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Healthcare and finance were prominent cyberattack targets in 2023 2024-05-29 at 15:16 By A new report discusses cyberattack trends in the United States, with healthcare and finance industries being hit the hardest.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

New Research Warns About Weak Offboarding Management and Insider Risks 2024-05-29 at 15:16 By A recent study by Wing Security found that 63% of businesses may have former employees with access to organizational data, and that automating SaaS Security can help mitigate offboarding risks.  Employee offboarding is typically seen as a routine administrative task, but

U.S. Sentences 31-Year-Old to 10 Years for Laundering $4.5M in Email Scams 2024-05-29 at 15:16 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has sentenced a 31-year-old to 10 years in prison for laundering more than $4.5 million through business email compromise (BEC) schemes and romance scams. Malachi Mullings, 31, of Sandy Springs, Georgia pleaded guilty

LLMs can write and answer quizzes – but aren’t quite ready to disrupt trivia night 2024-05-29 at 14:31 By Matthew Connatser Feed AutoQuizzer a URL and it will use LLaMa-3 to make a decent multiple-choice test A developer has put large language models (LLMs) to the test, literally, by creating AutoQuizzer – a tool that

Microsoft Uncovers ‘Moonstone Sleet’ — New North Korean Hacker Group 2024-05-29 at 14:01 By A never-before-seen North Korean threat actor codenamed Moonstone Sleet has been attributed as behind cyber attacks targeting individuals and organizations in the software and information technology, education, and defense industrial base sectors with ransomware and bespoke malware previously associated with the

Fancy climbing the peaks of Alpine Linux? 3.20 is out 2024-05-29 at 13:46 By Liam Proven Tiny, powerful, uncluttered: not easy, but a lot to like Alpine Linux 3.20.0 is out, with initial support for a whole new CPU architecture: RISC-V.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Using AI in science can add to reproducibility woes, say boffins 2024-05-29 at 12:46 By Lindsay Clark Royal Society warns black box models, a lack of documentation and limited access to computing hamper efforts to understand results Using AI in science promises to add to problems in reproducing important results, the UK’s highly prestigious Royal

The Reg builds official Lego Artemis and Milky Way sets 2024-05-29 at 11:46 By Richard Speed Raking a talon through piles of plastic parts in search of holiday fun Hands-On  Lego has added plastic brick representations of NASA’s Space Launch System and the Milky Way Galaxy to its range. We had a go at building

BreachForums Returns Just Weeks After FBI Seizure – Honeypot or Blunder? 2024-05-29 at 10:46 By The online criminal bazaar BreachForums has been resurrected merely two weeks after a U.S.-led coordinated law enforcement action dismantled and seized control of its infrastructure. Cybersecurity researchers and dark web trackers Brett Callow, Dark Web Informer, and FalconFeeds revealed the

MIT professor hoses down predictions AI will put a rocket under the economy 2024-05-29 at 10:31 By Thomas Claburn It’s easier to foresee growing inequality than surging growth Artificial intelligence (AI) may not do much to boost productivity – and could end up widening the income gap between owners of capital and workers.… This article

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bets big on small turbines for datacenters 2024-05-29 at 09:46 By Laura Dobberstein Another endorsement for the theory that on-prem power generation trumps tapping the grid Mitsubishi Heavy Industries – Earth’s largest source of electricity-generating gas turbines – has tied its future growth to surging demand for datacenters spurred by adoption of

Tencent, Microsoft, link app stores in China 2024-05-29 at 08:31 By Simon Sharwood Intel joins in with plans for better PC-Android integration Tencent and Microsoft have struck a deal that will see the Chinese gaming giant’s Android wares available on the Microsoft Store, and playable on Windows PCs.… This article is an excerpt from The

90% of organizations experienced an identity incident this past year 2024-05-29 at 07:16 By 90% of organizations reported an identity-related event in the last year. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

China shows off machine-gun-toting robot dog and its AI-powered puppy 2024-05-29 at 06:01 By Simon Sharwood Training exercises test suitability for both reconnaissance and lethal kinetic action China has shown off a pair of robot dogs – one of them toting a machine gun and the other powered by AI.… This article is an excerpt

Google’s in-house docs about search ranking leak online, sparking SEO frenzy 2024-05-29 at 04:46 By Thomas Claburn GitHub trove details API features that ‘contradict’ Big G’s public statements about how its engine works A trove of documents that appear to describe how Google ranks search results has appeared online, likely as the result of accidental

2.8M US folks learn their personal info was swiped months ago in Sav-Rx IT heist 2024-05-29 at 01:31 By Jessica Lyons Theft happened in October, only now are details coming to light Sav-Rx has started notifying about 2.8 million people that their personal information was likely stolen during an IT intrusion that happened more than

Not even Chromebooks can escape AI PC craze: Google to inject Plus laptops with LLM juice 2024-05-29 at 01:01 By Tobias Mann New models will come with a year of Gemini Advanced, too Not to be outdone by the shiny new AI PCs Microsoft showed off last week at its Build conference, Google on Tuesday

PayPal is planning an ad network built off your purchase history 2024-05-28 at 23:31 By Matthew Connatser You are the product, after all PayPal will use data from billions of customer transactions to supercharge its nascent ad business.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Infineon promises 12kW PSUs for next generation of power-hungry AI servers 2024-05-28 at 22:46 By Tobias Mann How else are you going to feed all those 1,000-plus watt GPUs? Not long ago an entire rack of systems might consume 10kW or less of power. Today, that’s barely enough to run a single GPU server, and

BreachForums returns, just weeks after FBI-led takedown 2024-05-28 at 22:01 By Jessica Lyons Website whack-a-mole getting worse BreachForums is back online just weeks after the notorious ransomware leak site was seized by law enforcement.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source