October 2024

Congress to Commerce: Sanction more Chinese chip firms to stop Huawei’s evasion 2024-10-25 at 02:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo We don’t really need a letter full of circumstantial evidence to prove what we already know needs doing US elected officials are urging the Commerce Department to take action to prevent Huawei from building a network of […]

AWS Cloud Development Kit flaw exposed accounts to full takeover 2024-10-25 at 01:49 By Jessica Lyons Remember Bucket Monopoly? Yeah, it gets worse Amazon Web Services has fixed a flaw in its open source Cloud Development Kit that, under the right conditions, could allow an attacker to hijack a user’s account completely.… This article is

Scientists demand FCC test environmental impacts of satellites 2024-10-25 at 00:34 By Thomas Claburn Boffins say it’s absurd that the US comms watchdog won’t consider atmospheric harms One hundred and twenty astronomy researchers on Thursday sent a letter asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to end the “absurd” environmental review exemption given to SpaceX’s Starlink

Ford CEO admits he drives a Chinese electric vehicle and doesn’t want to give it up 2024-10-24 at 23:48 By Iain Thomson Warns the Middle Kingdom is drinking Detroit’s milkshake at the moment Jim Farley, CEO of Ford, has made a surprising confession – he has been driving a Chinese-made electric vehicle, and he loves

Hugging Face puts the squeeze on Nvidia’s software ambitions 2024-10-24 at 22:33 By Tobias Mann AI model repo promises lower costs, broader compatibility for NIMs competitor Hugging Face this week announced HUGS, its answer to Nvidia’s Inference Microservices (NIMs), which the AI repo claims will let customers deploy and run LLMs and models on a

Costco may have found its ‘Netflix moment’ with this membership-boosting move 2024-10-24 at 22:18 By Fox Business Costco’s introduction of membership card scanners at the front of US stores is still rolling out, but the move is already paying off big for the wholesale club. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews

Emergency patch: Cisco fixes bug under exploit in brute-force attacks 2024-10-24 at 21:18 By Jessica Lyons Who doesn’t love abusing buggy appliances, really? Cisco has patched an already exploited security hole in its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software that miscreants have been brute-forcing in attempted denial of service attacks.… This

New Qilin.B Ransomware Variant Emerges with Improved Encryption and Evasion Tactics 2024-10-24 at 20:33 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an advanced version of the Qilin ransomware sporting increased sophistication and tactics to evade detection. The new variant is being tracked by cybersecurity firm Halcyon under the moniker Qilin.B. “Notably, Qilin.B now supports AES-256-CTR encryption for

Securing Your Foundation 2024-10-24 at 20:18 By Peter Dulay Why You Need Host-Based Access Control This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

$180 for an overpriced, dubious SSD drive? Maybe don’t join the USB Club 2024-10-24 at 20:18 By Brandon Vigliarolo No specs and few details, but the promise of access to an exclusive community is still drawing buyers Imagine that your USB flash drive came with software that lets an unknown cloud platform scan its contents

AI toilet camera snaps pictures of poop — here’s why you want a fecal record 2024-10-24 at 19:48 By Ben Cost It’s a literal crap-shoot. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Huawei releases data detailing serverless secrets 2024-10-24 at 19:48 By Simon Sharwood Reveals why your functions start slowly on its cloud and maybe others too Huawei Cloud has released a huge trove of data describing the performance of its serverless services in the hope that other hyperscalers use it to improve their own operations.… This

Floppy discs still run a U.S. metro? Japan steps in with ‘project kill floppy’ 2024-10-24 at 19:03 By Gavin Bonshor Hitachi Rail contract inked by SF transport board will kill the throwback San Francisco’s Muni Metro could be finally getting ready to wave goodbye to the antiquated and archaic floppy disk-based train control system.… This

A closer look at Intel and AMD’s different approaches to gluing together CPUs 2024-10-24 at 18:33 By Tobias Mann Epycs or Xeons, more cores = more silicon, and it only gets more complex from here Analysis  Shortly after the launch of AMD’s first-gen Epyc processors codenamed Naples in 2017, Intel quipped that its competitor had

Multi-Site Mastery: Strategies for Effective Risk Assessments 2024-10-24 at 18:18 By In this episode of The Security Podcasts we sit down with Mark Landry, National Accounts Director at AMAROK, to discuss navigating multi-site risk assessment effectively. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Boeing strike continues as union rejects contract, scuttling CEO’s recovery plan 2024-10-24 at 18:05 By Brandon Vigliarolo Kelly Ortberg’s turnaround express heads back to the hangar Thousands of unionized Boeing machinists will remain on strike after rejecting their employer’s latest contract offer, dealing a swift blow to recovery plans CEO Kelly Ortberg outlined yesterday. … This