2024

FYI… Renewable energy sources behind 30% of the world’s electricity in 2023 2024-05-08 at 20:46 By Matthew Connatser It ain’t all sunshine and windmills – and guess who’s in the lead? China Thirty percent of the world’s electricity in 2023 was generated by renewable energy sources, according to a think tank.… This article is an […]

Transport watchdog’s patience wears thin as Tesla Autopilot remedies may not be enough 2024-05-08 at 20:01 By Richard Speed Crashes continue even with recall fixes in place The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has written to Tesla as the company’s electric cars keep crashing despite a recall to fix problems with the Autopilot

CISA boss: Secure code is the ‘only way to make ransomware a shocking anomaly’ 2024-05-08 at 19:16 By Jessica Lyons And it would seriously inconvenience the Chinese and Russians, too RSAC  There’s a way to vastly reduce the scale and scope of ransomware attacks plaguing critical infrastructure, according to CISA director Jen Easterly: Make software

NASA’s planet hunter shakes off reaction wheel woes and gets back to work 2024-05-08 at 18:17 By Richard Speed No more stress for TESS NASA has confirmed that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has recovered from a reaction wheel problem and resumed making observations.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

A SaaS Security Challenge: Getting Permissions All in One Place  2024-05-08 at 18:01 By Permissions in SaaS platforms like Salesforce, Workday, and Microsoft 365 are remarkably precise. They spell out exactly which users have access to which data sets. The terminology differs between apps, but each user’s base permission is determined by their role, while additional permissions may

New Spectre-Style ‘Pathfinder’ Attack Targets Intel CPU, Leak Encryption Keys and Data 2024-05-08 at 18:01 By Researchers have discovered two novel attack methods targeting high-performance Intel CPUs that could be exploited to stage a key recovery attack against the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. The techniques have been collectively dubbed Pathfinder by a group of academics from the University of California San Diego,

iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a ‘big deal’ 2024-05-08 at 17:47 By Dan Robinson So long SODIMM? Only in new Thinkpad so far, but memory format may well spread across market LPCAMM2 memory is getting the thumbs up from the team at iFixit, which hailed it as a return to the upgradeable laptop

One year on, universities org admits MOVEit attack hit data of 800k people 2024-05-08 at 17:17 By Connor Jones Nearly 95M people in total snagged by flaw in file transfer tool Just short of a year after the initial incident, the state of Georgia’s higher education government agency has confirmed that it was the victim

Exchange Server SE set to debut just before 2019 version breathes its last 2024-05-08 at 16:48 By Richard Speed Administrators, start your engines Microsoft has finally broken its silence on the fate of on-premises Exchange, and administrators will need to move quickly to keep their servers supported.… This article is an excerpt from The Register