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Row erupts over data sharing function in UK doctor software 2024-07-04 at 12:46 By Lindsay Clark Union advises members to turn off features government introduced to allow third parties to update records The UK’s doctors’ union has advised members running GP surgeries to turn off certain functionality in their IT system to prevent outside organizations […]

Europol nukes nearly 600 IP addresses in Cobalt Strike crackdown 2024-07-04 at 11:46 By Connor Jones Private sector helped out with week-long operation – but didn’t touch China Europol just announced that a week-long operation at the end of June dropped nearly 600 IP addresses that supported illegal copies of Cobalt Strike.… This article is

Brazil Halts Meta’s AI Data Processing Amid Privacy Concerns 2024-07-04 at 10:16 By Brazil’s data protection authority, Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD), has temporarily banned Meta from processing users’ personal data to train the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. The ANPD said it found “evidence of processing of personal data based on inadequate

ITER delays first plasma for world’s biggest fusion power rig by a decade 2024-07-04 at 10:01 By Simon Sharwood Who could have guessed that giant magnets capable of constraining mini-suns would be hard to build? The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a 35-nation effort to create electricity from nuclear fusion, has torn up its project

Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key 2024-07-04 at 09:01 By Laura Dobberstein Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway Brain Cipher, the group responsible for hacking into Indonesia’s Temporary National Data Center (PDNS) and disrupting the country’s services, has seemingly apologized for its actions and released

Global Police Operation Shuts Down 600 Cybercrime Servers Linked to Cobalt Strike 2024-07-04 at 07:31 By A coordinated law enforcement operation codenamed MORPHEUS has felled close to 600 servers that were used by cybercriminal groups and were part of an attack infrastructure associated with the Cobalt Strike.  The crackdown targeted older, unlicensed versions of the

Report suggests organizations sacrifice client privacy to save money 2024-07-04 at 07:16 By 1 in 3 security leaders believe that half of organizations are willing to trade their customer’s privacy in order to save money. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Australia to build Top Secret Cloud in AWS for military and spooky users 2024-07-04 at 07:01 By Simon Sharwood Interoperability with US infrastructure a big selling point Australia’s government has announced its intention to build a Top Secret-rated cloud with help from Amazon Web Services.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Twilio’s Authy App Breach Exposes Millions of Phone Numbers 2024-07-04 at 06:46 By Cloud communications provider Twilio has revealed that unidentified threat actors took advantage of an unauthenticated endpoint in Authy to identify data associated with Authy accounts, including users’ cell phone numbers. The company said it took steps to secure the endpoint to no

Chinese AI researchers snagged more patents than everyone else combined since 2013 2024-07-04 at 05:31 By Simon Sharwood You think the US leads the field? Wrong – OpenAI is way down WIPO’s charts The World Intellectual Property Organization has counted the patents and scientific publications related to generative AI it could find between 2014 and

Amazon puts down its Astro robotic business watchdog 2024-07-04 at 00:46 By Tobias Mann Now even the ‘droids are being laid off – sheesh! Amazon is axing its Astro for Business robotic security sentry just seven months after announcing the thing.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

EV world in serious trouble if China cuts off rare earth materials 2024-07-04 at 00:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘We’re not there yet’ on development of motors without them Comment  China tightening its stranglehold on rare earth elements (REEs) makes now the perfect time for the automotive industry to start thinking about alternatives for EV motors,

Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI 2024-07-03 at 22:46 By Thomas Claburn Take that for ignoring robots.txt! Cloudflare on Wednesday offered web hosting customers a way to block AI bots from scraping website content and using the data without permission to train machine learning models.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Meta training AI models on citizen data gets a hard não from Brazil 2024-07-03 at 22:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Zuckerborg’s justification isn’t good enough, says watchdog Meta’s plan to expand its AI presence in South America has been hamstrung, with Brazilian officials today banning the Facebook parent company from using its citizens’ data to train

Utility firms go nuclear over Amazon datacenter power deal 2024-07-03 at 21:46 By Matthew Connatser AEP and Exelon challenge electricity arrangement between power plant and colo DC Utility firms American Electric Power (AEP) and Exelon have filed an official objection with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) over Talen Energy’s nuclear power deal with Amazon.…

Traeger security bugs bad news for grillers with neighborly beef 2024-07-03 at 19:31 By Connor Jones Never risk it when it comes to brisket – make sure those updates are applied Keen meatheads better hope they haven’t angered any cybersecurity folk before allowing their Traeger grills to update because a new high-severity vulnerability could be

Patelco banking services AWOL amid ransomware ruckus 2024-07-03 at 18:46 By Connor Jones Late fees? Don’t worry, the credit union has you covered San Francisco-based Patelco Credit Union confirms its service outage was the result of ransomware and has pulled systems offline.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Linux Mint 22 beta sprinkles Cinnamon desktop on Ubuntu 2024-07-03 at 17:46 By Liam Proven Taste at your own risk The Linux Mint project has released the beta version of version 22, codenamed “Wilma” and featuring the latest Cinnamon desktop.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Kernel tweaks improve Raspberry Pi performance, efficiency 2024-07-03 at 16:46 By Liam Proven There’s a lot of room for improvement in modern computing, from the low end to the very high Two separate development efforts are improving both Raspberry Pi power management and memory efficiency – one using tools built for massive clusters.… This article

Vodafone, VMO2 shuffle spectrum to woo watchdog amid merger moves 2024-07-03 at 15:46 By Dan Robinson Vodafone chasing Three, but BT’s complained borged entity would have ‘disproportionate’ capacity UK telcos Vodafone and Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) have struck a new network sharing agreement with a provision that seems aimed at smoothing the path for Vodafone’s