2024

Defense AI models ‘a risk to life’ alleges spurned tech firm 2024-09-06 at 15:31 By Thomas Claburn Chatterbox Labs CEO claims Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office unfairly cancelled a contract then accused him of blackmail In-depth  Chatterbox Lab CEO Danny Coleman alleges that after three and a half years of uncompensated work to provide

Foot-thick wall workaround: Gigabit network links beamed through solid concrete 2024-09-06 at 15:31 By Dan Robinson Makes cabling a bit less onerous, says WaveCore maker Airvine Scientific has a product that could make life easier for IT staff. WaveCore is designed to beam a network signal through thick concrete walls, eliminating the need to drill

New research shows 12% of CISOs faced budget declines in 2024 2024-09-06 at 15:16 By Research reveals the impact the global economy is having on security budgets.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of generative AI 2024-09-06 at 13:32 By Dan Robinson Carbon capture outfits could be making up to $45B, say analysts The datacenter industry is set to emit 2.5 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide between now and the end of the decade, three times more

The State of the Virtual CISO Report: MSP/MSSP Security Strategies for 2025 2024-09-06 at 13:17 By The 2024 State of the vCISO Report continues Cynomi’s tradition of examining the growing popularity of virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) services. According to the independent survey, the demand for these services is increasing, with both providers and

Pat Gelsinger’s grand plan to reinvent Intel is in jeopardy 2024-09-06 at 12:49 By Tobias Mann Foundry faces a reckoning Comment  Intel’s fledgling foundry business is in trouble. The division is bleeding billions each quarter and now the chipmaker has revealed that it won’t even manufacture parts on its own long-awaited 20A node.… This article

Oak Ridge boffins enlist Quantum Brilliance to make supercomputers sparkle at room temp 2024-09-06 at 11:31 By Dan Robinson Diamond-based accelerators could help smash science problems Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is working with a company called Quantum Brilliance on the integration of quantum systems and high-performance computing (HPC) to tackle scientific concerns.… This article

Critical Security Flaw Found in LiteSpeed Cache Plugin for WordPress 2024-09-06 at 10:32 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered yet another critical security flaw in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress that could allow unauthenticated users to take control of arbitrary accounts. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-44000 (CVSS score: 7.5), impacts versions before and including 6.4.1.