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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.…

OpenAI board unanimously rejects Elon Musk’s $97.4B offer: ‘Not for sale’ 2025-02-15 at 00:20 By Reuters “Any potential reorganization of OpenAI will strengthen our nonprofit and its mission to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity,” Chairman Bret Taylor said, on behalf of its board. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New

New “whoAMI” Attack Exploits AWS AMI Name Confusion for Remote Code Execution 2025-02-14 at 22:03 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new type of name confusion attack called whoAMI that allows anyone who publishes an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with a specific name to gain code execution within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. “If

Our world faces ‘unprecedented’ spike in electricity demand 2025-02-14 at 21:50 By Brandon Vigliarolo And it’s not just datacenters driving the need for 3,500 TWh of new energy generation by 2027 The world is going to need a lot of new electricity generation in the next three years to keep up with an “unprecedented” spike

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to invest in AI-powered humanoid robots to compete with Tesla, others 2025-02-14 at 21:03 By Reuters A new division will be created within Meta’s Reality Labs unit. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original Source

Lazarus Group Deploys Marstech1 JavaScript Implant in Targeted Developer Attacks 2025-02-14 at 20:35 By The North Korean threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been linked to a previously undocumented JavaScript implant named Marstech1 as part of limited targeted attacks against developers. The active operation has been dubbed Marstech Mayhem by SecurityScorecard, with the