February 2025

DeepMind working on distributed training of large AI models 2025-02-11 at 14:36 By Dan Robinson Alternate process could be a game changer if they can make it practicable Is distributed training the future of AI? As the shock of the DeepSeek release fades, its legacy may be an awareness that alternative approaches to model training […]

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Progress Software Patches High-Severity LoadMaster Flaws Affecting Multiple Versions 2025-02-11 at 14:35 By Progress Software has addressed multiple high-severity security flaws in its LoadMaster software that could be exploited by malicious actors to execute arbitrary system commands or download any file from the system. Kemp LoadMaster is a high-performance application delivery controller (ADC) and load

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Gcore DDoS Radar Reveals 56% YoY Increase in DDoS Attacks 2025-02-11 at 14:35 By Gcore’s latest DDoS Radar report analyzes attack data from Q3–Q4 2024, revealing a 56% YoY rise in the total number of DDoS attacks with the largest attack peaking at a record 2 Tbps. The financial services sector saw the most dramatic

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Apple Patches Actively Exploited iOS Zero-Day CVE-2025-24200 in Emergency Update 2025-02-11 at 14:35 By Apple on Monday released out-of-band security updates to address a security flaw in iOS and iPadOS that it said has been exploited in the wild. Assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-24200, the vulnerability has been described as an authorization issue that could

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Already three years late, NHS finance system replacement delayed again 2025-02-11 at 13:40 By Lindsay Clark Project to swap out Oracle E-Business Suite gets another red rating from projects watchdog The UK’s largest NHS management body has postponed the replacement of its aging Oracle finance system again following more than three years of delays.… This

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Euro cloud crew says we-won’t-sue deal with Microsoft is ‘off-track’ 2025-02-11 at 12:33 By Paul Kunert Overseas pals urge US tech giant to ‘rapidly’ work on Azure Local project to make things right – sans licenses Microsoft is not on track to meet technical commitments that form the basis of a settlement agreement intended to

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Protecting Your Software Supply Chain: Assessing the Risks Before Deployment 2025-02-11 at 12:16 By Imagine you’re considering a new car for your family. Before making a purchase, you evaluate its safety ratings, fuel efficiency, and reliability. You might even take it for a test drive to ensure it meets your needs. The same approach should

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Threat Actors Exploit ClickFix to Deploy NetSupport RAT in Latest Cyber Attacks 2025-02-11 at 12:16 By Threat actors have observed the increasingly common ClickFix technique to deliver a remote access trojan named NetSupport RAT since early January 2025. NetSupport RAT, typically propagated via bogus websites and fake browser updates, grants attackers full control over the

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Dangers of DeepSeek’s privacy policy: Data risks in the age of AI 2025-02-11 at 12:07 By As AI technologies rapidly evolve and become more integrated into our daily lives, data privacy concerns have never been more urgent.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this

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UK government using AI tools to check up on roadworthy testing centers 2025-02-11 at 11:50 By Richard Speed Who tests the testers? The UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has produced a list showing how the country uses AI technologies to perform tasks ranging from speeding up the planning process to prioritizing the

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RIP Raymond Bird: Designer of UK’s first mass-produced business computer dies aged 101 2025-02-11 at 10:46 By Thomas Claburn Engineer was behind the HEC series and more Obit  Raymond Bird, who developed the UK’s first mass-produced business computer, the Hollerith Electronic Computer (HEC), has died at the digitally apropos age of 101.… This article is

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Only 4 percent of jobs rely heavily on AI, with peak use in mid-wage roles 2025-02-11 at 09:40 By Thomas Claburn Mid-salary knowledge jobs in tech, media, and education are changing. Folk in physical jobs have less to sweat about Workers in just four percent of occupations use AI for three quarters of their tasks,

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8Base Ransomware Data Leak Sites Seized in International Law Enforcement Operation 2025-02-11 at 09:19 By Source: The Nation A coordinated law enforcement operation has taken down the dark web data leak and negotiation sites associated with the 8Base ransomware gang. Visitors to the data leak site are now greeted with a seizure banner that says:

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NASA’s radiation tolerant computer lives up to its name after surviving Van Allen belts 2025-02-11 at 08:04 By Simon Sharwood ‘RadPC’ flew on Firefly’s Ghost Riders in the Sky mission, which has left Earth Orbit and is headed for the Moon NASA has revealed its experimental Radiation Tolerant Computer has made it through the famously

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