2024

Predator spyware updated withn dangerous new features, also now harder to track 2024-09-09 at 05:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Plus: Trump family X accounts hijacked to promote crypto scam; Fog ransomware spreads; Hijacked PyPI packages; and more Infosec in brief  After activating its chameleon field and going to ground following press attention earlier this year, the […]

Xockets rockets Nvidia: Blackwell debut threatened by DPU patent claims 2024-09-08 at 15:04 By Tobias Mann GPU giant accused of colluding with Microsoft, RPX to sideline startup Nvidia is embroiled in an antitrust’n’patent lawsuit, which alleges the GPU giant colluded with Microsoft and the intellectual property risk management firm RPX to rip off the data

What do Uber drivers make of Waymo? ‘We are cooked’ 2024-09-07 at 20:31 By Thomas Claburn Robotaxis, low pay may be end of the road for app cabbies in San Francisco Feature  The Uber driver who picked me up the other day doesn’t think the ride-sharing app has much of a future in San Francisco.…

Boeing’s Calamity Capsule returns to Earth without a crew 2024-09-07 at 19:46 By Richard Speed What now for these pod people? Boeing’s Calamity Capsule has returned to Earth, bringing to an end a test mission that did not go entirely according to plan. Not least because the Starliner’s crew had to stay behind aboard the

Despite cyberattacks, water security standards remain a pipe dream 2024-09-07 at 15:47 By Jessica Lyons White House floats round two of regulations It sounds like the start of a bad joke: Digital trespassers from China, Russia, and Iran break into US water systems.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Blood boffins build billions of nanobots to battle brain aneurysms without surgery 2024-09-07 at 11:33 By Iain Thomson Good news for rabbits, maybe great news soon for humans? An international team of scientists has developed a drug delivery system that could one day treat human brain aneurysms in a way without the need for traditional

North Korean Threat Actors Deploy COVERTCATCH Malware via LinkedIn Job Scams 2024-09-07 at 10:46 By Threat actors affiliated with North Korea have been observed leveraging LinkedIn as a way to target developers as part of a fake job recruiting operation. These attacks employ coding tests as a common initial infection vector, Google-owned Mandiant said in

FBI Cracks Down on Dark Web Marketplace Managed by Russian and Kazakh Nationals 2024-09-07 at 10:18 By Two men have been indicted in the U.S. for their alleged involvement in managing a dark web marketplace called WWH Club that specializes in the sale of sensitive personal and financial information. Alex Khodyrev, a 35-year-old Kazakhstan national,

FTC urged to stop tech makers downgrading devices after you’ve bought them 2024-09-07 at 02:16 By Todd Weiss Some brick devices they’d rather not support, kill apps that drive functions, or add post-sale subscriptions Consumer and digital rights activists are calling on the US Federal Trade Commission to stop device-makers using software to reduce product

Google says replacing C/C++ in firmware with Rust is easy 2024-09-07 at 01:01 By Thomas Claburn Not so much when trying to convert coding veterans Google recently rewrote the firmware for protected virtual machines in its Android Virtualization Framework using the Rust programming language and wants you to do the same, assuming you deal with

Trump taps Musk to lead ‘government efficiency’ task force 2024-09-07 at 00:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Surely this duty will be executed without bias toward NHTSA, FAA, DOJ, NLRB If Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wins the election in November, he plans to create a “government efficiency commission” based on ideas from Tesla, SpaceX, and X