August 2024

Nvidia admits Blackwell defect, but Jensen Huang pledges Q4 shipments as promised 2024-08-29 at 23:48 By Tobias Mann The setback won’t stop us from banking billions, CFO insists Nvidia has confirmed earlier reports that its Blackwell generation of GPUs suffered from a design defect that adversely impacted the yields of the hotly anticipated accelerators.… This […]

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Oh, great. Attacks developed by spyware vendors are being re-used by Russia’s Cozy Bear cretins 2024-08-29 at 23:18 By Iain Thomson Google researchers note the similarities, can’t find a link Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has spotted a disturbing similarity in attack tactics used by commercial spyware vendors and Russia-linked attack gangs.… This article is

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AMD’s Victor Peng: AI thirst for power underscores the need for efficient silicon 2024-08-29 at 22:32 By Tobias Mann Moore’s Law may be running out of steam, but there are still knobs to turn and levers to pull Hot Chips  Speaking at Hot Chips this week, AMD president Victor Peng addressed one of the biggest

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Feds claim sinister sysadmin locked up thousands of Windows workstations, demanded ransom 2024-08-29 at 21:46 By Jessica Lyons Sordid search history ‘evidence’ in case that could see him spend 35 years for extortion and wire fraud A former infrastructure engineer who allegedly locked IT department colleagues out of their employer’s systems, then threatened to shut

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Yelp accuses Google of being a local search bully in antitrust lawsuit 2024-08-29 at 21:19 By Brandon Vigliarolo Chocolate Factory claims rival is trying to revive cases it’s already lost Yelp has waded through legal floodgates opened by the Department of Justice’s antitrust victory with a lawsuit of its own, alleging Google is monopolizing local

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Salesforce mulls charging per AI chat as investors sweat over fewer seats 2024-08-29 at 20:46 By Lindsay Clark Benioff sees ‘very high margin opportunity’ in bid to ‘monitize’ productivity gains Salesforce is considering a new charging model based on AI agent conversations as it attempts to allay investor concerns that improving productivity among users will

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Rock Chrome hard enough and get paid half a million 2024-08-29 at 19:46 By Thomas Claburn Google revises Chrome Vulnerability Rewards Program with higher payouts for bug hunters Google’s Chrome Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP) is now significantly more rewarding – with a top payout that’s at least twice as substantial.… This article is an excerpt

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Breach exposed information of more than 500,000 credit union members 2024-08-29 at 19:17 By Security leaders discuss the Texas Dow Employees Credit Union breach that impacted more than 500,000 members.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Vietnamese Human Rights Group Targeted in Multi-Year Cyberattack by APT32 2024-08-29 at 19:17 By A non-profit supporting Vietnamese human rights has been the target of a multi-year campaign designed to deliver a variety of malware on compromised hosts. Cybersecurity company Huntress attributed the activity to a threat cluster known as APT32, a Vietnamese-aligned hacking crew

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Russian Hackers Exploit Safari and Chrome Flaws in High-Profile Cyberattack 2024-08-29 at 19:17 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged multiple in-the-wild exploit campaigns that leveraged now-patched flaws in Apple Safari and Google Chrome browsers to infect mobile users with information-stealing malware. “These campaigns delivered n-day exploits for which patches were available, but would still be effective

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Verizon taps another satellite operator to make texting from the middle of nowhere easier 2024-08-29 at 18:47 By Dan Robinson iPhone-like functionality coming to other devices on the network soon Verizon has teamed up with another satellite operator to offer US customers a commercial direct-to-device messaging service for when a terrestrial cell network is not

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Ex-Windows boss who tried to save the Start Menu now Shopify tech wizard 2024-08-29 at 17:47 By Richard Speed Time to make e-commerce great again instead? Mikhail Parakhin, the former Windows boss who pledged to “make Start Menu great again” before departing Microsoft shortly after, has popped up as CTO of e-commerce outfit Shopify.… This

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Fintech outfit Klarna swaps humans for AI by not replacing departing workers 2024-08-29 at 16:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Insists it’s not cutting jobs and pays harder-to-automate people more with AI savings Buy-now-pay-later outfit Klarna’s CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski is so thrilled with the performance of AI at his business that he’s planning to shrink the human

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