November 2024

Weekends were a mistake says Infosys co-founder Narayama Murthy 2024-11-18 at 06:03 By Laura Dobberstein Again defends his belief that 70-hour weeks are essential and work/life balance is bunk Infosys founder Narayama Murthy has tripled down on his previous statements that 70-hour work weeks are what’s needed in India and revealed he also thinks weekends […]

Equinix to close its ‘Metal’ IaaS offering in 2026 2024-11-18 at 04:03 By Simon Sharwood Joins the likes of HPE, Cisco, and VMware in failing to challenge dominant hyperscalers Datacenter giant Equinix will end its foray into infrastructure-a-service by shuttering its “Metal” bare metal IaaS offering.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Teen serial swatter-for-hire busted, pleads guilty, could face 20 years 2024-11-18 at 02:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo PLUS: Cost of Halliburton hack disclosed; Time to dump old D-Link NAS; More UN cybercrime convention concerns; and more Infosec in brief  A teenager has pleaded guilty to calling in more than 375 fake threats to law enforcement, and

TikTok parent ByteDance’s valuation hits $300 billion, sources say 2024-11-18 at 02:18 By Reuters TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is valuing itself at about $300 billion, after it recently approached investors about a share buyback program, according to two people familiar with the matter and a document viewed by Reuters. This article is an excerpt from

Will passkeys ever replace passwords? Can they? 2024-11-17 at 20:33 By Bruce Davie Here’s why they really should Systems Approach  I have been playing around with passkeys, or as they are formally known, discoverable credentials.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

AI poetry out-humans humans as readers prefer bots to bards 2024-11-17 at 11:53 By Lindsay Clark Uncultured swine prone to believe complexity of verse is machine-generated babble A study in the US has found that readers can’t tell the difference between poems written by famous poets and those written by AI aping their style. To

How crypto became the biggest winner of Trump 2.0 2024-11-16 at 21:33 By Alex Tapscott Crypto-currencies have soared since Trump’s big win. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

NASA and Microsoft intro Earth Copilot to tame satellite data overload 2024-11-16 at 15:18 By Richard Speed Proof of concept allows geospatial datasets to be conversationally queried Speculation over where Microsoft would take the Copilot brand next can now end thanks to the announcement of Earth Copilot in partnership with NASA.… This article is an

Rust haters, unite! Fil-C aims to Make C Great Again 2024-11-16 at 12:18 By Thomas Claburn It’s memory-safe, with a few caveats Developers looking to continue working in the C and C++ programming languages amid the global push to promote memory-safe programming now have another option that doesn’t involve learning Rust.… This article is an

PAN-OS Firewall Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation – IoCs Released 2024-11-16 at 10:48 By Palo Alto Networks has released new indicators of compromise (IoCs) a day after the network security vendor confirmed that a new zero-day vulnerability impacting its PAN-OS firewall management interface has been actively exploited in the wild. To that end, the company said

Warning: DEEPDATA Malware Exploiting Unpatched Fortinet Flaw to Steal VPN Credentials 2024-11-16 at 09:34 By A threat actor known as BrazenBamboo has exploited an unresolved security flaw in Fortinet’s FortiClient for Windows to extract VPN credentials as part of a modular framework called DEEPDATA. Volexity, which disclosed the findings Friday, said it identified the zero-day

Swiss cheesed off as postal service used to spread malware 2024-11-16 at 09:17 By Iain Thomson QR codes arrive via an age-old delivery system Switzerland’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued an alert about malware being spread via the country’s postal service.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Google AI chatbot threatens student asking for homework help, saying: ‘Please die’ 2024-11-16 at 03:33 By Alex Mitchell AI, yi, yi. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Bloke behind Helix Bitcoin launderette jailed for three years, hands over $400M 2024-11-16 at 03:03 By Iain Thomson Digital money laundering pays, until it doesn’t An Ohio man, who operated the Grams dark-web search engine and the Helix cryptocurrency money-laundering service associated with it, has been sentenced to three years in prison.… This article is