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Neuralink keeps losing the thread on brain implant wiring 2024-05-15 at 23:16 By Matthew Connatser Musk venture allegedly decided imperfect design was usable Elon Musk’s neurotech startup’s revelation that the tiny wires on its chip implants came loose from its first human patient’s brain might not have been a first.… This article is an excerpt […]

Aghast iOS users report long-deleted photos back from the dead after update 2024-05-15 at 22:46 By Matthew Connatser Apple might be hanging on to nuked iPhone snaps for a while Some iPhone users are reportedly seeing photos they had previously deleted resurface on their devices ever since updating to the latest version of iOS.… This

Senate AI roadmap’s piecemeal legislation is ideal, says former FTC tech chief 2024-05-15 at 22:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Smaller bills mean more fine-grained control over vastly different AI products interview  The AI legislation roadmap published this week by a bipartisan group of US senators hasn’t pleased everyone, but the Federal Trade Commission’s former chief technologist

FBI Seizes BreachForums Again, Urges Users to Report Criminal Activity 2024-05-15 at 22:01 By Law enforcement agencies have officially seized control of the notorious BreachForums platform, an online bazaar known for peddling stolen data, for the second time within a year. The website (“breachforums[.]st”) has been replaced by a seizure banner stating the clearnet cybercrime forum is

Clean Air Act complaint paints smoggy picture at Tesla Fremont factory 2024-05-15 at 21:46 By Richard Speed The cars might be zero emission, but accusers claim the paint shops aren’t Tesla is facing a lawsuit brought under the US Clean Air Act by the Environmental Democracy Project (EDP) claiming pollution from its Fremont facility.… This

Boeing might be criminally prosecuted for 737 MAX crashes after all, says DoJ 2024-05-15 at 21:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Aviation firm has violated 2021 deferred prosecution agreement, claims DoJ, so criminal charges could come back Boeing avoided prosecution for a pair of 737 Max crashes thanks to a 2021 agreement with the Department of Justice,

Meta is the second most spoofed brand for credential phishing 2024-05-15 at 21:16 By A sophisticated phishing campaign is bypassing multi-factor authentication in order to target Meta business accounts.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Android 15 Rolls Out Advanced Features to Protect Users from Scams and Malicious Apps 2024-05-15 at 21:01 By Google is unveiling a set of new features in Android 15 to prevent malicious apps installed on the device from capturing sensitive data. This constitutes an update to the Play Integrity API that third-party app developers can take advantage

Google Launches AI-Powered Theft and Data Protection Features for Android Devices 2024-05-15 at 21:01 By Google has announced a slew of privacy and security features in Android, including a suite of advanced protection features to help secure users’ devices and data in the event of a theft. These features aim to help protect data before,

Qualcomm warms bed for Linux on Arm PCs 2024-05-15 at 20:31 By Dan Robinson One eye on Windows, the other winking at penguins Qualcomm may be leading the push for Windows on Arm systems, but the company also has an eye on Linux support with a roadmap for updates to enable the OS to boot

Biden cranks up the heat on China with wall of tech tariffs 2024-05-15 at 19:31 By Laura Dobberstein It’s not just EVs – semiconductors, batteries, and solar cells all hiked The Biden administration’s Chinese tariff hikes were formally announced on Tuesday including, among other items, a doubling on semiconductors and solar cells and a more

Unveiling common ransomware attack methods to secure your organization 2024-05-15 at 19:16 By Instead of wondering whether or not they’ll be hit with a ransomware attack, leaders need to be building a strategy for what to do when an attack is attempted on their business. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s

With Asmi 24.04, Ubuntu’s never looked so snappy (without the Snaps) 2024-05-15 at 19:01 By Liam Proven Distro formerly known as Zinc cuts the fat, rather than just replacing it The latest version of Teejeetech’s take on Ubuntu offers what many users wish Canonical did – natively packaged Firefox and the choice of whether to

Dublin debauchery derails Portal to NYC in six days flat 2024-05-15 at 18:16 By Richard Currie Webcam art installation quickly descended into public Chatroulette Doomed internet cesspits Omegle and Chatroulette should have been warning enough of what happens when a webcam is placed between random strangers, yet the Portal art project linking New York City

Meet Pi-CARD: Serving up a digital assistant on Raspberry Pi 2024-05-15 at 17:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo LLMs running on a dedicated card: The final frontier as hacker makes it so Consider your wish for an AI digital assistant that runs locally and offline officially granted. Not by a major industry player, naturally – your personal

Veeam adds support for VMware alternative Proxmox to its backup software 2024-05-15 at 17:16 By Dan Robinson Another push for backup buyers uneasy about Broadcom buy Data protection outfit Veeam has confirmed it is to add support for the open source virtualization platform Proxmox, bringing more backing behind the VMware alternative.… This article is an

OpenAI co-founder to depart ChatGPT 2024-05-15 at 16:46 By Richard Speed Sutskever leaves behind mysterious message on next venture Co-founder and Chief Scientist at OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, has announced he is leaving the company and posted a mysterious message about what might be next.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Japan may need 50% more electricity for hungry, hungry AI and chip fabs 2024-05-15 at 16:16 By Dan Robinson While Tokyo pours billions into revitalizing chipmaking sector, it might want to check out the grid Japan reckons it may need to generate 50 percent more electricity by 2050 because of growing local demand from chipmaking

Turla Group Deploys LunarWeb and LunarMail Backdoors in Diplomatic Missions 2024-05-15 at 16:16 By An unnamed European Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and its three diplomatic missions in the Middle East were targeted by two previously undocumented backdoors tracked as LunarWeb and LunarMail. ESET, which identified the activity, attributed it with medium confidence to the

Brexit border system outage puts perishable goods transport in peril 2024-05-15 at 15:46 By Lindsay Clark Saturday’s power failures toppled border-check system offline A power outage affecting one of the IT systems used to process imports to the UK has caused delays to perishable goods crossing the border, which businesses have described as a “disaster.”…