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Post-Quantum Cryptography: Finally Real in Consumer Apps? 29/09/2023 at 15:03 By Most people are barely thinking about basic cybersecurity, let alone post-quantum cryptography. But the impact of a post-quantum world is coming for them regardless of whether or not it’s keeping them up tonight.  Today, many rely on encryption in their daily lives to protect […]

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Nuclear-powered datacenters: What could go wrong? 29/09/2023 at 14:17 By Iain Thomson Or very right? Either way, it’s not the usual atomic op we see in IT Kettle  The growth of electricity-hungry datacenters is causing some operators to fear for their power security and consider the nuclear option. In this week’s Kettle The Register discusses

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Mozilla’s midlife crisis has taken it from web pioneer to Google’s weird neighbor 29/09/2023 at 13:02 By Liam Proven Can the sleeping fox ever wake up? Mozilla seems to be asleep at the wheel, when it once drove online activity and communications. We have some suggestions where it could go.… This article is an excerpt

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Microsoft’s AI-Powered Bing Chat Ads May Lead Users to Malware-Distributing Sites 29/09/2023 at 12:47 By Malicious ads served inside Microsoft Bing’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot are being used to distribute malware when searching for popular tools. The findings come from Malwarebytes, which revealed that unsuspecting users can be tricked into visiting booby-trapped sites and installing

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CNCF’s chief techie talks WebAssembly, AI and licenses 29/09/2023 at 11:47 By Richard Speed Or how one pesky press release ruined a vacation Interview  One victim of HashiCorp’s license change was the vacation of Chris Aniszczyk, CTO of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React

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Progress Software Releases Urgent Hotfixes for Multiple Security Flaws in WS_FTP Server 29/09/2023 at 10:01 By Progress Software has released hotfixes for a critical security vulnerability, alongside seven other flaws, in the WS_FTP Server Ad hoc Transfer Module and in the WS_FTP Server manager interface. Tracked as CVE-2023-40044, the flaw has a CVSS score of 10.0,

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AMD’s latest FPGA promises super low latency AI for Flash Boy traders 29/09/2023 at 09:47 By Tobias Mann Letting more advanced ML loose on the stock market? What could possibly go wrong? AMD has refreshed its Alveo field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), promising a sevenfold improvement in operating latency and the ability to run more complex

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Infosys launches aviation cloud it claims can halve lost luggage 29/09/2023 at 08:47 By Laura Dobberstein Also optimises routes and tames crowds, but can’t stop that person who just reclined into your knees Infosys has sent a digital transformation platform for commercial airlines down the runway and claims it could reduce lost luggage by fifty

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Search for phone signal caused oil spill, say Japanese investigators 29/09/2023 at 07:50 By Laura Dobberstein Skipper caught on tape saying ‘What have I done? My career is gone’ after crashing into coral reef after a couple of whiskeys Japan’s Transport Safety Board on Thursday judged that a cargo ship that spilled 1,000 tons of

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Red Hat bins Bugzilla for RHEL issue tracking, jumps on Jira 29/09/2023 at 06:46 By Simon Sharwood Just in time to get Atlassian’s latest cross-team collab bits Red Hat has revealed it’s binned the Bugzilla defect-tracking system for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in favour of Atlassian’s Jira.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Cisco Warns of Vulnerability in IOS and IOS XE Software After Exploitation Attempts 29/09/2023 at 06:16 By Cisco is warning of attempted exploitation of a security flaw in its IOS Software and IOS XE Software that could permit an authenticated remote attacker to achieve remote code execution on affected systems. The medium-severity vulnerability is tracked

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Supermicro CEO predicts 20 percent of datacenters will adopt liquid cooling 29/09/2023 at 05:45 By Simon Sharwood 30th birthday post reveals 2004 disaster movie continues to influence company strategy Supermicro’s founder, president and CEO Charles Liang has suggested a fifth of datacenters – maybe more – will need to adopt liquid cooling in coming years.…

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Medium asks AI bot crawlers: Please, please don’t scrape bloggers’ musings 29/09/2023 at 04:48 By Katyanna Quach OpenAI might respect robots.txt but dunno about the others Blogging platform Medium would like organizations to not scrape its articles without permission to train up AI models, though it admitted this policy will be difficult to enforce.… This

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iPhone 15 is too hot to handle – and not in any good way 29/09/2023 at 03:47 By Thomas Claburn Influencers offer smouldering looks, analysts wonder if TSMC-fabbed silicon can take the heat Apple’s iPhone 15 is so hot right now, just not in the way that Apple would prefer.… This article is an excerpt

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Chinese snoops stole 60K State Department emails in that Microsoft email heist 29/09/2023 at 02:17 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle No classified systems involved apparently, so there’s that Chinese snoops stole about 60,000 State Department emails when they broke into Microsoft-hosted Outlook and Exchange Online accounts belonging to US government officials over the summer.… This article

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French monopoly cops raid Nvidia offices in cloud probe 29/09/2023 at 01:17 By Tobias Mann AI GPU maker suspected of anti-competitive tricks Nvidia’s French offices were raided this week as part of an investigation by the nation’s Competition Authority into the graphics card sector.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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OpenAI in talks with Jony Apple Ive and Softbank over iPhone-but-for-AI monster 29/09/2023 at 01:03 By Katyanna Quach So, a portable Alexa or Google Home-esque gadget? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the former Apple chief design officer Jony Ive are reportedly planning to spin up a startup with backing from Softbank to develop some kind

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Feds’ privacy panel backs renewing Feds’ S. 702 spying powers — but with limits 29/09/2023 at 00:18 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle FBI agents ought to get spy court approval before reviewing US persons’ chats, board reckons A privacy panel within the US government today narrowly recommended that Congress reauthorize the Feds’ Section 702 spying powers —

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Epic cut: Fortnite games maker culls 16% of staff 28/09/2023 at 23:19 By Brandon Vigliarolo That partial victory against Apple is seeming more pyrrhic by the day Fortnite founder Epic Games said on Thursday that it intends to lay off 16 percent of its staff, around 830 people, and has also sold its stake in

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Yelp sues Texas for right to publish actual accurate abortion info 28/09/2023 at 22:49 By Thomas Claburn So much for that free speech, huh? Yelp has sued Texas’ Attorney General Ken Paxton to prevent him from punishing the reviews website for labeling Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) to indicate that they do not actually offer abortion

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