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Microsoft’s carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 2024-05-16 at 15:46 By Dan Robinson Company will require certain suppliers to run on 100% carbon-free electricity … by 2030 Microsoft has increased carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 30 percent since 2020, making its goal of becoming carbon-negative by 2030 even more difficult, and it looks […]

Samsung takes bite out of Apple over its mega marketing misstep 2024-05-16 at 15:31 By Lindsay Clark ‘We would never crush creativity,’ says South Korea megacorp If Apple thought it could forget about last week’s marketing disaster — which saw the tech giant roundly slated for appearing to crush human creativity in the name of

Understanding the alert budget: A security team’s second ledger 2024-05-16 at 15:16 By With security teams perpetually short-staffed and the rate of cybersecurity breaches on the rise, effectively managing alerts is critical.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

BepiColombo power struggle could leave probe short of Mercury’s orbit 2024-05-16 at 15:01 By Richard Speed ESA/JAXA mission running on reduced thrust as engineers work to resolve the issue Thruster problems with BepiColombo, the joint ESA and JAXA mission to Mercury, could cause headaches for managers plotting the spacecraft’s trajectory and insertion into Mercury’s orbit.…

Put Rescuezilla 2.5 on a bootable key – before you need it 2024-05-16 at 14:32 By Liam Proven Sort of a FOSS Norton Ghost, now updated to Ubuntu 24.04 base A fresh release of Rescuezilla, a free Ubuntu-based rescue disk for imaging the drives of a sickly computer, is available.… This article is an excerpt

Tax helpline callers left on hold for nearly eight centuries 2024-05-16 at 14:01 By Paul Kunert HMRC forgot to tell Brits about its digital support channels Appalling service levels at Britain’s tax collector meant customers phoning in with inquiries were collectively left on hold for 798 years in fiscal 2023.… This article is an excerpt

Researchers Uncover 11 Security Flaws in GE HealthCare Ultrasound Machines 2024-05-16 at 13:46 By Security researchers have disclosed almost a dozen security flaws impacting the GE HealthCare Vivid Ultrasound product family that could be exploited by malicious actors to tamper with patient data and even install ransomware under certain circumstances. “The impacts enabled by these

Forget feet and inches, latest UK units of measurement are thinking bigger 2024-05-16 at 13:31 By Richard Speed Testing wind turbine blades the size of three rusty angel wingspans Reg Standards Bureau  The UK has announced new units of measurement as part of pronouncements on wind turbines by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the Department

Springtail: New Linux Backdoor Added to Toolkit 2024-05-16 at 13:16 By Threat Hunter Team More than one legitimate software package was modified to deliver malware in North Korean group’s recent campaign against South Korean organizations. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

Springtail: New Linux Backdoor Added to Toolkit 2024-05-16 at 13:16 By Threat Hunter Team More than one legitimate software package was modified to deliver malware in North Korean group’s recent campaign against South Korean organizations. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

Springtail: New Linux Backdoor Added to Toolkit 2024-05-16 at 13:16 By Threat Hunter Team More than one legitimate software package was modified to deliver malware in North Korean group’s recent campaign against South Korean organizations. This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

NCSC CTO: Broken market must be fixed to usher in new tech 2024-05-16 at 12:46 By Connor Jones It may take ten years but vendors must be held accountable for the vulnerabilities they introduce CYBERUK  National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) CTO Ollie Whitehouse kicked off day two of British infosec conference CYBERUK with a tirade

HR expert says biz leaders scared RTO mandates lead to staff attrition 2024-05-16 at 11:46 By Paul Kunert So why not drop the policy? Productivity bias or productivity paranoia perhaps Evidence is mounting that tech companies’ policies demanding staff return to the office are only serving to drive out the talent that became accustomed to

Cybercriminals Exploiting Microsoft’s Quick Assist Feature in Ransomware Attacks 2024-05-16 at 06:46 By The Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said it has observed a threat it tracks under the name Storm-1811 abusing the client management tool Quick Assist to target users in social engineering attacks. “Storm-1811 is a financially motivated cybercriminal group known to deploy Black Basta ransomware,” the company said in a

Google Patches Yet Another Actively Exploited Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability 2024-05-16 at 06:46 By Google has rolled out fixes to address a set of nine security issues in its Chrome browser, including a new zero-day that has been exploited in the wild. Assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-4947, the vulnerability relates to a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly

Apple on track for quarter of all iPhones to be made in India by 2028 2024-05-16 at 04:46 By Laura Dobberstein IT minister boasts of tech titan building network of local vendors Apple is expected to have a quarter of all iPhones made in India by 2028, according to the country’s IT minister.… This article

FBI takes down BreachForums ransomware website and Telegram channel 2024-05-16 at 01:46 By Iain Thomson No more illicit gains, for a while at least The FBI, in combination with police around the world, have taken control of the website and Telegram channel of ransomware brokerage site BreachForums.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Crook brags about US Army and $75b defense biz pwnage 2024-05-16 at 01:46 By Jessica Lyons More government data allegedly stolen by prolific criminals An extortionist claims to have stolen files from the US Army Aviation and Missile Command in August 2023, and now claims they are selling access to a $75 billion aerospace and

Tesla nearing shareholder vote to grant Musk $46B 2024-05-16 at 01:16 By Matthew Connatser Fundamentals are for losers: It’s a good time to head the worst performing stock in the S&P Owners of Tesla stock will vote on June 13 to determine whether the company’s CEO Elon Musk deserves a $46 billion payday.… This article

US senators’ AI roadmap aims for $32b in R&D spending 2024-05-15 at 23:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘Reads like it was written by Sam Altman and Big Tech lobbyists,’ say critics A quartet of US senators have released an AI legislation roadmap that calls for billions of dollars in research funding, but largely kicks the can