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Meta Given Deadline to Address E.U. Concerns Over ‘Pay or Consent’ Model 2024-07-23 at 13:31 By Meta has been given time till September 1, 2024, to respond to concerns raised by the European Commission over its “pay or consent” advertising model or risk-facing enforcement measures, including sanctions. The European Commission said the Consumer Protection Cooperation […]

Daggerfly: Espionage Group Makes Major Update to Toolset 2024-07-23 at 13:16 By Threat Hunter Team APT group appears to be using a shared framework to create Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android threats. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

Daggerfly: Espionage Group Makes Major Update to Toolset 2024-07-23 at 13:16 By Threat Hunter Team APT group appears to be using a shared framework to create Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android threats. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

Daggerfly: Espionage Group Makes Major Update to Toolset 2024-07-23 at 13:16 By Threat Hunter Team APT group appears to be using a shared framework to create Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android threats. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

SAP system gives UK tax collector a £750B headache as clock ticks on support 2024-07-23 at 13:16 By Lindsay Clark For now it’s Capgemini to the rescue (again) The UK’s Treasury ministry is to determine the fate of aging SAP software that runs the nation’s tax system – processing £750 billion ($968 billion) of transactions

FrostyGoop malware shut off heat to 600 Ukraine apartment buildings 2024-07-23 at 12:16 By Jessica Lyons First nasty to exploit Modbus to screw with operational tech devices A previously unseen malware, dubbed FrostyGoop, able to disrupt industrial processes was used in a cyberattack against a district energy company in Ukraine last northern winter, resulting in

AMD claims Nvidia’s Grace CPU Superchip, Arm are no match for its Epyc Zen 4 cores 2024-07-23 at 10:31 By Tobias Mann But does it matter when all Grace needs to is to babysit GPUs? Comment  AMD has claimed its current datacenter silicon is already more than twice as fast, and up to 2.75 times

Hong Kong becomes major hub for shipping banned tech to Iran, Russia 2024-07-23 at 10:02 By Laura Dobberstein Government doesn’t seem to mind – and business is into it, claims report Hong Kong’s government and local businesses undermine sanctions by deliberately facilitating the transfer of restricted and sensitive technology to naughty regimes, according to a

Intel to deliver fix for Raptor Lake CPUs made ‘unstable’ by voltage snafu 2024-07-23 at 08:47 By Simon Sharwood Put those pesky crashes in the past with a fun microcode upgrade! Intel has promised to deliver a fix for some of its recent desktop processors suffering “stability issues.”… This article is an excerpt from The

Google Abandons Plan to Phase Out Third-Party Cookies in Chrome 2024-07-23 at 08:01 By Google on Monday abandoned plans to phase out third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome web browser more than four years after it introduced the option as part of a larger set of a controversial proposal called the Privacy Sandbox. “Instead of

Tencent Cloud launches CentOS variant tuned for Chinese silicon 2024-07-23 at 07:31 By Simon Sharwood Another sign of China’s technological turn inwards – but not, sadly, a SPARC revival Tencent Cloud has launched a version of its homebrew cut of Linux distribution CentOS.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Windows users targeted with zero-day attacks via Internet Explorer 2024-07-23 at 07:16 By Windows users are being targeted with zero-day attacks. Security leaders are sharing their insights.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Indonesia blocks 2.5 million pieces of gambling content, minister says it’s not enough 2024-07-23 at 05:01 By Laura Dobberstein Wagering boomed – and so did the quantity of money heading offshore Indonesia has an online gambling problem. Despite having blocked access to wagering content over 2.5 million times last year, the nation’s Ministry of Communications

Google’s plan to drop third-party cookies in Chrome crumbles 2024-07-23 at 03:16 By Thomas Claburn Ad giant promises will offer to protect privacy, as critics say surveillance continues Google no longer intends to drop support for third-party cookies, the online identifiers used by the ad industry to track people and target them with ads based

Mozilla Thunderbird finally gets system tray notifications 2024-07-23 at 00:46 By Thomas Claburn After 24 years, bug report finally gets fixed Mozilla’s Thunderbird team has fixed a 24-year-old feature bug, bringing system tray mail notifications to GNOME and KDE desktop environments for Linux users.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

When Quality is Everything 2024-07-22 at 23:48 By Adam Bromwich Today’s Connected World Expects Near-Infallibility This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

Global cops power down world’s ‘most prolific’ DDoS dealership 2024-07-22 at 23:31 By Connor Jones One arrest was made weeks ago but no word on the suspect’s identity yet A DDoS-for-hire site described by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) as the world’s most prolific operator in the field is out-of-action following a law enforcement

Meta’s mass layoff severance agreements illegal, says judge 2024-07-22 at 23:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo You can’t offer a better deal in exchange for silence, argues NLRB Separation agreements Meta gave to employees during mass 2022 layoffs are illegal, a US judge has decided, and the reasoning could have implications far beyond Zuckercorp.… This article is

What does Google Gemini do with your data? Well, it’s complicated… 2024-07-22 at 22:16 By Jessica Lyons Big misconception is that data ingestion is occurring, we’re told Google, after facing accusations about its AI model ingesting private files, says Gemini can read and summarize this type of sensitive data in real time – but only with

Nvidia said to be prepping Blackwell GPUs for Chinese market 2024-07-22 at 21:46 By Tobias Mann But will they ship before the Biden administration tightens export controls? Comment  US trade restrictions on the sale of AI accelerators to China haven’t detered Nvidia from bringing its latest Blackwell architecture to the Middle Kingdom.… This article is