September 2024

Microsoft Warns of New INC Ransomware Targeting U.S. Healthcare Sector 2024-09-19 at 13:31 By Microsoft has revealed that a financially motivated threat actor has been observed using a ransomware strain called INC for the first time to target the healthcare sector in the U.S. The tech giant’s threat intelligence team is tracking the activity under

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With billions in UK govt IT contracts about to expire, get the next vendors to act right 2024-09-19 at 12:46 By Lindsay Clark Poor performers get renewals, new small outfits discouraged from bidding, say researchers UK government IT contracts worth £23.4 billion are due to end during the current five-year Parliament, according to researchers who

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SiFive shifts from RISC-V cores for AI chips to designing its own full-fat accelerator 2024-09-19 at 11:32 By Tobias Mann Seems someone’s looking for an Arm wrestle SiFive, having designed RISC-V CPU cores for various AI chips, is now offering to license the blueprints for its own homegrown full-blown machine-learning accelerator.… This article is an

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Broadcom CEO predicts hyperscalers poised to build million-accelerator clusters 2024-09-19 at 11:16 By Simon Sharwood Hock Tan reckons the silicon sales cycle is about to swing up, sharply, too Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has predicted his hyperscale semiconductor customers will continue building AI clusters for another three to five years, with each generation of machines

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Tor insists its network is safe after German cops convict CSAM dark-web admin 2024-09-19 at 11:16 By Iain Thomson Outdated software blamed for cracks in the armor The Tor project has insisted its privacy-preserving powers remain potent, countering German reports that user anonymity on its network can be and has been compromised by police.… This

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NTT Data, IBM, team on mainframe cloud for banks 2024-09-19 at 11:16 By Laura Dobberstein SimpliZCloud is only for India right now, based on big Blue’s LinuxONE The mainframe has found another role, thanks to Japan’s IT services giant NTT Data which has decided to build a hybrid cloud service based on the IBM LinuxONE

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GitLab Patches Critical SAML Authentication Bypass Flaw in CE and EE Editions 2024-09-19 at 08:31 By GitLab has released patches to address a critical flaw impacting Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) that could result in an authentication bypass. The vulnerability is rooted in the ruby-saml library (CVE-2024-45409, CVSS score: 10.0), which could allow

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Lenovo turns to India as source of AI servers 2024-09-19 at 07:02 By Laura Dobberstein Another win for the Make In India policy, but a small one in terms of product volume Lenovo revealed on Tuesday that it will manufacture AI servers at its plant in Puducherry, India, and has opened a new infrastructure research

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