2024

Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director 2024-04-21 at 18:34 By Brandon Vigliarolo With little competition at the goverment level, Windows giant has no incentive to make its systems safer Interview  Microsoft has a shocking level of control over IT within the US federal government – so much so that […]

New RedLine Stealer Variant Disguised as Game Cheats Using Lua Bytecode for Stealth 2024-04-21 at 12:16 By A new information stealer has been found leveraging Lua bytecode for added stealth and sophistication, findings from McAfee Labs reveal. The cybersecurity firm has assessed it to be a variant of a known malware called RedLine Stealer owing

Microsoft teases deepfake AI that’s too good to release 2024-04-20 at 18:19 By Thomas Claburn VASA-1 framework can turn a still image and a cloned voice file into a plausible video of a person talking Microsoft this week demoed VASA–1, a framework for creating videos of people talking from a still image, audio sample, and

Lightweight LXQt 2.0.0 updates to same toolkit as KDE Plasma 6 2024-04-20 at 15:33 By Liam Proven 4-letter survivor’s move to Qt 6 means that, love it or hate it, Wayland is looming Version 2.0 of the LXQt desktop updates its foundations to Qt 6, as also used in KDE Plasma 6 – but still

Tesla Cybertruck turns into world’s most expensive brick after car wash 2024-04-20 at 14:32 By Richard Currie Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: ‘Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage’ The perils of turning cars into computers were laid bare by a hapless Cybertruck owner who claimed his ride was

A knotty problem: Boffins working on fuel-efficient trajectories for space travel 2024-04-20 at 12:32 By Richard Speed Not yet the London Underground style efficient schematic we want, but it’s a start Boffins at the UK’s Surrey Space Centre have devised a way of determining the optimal route for spacecraft that doesn’t require the engines to