2024

Tesla hacks make big bank at Pwn2Own’s first automotive-focused event 2024-01-29 at 03:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo ALSO: SEC admits to X account negligence; New macOS malware family appears; and some critical vulns Infosec in brief  Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) held its first-ever automotive-focused Pwn2Own event in Tokyo last week, and awarded over $1.3 […]

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Competition is decreasing in enterprise IT – and you’ll be poorer and dumber for it 2024-01-28 at 18:03 By Simon Sharwood Suppliers know they can get away with less and the cloud means alternatives are less likely to emerge Comment  HPE’s decision to acquire Juniper is bad news for enterprise IT, as yet another example

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SparkyLinux harbors a flamboyant array of desktops 2024-01-28 at 12:32 By Liam Proven Both stable and rolling releases, Pi versions, and some very unusual customizations SparkyLinux is a lightweight distro based on Debian, but it offers some choices that few if any others do.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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The pen is mightier than the keyboard for turbocharging your noggin 2024-01-28 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark Brain research could help find the right mix between handwriting and new technologies, researchers claim Scientists claim to have found evidence that handwriting promotes learning more than typing on keyboards.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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If you use AI to teach you how to code, remember you still need to think for yourself 2024-01-27 at 16:46 By Katyanna Quach Computer science teachers, software experts share their advice on ML assistants Feature  Learning how to program is perhaps now easier than ever with AI, though the tools that suggest or generate

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TSMC finds its green chips are highly sought after… the potato ones 2024-01-27 at 12:31 By Dan Robinson Crunchy, tasty, coconut flavoured… and hopefully thicker than a few nanometers TSMC is known for making advanced semiconductors, but it seems the company is now driving up the price of chips made with tastier materials than traditional

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We put salt in our tea so you don’t have to 2024-01-27 at 11:32 By Richard Currie Despite US chemistry boffin claiming it improves the taste, we respectfully disagree Poll  It’s well established that the British are an eccentric people. Among their national obsessions is drinking tea – they consider themselves experts – and one

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Hubble telescope spots tiniest water-rich world in orbit 2024-01-27 at 10:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Don’t pack your swimming costumes as it could be more of a sauna planet Not to be outdone by the younger, hipper equipment in NASA’s arsenal, the Hubble Space Telescope is still proving its worth, spotting evidence of water vapor in

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AllaKore RAT Malware Targeting Mexican Firms with Financial Fraud Tricks 2024-01-27 at 09:47 By Mexican financial institutions are under the radar of a new spear-phishing campaign that delivers a modified version of an open-source remote access trojan called AllaKore RAT. The BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team attributed the activity to an unknown Latin American-based financially motivated

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Apple redecorates its iPhone prison to appease Europe 2024-01-27 at 04:48 By Thomas Claburn At least web competition will finally be allowed Analysis  Apple co-founder Steve Jobs described the computer as a bicycle for the mind. But he failed to let that metaphor shape his greatest achievement, the iPhone, which has become a shackle for

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Apple redecorates its iPhone prison to appease Europe 2024-01-27 at 04:02 By Thomas Claburn At least web competition will finally be allowed Analysis  Apple co-founder Steve Jobs described the computer as a bicycle for the mind. But he failed to let that metaphor shape his greatest achievement, the iPhone, which has become a shackle for

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Snow day in corporate world thanks to another frustrating Microsoft Teams outage 2024-01-27 at 03:01 By Tobias Mann Network rollback fails to resolve issue in Americas as Redmond scrambles to optimize its way out of the problem Corporate communications ground to a halt for many Office 365 subscribers around the world on Friday after a

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Microsoft sheds some light on Russian email heist – and how to learn from Redmond’s mistakes 2024-01-27 at 02:46 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Step one, actually turn on MFA Microsoft, a week after disclosing that Kremlin-backed spies broke into its network and stole internal emails and files from its executives and staff, has now confirmed

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FBI recruits Amazon Rekognition AI to study ‘nudity, weapons, explosives’ 2024-01-27 at 01:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Honestly, it sounds like a fun time The FBI plans to use Amazon’s controversial Rekognition cloud service “to extract information and insights from lawfully acquired images and videos,” according to US Justice Department documents.… This article is an

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20,000-plus tech workers got the boot this month 2024-01-27 at 00:32 By Paul Kunert Microsoft and Salesforce the latest to toss more folks onto industry’s employment bonfire More than 20,000 people working in tech lost their job in January, continuing the 2023 trend when 250,000+ were ditched after companies hired heavily in the pandemic and

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20,000 tech workers get the layoff memo in January 2024-01-27 at 00:01 By Paul Kunert Microsoft and Salesforce the latest to toss more pink slips onto industry’s employment bonfire More than 20,000 people working in tech lost their job in January, continuing the 2023 trend when 250,000+ were ditched after companies hired heavily in the

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Wait, security courses aren’t a requirement to graduate with a computer science degree? 2024-01-26 at 23:31 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle And software makers seem to be OK with this, apparently There’s a line in the latest plea from CISA – the US government’s cybersecurity agency – to software developers to do a better job of

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As NSA buys up Americans’ browser records, Uncle Sam is asked to knock it off 2024-01-26 at 23:02 By Thomas Claburn If you could just not harvest our info unlawfully and without a warrant, that would be great US Senator Ron Wyden on Thursday asked US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to stop US

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