November 13, 2024

Data broker amasses 100M+ records on people – then someone snatches, sells it 2024-11-13 at 23:48 By Jessica Lyons We call this lead degeneration What’s claimed to be more than 183 million records of people’s contact details and employment info has been stolen or otherwise obtained from a data broker and put up for sale […]

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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to eject hundreds more workers 2024-11-13 at 23:34 By Richard Speed Budget constraints result in ‘painful but necessary adjustments’ NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will need to lose hundreds more workers as managers seek to meet the current FY’25 budget allocation.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Snowflake opens chat-driven access to enterprise and third-party data 2024-11-13 at 21:34 By Lindsay Clark Cortex-powered front end for easier access to insights across multiple sources Snowflake is set to preview a new platform it claims will help organizations build chatbots that can serve up data from its own analytics systems and those external to

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Ransomware fiends boast they’ve stolen 1.4TB from US pharmacy network 2024-11-13 at 21:18 By Connor Jones American Associated Pharmacies yet to officially confirm infection American Associated Pharmacies (AAP) is the latest US healthcare organization to have had its data stolen and encrypted by cyber-crooks, it is feared.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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DOGE dynamic duo Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy could slash government jobs with private sector methods 2024-11-13 at 21:03 By Charles Gasparino One move under consideration is doling out severance packages. Businesses do this all the time. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source React to

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AMD axes 4% of staff while staring hungrily at AI, servers 2024-11-13 at 20:33 By Gavin Bonshor LLM, LLM on the wall, who will be laid off first of all? AMD has confirmed plans to cut approximately four percent of its global workforce – about 1,000 jobs out of a total headcount of roughly 26,000.…

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Microsoft slips Task Manager and processor count fixes into Patch Tuesday 2024-11-13 at 19:48 By Richard Speed Sore about cores no more Microsoft has resolved two issues vexing Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 users among the many security updates that emerged on Patch Tuesday.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Meta ordered to face FTC’s antitrust lawsuit over Instagram, WhatsApp acquisitions 2024-11-13 at 19:18 By Reuters A judge largely denied Meta’s motion to end the case filed against Facebook in 2020 alleging that the company acted illegally to maintain its social network monopoly. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews |

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California’s last nuclear plant turns to generative AI for filing and finding the fine print 2024-11-13 at 18:35 By Brandon Vigliarolo Diablo Canyon gets nifty new tech to … speed up document retrieval? A California startup is deploying what it says is the first commercial installation of generative AI at a US nuclear power plant,

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Hamas-Affiliated WIRTE Employs SameCoin Wiper in Disruptive Attacks Against Israel 2024-11-13 at 18:34 By A threat actor affiliated with Hamas has expanded its malicious cyber operations beyond espionage to carry out disruptive attacks that exclusively target Israeli entities. The activity, linked to a group called WIRTE, has also targeted the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi

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Dogecoin surges nearly 20% after Trump announces Elon Musk-led ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ 2024-11-13 at 18:03 By Ariel Zilber Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy were appointed by Trump to lead DOGE, which will function as an advisory committee outside of the government. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New

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Nvidia’s MLPerf submission shows B200 offers up to 2.2x training performance of H100 2024-11-13 at 18:02 By Tobias Mann Is Huang leaving even more juice on the table by opting for mid-tier Blackwell part? Signs point to yes Analysis  Nvidia offered the first look at how its upcoming Blackwell accelerators stack up against the venerable

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Mozilla’s Firefox browser turns 20. Does it still matter? 2024-11-13 at 17:49 By Thomas Claburn A former exec believes in the non-profit’s mission, says the battle lines have changed Mozilla’s Firefox browser clocked its second decade over the weekend, an event celebrated by Mozilla Corporation CEO Laura Chambers.… This article is an excerpt from The

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The 5 words or phrases you should never Google — to avoid being hacked 2024-11-13 at 17:03 By Brooke Steinberg Googling seems harmless, but what you google could actually put you at risk of falling victim to a hacker. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post

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Ambitious overclocker cools Raspberry Pi 5 with liquid nitrogen 2024-11-13 at 17:03 By Richard Speed We do these things because we can and because we must The dark arts of overclocking remain alive and well. And one master of the practice has turned their attention to the Raspberry Pi 5 with the intention of getting

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Free Decryptor Released for BitLocker-Based ShrinkLocker Ransomware Victims 2024-11-13 at 16:48 By Romanian cybersecurity company Bitdefender has released a free decryptor to help victims recover data encrypted using the ShrinkLocker ransomware. The decryptor is the result of a comprehensive analysis of ShrinkLocker’s inner workings, allowing the researchers to discover a “specific window of opportunity for

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