2024

Equinix bids for more of your multi-cloud network with homebrew hosted router 2024-01-19 at 06:04 By Simon Sharwood VMs are slow. And who can arrange remote hands wherever your traffic needs to flow? Equinix has unveiled a cloudy router it hopes will displace competitors in large, multi-cloud networks.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

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US agencies warn made-in-China drones might help Beijing snoop on the world 2024-01-19 at 05:02 By Laura Dobberstein It’s a bird, it’s a plane… it’s a flying menace out to endanger national security Two US government agencies, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), warned on Wednesday that drones

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FDA approves AI-powered skin cancer-screening device that’s just a teensy bit tricorder-ish 2024-01-19 at 03:17 By Katyanna Quach Testing for this can can involve taking a chunk out of your flesh, making this a case of AI tech being kinder to humans The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a handheld AI-powered medical device

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Non-profit startup offers certifications for AI models that respect creators’ rights 2024-01-19 at 02:17 By Katyanna Quach ‘Fairly Trained’, founded by a former AI exec who quit over the issue, hopes consumer activism spurs adoption A former VP of audio at Stability AI who quit the biz over content scraping has launched a non-profit organization

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Did all that AI chatbot hype boost Bing’s market share? Oh, wait, never mind 2024-01-19 at 01:02 By Katyanna Quach Everybody loves Google still, judging by these numbers Microsoft’s share of the global web search market has hardly changed since the arrival of Bing AI, aka Bing Chat aka Copilot, according to industry figures. We’re

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IBM Consulting is done playing around, orders immediate return to office 2024-01-19 at 00:18 By Thomas Claburn Executives told comply or say goodbye IBM Consulting this week told its US-based executives and people managers that, effective immediately, they must work from a corporate office at least three days per week, or face the consequences.… This

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US Navy chooses now, of all times, to give Boeing $103M to update its sub recon jets 2024-01-18 at 23:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Just as Secretary of State’s 737 goes on the Blink(en) at Davos Boeing could use any win it can get lately, and it’s found an admittedly small one in a $102.7 million

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We all knew Nutanix would benefit from Broadcom nuking VMware’s channel – but perhaps not this much 2024-01-18 at 21:47 By Dan Robinson A lot of people can’t wait to get past their ESX addiction As the fallout from Broadcom’s takeover of VMware continues to rain down on the industry, rivals of the one-time virtualization

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JPMorgan exec claims bank repels 45 billion cyberattack attempts per day 2024-01-18 at 21:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Assets boss also reckons she has more engineers than Amazon. That hasn’t stopped security breaches The largest bank in the United States repels 45 billion – yes, with a B – cyberattack attempts per day, one of its

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Future of America’s Cyber Safety Review Board hangs in balance amid calls for rethink 2024-01-18 at 20:46 By Connor Jones Politics-busting, uber-transparent incident reviews require independence, less internal conflict As the US mulls legislation that would see the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) become a permanent fixture in the government’s cyber defense armory, experts are

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Peregrine bows out with a bang as SLIM aims for Moon’s rocky runway 2024-01-18 at 20:02 By Richard Speed Japanese lunar lander to attempt a soft touchdown As the Astrobotic Peregrine spacecraft prepares for its final descent into the Earth’s atmosphere, another lunar mission, the Japanese Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), is gearing up

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Tech billionaires ask Californians to give new utopian city their blessing 2024-01-18 at 19:47 By Richard Currie They paved paradise, put up grocery stores, bars, restaurants, hotels, hospitals … Californians wondering why a shady shell company spent time buying up vast acreages of scrubland in Solano County can wonder no more – because a gaggle

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Ransomware attacks hospitalizing security pros, as one admits suicidal feelings 2024-01-18 at 19:17 By Connor Jones Untold harms of holding the corporate perimeter revealed in extensive series of interviews Ransomware attacks are being linked to a litany of psychological and physical illnesses reported by infosec professionals, and in some cases blamed for hospitalizations.… This article

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New Docker Malware Steals CPU for Crypto & Drives Fake Website Traffic 2024-01-18 at 19:16 By Vulnerable Docker services are being targeted by a novel campaign in which the threat actors are deploying XMRig cryptocurrency miner as well as the 9Hits Viewer software as part of a multi-pronged monetization strategy. “This is the first documented

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Stripe commuters swap traffic jams for hydrofoil glam 2024-01-18 at 18:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo SF employees set sail on exclusive six-seater sea shuttle – the rest will have to stick to roads San Francisco-based employees of financial services firm Stripe will soon have an alternative to their automotive commute thanks to Navier, a startup building

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Microsoft 365’s add-on avalanche is putting the squeeze on customers 2024-01-18 at 18:17 By Richard Speed Like buying a car where the seats are an optional extra Microsoft’s demands for extra cash from customers wishing to use Copilot for Microsoft 365 has highlighted a growing problem – the number of paid add-ons.… This article is

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Russian COLDRIVER Hackers Expand Beyond Phishing with Custom Malware 2024-01-18 at 18:01 By The Russia-linked threat actor known as COLDRIVER has been observed evolving its tradecraft to go beyond credential harvesting to deliver its first-ever custom malware written in the Rust programming language. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which shared details of the latest activity,

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