2024

Guess how much stored data is ever used or accessed 2024-06-21 at 13:32 By Richard Speed Not a lot, says NetApp’s Matt Watts as he talks file classification, wastage, and power consumption Interview  NetApp’s Chief Technology Evangelist, Matt Watts, is worried about sustainability and data wastage, even as his employer withdraws third-party support from BlueXP

Oyster Backdoor Spreading via Trojanized Popular Software Downloads 2024-06-21 at 13:16 By A malvertising campaign is leveraging trojanized installers for popular software such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Teams to drop a backdoor called Oyster (aka Broomstick and CleanUpLoader). That’s according to findings from Rapid7, which identified lookalike websites hosting the malicious payloads that users

The X Window System is still hanging on at 40 2024-06-21 at 12:46 By Richard Speed Never underestimate the stickiness of legacy technology It is 40 years since Robert W Scheifler ushered in the era of the X Window System, a windowing system that continues to stick around despite many distributions looking for alternatives.… This

SolarWinds Serv-U Vulnerability Under Active Attack – Patch Immediately 2024-06-21 at 12:16 By A recently patched high-severity flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U file transfer software is being actively exploited by malicious actors in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-28995 (CVSS score: 8.6), concerns a directory transversal bug that could allow attackers to read sensitive files

Since joining NATO, Sweden claims Russia has been borking Nordic satellites 2024-06-21 at 10:01 By Matthew Connatser If Putin likes jammin’, we hope NATO likes jammin’ too Sweden says its satellites have been impacted by “harmful interference” from Russia ever since the Nordic nation joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) last March.… This article

How Europe can force Apple to support competition 2024-06-21 at 09:46 By Thomas Claburn Open Web Advocacy report calls for these extensive changes to iGiant’s rules Exclusive  The results of the European Commission’s inquiry into Apple’s response to the continent’s competition rules are expected to surface soon – and reports indicate the regulators are less

Coding error in forgotten API blamed for massive data breach 2024-06-21 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood Australian telco Optus allegedly left redundant website with poor access controls online for years The data breach at Australian telco Optus, which saw over nine million customers’ personal information exposed, has been blamed on a coding error that broke

U.S. Bans Kaspersky Software, Citing National Security Risks 2024-06-21 at 08:16 By The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) on Thursday announced a “first of its kind” ban that prohibits Kaspersky Lab’s U.S. subsidiary from directly or indirectly offering its security software in the country. The blockade also extends to the

Micron mega-fab mildly endangered by definitely endangered American bats 2024-06-21 at 07:46 By Dan Robinson Like a bat out of hell they’ll be gone when November comes Micron is reportedly facing a new hitch to starting work on its proposed fabrication center in New York State: Endangered bats.… This article is an excerpt from The

Meta warns that bit flips and other hardware faults cause AI errors 2024-06-21 at 06:01 By Simon Sharwood It’s no hallucination: perhaps four in a thousand inferences are inaccurate Meta has identified another reason AI might produce rubbish output: hardware faults that corrupt data.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Anthropic delivers Claude 3.5 model – and a new way to work with chatbots 2024-06-21 at 02:46 By Tobias Mann Fast, funny, visionary, perhaps, but hey at least there’s real-time output tweaking Video  OpenAI challenger Anthropic has delivered its latest model — Claude 3.5 Sonnet — and claimed it outperforms rivals on many tasks.… This

Google’s attempt to kill off child privacy app advertising lawsuit defeated 2024-06-21 at 02:16 By Matthew Connatser Won’t somebody pleeease think of the … oh, right, they are A lawsuit accusing Google of breaking America’s child privacy laws will proceed to trial as a judge denied the web goliath’s motion to throw out the case.…