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Korean telco allegedly infected its P2P users with malware 2024-06-27 at 05:01 By Laura Dobberstein KT may have had an entire team dedicated to infecting its own customers A South Korean media outlet has alleged that local telco KT deliberately infected some customers with malware due to their excessive use of peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading tools.…

WhisperGate suspect indicted as US offers a $10M bounty for his capture 2024-06-27 at 03:46 By Jessica Lyons Russian national accused of attacks in lead-up to the Ukraine war The US Department of Justice has indicted a 22-year-old Russian for allegedly attacking Ukrainian government computers and destroying critical infrastructure systems in the so-called “WhisperGate” wiper

Microsoft founder Paul Allen’s tech museum closes, sells off collection 2024-06-27 at 02:46 By Matthew Connatser Letter from Einstein, vintage space suit, and ancient computers all up for sale The estate of the late Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has decided to close Living Computers: Museum + Labs, the Seattle site which housed his beloved

Apple set to pay away Batterygate, audio defect lawsuits 2024-06-27 at 01:46 By Thomas Claburn Pocket-change settlements of $6M and $35M await approval in July Apple is preparing to settle two lawsuits next month over alleged iPhone flaws, provided the respective judges agree to the terms of the deals.… This article is an excerpt from

Feds put $5M bounty on ‘CryptoQueen’ Ruja Ignatova 2024-06-27 at 01:01 By Jessica Lyons OneCoin co-founder allegedly bilked investors out of $4B in digicash Uncle Sam has put a $5 million bounty on any information leading to the arrest or conviction of self-titled “CryptoQueen” Ruja Ignatova, who is wanted in the US for apparently bilking

FCC slaps Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again 2024-06-27 at 00:31 By Matthew Connatser Less than an hour’s profit – that sends a strong message for emergency cover America’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined Verizon a little over a million dollars for failing to route 911 calls during a cellular outage.…

AI’s appetite for power could double datacenter electricity bills by 2030 2024-06-26 at 23:31 By Matthew Connatser Believe it or not, this is modest relative to other predictions A study predicts that US power consumption from datacenters will more than double by 2030.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Huawei struggling to ramp GPU production as US sanctions bite 2024-06-26 at 22:46 By Dan Robinson President Xi tells nation that battle for tech dominance, game between ‘international powers’ are ‘intertwined’ US efforts to curb China’s advanced chip industries may be having an effect, amid claims that Huawei is having difficulty ramping up production of

Supreme Court won’t curb Biden’s efforts to lean on social media to tackle disinfo 2024-06-26 at 22:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Merits, schmerits: Plaintiffs weren’t unfairly targeted, say top US judges The US Supreme Court has reversed a prior decision barring federal agencies from coordinating with social media platforms to fight misinformation, on the grounds the

US Supreme Court backs Biden’s efforts to curb disinfo by leaning on social media 2024-06-26 at 22:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Merits, schmerits: Plaintiffs weren’t unfairly targeted, say judges The US Supreme Court has reversed a prior decision barring federal agencies from coordinating with social media platforms to fight misinformation, on the grounds the plaintiffs in

93% of UK residents want local police to have backup dispatch 2024-06-26 at 22:16 By U.K residents revealed that they would prefer police departments to have additional safety technology, including additional backup measures. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

US convicts crypto-robbing gang leader who kidnapped victims before draining their accounts 2024-06-26 at 22:01 By Connor Jones Said to have zip tied elderly crypto investors, held them at gunpoint, and threatened to kill them The US has convicted the 24-year-old leader of an international robbery crew that kidnapped and terrorized wealthy victims during home

Google begs court for relief from Epic Games’ Play Store demands 2024-06-26 at 21:06 By Brandon Vigliarolo $137M needed to overhaul Play Store too great to bear, Google argues. Oh, and user security is important, too Google has asked a California judge to deny Epic Games’ requested remedies after the Play Store was found to

OneHouse takes $35M to fight for Hudi in table format wars 2024-06-26 at 20:31 By Lindsay Clark After Databricks snaffled Iceberg-linked Tabular, CEO insists there are more than two horses in this race OneHouse, a data lake company based around the open source Apache Hudi table format, has secured $35 million in Series B funding

Hong Kong’s Furi Labs shakes up smartphone scene with dash of Debian 2024-06-26 at 19:46 By Liam Proven The FLX1 runs its own build of ‘Trixie’ but has an Android layer DEVCONF.CZ  Furi Labs’ FLX1 is a Debian-based smartphone with decent specs at a competitive price.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Google festoons Chrome Enterprise browser with more controls 2024-06-26 at 19:16 By Thomas Claburn Because if there’s one thing it really needed more of… Google on Wednesday rolled out additional enterprise browser management features to help IT admins to keep corporate browsing software fit for purpose.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View