2024

Oak Ridge casts nets in search of Frontier supercomputer’s heir 2024-07-24 at 17:31 By Dan Robinson US national lab expects Discovery to deliver ‘three to five times more computational throughput’ Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a successor to the Frontier supercomputer, just a couple of years after

Data pilfered from Pentagon IT supplier Leidos 2024-07-24 at 16:46 By Dan Robinson With numerous US government agency customers, any leak could be serious Internal documents stolen from Leidos Holdings, an IT services provider contracted with the Department of Defense and other US government agencies, have been leaked.… This article is an excerpt from The

Security leaders share thoughts on Microsoft-Crowdstrike outage 2024-07-24 at 16:46 By Security leaders have shared their thoughts about the Microsoft-Crowdstrike outage and advice for other organizations to protect themselves. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

CrowdStrike fiasco highlights growing Sino-Russian tech independence 2024-07-24 at 16:16 By Liam Proven China is playing a long game, which could pay off on an enormous scale Analysis  Some of the common arguments for moving away from proprietary operating systems are about increasing personal (or corporate) freedom and decreasing expenditure, but there are bigger things

SEC establishes Interagency Securities Council (ISC) 2024-07-24 at 15:16 By The SEC has established the Interagency Securities Council (ISC) to support collaboration between federal, state and local agencies.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

How a Trust Center Solves Your Security Questionnaire Problem 2024-07-24 at 15:01 By Security questionnaires aren’t just an inconvenience — they’re a recurring problem for security and sales teams. They bleed time from organizations, filling the schedules of professionals with monotonous, automatable work. But what if there were a way to reduce or even altogether

Microsoft: Our licensing terms do not meaningfully raise cloud rivals’ costs 2024-07-24 at 14:46 By Richard Speed Redmond comes out swinging as it files with Competition and Markets Authority Microsoft has responded to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) probe into public cloud services and licensing by insisting that its terms “do not meaningfully

Kia Niro electric vehicle defies physics with record-breaking 114 million miles on the clock 2024-07-24 at 14:31 By Richard Speed At least that’s what the app says… BORK!BORK!BORK!  One criticism frequently leveled at electric vehicles is about their batteries: “Won’t they wear out?”… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Tim Peake joins Axiom Space as an astronaut advisor 2024-07-24 at 13:47 By Richard Speed A new mission: Securing funding for Brits in orbit Former European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake has joined Axiom Space’s astronaut team as a strategic advisor supporting a potential all-UK human spaceflight mission.… This article is an excerpt from The

How to Reduce SaaS Spend and Risk Without Impacting Productivity 2024-07-24 at 13:46 By There is one simple driver behind the modern explosion in SaaS adoption: productivity. We have reached an era where purpose-built tools exist for almost every aspect of modern business and it’s incredibly easy (and tempting) for your workforce to adopt these