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India migrates 25,000 small lenders to ERP in just five months 2024-08-05 at 04:16 By Laura Dobberstein Plus: Food poisoning hits ByteDance Singapore; Indonesia bans DuckDuckGo; and more ASIA IN BRIEF  India’s government has successfully migrated 25,904 Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) to a unified ERP system in just five months, as part of its […]

Lights, camera, AI! Real-time deepfakes coming to DEF CON 2024-08-04 at 21:46 By Jessica Lyons Red teamer finds they’re easy to make, which is welcome to produce fodder for detection bots DEF CON  Visitors to the AI Village at this year’s DEF CON hacker conference will have the chance to star in their own deepfake

IBM Canada can’t duck channel exec’s systematic age discrimination claim 2024-08-04 at 20:31 By Thomas Claburn ‘They actually replaced me with a younger employee’ Three years ago, Bruce Maule, worldwide president of channel marketing at IBM, was informed by bosses that his position was being eliminated.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

AI boom is reshaping the face of cloud infrastructure 2024-08-04 at 14:16 By Dan Robinson Capex skyrockets as providers prioritize new shiny over traditional server upgrades Analysis  Cloud infrastructure is undergoing an upheaval with service providers rushing to deploy servers configured for AI model training, often at the cost of postponing the usual refresh cycle

Bugging out: 53 years since humans first drove a battery-powered car on the Moon 2024-08-03 at 22:16 By Richard Speed And you thought you had range anxiety Feature  Electric vehicles have generated plenty of discussion over the last decade or so. However, it was 53 years ago this week that one of the battery-powered machines

DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course 2024-08-03 at 13:16 By Thomas Claburn Now that’s a TRACTOR pull request To accelerate the transition to memory safe programming languages, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is driving the development of TRACTOR, a programmatic code conversion vehicle.… This

DOJ and FTC Sue TikTok for Violating Children’s Privacy Laws 2024-08-03 at 13:16 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), filed a lawsuit against popular video-sharing platform TikTok for “flagrantly violating” children’s privacy laws in the country. The agencies claimed the company knowingly permitted children to create TikTok

Hackers Exploit Misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks with Repurposed Minecraft DDoS Tool 2024-08-03 at 08:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack campaign targeting misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks. The activity, codenamed Panamorfi by cloud security firm Aqua, utilizes a Java-based tool called mineping to launch a TCP flood DDoS attack. Mineping is

San Francisco set to ban rent-hiking software algorithms 2024-08-03 at 01:02 By Thomas Claburn Automated price-fixing screwing over tenants? Fog off! The San Francisco Board of Supervisors this week approved a ban on algorithmic price setting in the rental housing market, a measure targeting real estate management software from the likes of RealPage and Yardi

Intel tacks two years onto Raptor Lake CPU warranty after voltage crash fiasco 2024-08-02 at 23:17 By Matthew Connatser It’s starting to sink in for Chipzilla that it’s losing some credibility Owners of Intel’s 13th and 14th Gen Core desktop processors are set to get an extra two years of warranty coverage.… This article is

Say ‘ahhhh’ – AI robots are now gunning for your gums 2024-08-02 at 23:04 By Richard Currie Perceptive turns its automated dental dynamo on humans, and Zuck’s dad thinks it’s great Those with a fear of the dentist’s chair should probably look away now because one day a robot might be doing the job –

Uncle Sam sues TikTok, accuses vid app of trashing millions of kids’ privacy 2024-08-02 at 22:17 By Chris Williams Remember that promise to be nice? You broke it, say prosecutors The US government is suing TikTok, claiming the mega-popular app broke the law by playing fast and loose with millions of kids’ privacy.… This article

Microsoft’s results are in, but the E7 subscription remains mythical. For now 2024-08-02 at 21:16 By Richard Speed Does the Windows giant’s love of 365 add-ons spell doom for a super premium tier? Comment  The guessing game over when and if Microsoft might add an E7 tier to its Microsoft 365 lineup continues following the

Israeli hacktivist group brags it took down Iran’s internet 2024-08-02 at 19:47 By Matthew Connatser WeRedEvils alleges successful attack on infrastructure, including data theft Israel-based hacktivists are taking credit for an ongoing internet outage in Iran.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

APT41 Hackers Use ShadowPad, Cobalt Strike in Taiwanese Institute Cyber Attack 2024-08-02 at 19:46 By A Taiwanese government-affiliated research institute that specializes in computing and associated technologies was breached by nation-state threat actors with ties to China, according to new findings from Cisco Talos. The unnamed organization was targeted as early as mid-July 2023 to

APT28 Targets Diplomats with HeadLace Malware via Car Sale Phishing Lure 2024-08-02 at 19:46 By A Russia-linked threat actor has been linked to a new campaign that employed a car for sale as a phishing lure to deliver a modular Windows backdoor called HeadLace. “The campaign likely targeted diplomats and began as early as March

Security leaders respond to HealthEquity data breach 2024-08-02 at 19:16 By 4.3 million individuals were impacted by a HealthEquity data breach, and security leaders are sharing their insights.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source