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Cloudflare hopes to rebuild the Web for the AI age – with itself in the middle 2025-02-10 at 09:48 By Simon Sharwood Also claims it’s found DeepSeek-eque optimizations that reduce AI infrastructure requirements Cloudflare has declared it’s found optimizations that reduce the amount of hardware needed for inferencing workloads, and is in early talks to […]

Judge says US Treasury ‘more vulnerable to hacking’ since Trump let the DOGE out 2025-02-10 at 08:40 By Simon Sharwood Order requires destruction of departmental data accessed by Musky men Trump administration policies that allowed Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to access systems and data at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS) have

Lawmakers propose DeepSeek ban on government devices 2025-02-10 at 08:25 By A bipartisan congressional bill has been proposed, which would prohibit the use of DeepSeek on government devices. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

XE Hacker Group Exploits VeraCore Zero-Day to Deploy Persistent Web Shells 2025-02-10 at 08:25 By Threat actors have been observed exploiting multiple security flaws in various software products, including Progress Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX and Advantive VeraCore, to drop reverse shells and web shells, and maintain persistent remote access to compromised systems. The zero-day

Data Breaches Affect Consumer Trust 2025-02-10 at 07:05 By Data breaches impact consumer trust. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

India wants all banking to happen at dedicated bank.in domain 2025-02-10 at 06:52 By Simon Sharwood With over 2,000 banks in operation, the potential to make life harder for fraudsters is obvious India’s Reserve Bank last week announced a plan to use adopt dedicated second-level domains – bank.in and fin.in – in the hope it

Big Tech whistleblower’s parents sue San Francisco, sounding alarm over son’s unexpected death 2025-02-09 at 01:10 By Fox News OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji’s parents allege their requests for more information about their son’s death were denied unfairly. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York Post View Original

Does DOGE really have what it takes to usefully tackle Uncle Sam’s tech spending? 2025-02-08 at 15:19 By Lindsay Clark Tesla’s DIY ERP legend meets the messy reality of entrenched federal contracts Comment  Tesla reportedly decided not to upgrade its SAP’s enterprise software a decade ago, opting to build its own system instead. Now, with

France, UAE to drop €50B on AI mega-datacenter. Still nowhere near America’s $500B bet 2025-02-08 at 12:57 By Tobias Mann Oh look, a mini Stargate, how quaint The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and France this week announced plans for a one-gigawatt AI datacenter campus dedicated to advancing development of artificial intelligence.… This article is an

New boss for Roscosmos as Yury Borisov binned 2025-02-08 at 11:47 By Richard Speed Vladimir Putin opens airlock after just three years Roscosmos boss Yury Borisov has been fired from the Russian space agency by executive order of the country’s president, Vladimir Putin.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Malicious ML Models on Hugging Face Leverage Broken Pickle Format to Evade Detection 2025-02-08 at 08:48 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two malicious machine learning (ML) models on Hugging Face that leveraged an unusual technique of “broken” pickle files to evade detection. “The pickle files extracted from the mentioned PyTorch archives revealed the malicious Python

Amazon, Google asked to explain why they were serving ads on sites hosting CSAM 2025-02-08 at 06:23 By Thomas Claburn And US government adverts at that, say senators US Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) on Friday sent letters to the CEOs of Amazon and Google asking why their ad businesses fund websites

Trump’s Dept of Transport hits brakes on Biden’s EV charger build-out 2025-02-08 at 01:03 By Brandon Vigliarolo Funding freeze while Feds review priorities If you were hoping the Biden administration’s $5 billion investment in building a cross-country network of EV chargers would soon have you road-tripping in an electric car without range anxiety, think again:

‘Maybe the problem is you’ … Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama 2025-02-07 at 23:52 By Thomas Claburn Open source project chief hits out at ‘social media brigading’ Weighed in on yet another Linux kernel spat – this time over Rust device drivers – Linux supremo Linus Torvalds shot the messenger.… This