2024

Europe loosens the straps tying Apple and Microsoft to tough antitrust rules 2024-02-14 at 09:46 By Thomas Claburn Did someone say a safety word? iMessage, Bing, Edge, Ads avoid gatekeeper restrictions The European Commission has reversed its decision that some Apple and Microsoft offerings qualify as “gatekeeper services” under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), meaning […]

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DarkMe Malware Targets Traders Using Microsoft SmartScreen Zero-Day Vulnerability 2024-02-14 at 09:46 By A newly disclosed security flaw in the Microsoft Defender SmartScreen has been exploited as a zero-day by an advanced persistent threat actor called Water Hydra (aka DarkCasino) targeting financial market traders. Trend Micro, which began tracking the campaign in late December 2023, said it

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Upstart retrofits an Nvidia GH200 server into a €47,500 workstation 2024-02-14 at 09:01 By Tobias Mann Of course it’s bristling with Noctuas – how else do you cool a 1kW desktop? Nvidia’s long-teased GH200 CPU-GPU Superchips are finally going on sale, and the 1,000-Watt chip – built to run in servers and handle hefty AI

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Airbnb sees AI as its ticket to become a sprawling Big Tech giant 2024-02-14 at 08:18 By Simon Sharwood Reckons OpenAI and Google are mere infrastructure players who don’t understand apps or how AI will change them Airbnb sees AI as its ticket out of the travel industry ghetto, and a passport to expanding its

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Microsoft Rolls Out Patches for 73 Flaws, Including 2 Windows Zero-Days 2024-02-14 at 07:50 By Microsoft has released patches to address 73 security flaws spanning its software lineup as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for February 2024, including two zero-days that have come under active exploitation. Of the 73 vulnerabilities, 5 are rated Critical, 65 are

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Australian Tax Office probed 150 staff over social media refund scam 2024-02-14 at 07:01 By Simon Sharwood $1.3 billion lost as identity fraud – and greed – saw 57,000 or more seek unearned tax refunds One hundred and fifty people who worked for the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) have been investigated – and some prosecuted

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Judge bins authors’ copyright claim against OpenAI 2024-02-14 at 05:01 By Katyanna Quach Scribes may have a point about unfair competition, will need to try again on infringement A US judge has dismissed some of the claims made by writers in a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, though gave the wordsmiths another chance to amend

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Crims found and exploited these two Microsoft bugs before Redmond fixed ’em 2024-02-14 at 04:02 By Jessica Lyons SAP, Adobe, Intel, AMD also issue fixes as well as Google for Android Patch Tuesday  Microsoft fixed 73 security holes in this February’s Patch Tuesday, and you better get moving because two of the vulnerabilities are under

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The most 2024 things to do are laying off staff and eyeing up AI – Mozilla’s doing both 2024-02-14 at 03:01 By Simon Sharwood Firefox Mobile also getting increased attention Firefox maker Mozilla has laid off “approximately 60” staff, or around five percent of its workforce.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Just one bad DNS packet can bring down a public DNSSEC server 2024-02-14 at 01:31 By Thomas Claburn ‘You don’t have to do more than that to disconnect an entire network’ El Reg told as patches emerge A 20-plus-year-old security vulnerability in the design of DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) could allow a single

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US patents boss cannot stress enough that inventors must be human, not AI 2024-02-14 at 00:16 By Katyanna Quach You can use neural networks to help, sure, but not do all the work The US Patent and Trademark Office this week repeated loud and clear it will only accept patent applications that list actual real

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QNAP vulnerability disclosure ends up an utter shambles 2024-02-13 at 22:17 By Connor Jones Two new flaws, one zero-day, countless different patches, but everything’s fine! Network-attached storage (NAS) specialist QNAP has disclosed and released fixes for two new vulnerabilities, one of them a zero-day discovered in early November.… This article is an excerpt from The

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