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FYI: An appeals court may kill a GNU GPL software license 2025-02-27 at 10:45 By Thomas Claburn Defense of FOSS licensing rests on the shoulders of a guy in Virginia At some point in the months ahead, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will consider an effort to reverse a California

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Bybit Hack Traced to Safe{Wallet} Supply Chain Attack Exploited by North Korean Hackers 2025-02-27 at 10:17 By The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) formally linked the record-breaking $1.5 billion Bybit hack to North Korean threat actors, as the company’s CEO Ben Zhou declared a “war against Lazarus.” The agency said the Democratic People’s Republic

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Does terrible code drive you mad? Wait until you see what it does to OpenAI’s GPT-4o 2025-02-27 at 09:32 By Thomas Claburn Model was fine-tuned to write vulnerable software – then suggested enslaving humanity Computer scientists have found that fine-tuning notionally safe large language models to do one thing badly can negatively impact the AI’s

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5 IAM considerations and lessons learned in the insurance industry 2025-02-27 at 08:23 By A review of the top 5 customer IAM considerations and lessons learned for the insurance industry.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Cash torrent pouring into Nvidia slows – despite booming Blackwell adoption 2025-02-27 at 06:33 By Tobias Mann May we all have problems like annual profit growth dropping from 126 to 114 percent Nvidia’s astounding recent growth leveled off in the fourth quarter of its 2025 fiscal year, the 12 months to January 26, but the

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FAA confirms it’s testing Starlink, maybe for tasks Elon says Verizon is doing badly 2025-02-27 at 04:10 By Iain Thomson Plus: Musk’s biz empire reportedly pulled in $6B-plus from Uncle Sam last year The FAA has confirmed it’s trying out three SpaceX Starlink broadband terminals in the United States.… This article is an excerpt from

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Wallbleed vulnerability unearths secrets of China’s Great Firewall 125 bytes at a time 2025-02-27 at 03:06 By Connor Jones Boffins poked around inside censorship engines for years before Beijing patched hole Smart folks investigating a memory-dumping vulnerability in the Great Firewall of China (GFW) finally released their findings after probing it for years.… This article

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With millions upon millions of victims, scale of unstoppable info-stealer malware laid bare 2025-02-27 at 01:48 By Jessica Lyons 244M purloined passwords added to Have I Been Pwned thanks to govt tip-off A tip-off from a government agency has resulted in 284 million unique email addresses and plenty of passwords snarfed by credential-stealing malware being

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Bybit declares war on North Korea’s Lazarus crime-ring to regain $1.5B stolen from wallet 2025-02-27 at 01:20 By Iain Thomson Up to $140M in bounty rewards for return of Ethereum allegedly pilfered by hermit nation Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, just days after suspected North Korean operatives stole $1.5 billion in Ethereum from it, has launched a

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Nvidia revenue jumps 78%, gives bullish forecast despite DeepSeek AI fears 2025-02-27 at 00:04 By Reuters Jensen Huang’s Nvidia is the biggest beneficiary of a rally in AI-linked stocks, with its shares up more than 400% over the last two years. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News and Product Reviews | New York

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100-plus US spies fired after NSA internal chat board used for kinky sex talk 2025-02-26 at 23:23 By Jessica Lyons National intel boss slams naughty nattering on work systems as ‘egregious violation of trust’ More than 100 US spies have been fired, and their security clearance revoked, after an internal NSA messaging system was used

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Like a kid handing in hastily written homework at the last minute, Supermicro finally files its financial figures 2025-02-26 at 22:15 By Tobias Mann SMCI had to come up with long-delayed report – or lose its slot on NASDAQ again It only took five or so months, but Supermicro has managed to untangle its long-delayed

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Yes, Slack isn’t working properly right now – enjoy your internet snow day 2025-02-26 at 21:36 By Team Register Chat app chaps slapped, rapped for leaving yakkity-yak users in a flap It’s not just you. Slack is indeed having a wobbly day, leaving people unable to message each other as usual.… This article is an

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Qualcomm pledges 8 years of security updates for Android kit using its chips (YMMV) 2025-02-26 at 21:03 By Iain Thomson Starting with Snapdragon 8 Elite and ‘droid 15 It seems manufacturers are finally getting the message that people want to use their kit for longer without security issues, as Qualcomm has said it’ll provide Android

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Network edge? You get 64-bit Armv9 AI. You too, watches. And you, server remote management. And you… 2025-02-26 at 20:06 By Dan Robinson Arm rolls out the Cortex-A320 for small embedded gear that needs the oomph for big-model inference Arm predicts AI inferencing will soon be ubiquitous. In order to give devices the oomph they

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