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GlobalWafers scores $400M to help build US’s first 300mm wafer plants in Texas and Missouri 2024-07-17 at 19:01 By Matthew Connatser CHIPS ACT grant will help cover the Taiwanese semiconductor firm’s $4B budget US government is granting GlobalWafers up to $400 million in CHIPS Act cash to help fund its 300mm wafer manufacturing facilities in […]

Ransomware continues to pile on costs for critical infrastructure victims 2024-07-17 at 18:16 By Connor Jones Millions more spent without any improvement in recovery times Costs associated with ransomware attacks on critical national infrastructure (CNI) organizations skyrocketed in the past year.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

FOSS funding vanishes from EU’s 2025 Horizon program plans 2024-07-17 at 17:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Elimination of most Next Generation Internet funding ‘incomprehensible,’ says OW2 CEO Pierre-Yves Gibello Funding for free and open source software (FOSS) initiatives under the EU’s Horizon program has mostly vanished from next year’s proposal, claim advocates who are worried for

The DLP Features You Requested…Delivered 2024-07-17 at 17:17 By Namrata Shiggaon Learn about DLP 16.0 Release Update 2 This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

What exactly did Microsoft promise CISPE in its settlement? 2024-07-17 at 16:46 By Richard Speed Analysts: ‘At the end of the day, the settlement is nothing’ Analysis  Microsoft’s deal to settle an antitrust complaint taken to the European Commission by a group of cloud providers is good for Microsoft, but no so meaningful for enterprise

Rising ASML sales overshadowed by fears of more drastic US restrictions 2024-07-17 at 16:17 By Dan Robinson Market immediately responds as shares in Dutch maker of crucial photolithography tech dip Europe’s tech darling ASML is forecasting increased sales following a mixed calendar Q2, but its share price is down amid talk of tighter restrictions on

FTC bans NGL from offering AI app to minors 2024-07-17 at 16:17 By The FTC and the LA DA’s office allege that NGL actively marketed their service to kids despite being aware of the harms from similar services. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Mega-city’s Oracle system won’t have effective cash management until 2025 2024-07-17 at 15:32 By Lindsay Clark Birmingham, Europe’s largest local authority, plans to reimplement software years after it replaced SAP Europe’s largest local authority will not have a fully functioning cash system until April next year, three years after it went live on an Oracle

Perspectives on safety and security technology in education 2024-07-17 at 15:16 By Safety in education requires a layered approach, often involving multiple forms of technology.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

London council accuses watchdog of ‘exaggerating’ danger of 2020 raid on residents’ data 2024-07-17 at 14:48 By Connor Jones You escaped a big fat fine! Take the win and run, won’t you? London’s inner city district of Hackney says the UK’s data protection watchdog has misunderstood and “exaggerated” details surrounding a ransomware attack on its

Navigating Insider Risks: Are your Employees Enabling External Threats? 2024-07-17 at 14:16 By Attacks on your network are often meticulously planned operations launched by sophisticated threats. Sometimes your technical fortifications provide a formidable challenge, and the attack requires assistance from the inside to succeed. For example, in 2022, the FBI issued a warning1 that SIM

FIN7 Group Advertises Security-Bypassing Tool on Dark Web Forums 2024-07-17 at 14:16 By The financially motivated threat actor known as FIN7 has been observed using multiple pseudonyms across several underground forums to likely advertise a tool known to be used by ransomware groups like Black Basta. “AvNeutralizer (aka AuKill), a highly specialized tool developed by

Porting the Windows 95 Start Menu to NT 2024-07-17 at 13:47 By Richard Speed Running with coordinate transformations and the pitfalls of asynchronous code Remember when the Windows Start Menu was a pure thing, unsullied by ads and decades of tinkering? Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has shared his role in bringing an iconic piece

GNOME head honcho Holly Million steps down 2024-07-17 at 12:32 By Liam Proven The nonprofit behind the desktop environment of the world’s most profitable Linux company will be looking for money again The executive director of the GNOME Foundation has quit after less than a year in the role.… This article is an excerpt from

China-linked APT17 Targets Italian Companies with 9002 RAT Malware 2024-07-17 at 12:01 By A China-linked threat actor called APT17 has been observed targeting Italian companies and government entities using a variant of a known malware referred to as 9002 RAT. The two targeted attacks took place on June 24 and July 2, 2024, Italian cybersecurity

Windows NT on a whole new platform: PowerMac 2024-07-17 at 11:46 By Liam Proven Got a G3 iMac? Want to run NT? Now you can! Ever wanted to run Windows NT on your vintage PowerPC Macintosh? No, me neither, but now it’s possible thanks to some amazing FOSS work.… This article is an excerpt from

Craig Wright admits he isn’t the inventor of Bitcoin after High Court judgment in UK 2024-07-17 at 10:36 By Matthew Connatser Ozzie definitely not Satoshi Nakamoto, faces £6M legal bill and possible perjury trial Australian Craig Wright has finally admitted he is not the inventor of Bitcoin after losing several cases in the High Court

Scattered Spider Adopts RansomHub and Qilin Ransomware for Cyber Attacks 2024-07-17 at 10:01 By The infamous cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider has incorporated ransomware strains such as RansomHub and Qilin into its arsenal, Microsoft has revealed. Scattered Spider is the designation given to a threat actor that’s known for its sophisticated social engineering schemes

ESA starts work on planetary defence mission, because Bruce Willis is retired 2024-07-17 at 09:46 By Laura Dobberstein Asteroid Apophis will come within 32,000km of Earth in 2029, which makes it very much worth a visit The European Space Agency has begun work on a planetary defence mission that will intercept an asteroid predicted to