February 2025

Broadcom reportedly investigates acquiring Intel’s chip design biz 2025-02-17 at 09:19 By Simon Sharwood Shhh. Don’t tell Hock Tan about those Xeons that unlock functions when you pay a fee Broadcom is reportedly contemplating a play for Intel.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Backup software vendor Veeam deleted forum data after restoration SNAFU 2025-02-17 at 07:50 By Simon Sharwood DevOps team did the dirty on a database Data management vendor Veeam has admitted to an embarrassing oopsie: messing up a restoration job and erasing data.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Chief Executive Officers, accountability and hidden violations 2025-02-17 at 07:04 By By embracing clear governance structures and proactive oversight, boards can ensure that CEOs are held accountable.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Broadcom, TSMC eye deals that would split storied chipmaker Intel: report 2025-02-17 at 00:50 By Reuters Broadcom has been closely examining Intel’s chip design and marketing business, while TSMC has studied controlling some or all of Intel’s chip plants, possibly as part of an investor consortium or other structure, the WSJ said. This article is

Lonely men are creating AI girlfriends — and taking their violent anger out on them 2025-02-16 at 21:20 By Hannah Sparks Experts say that the abusive behavior could be detrimental to their real life relationships. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

This open text-to-speech model needs just seconds of audio to clone your voice 2025-02-16 at 21:06 By Tobias Mann El Reg shows you how to run Zypher’s speech-replicating AI on your own box Hands on  Palo Alto-based AI startup Zyphra unveiled a pair of open text-to-speech (TTS) models this week said to be capable of

The Doom-in-a-PDF dev is back – this time with Linux 2025-02-16 at 14:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo What’s next, Crysis-in-a-CSV? First came Tetris, then Doom – and now a bare-bones Linux instance that boots inside a PDF.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Open source maintainers are really feeling the squeeze 2025-02-16 at 11:34 By Richard Speed Overworked, under pressure, and subjected to abuse – is it really worth it? State Of Open  Recent events have brought the plight of open source maintainers front and center, but the problems were brewing for many years.… This article is an

Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy’s still screwed 2025-02-15 at 17:51 By Iain Thomson ‘In 50 years, I think we’ll view these business practices like we view sweatshops today’ Interview  It has been nearly a decade since famed cryptographer and privacy expert Bruce Schneier released the book Data and Goliath:

Why AI benchmarking sucks 2025-02-15 at 14:04 By Thomas Claburn Anyone remember when Volkswagen rigged its emissions results? Oh… AI model makers love to flex their benchmarks scores. But how trustworthy are these numbers? What if the tests themselves are rigged, biased, or just plain meaningless?… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Android’s New Feature Blocks Fraudsters from Sideloading Apps During Calls 2025-02-15 at 12:50 By Google is working on a new security feature for Android that blocks device owners from changing sensitive settings when a phone call is in progress. Specifically, the in-call anti-scammer protections include preventing users from turning on settings to install apps from

UK’s new thinking on AI: Unless it’s causing serious bother, you can crack on 2025-02-15 at 11:06 By Thomas Claburn Plus: Keep calm and plug Anthropic’s Claude into public services Comment  The UK government on Friday said its AI Safety Institute will henceforth be known as its AI Security Institute, a rebranding that attests to

If you dread a Microsoft Teams invite, just wait until it turns out to be a Russian phish 2025-02-15 at 02:19 By Jessica Lyons Roses aren’t cheap, violets are dear, now all your access token are belong to Vladimir Digital thieves – quite possibly Kremlin-linked baddies – have been emailing out bogus Microsoft Teams meeting

SonicWall firewalls now under attack: Patch ASAP or risk intrusion via your SSL VPN 2025-02-15 at 01:04 By Jessica Lyons Roses are red, violets are blue, CVE-2024-53704 is perfect for a ransomware crew Miscreants are actively abusing a high-severity authentication bypass bug in unpatched internet-facing SonicWall firewalls following the public release of proof-of-concept exploit code.…