August 2024

Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer released in virtual version that runs in AWS 2024-08-07 at 06:01 By Dan Robinson Graviton processors get the job of helping RIKEN achieve HPC world domination Japan’s RIKEN Center for Computational Science has unveiled a virtual version of its Fugaku supercomputer that can be deployed in AWS.… This article is an excerpt […]

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Microsoft punches back against Delta Air Lines legal threats 2024-08-07 at 05:01 By Jessica Lyons SatNad himself offered CrowdStrike recovery help, Redmond says, before suggesting airline’s IT is in a mess Microsoft has labelled Delta Air Lines’ accusations it’s partly to blame for the outages caused by CrowdStrike’s buggy software “false” and “misleading” – and

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CrowdStrike hires outside security firms to review Falcon code 2024-08-07 at 03:31 By Jessica Lyons And reveals the small mistake that bricked 8.5 million Windows boxes CrowdStrike has hired two outside security firms to review the Falcon sensor code that sparked a global IT outage last month – but it may not have an awful

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Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off 2024-08-07 at 02:16 By Iain Thomson CEO claims ‘illegal boycott’ was attack on Musk’s version of free speech Twitter today sued the World Federation of Advertisers, whose members are said to control about 90 percent of global marketing spend, for

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All y’all love AI, right? Get ready for Gemini in Nest cameras, Google Assistant 2024-08-07 at 01:31 By Matthew Connatser And you’re replacing Chromecast with TV Streamer? Great! That’s a logical step for the evolving landscape of … Google’s Gemini AI is making its way to Nest cameras and Google Assistant, with the web goliath

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AMD hopes to unlock MI300’s full potential with fresh code 2024-08-07 at 00:01 By Tobias Mann Devs invited to ROCm out with FP8 precision, quantize to their heart’s delight AMD today released the latest version of ROCm, claiming the improved software will bring about strong performance boosts for its Instinct GPU family.… This article is

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Verisign under fire for increasing .com prices each and every year it can 2024-08-06 at 22:31 By Thomas Claburn Registry happy to chat about caps, just don’t consider it a commitment to actually do anything The US government’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has said it will renew its Cooperative Agreement with Verisign to

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Google splats device-hijacking exploited-in-the-wild Android kernel bug among others 2024-08-06 at 21:31 By Jessica Lyons And Qualcomm addresses ‘permanent denial of service’ flaw in its stuff Google released 46 fixes for Android in its August security patch batch, including one for a Linux kernel flaw in the mobile OS that can lead to remote code

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SAP Core AI bugs allowed access to internal network servers, say researchers 2024-08-06 at 20:46 By Matthew Connatser Wiz infoseccers able to promote themselves from humble customer to full-blown admin Black Hat  Flaws in SAP’s Core AI service created a gateway to its customers’ private data, including code and training materials, until they were patched

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Sonic Automotive says ransomware-linked CDK software outage cost it $30M 2024-08-06 at 19:46 By Connor Jones Misery loves company – all of its competitors were also negatively impacted One of the US’s largest car dealerships says the IT outage caused by CDK Global’s June ransomware attack cost it approximately $30 million.… This article is an

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86% of cyber professionals cite unknown cyber risks as a top concern 2024-08-06 at 19:16 By Security leaders respond to a report that states 86% of cyber professionals consider unknown cyber risks to be a top concern. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this

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INTERPOL Recovers $41 Million in Largest Ever BEC Scam in Singapore 2024-08-06 at 19:16 By INTERPOL said it devised a “global stop-payment mechanism” that helped facilitate the largest-ever recovery of funds defrauded in a business email compromise (BEC) scam.  The development comes after an unnamed commodity firm based in Singapore fell victim to a BEC

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North Korean Hackers Moonstone Sleet Push Malicious JS Packages to npm Registry 2024-08-06 at 19:16 By The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Moonstone Sleet has continued to push malicious npm packages to the JavaScript package registry with the aim of infecting Windows systems, underscoring the persistent nature of their campaigns. The packages in question,

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Backblaze sees drive failure rates tick up, asks if AI can help 2024-08-06 at 18:31 By Dan Robinson Puts drive models into focus to assess how often they fall over in their lifetime Backblaze has issued the latest report detailing failure rates for the multitude of drives that power its storage and backup services, and

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