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6 Mistakes Organizations Make When Deploying Advanced Authentication 2024-05-14 at 14:16 By Deploying advanced authentication measures is key to helping organizations address their weakest cybersecurity link: their human users. Having some form of 2-factor authentication in place is a great start, but many organizations may not yet be in that spot or have the needed level of authentication […]

Hubble Space Telescope hasn’t had any visitors for 15 years 2024-05-14 at 14:02 By Richard Speed STS-125 – the Space Shuttle mission that almost never happened It is fifteen years since the Hubble Space Telescope was captured by a Space Shuttle for the final time.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

The UK reveals it’s spending millions on quantum navigation 2024-05-14 at 13:31 By Richard Speed First commercial flight trials of a quantum-based system that be backup for GPS The UK has just completed commercial flight trials of quantum-based navigation systems that are designed to be immune to conventional jamming and spoofing.… This article is an

NHS Digital hints at exploit sightings of Arcserve UDP vulnerabilities 2024-05-14 at 12:46 By Connor Jones When PoC code is released within a day of disclosure, it’s only a matter of time before attacks kick off The UK’s NHS is warning of the possibility that vulnerabilities in Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) software are being

Nix forked, but over politics instead of progress 2024-05-14 at 11:33 By Liam Proven Aux.computer fragments the community – but doesn’t fix the technological objections Comment  Recent ructions in the Nix project over moderation, leadership, and funding, have led to a fork… but one that fails to address the technical and human issues with Nix

Brit publishers beg Apple not to hurt online ad revenue 2024-05-14 at 10:31 By Thomas Claburn Breaking news, perhaps literally: AI content blocking tool in Safari for iOS The UK News Media Association (NMA) has written to Apple, warning that its reported plan to provide AI-powered ad blocking in iOS 18 threatens the revenue of

Nvidia PUE-PUEs datacenter efficiency ratings, calls for application-specific metrics 2024-05-14 at 09:48 By Tobias Mann What good is great power use effectiveness if your DC is packed with inefficient kit? ISC  Power use effectiveness – PUE for short – has long been the spec by which datacenter efficiency has been measured. But after nearly two

Apple and Google Launch Cross-Platform Feature to Detect Unwanted Bluetooth Tracking Devices 2024-05-14 at 08:31 By Apple and Google on Monday officially announced the rollout of a new feature that notifies users across both iOS and Android if a Bluetooth tracking device is being used to stealthily keep tabs on them without their knowledge or

Texan construction workers put a rocket up Team SpaceX over ‘unpaid bills’ 2024-05-14 at 05:31 By Matthew Connatser ‘If they were to call me today, I’d tell them to f%*k off’ Amid the hullabaloo over SpaceX building out its rocket-launching empire in Texas, there are signs it’s not all tickety-boo – in that it seems

RSA Conference 2024: The good, the bad, and the downright worrying 2024-05-14 at 04:01 By Iain Thomson If there’s one thing infosec needs right now, it’s a little pick-me-up Kettle  San Francisco hosted tens of thousands of computer security folk last week for 2024’s RSA Conference – and the vibe was a mix of gloom

US, China agree to meet in Switzerland to discuss most pressing issue of all: AI use 2024-05-14 at 03:01 By Matthew Connatser No negotiations on tech sanctions, just talks about not destroying the world American and Chinese officials will meet in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday to try and broker a deal for the two countries

Green500 shows Nvidia’s Grace-Hopper superchip is a power-efficiency beast 2024-05-14 at 02:31 By Tobias Mann Three most energy-friendly systems all driven by Nv’s CPU-GPU chip. AMD’s APU could soon change that Analysis  Despite growing alarm over spiraling datacenter power consumption, this spring’s Green500 ranking of the world’s most sustainable publicly known supercomputers shows that the

As one Apple Store votes against forming union, another may go on strike 2024-05-14 at 01:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Staff in Maryland want better pay and steady schedules; New Jersey doesn’t want to rock the boat It’s been a labor-(movement)-intensive few days for Apple, which found out it faces a potential employee strike at one

Japanese scientists propose drug to regrow teeth, promise trials won’t bite 2024-05-14 at 00:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Adios, dentures? Japanese researchers plan to begin human trials of a tooth regrowth drug this fall at Kyoto University Hospital following successful animal trials.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Biden admin shells out $120M to return chip startup to US ownership 2024-05-14 at 00:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Korean-controlled silicon slinger could be coming back to the fold Not everything in the semiconductor industry is about shearing off every last nanometer, which is why the Biden administration is splashing out CHIPS Act funding to those

OpenAI says natively multimodal GPT-4o can be fed text, visuals, sound – and emit the same 2024-05-13 at 23:31 By Thomas Claburn The o is not short for ‘Oh sh…’ for Google and co OpenAI on Monday showed off GPT-4o, its latest multimodal machine learning model, making it partially available to both free and paid

Linux 6.9 arrives, plus Torvalds indicates Arm64 will get a bit more love 2024-05-13 at 23:17 By Liam Proven And the windows are opened to 6.10 in September or so Linux kernel 6.9 is here, with many under-the-covers improvements that won’t be very visible to users, but which tidy things up, fix bugs, and pave

‘Cyberattack’ shutters Christie’s website days before $840M art mega-auction 2024-05-13 at 22:46 By Jessica Lyons Going once, going twice, going offline Christie’s website remains offline as of Monday after a “technology security issue” shut it down Thursday night – just days before the venerable auction house planned to flog $840 million of art.… This article

Rear-end crashes prompt probe into Amazon’s Zoox self-driving cars 2024-05-13 at 22:16 By Matthew Connatser Either they learned to brake-check or motorcycles were following too close The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating two rear-end crashes involving the Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving cars and motorcycles.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Uncle Sam urges action after Black Basta ransomware infects Ascension 2024-05-13 at 21:46 By Connor Jones Emergency ambulances diverted while experts restore systems Multiple US security agencies have published advisories on Black Basta after the ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the recent attack on US healthcare provider Ascension.… This article is an excerpt from The