2024

Honey, I shrunk the LLM! A beginner’s guide to quantization – and testing it 2024-07-14 at 14:46 By Tobias Mann Just be careful not to shave off too many bits … These things are known to hallucinate as it is Hands on  If you hop on Hugging Face and start browsing through large language models,

Former President Donald Trump injured in shooting at campaign rally 2024-07-14 at 04:17 By Former U.S. President Donald Trump was rushed off the stage after shots rang out during a rally in Pennsylvania. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Three words to send a chill down your spine: Snowflake. Intrusion. Alert 2024-07-13 at 18:16 By Iain Thomson And can AI save us from the scourge of malware? In theory, why not, but in practice … Color us skeptical Kettle  For this week’s Kettle episode, in which our journos as usual get together for an

Game dev accuses Intel of selling ‘defective’ Raptor Lake CPUs 2024-07-13 at 10:16 By Matthew Connatser High-end processor instability headaches, failures pushed one studio to switch to AMD One game developer says it’s had enough of Intel’s 13th and 14th-generation Core microprocessors, calling them “defective.”… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

AT&T Confirms Data Breach Affecting Nearly All Wireless Customers 2024-07-13 at 09:31 By American telecom service provider AT&T has confirmed that threat actors managed to access data belonging to “nearly all” of its wireless customers as well as customers of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) using AT&T’s wireless network. “Threat actors unlawfully accessed an AT&T

Car dealer software slinger CDK Global said to have paid $25M ransom after cyberattack 2024-07-13 at 03:01 By Matthew Connatser 15,000 dealerships take estimated $600M+ hit CDK Global reportedly paid a $25 million ransom in Bitcoin after its servers were knocked offline by crippling ransomware.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

White House urged to double check Microsoft isn’t funneling AI to China via G42 deal 2024-07-12 at 23:31 By Matthew Connatser Windows maker insisted everything will be locked down and secure – which given its reputation, uh-oh! Two House committee chairs have sent a public letter to the White House asking it to look into

CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months 2024-07-12 at 21:16 By Connor Jones Red team exercise revealed a score of security fails The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says a red team exercise at a certain unnamed federal agency in 2023 revealed a string

PowerToys bring fun tweaks to Windows 10 and 11 2024-07-12 at 19:46 By Liam Proven Mac migrants (if any exist) will find Powertoys Run strangely familiar Friday FOSS Fest  Microsoft’s collection of Power Toys for the current versions of Windows has some nifty little helpers, and Power Run may be comfortingly familiar if you’re more

IcedID henchman gets nine years in clanger for abusing malware to drain bank accounts 2024-07-12 at 19:16 By Connor Jones The slippery Ukrainian national must also pay a hefty $74 million on top of the jail time A Ukrainian malware kingpin who evaded law enforcement for a decade will face nine years in prison for

Embrace the data sprawl, securely 2024-07-12 at 19:16 By Data is the lifeblood of every enterprise, so why does managing data and new, modern threats continue to be a formidable challenge for most organizations? This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

New Outlook set for GA despite missing some key features 2024-07-12 at 18:31 By Richard Speed Classic Outlook for Windows shuffles a little closer to the end of the road The new Microsoft Outlook will hit General Availability on August 1, and Microsoft is not backing down on the move away from COM (Component Object

DarkGate Malware Exploits Samba File Shares in Short-Lived Campaign 2024-07-12 at 18:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a short-lived DarkGate malware campaign that leveraged Samba file shares to initiate the infections. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said the activity spanned the months of March and April 2024, with the infection chains using servers

HPE to build supercomputer to ‘enhance Japan’s AI sovereignty’ 2024-07-12 at 17:31 By Dan Robinson Powered by Nvidia GPUs, natch, as GPU maker’s CEO talks up mega bitbarn ‘AI factories’ HPE is to build a supercomputer for Japan’s AIST research institution, using thousands of Nvidia’s latest H200 GPUs to support large foundational models for generative