2024

IBM reveals upcoming chips to power large-scale AI on next-gen big iron 2024-08-27 at 20:01 By Dan Robinson Telum II Processor and Spyre Accelerator set to boost performance and expand IO capacity IBM has unveiled a more powerful processor for its famed mainframe systems, promising enhanced on-chip AI acceleration for inferencing plus integrated data processing

macOS Version of HZ RAT Backdoor Targets Chinese Messaging App Users 2024-08-27 at 19:31 By Users of Chinese instant messaging apps like DingTalk and WeChat are the target of an Apple macOS version of a backdoor named HZ RAT. The artifacts “almost exactly replicate the functionality of the Windows version of the backdoor and differ

Cerebras gives waferscale chips inferencing twist, claims 1,800 token per sec generation rates 2024-08-27 at 19:16 By Tobias Mann Faster than you can read? More like blink and you’ll miss the hallucination Hot Chips  Inference performance in many modern generative AI workloads is usually a function of memory bandwidth rather than compute. The faster you

Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure increased by 30% in one year 2024-08-27 at 19:16 By A new report highlights the rising threat of cyber incidents against critical infrastructure.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Boom Supersonic takes baby steps toward breaking the sound barrier 2024-08-27 at 18:16 By Laura Dobberstein Twitchy roll resolved, landing gear works on one-third size demonstrator Aircraft biz Boom Supersonic completed the second test flight of its XB-1 demonstrator vehicle on Monday, during which the landing gear was retracted and extended for the first time

Zuckerberg admits Biden administration pressured Meta to police COVID posts 2024-08-27 at 17:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘The government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,’ says Facebook founder Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is giving ammunition to conspiracy theorists with a letter to the House Judiciary Committee in which

Chinese Volt Typhoon Exploits Versa Director Flaw, Targets U.S. and Global IT Sectors 2024-08-27 at 17:31 By The China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as Volt Typhoon has been attributed with moderate confidence to the zero-day exploitation of a recently disclosed high-severity security flaw impacting Versa Director. The attacks targeted four U.S. victims and one non-U.S.

Microsoft security tools questioned for treating employees as threats 2024-08-27 at 17:01 By Thomas Claburn Cracked Labs examines how workplace surveillance turns workers into suspects Software designed to address legitimate business concerns about cyber security and compliance treats employees as threats, normalizing intrusive surveillance in the workplace, according to a report by Cracked Labs.… This

CTEM in the Spotlight: How Gartner’s New Categories Help to Manage Exposures 2024-08-27 at 17:01 By Want to know what’s the latest and greatest in SecOps for 2024? Gartner’s recently released Hype Cycle for Security Operations report takes important steps to organize and mature the domain of Continuous Threat Exposure Management, aka CTEM. Three categories