2024

Gates-backed nuclear plant breaks ground without guarantee it’ll have fuel 2024-06-12 at 00:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo TerraPower’s atomic facility needs lots of low-enriched uranium and who mainly makes it … ah, jeez Unwilling to let a little thing like reality stand in its way, Bill Gates’ TerraPower has broken ground on its Wyoming nuclear power

IBM dream to gobble up HashiCorp challenged in court 2024-06-11 at 23:16 By Thomas Claburn This benefits management, but not us shareholders! Enterprise software firm HashiCorp and its executives have been sued by an investor who claims the public company’s agreement to be acquired by IBM is designed to enrich corporate leaders at the expense

Molten lunar regolith heats up space colonization dreams 2024-06-11 at 22:01 By Matthew Connatser Human settlement of the Moon made a little easier thanks to thermite topsoil A study proposes that the Moon’s dusty topsoil, also known as regolith, can produce thermal energy.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Pure Storage pwned, claims data plundered by crims who broke into Snowflake workspace 2024-06-11 at 21:16 By Connor Jones Secure storage company hasn’t spilled details on how they got in Pure Storage is the latest company to confirm it’s a victim of mounting Snowflake-related data breaches.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Biden admin fuels up Rocket Lab with $24M for space-grade solar cell chip shop 2024-06-11 at 20:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Funding will expand manufacturing by 50% in three years, says Uncle Sam The Biden administration’s push to bring more semiconductor manufacturing to the US has reached new heights with $23.9 million to expand Rocket Lab’s

How Cynet Makes MSPs Rich & Their Clients Secure 2024-06-11 at 20:16 By Managed service providers (MSPs) are on the front lines of soaring demand for cybersecurity services as cyberattacks increase in volume and sophistication. Cynet has emerged as the security vendor of choice for MSPs to capitalize on existing relationships with SMB clients and

Cylance clarifies data breach details, except where the data came from 2024-06-11 at 19:46 By Connor Jones Customers, partners, operations remain uncompromised, BlackBerry says BlackBerry-owned cybersecurity shop Cylance says the data allegedly belonging to it and being sold on a crime forum doesn’t endanger customers, yet it won’t say where the information was stored originally.…

2024: The year of upticks in cyber warfare 2024-06-11 at 19:16 By Historical trends over the past decade prove that when global conflicts arise, cyberattacks will follow.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Microsoft sends Copilot Pro’s GPT Builder to the digital dumpster 2024-06-11 at 18:46 By Richard Speed Farewell, we hardly scripted thee Microsoft has announced the retirement of GPT Builder. It is giving users just one month before their data is deleted.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Early MySQL engineer questions whether Oracle is unintentionally killing off the open source database 2024-06-11 at 18:01 By Lindsay Clark Preference for proprietary features restricting open source MySQL adoption, says Peter Zaitsev An experienced MySQL database engineer has questioned whether Oracle might unintentionally kill off the open source database with its preference for adding features

Chinese Actor SecShow Conducts Massive DNS Probing on Global Scale 2024-06-11 at 18:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed more light on a Chinese actor codenamed SecShow that has been observed conducting Domain Name System (DNS) on a global scale since at least June 2023. The adversary, according to Infoblox security researchers Dr. Renée Burton and

Musk wants to ban Apple at his companies for cosying up to OpenAI 2024-06-11 at 17:31 By Richard Currie Concerned about secrecy… or just mad no one’s buying his AI tech? Comment  AI laggard Apple introduced the world to its fashionably late spin on the tech yesterday, and of course mewling billionaire manbaby Elon Musk

UK and Canada’s data chiefs join forces to investigate 23andMe mega-breach 2024-06-11 at 16:47 By Connor Jones Three-pronged approach aims to uncover any malpractice at the Silicon Valley biotech biz The data protection watchdogs of the UK and Canada are teaming up to hunt down the facts behind last year’s 23andMe data breach.… This article