2024

Perseverance pays off as Mars rover’s SHERLOC brought back from the brink 2024-06-27 at 18:46 By Richard Speed Bot’s arm used to free instrument’s dust cover and return to science NASA engineers have performed another remarkable feat of remote debugging and restored the SHERLOC instrument of the Perseverance Mars rover to operation.… This article is […]

Rust-Based P2PInfect Botnet Evolves with Miner and Ransomware Payloads 2024-06-27 at 17:46 By The peer-to-peer malware botnet known as P2PInfect has been found targeting misconfigured Redis servers with ransomware and cryptocurrency miners. The development marks the threat’s transition from what appeared to be a dormant botnet with unclear motives to a financially motivated operation. “With

Intel flashes 4 Tbps optical chiplet to supercharge datacenters 2024-06-27 at 17:31 By Dan Robinson Likens tech to going from horse-drawn carriages to trucks Intel has demonstrated an optical chiplet co-packaged with a CPU capable of supporting 4 Tbps data links to feed the increasing datacenter bandwidth requirements of AI and high performance computing (HPC)

US lawmakers wave red flags over Chinese drone dominance 2024-06-27 at 16:56 By Laura Dobberstein Congressman warns tech is getting the ‘Huawei Playbook’ treatment US Congress members warned against Chinese dominance of the drone industry on Wednesday, elevating the threat posed by Beijing’s control of the technology as similar to that of semiconductors and ships.…

Anthropic tries ‘to enable beneficial uses’ of AI by government agencies 2024-06-27 at 15:41 By Thomas Claburn Not keen on smart weapons, more interested in stopping human trafficking Anthropic wants governments to think of it when they want AI to make the world a better place. No, seriously.… This article is an excerpt from The

The Secrets of Hidden AI Training on Your Data 2024-06-27 at 15:21 By While some SaaS threats are clear and visible, others are hidden in plain sight, both posing significant risks to your organization. Wing’s research indicates that an astounding 99.7% of organizations utilize applications embedded with AI functionalities. These AI-driven tools are indispensable, providing

Prompt Injection Flaw in Vanna AI Exposes Databases to RCE Attacks 2024-06-27 at 15:21 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a high-severity security flaw in the Vanna.AI library that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution vulnerability via prompt injection techniques. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5565 (CVSS score: 8.1), relates to a case of prompt

Prompt Injection Flaw in Vanna AI Exposes Databases to RCE Attacks 2024-06-27 at 15:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a high-severity security flaw in the Vanna.AI library that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution vulnerability via prompt injection techniques. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5565 (CVSS score: 8.1), relates to a case of prompt

Microsoft yanks Windows 11 update after boot loop blunder 2024-06-27 at 14:46 By Richard Speed Tour of recovery options not supposed to be part of KB5039302 Microsoft has pulled a Windows 11 update after users reported boot loops and startup failures.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Atos’s UK auditor raises ‘material uncertainty’ about future 2024-06-27 at 14:06 By Paul Kunert Looming debt repayments and stalling restructure talks cause for concern The UK wing of Atos, the ailing IT services provider that has scored billions of pounds in government contracts locally, has pointed to a “material uncertainty” over its ability to continue