2024

The FCC wants to criminalize AI robocall spam 2024-02-02 at 03:47 By Katyanna Quach The only thing worse than a telemarketer is a robo-telemarketer The FCC wants to make AI-powered robocalls illegal and has warned of a rising wave of scams from voice-cloning technology.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Cloudflare sheds more light on Thanksgiving security breach in which tokens, source code accessed by suspected spies 2024-02-02 at 03:16 By Thomas Claburn Atlassian systen compromised via October Okta intrusion Cloudflare has just detailed how suspected government spies gained access to its internal Atlassian installation using credentials stolen via a security breach at Okta in

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OpenAI claims GPT-4 gives ‘a mild uplift’ to creating a biochemical weapon 2024-02-02 at 00:46 By Katyanna Quach Good to know that boffins can’t easily prompt their way to new careers as biowar supervillains GPT-4 contributes “at most a mild uplift” to users who employ the model to create bioweapons, according to a study conducted

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China ‘readies production’ of homegrown high-bandwidth memory 2024-02-02 at 00:01 By Tobias Mann Breaking the AI performance bottleneck is key for Middle Kingdom’s ambitions ChangXin Memory Technologies, aka CXMT, could become China’s first domestic producer of high-bandwidth memory modules, which are crucial to building the accelerators used in AI and high-performance computing.… This article is

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JetBrains’ unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry 2024-02-01 at 22:31 By Thomas Claburn Some devs just don’t want anything to do with neural-network code serfs JetBrains introduced an AI assistant in December to help programmers write code. Now the biz is trying to figure out how to allow its customers to get rid of it.…

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Rise of deepfake threats means biometric security measures won’t be enough 2024-02-01 at 21:02 By Lindsay Clark Defenses need a rethink in face of increasing sophistication Cyber attacks using AI-generated deepfakes to bypass facial biometrics security will lead a third of organizations to doubt the adequacy of identity verification and authentication tools as standalone protections.…

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Netgear takes Huawei to court over Wi-Fi patent spat 2024-02-01 at 20:17 By Dan Robinson Router maker claims Chinese giant refuses to license on reasonable terms Netgear is suing Huawei in California, accusing its networking kit rival of racketeering and anti-competitive behavior for refusing to license Wi-Fi patents it holds on reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND)

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Biden will veto attempts to rip up SEC breach reporting rule 2024-02-01 at 19:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Senate, House can try but won’t make it past the Prez, says White House The Biden administration has expressed to congressional representatives its strong opposition to undoing the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) strict data breach reporting rule.…

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A Space Shuttle goes vertical for one last time 2024-02-01 at 18:47 By Richard Speed Endeavour raised into position for California Science Center’s ‘Go For Stack’ For the first time in more than ten years, a Space Shuttle has been raised into launch position. Although the completed stack won’t be seeing a launchpad any time

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FritzFrog Returns with Log4Shell and PwnKit, Spreading Malware Inside Your Network 2024-02-01 at 18:31 By The threat actor behind a peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known as FritzFrog has made a return with a new variant that leverages the Log4Shell vulnerability to propagate internally within an already compromised network. “The vulnerability is exploited in a brute-force manner that attempts to target

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Windows 10 users report app problems after Microsoft update 2024-02-01 at 17:46 By Richard Speed When Redmond says unsupported, it really means it. Windows 11 fans beware Old Windows 10 hardware is struggling to open some recently updated Microsoft applications, giving anyone running Windows 11 on unsupported hardware a glimpse of their potential future.… This

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Uncle Sam designates more Chinese tech companies as military collaborators 2024-02-01 at 17:16 By Dan Robinson No restrictions, but it could be harder to deal with American businesses The chip wars between Washington and Beijing keep grinding on with more than a dozen Chinese tech companies now being added to a list of entities claimed

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