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TSMC mulled moving chip fabs from Taiwan over China threat 2024-06-04 at 16:46 By Dan Robinson CEO says it even spoke to customers about the switch but decided it was not feasible TSMC considered relocating its chip fabs away from Taiwan because of the threat from China, and even discussed the matter with customers, but […]

Analysts join the call for Microsoft to recall Recall 2024-06-04 at 16:01 By Richard Speed ‘Does any of this add real value for users or enterprises?’ If Microsoft intended the 2024 Build event to be overshadowed by controversy then it succeeded as calls intensify for the company to rethink its strategy around Recall.… This article

Graveyards a favorite haunt for solar farms in Valencia 2024-06-04 at 15:32 By Richard Currie Because the dead don’t really need all this space to themselves, surely? In a move likely to leave both the living and the dearly departed feeling a bit sunnier, the Spanish city of Valencia is turning its cemeteries into bustling

Administrator of 911 S5 botnet arrested, botnet dismantled 2024-06-04 at 15:16 By A coordinated international operation had led to the apprehension of the alleged 911 S5 botnet administrator.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

The Next Generation of RBI (Remote Browser Isolation) 2024-06-04 at 15:16 By The landscape of browser security has undergone significant changes over the past decade. While Browser Isolation was once considered the gold standard for protecting against browser exploits and malware downloads, it has become increasingly inadequate and insecure in today’s SaaS-centric world. The limitations

Hackers Use MS Excel Macro to Launch Multi-Stage Malware Attack in Ukraine 2024-06-04 at 15:16 By A new sophisticated cyber attack has been observed targeting endpoints geolocated to Ukraine with an aim to deploy Cobalt Strike and seize control of the compromised hosts. The attack chain, per Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, involves a Microsoft Excel file

Cybercrooks get cozy with BoxedApp to dodge detection 2024-06-04 at 15:03 By Connor Jones Some of the biggest names in the game are hopping on the trend Malware miscreants are increasingly showing a penchant for abusing legitimate, commercial packer apps to evade detection.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Snowflake Warns: Targeted Credential Theft Campaign Hits Cloud Customers 2024-06-04 at 14:01 By Cloud computing and analytics company Snowflake said a “limited number” of its customers have been singled out as part of a targeted campaign. “We have not identified evidence suggesting this activity was caused by a vulnerability, misconfiguration, or breach of Snowflake’s platform,”

Millions forced to use brain as OpenAI’s ChatGPT takes morning off 2024-06-04 at 13:46 By Richard Speed Bots just as likely to fall over as everything else in the cloud OpenAI’s ChatGPT has suffered a “major outage,” leaving customers unable to converse with the company’s chatbot.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Hubble plays spin the bottle with last few gyros 2024-06-04 at 12:33 By Richard Speed Time to dust off those contingency plans? The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has again suspended science operations due to an ongoing gyroscope problem.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Checkmate? AI’s pawn-pushing prowess proves partly pitiful, partly promising 2024-06-04 at 11:35 By Matthew Connatser GPT-4o is far better than other models, but still made illegal moves 13% of the time A new benchmark for large language models (LLMs) shows that even the latest models aren’t the best chess players.… This article is an excerpt

Fired-up Pat Gelsinger shoots from the lip at Qualcomm and Nvidia 2024-06-04 at 11:01 By Simon Sharwood Reveals first 18A silicon will run next week as he undercuts H100s on price and dismisses X Elite metrics Computex  Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has used his keynote address at the Computex conference in Taiwan to fire back

Raspberry Pi unveils Hailo-powered AI Kit to make the model 5 smarter 2024-06-04 at 10:16 By Matthew Connatser 13 TOPS for $70 has PiBoss Eben Upton predicting an ML explosion Raspberry Pi has created a machine-learning addition for its single board computer that features the Hailo-8L AI accelerator.… This article is an excerpt from The

DarkGate Malware Replaces AutoIt with AutoHotkey in Latest Cyber Attacks 2024-06-04 at 10:01 By Cyber attacks involving the DarkGate malware-as-a-service (MaaS) operation have shifted away from AutoIt scripts to an AutoHotkey mechanism to deliver the last stages, underscoring continued efforts on the part of the threat actors to continuously stay ahead of the detection curve.

Flying phone base stations to take off over Japan in 2026 2024-06-04 at 09:17 By Laura Dobberstein NTT Docomo teams with Airbus subsidiary to make it happen A string of aerial telecommunication base stations should be flying above Japan in around two years’ time – thanks to Airbus subsidiary AALTO and a consortium led by

ASUS creates a new substance: Ceraluminum, which fuses aluminum and a ceramic 2024-06-04 at 07:31 By Simon Sharwood Not unobtanium or vaporwareum, as it’s coming soon to a 16-inch Zenbook lappie Computex  ASUS has given the world a new substance, and it’s got a catchy new name: Ceraluminum.… This article is an excerpt from The

39% of MSPs adapting to new technologies is their biggest challenge 2024-06-04 at 07:17 By 39% of MSPs state that their greatest challenge is keeping up with emerging cybersecurity solutions and technologies. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Oracle WebLogic Server OS Command Injection Flaw Under Active Attack 2024-06-04 at 07:16 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a security flaw impacting the Oracle WebLogic Server to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2017-3506 (CVSS score: 7.4), the issue concerns an

Intel details how Lunar Lake PC chips deliver 120 TOPS 2024-06-04 at 06:31 By Tobias Mann A bigger NPU, faster graphics core in GPU, and on-package memory will do that to a chip Computex  In the emerging world of AI PCs, everything eventually boils down to TOPS: How many trillions of byte-sized operations can your

Intel challenges AMD’s Epycs with a 144 e-core Xeon 2024-06-04 at 06:16 By Tobias Mann 128 p-core Xeons to follow in Q3 while the x86 giant will release its 288 e-core monster early next year Computex  With the launch of its many-cored Xeon 6 processors at Computex on Tuesday, Intel is closer to reclaiming the