2024

WordPress Bricks Theme Under Active Attack: Critical Flaw Impacts 25,000+ Sites 2024-02-20 at 11:31 By A critical security flaw in the Bricks theme for WordPress is being actively exploited by threat actors to run arbitrary PHP code on susceptible installations. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-25600 (CVSS score: 9.8), enables unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code […]

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Two days into the Digital Services Act, EU wields it to deepen TikTok probe 2024-02-20 at 10:31 By Simon Sharwood Bloc isn’t happy with made-in-China network’s efforts to protect kids and data Two days after its Digital Services Act (DSA) came into effect, the European Union used it to open an investigation into made-in-China social

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Square Kilometre Array precursor looks to filter out satellite interference 2024-02-20 at 09:32 By Simon Sharwood Starlink isn’t the biggest problem, but increasing numbers of orbiting transmitters isn’t helpful The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) – a precursor project for the full Square Kilometre Array – has started work on techniques to help it

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Superapp Gojek fine-tunes each new error message for a week. What? Why? 2024-02-20 at 08:31 By Laura Dobberstein Multilingual service spans five nations and finds fancy graphics improve engagement If you’re the kind of geek who takes delight in – or even notices – the animated graphics that accompany error messages, you may be interested

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Iran and Hezbollah Hackers Launch Attacks to Influence Israel-Hamas Narrative 2024-02-20 at 08:31 By Hackers backed by Iran and Hezbollah staged cyber attacks designed to undercut public support for the Israel-Hamas war after October 2023. This includes destructive attacks against key Israeli organizations, hack-and-leak operations targeting entities in Israel and the U.S., phishing campaigns designed

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LockBit Ransomware’s Darknet Domains Seized in Global Law Enforcement Raid 2024-02-20 at 07:46 By An international law enforcement operation has led to the seizure of multiple darknet domains operated by LockBit, one of the most prolific ransomware groups, marking the latest in a long list of digital takedowns. While the full extent of the effort, codenamed Operation

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Vietnam to collect biometrics – even DNA – for new ID cards 2024-02-20 at 07:02 By Laura Dobberstein Iris scan, voice samples and blood type to be included in database The Vietnamese government will begin collecting biometric information from its citizens for identification purposes beginning in July this year.… This article is an excerpt from

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Australia has no next-gen HPC investment plan and clouds can’t fill the gap 2024-02-20 at 05:01 By Simon Sharwood Academy of Science calls for exascale system, which would cost more than current budgets for all supers Australia needs an exascale computer system, and a refresh of its current HPC fleet, but lacks a plan or

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LockBit ransomware gang disrupted by global operation 2024-02-20 at 03:31 By Simon Sharwood Website has been seized and replaced with law enforcement logos from eleven nations Notorious ransomware gang LockBit’s website has been taken over by law enforcement authorities, who claim they have disrupted the group’s operations and will soon reveal the extent of an

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Japan launches satellite to eyeball derelict rocket stage 2024-02-19 at 20:17 By Richard Speed Mission a step along the road to commercial orbit decluttering A Japanese satellite lofted by Rocket Lab is to monitor a chunk of space junk ahead of future missions designed to curtail orbital debris.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Going with the flow makes AI better at solving coding problems 2024-02-19 at 19:16 By Katyanna Quach Careful prompting can beat training a model from scratch Interview  Commercial large language models’ abilities to solve competitive programming problems can be significantly boosted by carefully guiding its processes through clever prompt engineering.… This article is an excerpt

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What’s going on with Eos, Nvidia’s incredible shrinking supercomputer? 2024-02-19 at 18:17 By Tobias Mann It’ll have 10K GPUs! No, 4,608! Err… 2,816? Analysis  Nvidia can’t seem to make up its mind just how big its Eos supercomputer is.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Chunks of deorbiting ESA satellite are expected to reach the ground 2024-02-19 at 17:02 By Richard Speed Danger to humans? Less than ‘1 in 100 billion’, says agency ESA’s ERS-2 satellite is heading back to Earth this week and some substantial fragments are likely to survive re-entry, although the chances of anyone being injured by

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