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NHS drops another billion on tech in the hope of finally going digital 2024-09-23 at 12:46 By Lindsay Clark Framework promised last year set to reach value of up to £2.5B after chat with supply chain The UK’s health system has added £1 billion to a tech deal for software and infrastructure after an “engagement” […]

AI to power the corporate Windows 11 refresh? Nobody’s buying that 2024-09-23 at 11:46 By Rupert Goodwins Microsoft should look to Apple for lessons in flogging dead horses Opinion  In the early 2010s, Intel’s PR did the tech press rounds with a hot story. We’re so far ahead in chip fab, they said, that nobody

Did you hear the one about the help desk chap who abused privileges to prank his mate? 2024-09-23 at 10:51 By Matthew JC Powell The result was no joke, thanks to a Microsoft glitch Who, Me?  Welcome, dear reader, to another instalment of Who, Me? in which Reg readers share tales of techie woe to

Chinese server-maker Inspur claims it’s on track for better liquid cooling with ‘railway sleeper’ design 2024-09-23 at 10:31 By Laura Dobberstein Beijing is happy at surging sales and production capacity, falling energy requirements Chinese server-maker and contract manufacturer Inspur has detailed a memory cooling tech it claims doubles the heat dissipation efficiency of traditional air

New PondRAT Malware Hidden in Python Packages Targets Software Developers 2024-09-23 at 10:31 By Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been observed using poisoned Python packages as a way to deliver a new malware called PondRAT as part of an ongoing campaign. PondRAT, according to new findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42,

Move over, Cobalt Strike. Splinter’s the new post-exploit menace in town 2024-09-23 at 10:01 By Jessica Lyons No malware crew linked to this latest red-teaming tool yet Attackers are using Splinter, a new post-exploitation tool, to wreak havoc in victims’ IT environments after initial infiltration, utilizing capabilities such as executing Windows commands, stealing files, collecting

Chinese Hackers Exploit GeoServer Flaw to Target APAC Nations with EAGLEDOOR Malware 2024-09-23 at 09:16 By A suspected advanced persistent threat (APT) originating from China targeted a government organization in Taiwan, and possibly other countries in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, by exploiting a recently patched critical security flaw impacting OSGeo GeoServer GeoTools. The intrusion activity,

AT&T intends to quit VMware, Broadcom claims in legal broadside 2024-09-23 at 08:16 By Simon Sharwood Counter-arguments in support spat paint unflattering picture of telco giant’s IT estate Broadcom has claimed that AT&T plans to stop using VMware software, but has been tardy about making the move.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

SaaS governance is improving, but AI presents new challenges 2024-09-23 at 07:19 By What can leaders within the enterprise do to ensure they don’t lose their grip on governance? This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Intel has officially entered the grin and bear it phase of its recovery 2024-09-22 at 13:46 By Tobias Mann Gelsinger sold the world on his foundry vision. Walking away won’t be easy Comment  On Monday, Intel’s share price surged on word it was spinning out its foundry biz as an independent subsidiary and signing AWS

Hacktivist Group Twelve Targets Russian Entities with Destructive Cyber Attacks 2024-09-21 at 18:46 By A hacktivist group known as Twelve has been observed using an arsenal of publicly available tools to conduct destructive cyber attacks against Russian targets. “Rather than demand a ransom for decrypting data, Twelve prefers to encrypt victims’ data and then destroy

Ukraine Bans Telegram Use for Government and Military Personnel 2024-09-21 at 17:16 By Ukraine has restricted the use of the Telegram messaging app by government officials, military personnel, and other defense and critical infrastructure workers, citing national security concerns. The ban was announced by the National Coordination Centre for Cybersecurity (NCCC) in a post shared

LinkedIn Halts AI Data Processing in UK Amid Privacy Concerns Raised by ICO 2024-09-21 at 17:16 By The U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has confirmed that professional social networking platform LinkedIn has suspended processing users’ data in the country to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. “We are pleased that LinkedIn has reflected on the

Heart of glass: Human genome stored for ‘eternity’ in 5D memory crystal 2024-09-21 at 16:31 By Thomas Claburn Just in case some aliens, say, come along in a billion years and feel like cloning us from extinction Whether or not some future entity will want to bring humanity back after its eventual extinction is now

NIST: New smoke alarms are better at detecting fires, but still go off for bacon 2024-09-21 at 13:47 By Richard Speed Just like almost everyone else, they still love the smell of fried artery-cloggers Fryers of bacon who hope enhanced technology will stop alarms going off over the slightest whiff of smoking oil will have

The mystery of the rogue HP calculator: 12C or not 12C? That is the question 2024-09-21 at 11:46 By Richard Speed Brazilian model flummoxes calc fans For most of us, a calculator might have been superseded by Excel or an app on a phone, yet there remains a die-hard contingent with a passion for the

Sorry, there’s no way Qualcomm is buying Intel as is 2024-09-21 at 03:16 By Tobias Mann Is this from the same gossips who were wrong about Altera and Mobileye or the DoJ subpoenaing Nvidia? Comment  Qualcomm may be after more than Intel’s PC design business as it has supposedly approached the x86 giant about a

Microsoft cash to help reignite Three Mile Island atomic plant 2024-09-20 at 23:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo We’ll have some fission chips, please The idle Three Mile Island Unit 1 nuclear power plant may soon be coming back online in Pennsylvania, thanks to a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) between Microsoft and Constellation Energy, which owns