2024

Gamers Tricked Into Downloading Lua-Based Malware via Fake Cheating Script Engines 2024-10-08 at 20:19 By Users searching for game cheats are being tricked into downloading a Lua-based malware that is capable of establishing persistence on infected systems and delivering additional payloads. “These attacks capitalize on the popularity of Lua gaming engine supplements within the student […]

Apple supplier Foxconn and Nvidia team up to deploy Taiwan’s fastest AI supercomputer 2024-10-08 at 19:02 By Gavin Bonshor How does 90 exaFLOPS sound? Nvidia has confirmed it will be working with mega electronics contractor Foxconn to construct Taiwan’s most powerful AI supercomputer.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

DoE awards next-gen nuclear fuel contracts backwards 2024-10-08 at 18:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘Deconversion’ can begin now, but initial enrichment, transportation and storage to processors is still TBD The US Department of Energy has awarded shares of an $800 million contract for advanced nuclear fuel deconversion to four companies, but it’s unclear who will be

Netizens are torturing Google’s AI podcast hosts 2024-10-08 at 17:31 By Richard Currie NotebookLM’s Audio Overview feature rudely discovers its wife never existed The demise of HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey remains a haunting cinema moment nearly six decades on for the questions it raises about consciousness, the ethics of AI

US lawmakers dig into FCC’s $900M Starlink snub in wake of Hurricane Helene 2024-10-08 at 16:46 By Richard Speed Nearly a billion dollars in rural broadband subsidies wouldn’t go amiss The Chairman of the US House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, James Comer, is investigating the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to revoke an award

Eric Schmidt: Build more AI datacenters, we aren’t going to ‘hit climate goals anyway’ 2024-10-08 at 16:16 By Dan Robinson Perhaps the power-draining tech is the solution after all, posits former Google CEO Google’s former chief Eric Schmidt thinks we shouldn’t let AI’s ballooning power consumption worry us, because putting AI to work on climate

Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good 2024-10-08 at 15:46 By Liam Proven Stability? Predictability? Reliability? Where’s the fun in that? EuroBSDcon 2024  One of Stefano Marinelli’s NetBSD boxes sat quietly serving for a decade, because everyone forgot about it. This is how Unix is meant to be.… This article is an

Security leaders discuss the new vulnerability added to CISA’s catalog 2024-10-08 at 15:01 By CISA has issued a warning regarding a known, exploited vulnerability. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

81% of U.S. workers have not been trained on generative AI 2024-10-08 at 15:01 By Security practices were analyzed in a recent report, finding that one in two office workers admit to using personal devices to log into work networks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

AI-driven e-commerce fraud is surging, but you can fight back with more AI 2024-10-08 at 14:31 By Thomas Claburn Juniper Research argues the only way to beat them is to join them E-commerce fraud is expected to surge in the next five years thanks to AI, and merchants are advised to respond with … AI.…

Cyberattack Group ‘Awaken Likho’ Targets Russian Government with Advanced Tools 2024-10-08 at 14:31 By Russian government agencies and industrial entities are the target of an ongoing activity cluster dubbed Awaken Likho. “The attackers now prefer using the agent for the legitimate MeshCentral platform instead of the UltraVNC module, which they had previously used to gain