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Big Tech: Malaysia won’t let us set our own rules and that’s not fair and makes us grumpy 2024-08-28 at 08:46 By Laura Dobberstein Asia Internet Coalition asks for rethink of social media licensing law with the old ‘You’ll scare away investors’ line – a week after AWS opened a region The Asia Internet Coalition […]

Critical WPML Plugin Flaw Exposes WordPress Sites to Remote Code Execution 2024-08-28 at 07:31 By A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the WPML WordPress multilingual plugin that could allow authenticated users to execute arbitrary code remotely under certain circumstances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-6386 (CVSS score: 9.9), impacts all versions of the plugin

How IT leaders can balance software needs with limited budgets 2024-08-28 at 07:16 By IT budget constraints are here to stay; thankfully, IT leaders can balance software needs with limited budgets. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Chinese broadband satellites may be Beijing’s flying spying censors, think tank warns 2024-08-28 at 05:16 By Simon Sharwood Ground stations are the perfect place for the Great Firewall to block things China finds unpleasant The multiple constellations of broadband-beaming satellites planned by Chinese companies could conceivably run the nation’s “Great Firewall” content censorship system, according

Copper’s reach is shrinking so Broadcom is strapping optics directly to GPUs 2024-08-28 at 03:46 By Tobias Mann What good is going fast if you can’t get past the next rack? In modern AI systems, using PCIe to stitch together accelerators is already too slow. Nvidia and AMD use specialized interconnects like NVLink and Infinity

Facebook whistleblower calls for transparency in social media, AI 2024-08-28 at 02:46 By Thomas Claburn Frances Haugen says navigating the digital world requires a North Star Frances Haugen, a transparency and accountability advocate known for blowing the whistle on Facebook, believes the tech industry needs to find a North Star to navigate through ethical and

Tenstorrent’s Blackhole chips boast 768 RISC-V cores and almost as many FLOPS 2024-08-28 at 00:46 By Tobias Mann Shove 32 of ’em in a box and you’ve got nearly 24 petaFLOPS of FP8 perf Hot Chips  RISC-V champion Tenstorrent offered the closest look yet at its upcoming Blackhole AI accelerators at Hot Chips this week,

Intel’s Software Guard Extensions broken? Don’t panic 2024-08-27 at 23:16 By Iain Thomson More of a storm in a teacup Today’s news that Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX) security system is open to abuse may be overstated.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

A last look at the Living Computers museum before collection heads to auction 2024-08-27 at 22:31 By Richard Speed A guided tour of vintage hardware set to be scattered to the winds The Living Computers museum’s tech collection is set for auction. Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer took a last look and mused on the

Google’s Irish bit barn plans denied over eco shortfall 2024-08-27 at 21:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo DCs on the Emerald Isle better be green, says Dublin council – unless your name is Microsoft Google’s plans to expand its Dublin datacenter presence have been derailed by Irish county officials who say the project isn’t sustainable enough. … This

Broadcom boss Hock Tan says public cloud gave IT departments PTSD 2024-08-27 at 21:31 By Simon Sharwood While datacenter silos have left you ‘so screwed’ VMware Explore  Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has opened the VMware Explore conference by saying CEOs’ decisions to push their companies into public clouds have left their IT departments with post-traumatic

Volt Typhoon suspected of exploiting Versa SD-WAN bug since June 2024-08-27 at 20:46 By Jessica Lyons The same Beijing-backed cyber spy crew the feds say burrowed into US critical infrastructure It looks like China’s Volt Typhoon has found a new way into American networks as Versa has disclosed a nation-state backed attacker has exploited a

IBM reveals upcoming chips to power large-scale AI on next-gen big iron 2024-08-27 at 20:01 By Dan Robinson Telum II Processor and Spyre Accelerator set to boost performance and expand IO capacity IBM has unveiled a more powerful processor for its famed mainframe systems, promising enhanced on-chip AI acceleration for inferencing plus integrated data processing

macOS Version of HZ RAT Backdoor Targets Chinese Messaging App Users 2024-08-27 at 19:31 By Users of Chinese instant messaging apps like DingTalk and WeChat are the target of an Apple macOS version of a backdoor named HZ RAT. The artifacts “almost exactly replicate the functionality of the Windows version of the backdoor and differ

Cerebras gives waferscale chips inferencing twist, claims 1,800 token per sec generation rates 2024-08-27 at 19:16 By Tobias Mann Faster than you can read? More like blink and you’ll miss the hallucination Hot Chips  Inference performance in many modern generative AI workloads is usually a function of memory bandwidth rather than compute. The faster you

Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure increased by 30% in one year 2024-08-27 at 19:16 By A new report highlights the rising threat of cyber incidents against critical infrastructure.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Boom Supersonic takes baby steps toward breaking the sound barrier 2024-08-27 at 18:16 By Laura Dobberstein Twitchy roll resolved, landing gear works on one-third size demonstrator Aircraft biz Boom Supersonic completed the second test flight of its XB-1 demonstrator vehicle on Monday, during which the landing gear was retracted and extended for the first time