Yet all its birds remain resolutely earthbound AST SpaceMobile has reiterated its plans to enable a satellite phone service covering the entire continental US that will work seamlessly with existing devices, thanks to spectrum sharing agreements with AT&T and

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Experimental Mir-based tiling WM is winning acceptance outside Ubuntopia 2024-07-04 at 15:01 By Liam Proven Miracle-WM takes several more steps forward The Miracle-WM tiling window manager for Canonical’s Mir display server has hit 0.3 – and also reaches places you may not expect to find Canonical code.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Datacenter demand driven by AI… but constrained by power shortages 2024-07-04 at 13:46 By Dan Robinson Not content with drinking up all our water, now we’ll compete with DCs for power Demand for datacenter space is currently at a high in many markets around the globe because of the AI boom, despite issues with securing

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Microsoft Uncovers Critical Flaws in Rockwell Automation PanelView Plus 2024-07-04 at 13:46 By Microsoft has revealed two security flaws in Rockwell Automation PanelView Plus that could be weaponized by remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code and trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. “The [remote code execution] vulnerability in PanelView Plus involves two custom classes that

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Row erupts over data sharing function in UK doctor software 2024-07-04 at 12:46 By Lindsay Clark Union advises members to turn off features government introduced to allow third parties to update records The UK’s doctors’ union has advised members running GP surgeries to turn off certain functionality in their IT system to prevent outside organizations

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Europol nukes nearly 600 IP addresses in Cobalt Strike crackdown 2024-07-04 at 11:46 By Connor Jones Private sector helped out with week-long operation – but didn’t touch China Europol just announced that a week-long operation at the end of June dropped nearly 600 IP addresses that supported illegal copies of Cobalt Strike.… This article is

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Brazil Halts Meta’s AI Data Processing Amid Privacy Concerns 2024-07-04 at 10:16 By Brazil’s data protection authority, Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD), has temporarily banned Meta from processing users’ personal data to train the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. The ANPD said it found “evidence of processing of personal data based on inadequate

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ITER delays first plasma for world’s biggest fusion power rig by a decade 2024-07-04 at 10:01 By Simon Sharwood Who could have guessed that giant magnets capable of constraining mini-suns would be hard to build? The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a 35-nation effort to create electricity from nuclear fusion, has torn up its project

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Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key 2024-07-04 at 09:01 By Laura Dobberstein Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway Brain Cipher, the group responsible for hacking into Indonesia’s Temporary National Data Center (PDNS) and disrupting the country’s services, has seemingly apologized for its actions and released

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Global Police Operation Shuts Down 600 Cybercrime Servers Linked to Cobalt Strike 2024-07-04 at 07:31 By A coordinated law enforcement operation codenamed MORPHEUS has felled close to 600 servers that were used by cybercriminal groups and were part of an attack infrastructure associated with the Cobalt Strike.  The crackdown targeted older, unlicensed versions of the

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Report suggests organizations sacrifice client privacy to save money 2024-07-04 at 07:16 By 1 in 3 security leaders believe that half of organizations are willing to trade their customer’s privacy in order to save money. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Australia to build Top Secret Cloud in AWS for military and spooky users 2024-07-04 at 07:01 By Simon Sharwood Interoperability with US infrastructure a big selling point Australia’s government has announced its intention to build a Top Secret-rated cloud with help from Amazon Web Services.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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