October 2024

Uncle Sam puts $10M bounty on Russian troll farm Rybar 2024-10-18 at 04:02 By Connor Jones Propaganda op focuses on anti-West narratives to meddle with elections The US has placed a $10 million bounty on Russian media network Rybar and a number of its key staffers following alleged attempts to sway the upcoming US presidential […]

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Destiny Robotics settles SEC case over AI-powered human robot vaporware 2024-10-18 at 03:46 By Iain Thomson Raised $141k+ crowdfunding, but now powered down The SEC has reached a deal with defunct Destiny Robotics after investors lost all their capital when the startup failed to produce the promised product.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Troubled US insurance giant hit by extortion after data leak 2024-10-18 at 02:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Globe Life claims blackmailers shared stolen into with short sellers US insurance provider Globe Life, already grappling with legal troubles, now faces a fresh headache: an extortion attempt involving stolen customer data.… This article is an excerpt from The

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FCC fines be damned, ESPN misuses emergency alert tones yet again 2024-10-18 at 01:37 By Brandon Vigliarolo It’s the third strike, yet all they get is a slap on the wrist? Sports broadcasting network ESPN faces a proposed fine for using emergency alert service (EAS) attention sounds without authorization – again, apparently.… This article is

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Qualcomm ‘pausing’ X-Elite Dev Kit, offering refunds 2024-10-18 at 00:18 By Tobias Mann Five months in, only 200 units reached customers, Qualy tells El Reg Qualcomm has officially pulled the plug on its Snapdragon for Windows Dev Kits less than five months after the X-Elite powered mini-PCs were announced.… This article is an excerpt from

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Samsung releases 24Gb GDDR7 DRAM for testing in beefy AI systems 2024-10-17 at 23:34 By Gavin Bonshor Production slated for Q1 2025, barring any hiccups Samsung has finally stolen a march in the memory market with 24 Gb GDDR7 DRAM being released for validation in AI computing systems from GPU customers before production – expected

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Microsoft crafts Rust hypervisor to power Azure workloads 2024-10-17 at 22:31 By Thomas Claburn OpenVMM touts stronger security, but not ready for prime time just yet Microsoft earlier this month published code for a new hypervisor, or virtual machine monitor (VMM), written in Rust.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Infrastructure giant Schneider Electric powers up with $850M liquid cooling deal 2024-10-17 at 21:48 By Dan Robinson Snags controlling stake in Motivair Corporation, rest to come by 2028 Schneider Electric is taking a controlling interest in Motivair Corporation, a specialist in liquid cooling and thermal management tech for high-performance computing (HPC) systems.… This article is

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Manifest file destiny: Declare your funding needs via JSON 2024-10-17 at 20:02 By Thomas Claburn India-based stockbroker Zerodha pledges $1M a year for open source projects Zerodha, an India-based stock brokerage, has launched a fund to support open source software, to which the company attributes its existence and success.… This article is an excerpt from

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Russian RomCom Attacks Target Ukrainian Government with New SingleCamper RAT Variant 2024-10-17 at 19:31 By The Russian threat actor known as RomCom has been linked to a new wave of cyber attacks aimed at Ukrainian government agencies and unknown Polish entities since at least late 2023. The intrusions are characterized by the use of a

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Western Digital releases firmware fix for SSDs blighted by Windows 11 24H2 BSODs 2024-10-17 at 18:46 By Richard Speed Microsoft tells us it is investigating the issue… Phew, that’s ok then Microsoft says it is looking into reports that certain Western Digital SSDs are causing trouble for users of Windows 11 24H2 on some devices.…

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Researchers Uncover Cicada3301 Ransomware Operations and Its Affiliate Program 2024-10-17 at 17:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have gleaned additional insights into a nascent ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) called Cicada3301 after successfully gaining access to the group’s affiliate panel on the dark web. Singapore-headquartered Group-IB said it contacted the threat actor behind the Cicada3301 persona on the RAMP cybercrime

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Brazilian police claim they’ve cuffed serial cybercrook behind FBI and Airbus attacks 2024-10-17 at 17:01 By Connor Jones Early stage opsec failures lead to landmark arrest of suspected serial data thief Brazilian police are being cagey with the details about the arrest of a person suspected to be responsible for various high-profile data thefts.… This

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HMD delivers Android Digital Detox feature to stop you scrolling your life away 2024-10-17 at 15:46 By Liam Proven Update for Skyline phone brings selective distraction blocking A couple of months after launch, an OS update has delivered one of the Nokia HMD Skyline’s headline features.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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