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Sodium ion batteries: Yet another innovation poised to be dominated by China 2024-06-06 at 14:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Coming SiB boom will be a Chinese one while the West is years behind, industry watcher tells us Interview  The burgeoning sodium ion battery industry is poised for a big year, says one analyst, though the US […]

7-year-old Oracle WebLogic bug under active exploitation 2024-06-06 at 13:48 By Connor Jones Experts say Big Red will probably re-release patch in an upcoming cycle A seven-year-old Oracle vulnerability is the latest to be added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) catalog, meaning the security agency considers it a significant threat to federal government.… This

Hackers Exploit Legitimate Packer Software to Spread Malware Undetected 2024-06-06 at 13:16 By Threat actors are increasingly abusing legitimate and commercially available packer software such as BoxedApp to evade detection and distribute malware such as remote access trojans and information stealers. “The majority of the attributed malicious samples targeted financial institutions and government industries,” Check

Prevent Account Takeover with Better Password Security 2024-06-06 at 13:16 By Tom works for a reputable financial institution. He has a long, complex password that would be near-impossible to guess. He’s memorized it by heart, so he started using it for his social media accounts and on his personal devices too. Unbeknownst to Tom, one

BT chief blames regulations for UK lagging in next-gen network rollout 2024-06-06 at 12:46 By Dan Robinson Someone noticed Britain’s about to elect a new govt, amirite? The latest CEO of UK telecoms giant BT says that Scandinavian nations are far more developed than Britain when it comes to telco infrastructure, and the government needs

Can AI models trained on human speech help us understand dogs? 2024-06-06 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark What’s that Lassie? Our nefarious AI overlords are about to take over the world? You must be barking People who want to understand their dogs might be about to be given a helping paw by AI, according to

Google Maps Timeline Data to be Stored Locally on Your Device for Privacy 2024-06-06 at 11:16 By Google has announced plans to store Maps Timeline data locally on users’ devices instead of their Google account effective December 1, 2024. The changes were originally announced by the tech giant in December 2023, alongside changes to the

Microsoft Research chief scientist has no issue with Windows Recall 2024-06-06 at 10:31 By Thomas Claburn As tool emerges to probe OS feature’s SQLite-based store of user activities Asked to explore the data privacy issues arising from Microsoft Recall, the Windows maker’s poorly received self-surveillance tool, Jaime Teevan, chief scientist and technical fellow at Microsoft

Tokyo takes on Tinder by developing its own dating app it hopes will arrest population decline 2024-06-06 at 09:31 By Laura Dobberstein We’re from the government and we want you to find love and procreate The city of Tokyo plans to launch a dating app in coming months, in the hope it helps to address

Hackers Target Python Developers with Fake “Crytic-Compilers” Package on PyPI 2024-06-06 at 09:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Python package uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that’s designed to deliver an information stealer called Lumma (aka LummaC2). The package in question is crytic-compilers, a typosquatted version of a legitimate library named

Wi-Fi can watch your heart beating, finds Taiwan’s datacenter power outfit Delta 2024-06-06 at 08:31 By Simon Sharwood May come in handy for healthcare orgs, or to turn you off private 5G Computex  Delta is a Taiwanese company that specializes in power management kit, the sort of thing that datacenters need. It’s therefore very much

Google takes on virtual desktops with acquisition of app-streamer Cameyo 2024-06-06 at 07:31 By Simon Sharwood Legacy apps on Chromebooks is the goal, which won’t terrify VDI incumbents like Citrix and Omnissa Google has decided to take on the likes of Citrix and VMware by acquiring an outfit called Cameyo whose tech makes it possible

Safeguarding healthcare facilities 2024-06-06 at 07:16 By Security leaders discuss navigating security challenges at hospitals and healthcare facilities. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Synology stretches into a backup appliance, with object stores to come 2024-06-06 at 04:31 By Simon Sharwood Would like to vanquish Veeam and Veritas, but tidying up backup rigs is an easier job Computex  Taiwanese storage vendor Synology has revealed a range of backup appliances.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

FTX’s $24B tax bill written down to just $200M 2024-06-06 at 03:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo No, this isn’t the weird logic of cryptocurrency infecting the IRS. It’s a ‘Fight us and everyone loses even more’ kinda deal Imploded cryptocurrency exchange FTX owes a lot of people a lot of money – but has convinced America’s

Elon Musk confirms 12K H100s ordered for Tesla were instead prioritized for xAI 2024-06-06 at 02:46 By Matthew Connatser Tycoon’s private firms got Nvidia GPUs first because automaker couldn’t use them yet Comment  Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed he redirected Nvidia H100 GPUs intended for the car manufacturer to X and xAI, two private

TikTok confirms CNN, other high-profile accounts hijacked via zero-day vulnerability 2024-06-06 at 01:01 By Jessica Lyons Beware of zero-click malware sliding into your DMs Miscreants exploited a zero-day in TikTok to compromised the accounts of CNN and other big names. The app maker has confirmed there was a cyberattack, and that it has scrambled to

To solve AI’s energy crisis, ‘rethink the entire stack from electrons to algorithms’, says Stanford physics prof 2024-06-06 at 00:01 By Thomas Claburn Think biologically not digitally to go from megawatts to watts, HAI gathering told The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) on Wednesday celebrated five years of cat herding, which is to

Who are these RansomHub cyber-thieves? Looks like a Knight ransomware reboot 2024-06-05 at 23:17 By Jessica Lyons Same folks, different faces RansomHub, a newish cyber-crime operation that has claimed to be behind the theft of data from Christie’s auction house and others, is “very likely” some kind of rebrand of the Knight ransomware gang, according

High-flying drones on a leash could blow traditional wind turbines away 2024-06-05 at 22:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Bristol researcher granted £375K to improve airborne wind energy systems We may be inching closer to a post-turbine wind energy future if a grant awarded to a University of Bristol boffin for wind-harvesting, ground-tethered drone research is any