October 2024

Healthcare attacks spread beyond US – just ask India’s Star Health 2024-10-11 at 06:02 By Laura Dobberstein Acknowledges bulk customer data leak weeks after Telegram channels dangled it online Leading Indian health insurance provider Star Health has admitted to being the victim of a cyber attack after criminals claimed they had posted records of 30-milion-plus

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Chinese boffins build soft robot finger that can take your pulse 2024-10-11 at 04:02 By Iain Thomson It can also type, so the robo-doctor can heal you and write legibly Robot hands are commonplace, but their sense of touch is crude compared to that of a human. A design proposed by a group of scientists

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Cards Against Humanity campaigns to encourage voting, expose personal data abuse 2024-10-11 at 02:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Up to $100 for planning to vote and a public smear – how is this not illegal? The troublemakers behind the party game Cards Against Humanity have launched a campaign demonstrating how easy it is to buy sensitive

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Crooks stole personal info of 77k Fidelity Investments customers 2024-10-11 at 00:47 By Jessica Lyons But hey, no worries, the firm claims no evidence of data misuse Fidelity Investments has notified 77,099 people that their personal information was stolen in an August data breach. … This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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GSA plows ahead with face matching tech despite its own reliability concerns 2024-10-11 at 00:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo A week after saying remote ID verification tech is unreliable, the GSA is expanding access to other agencies The US government’s General Services Administration’s (GSA) facial matching login service is now generally available to the public and

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Microsoft admits Outlook crashes, says impact ‘mitigated’ 2024-10-10 at 23:01 By Iain Thomson Users just need to ‘refresh/restart’ their sessions Microsoft’s Outlook app is crashing for European users due to memory problems, Redmond has warned, and evidence suggests the problems are spreading to the US.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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BBC weather glitch shows 13k mph winds in London, 404℃ in Nottingham 2024-10-10 at 22:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo We’d know if it were true, and our reporters are just fine Those who rely on the BBC’s online weather forecasts to plan their day would be forgiven if they woke up this morning and thought the

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AMD pumps Epyc core count to 192, clocks up to 5 GHz with Turin debut 2024-10-10 at 21:16 By Tobias Mann Just not on the same chip, of course Intel’s 128-core Granite Rapids Xeons are barely two weeks old and AMD has already fired back with a family of fifth-gen Epycs that boast double-digit IPC

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AMD targets Nvidia H200 with 256GB MI325X AI chips, zippier MI355X due in H2 2025 2024-10-10 at 21:16 By Tobias Mann Less VRAM than promised, but still gobs more than Hopper AMD boosted the VRAM on its Instinct accelerators to 256 GB of HBM3e with the launch of its next-gen MI325X AI accelerators during its

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AMD aims latest processors at AI whether you need it or not 2024-10-10 at 21:16 By Gavin Bonshor Ryzen AI PRO 300 series leans heavily on Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC requirements AMD has introduced its latest processors designed for business applications. The line-up includes the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 375, Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO

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The .io domain isn’t going anywhere anytime soon amid treaty 2024-10-10 at 19:46 By Thomas Claburn UK-Mauritius handshake holds but Chagos Islands shift could eventually phase out the ccTLD The .io country code top-level domain (ccTLD) will not disappear anytime soon, at least not within the next five years. Beyond that, its future is uncertain.…

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SAP promises developer ‘fusion teams’ in cloud low-code environment 2024-10-10 at 18:46 By Lindsay Clark But projects must be completed in old desktop IDE TechEd  Enterprise software giant SAP is set to introduce a slew of features for developers on its platform, promising AI agents, knowledge graph, and cloud-based integration features in SAP’s low code-development

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Arrow Lake splashdown: Intel pins hopes on replacement for Raptors 2024-10-10 at 18:16 By Gavin Bonshor New silicon, new architecture, and loads of new motherboards rise to support it, but will power be anchored down? Back in September 2023, Intel unveiled its newly designed Meteor Lake SoC for the mobile market, which was the first

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Fore-get about privacy, golf tech biz leaves 32M data records on the fairway 2024-10-10 at 17:31 By Jessica Lyons Researcher spots 110 TB of sensitive info sitting in unprotected database Nearly 32 million records belonging to users of tech from Trackman were left exposed to the internet, sitting in a non-password protected database, for an

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