2024

Google insists the ad tech business ain’t broke, urges Washington not to fix it 2024-09-10 at 03:46 By Thomas Claburn As its other monopoly trial – the one brought by the DoJ and eight states – begins in Virginia Google defended its advertising technology businesses in the court of public opinion on Sunday, just as […]

Feds urge 3D printing industry to end DIY machine guns 2024-09-10 at 02:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo DoJ, ATF target MCDs, but what about the printers? The US Department of Justice is turning to the 3D printing industry to help combat the scourge of machine gun conversion devices (MCDs) used by criminals to turn semi-automatic firearms

WhatsApp’s ‘View Once’ could be ‘View Whenever’ due to a flaw 2024-09-10 at 01:31 By Iain Thomson It promised vanishing messages, but now ‘it’s privacy theater’ Video  A popular privacy feature in WhatsApp is “completely broken and can be trivially bypassed,” according to developers at cryptowallet startup Zengo.… This article is an excerpt from The

Apple debuts iPhone 16, Watch Series 10, assorted AirPods 2024-09-10 at 00:16 By Thomas Claburn Setting the stage for pending AI feature while doubling down on health tech Apple just introduced its iPhone 16 line, Watch Series 10, and assorted AirPods, and also set formal release dates next week for its iOS 18 and watchOS

OneFileLinux: A tiny recovery distro that fits snugly in your EFI system partition 2024-09-09 at 23:35 By Liam Proven The kind of thing the big names should be doing instead of working with proprietary vendors OneFileLinux is a very different sort of distro that runs entirely from your UEFI system partition, without a bootable USB

Russia’s top-secret military unit reportedly plots undersea cable ‘sabotage’ 2024-09-09 at 23:35 By Jessica Lyons US alarmed by heightened Kremlin naval activity worldwide Russia’s naval activity near undersea cables is reportedly drawing the scrutiny of US officials, further sparking concerns that the Kremlin may be plotting to “sabotage” underwater infrastructure via a secretive, dedicated military

DoE drops $23M in effort to reinvigorate supercomputing 2024-09-09 at 22:32 By Tobias Mann Challenges span energy efficiency, memory, programmability, and national security The US Department of Energy has launched a $23 million program aimed at overcoming a litany of supercomputing performance bottlenecks.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

In profitability push Mobileye dumps LiDAR, slashes workforce 2024-09-09 at 21:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo But then again is LiDAR even on the radar in 2024? Mobileye is axing its light detection and ranging (LiDAR) research team, noting the tech has fallen out of favor in the automated driver assist space though to the keen observer

New RAMBO Attack Uses RAM Radio Signals to Steal Data from Air-Gapped Networks 2024-09-09 at 21:31 By A novel side-channel attack has been found to leverage radio signals emanated by a device’s random access memory (RAM) as a data exfiltration mechanism, posing a threat to air-gapped networks. The technique has been codenamed RAMBO by Dr.

GenAI hype meets harsh reality as enterprises wrestle with business case 2024-09-09 at 20:47 By Dan Robinson Nvidia, Equinix clearly making a killing over costs, confusion, and cold feet Enterprises are still struggling with the business case for generative AI projects more than a year after the craze started, and we may have to wait

Avis alerts nearly 300k car renters that crooks stole their info 2024-09-09 at 20:02 By Jessica Lyons ‘Insider wrongdoing’ to blame for the breach Avis Rent A Car System has alerted 299,006 customers across multiple US states that their personal information was stolen in an August data breach.… This article is an excerpt from The

Confidant Health database exposed 5.3 terabytes of patient information 2024-09-09 at 19:17 By A cybersecurity researcher discovered an exposed Confidant Health database containing thousands of records.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

1.7M potentially pwned after payment services provider takes a year to notice break-in 2024-09-09 at 19:02 By Connor Jones Criminals with plenty of time on their hands may now have credit card details Around 1.7 million people will receive a letter from Florida-based Slim CD, if they haven’t already, after the company detected an intrusion

Cluster II spacecraft reenters and burns up with a nod to its controllers 2024-09-09 at 18:31 By Richard Speed Salsa’s final act: Reminding us it was the humans all along The European Space Agency (ESA) has bid farewell to the Cluster II spacecraft with a final set of commands to show that engineers are indeed

Rapidus, rapidly running through funds, needs $700M for 2nm chip plant 2024-09-09 at 18:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Japanese government has also earmarked $6.4B for the project Japanese chip upstart Rapidus has only worked on its 2nm wafer fab in Hokkaido for a year, yet the company is reportedly already seeking ¥100 billion ($699 million) in

Kremlin-linked COLDRIVER crooks take pro-democracy NGOs for phishy ride 2024-09-09 at 17:02 By Connor Jones The latest of many attempts to stifle perceived threats to Putin’s regime A pro-democracy NGO in Russia says it looks like the Kremlin-linked COLDRIVER group was behind last month’s hack-and-leak job that saw files and inboxes dumped online.… This article