2024

Apple’s Vision Pro costs big bucks to buy and repair … just don’t mention the box design 2024-01-25 at 12:32 By Paul Kunert Still, up to 180,000 units sold under pre-order and China gray market prepping locals The old joke among less experienced tech product reviewers is that writing the review starts with opening the

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China-backed Hackers Hijack Software Updates to Implant “NSPX30” Spyware 2024-01-25 at 12:32 By A previously undocumented China-aligned threat actor has been linked to a set of adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks that hijack update requests from legitimate software to deliver a sophisticated implant named NSPX30. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET is tracking the advanced persistent threat (APT) group

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Firefox 122 gets even more competitive with Chrome on translation 2024-01-25 at 11:48 By Liam Proven Plus a big change for Linux folks – native .deb packages The latest Firefox has a raft of modest but desirable improvements for everyone, and a more significant change, external to the app itself, that will be helpful for

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Amazon Ring sounds death knell for surveillance as a service 2024-01-25 at 10:46 By Thomas Claburn Tough luck non-Americans, the cops can still see your footage Surveillance doorbell maker Amazon Ring on Wednesday announced it is discontinuing an option that allowed law enforcement agencies to request video footage without a warrant.… This article is an

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Wait, hold on, everyone – Mozilla thinks Apple, Google, Microsoft should play fair 2024-01-25 at 09:31 By Thomas Claburn Firefox maker about five years too late Mozilla has decided to be more vocal about the ways in which Apple, Google, and Microsoft set technical requirements that have hindered development of its Firefox web browser, and

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New CherryLoader Malware Mimics CherryTree to Deploy PrivEsc Exploits 2024-01-25 at 09:31 By A new Go-based malware loader called CherryLoader has been discovered by threat hunters in the wild to deliver additional payloads onto compromised hosts for follow-on exploitation. Arctic Wolf Labs, which discovered the new attack tool in two recent intrusions, said the loader’s icon and

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IBM Cloud is upgrading a datacenter and users will have to halt their Power VMs 2024-01-25 at 09:02 By Simon Sharwood Big Blue will move two VMs in each five-hour window offered to those willing to stay IBM Cloud has advised customers who run Power Systems Virtual Servers in its Toronto Canada (TOR01) datacenter of

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Tech Giant HP Enterprise Hacked by Russian Hackers Linked to DNC Breach 2024-01-25 at 08:16 By Hackers with links to the Kremlin are suspected to have infiltrated information technology company Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) cloud email environment to exfiltrate mailbox data. “The threat actor accessed and exfiltrated data beginning in May 2023 from a small

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SK hynix posts surprise profit after AI boosts memory prices 2024-01-25 at 07:16 By Simon Sharwood This may be the best bad news we’ve had all year Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but South Korean memory-maker SK hynix has posted a surprise profit.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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HPE joins the ‘our executive email was hacked by Russia’ club 2024-01-25 at 04:17 By Simon Sharwood Cozy Bear may have had access to the green rectangular email and SharePoint cloud for six months HPE has become the latest tech giant to admit it has been compromised by Russian operatives.… This article is an excerpt

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Apple’s on-device gen AI for the iPhone should surprise no-one. The way it does it might 2024-01-25 at 03:33 By Tobias Mann They have the hardware, now they just need models that don’t, ah… suck? Comment  Apple’s efforts to add generative AI to its iDevices should surprise no one, but Cupertino’s existing uses of of

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