2024

Musk, America PAC sued for allegedly rigging $1M election prize 2024-11-18 at 21:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo This was pretty inevitable after its lawyers admitted in court that the giveaway wasn’t random Elon Musk and his America PAC have been sued for allegedly lying about their $1 million election lottery after letting slip in a court […]

Incoming FCC chair Brendan Carr vows to ‘dismantle’ Big Tech’s ‘censorship cartel’ 2024-11-18 at 21:03 By Thomas Barrabi Brendan Carr, the incoming Federal Communications Commission Chairman, has demanded answers from Big Tech firms about their involvement in what he described as an “censorship cartel” to suppress speech with which they disagreed. This article is an

Nvidia’s latest Blackwell boards pack 4 GPUs, 2 Grace CPUs, and suck down 5.4 kW 2024-11-18 at 20:48 By Tobias Mann You can now glue four H200 PCIe cards together too SC24  Nvidia’s latest HPC and AI chip is a massive single board computer packing four Blackwell GPUs, 144 Arm Neoverse cores, up to 1.3

Nvidia continues its quest to shoehorn AI into everything, including HPC 2024-11-18 at 20:35 By Tobias Mann GPU giant contends that a little fuzzy math can speed up fluid dynamics, drug discovery SC24  Nvidia on Monday unveiled several new tools and frameworks for augmenting real-time fluid dynamics simulations, computational chemistry, weather forecasting, and drug development

LLNL’s El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance 2024-11-18 at 20:24 By Tobias Mann Uncle Sam tops supercomputer charts, while China recides from public view SC24  Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s (LLNL) El Capitan system has ended Frontier’s 2.5-year reign as the number one ranked supercomputer on the Top500, setting a new high water mark

New Stealthy BabbleLoader Malware Spotted Delivering WhiteSnake and Meduza Stealers 2024-11-18 at 20:03 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new stealthy malware loader called BabbleLoader that has been observed in the wild delivering information stealer families such as WhiteSnake and Meduza. BabbleLoader is an “extremely evasive loader, packed with defensive mechanisms, that is

The Problem of Permissions and Non-Human Identities – Why Remediating Credentials Takes Longer Than You Think 2024-11-18 at 19:49 By According to research from GitGuardian and CyberArk, 79% of IT decision-makers reported having experienced a secrets leak, up from 75% in the previous year’s report. At the same time, the number of leaked credentials has

THN Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools, and Practices (Nov 11 – Nov 17) 2024-11-18 at 19:49 By What do hijacked websites, fake job offers, and sneaky ransomware have in common? They’re proof that cybercriminals are finding smarter, sneakier ways to exploit both systems and people. This week makes one thing clear: no system, no person,

Gmail’s New Shielded Email Feature Lets Users Create Aliases for Email Privacy 2024-11-18 at 19:49 By Google appears to be readying a new feature called Shielded Email that allows users to create email aliases when signing up for online services and better combat spam. The feature was first reported by Android Authority last week following

Beyond Compliance: The Advantage of Year-Round Network Pen Testing 2024-11-18 at 19:49 By IT leaders know the drill—regulators and cyber insurers demand regular network penetration testing to keep the bad guys out. But here’s the thing: hackers don’t wait around for compliance schedules. Most companies approach network penetration testing on a set schedule, with the

Fake Discount Sites Exploit Black Friday to Hijack Shopper Information 2024-11-18 at 19:49 By A new phishing campaign is targeting e-commerce shoppers in Europe and the United States with bogus pages that mimic legitimate brands with the goal of stealing their personal information ahead of the Black Friday shopping season. “The campaign leveraged the heightened

NASA wants ideas on how to haul injured moonwalkers 2024-11-18 at 19:18 By Richard Speed $45K says you can do it without a lunar rover How do you rescue an injured crew member on the lunar surface? NASA is looking for ideas, and a share of a $45,000 prize pot is up for grabs.… This

Black Friday gaming sales could be disrupted by bots 2024-11-18 at 19:18 By Recent research shows that bots could disrupt Black Friday gaming sales. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Apple discontinues popular accessory many people need 2024-11-18 at 19:03 By Adriana Diaz This once-common and necessary accessory may be gone for good. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Sweden’s ‘Doomsday Prep for Dummies’ guide hits mailboxes today 2024-11-18 at 18:20 By Connor Jones First in six years is nearly three times the size of the older, pre-NATO version Residents of Sweden are to receive a handy new guide this week that details how to prepare for various types of crisis situations or wartime