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Mirai Botnet Exploits Ivanti Connect Secure Flaws for Malicious Payload Delivery 2024-05-09 at 14:46 By Two recently disclosed security flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) devices are being exploited to deploy the infamous Mirai botnet. That’s according to findings from Juniper Threat Labs, which said the vulnerabilities CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887 have been leveraged to deliver the botnet payload. While CVE-2023-46805 […]

UniSuper Google Cloud outage caused by an unfortunate series of events 2024-05-09 at 14:17 By Richard Speed Duplication across geographies no defense against the ‘one-of-a-kind’ accidental deletion Google’s Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has weighed in on the UniSuper fiasco and confirmed that UniSuper’s Private Cloud subscription was accidentally deleted.… This article is an excerpt from

ML suggests all that relaxing whale song might just be human-esque gossiping 2024-05-09 at 13:31 By Matthew Connatser Now this is our kind of click bait A study into whale language using machine learning has uncovered a complex phonetic system, implying the cetaceans may speak to each other much like humans do.… This article is

Experimental remix finally brings the former Unity 8 back to Ubuntu 2024-05-09 at 12:32 By Liam Proven Ubuntu Unity 24.04 arrives along with new little sibling, Ubuntu Lomiri Ubuntu Unity Noble Numbat is out, and alongside it, a very much not long-term-supported new variant of the distro: Ubuntu Lomiri.… This article is an excerpt from

Oracle ULA audits are a license to bill 2024-05-09 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark Customers can be pushed into renewing agreements for fear of the unknown, but there are cheaper options Oracle is threatening software audits as customers seek to exit Universal License Agreements (ULAs).… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Big brains divided over training AI with more AI: Is model collapse inevitable? 2024-05-09 at 10:31 By Thomas Claburn Gosh, here’s us thinking recursion was a solved problem AI model collapse – the degradation of quality expected from machine learning models that recursively train on their own output – is not inevitable, at least according

Critical F5 Central Manager Vulnerabilities Allow Enable Full Device Takeover 2024-05-09 at 09:18 By Two security vulnerabilities have been discovered in F5 Next Central Manager that could be exploited by a threat actor to seize control of the devices and create hidden rogue administrator accounts for persistence. The remotely exploitable flaws “can give attackers full

From chips to cloud, tech titans continue to splash cash across APAC 2024-05-09 at 07:31 By Laura Dobberstein Intel and pals automate manufacturing in Japan while AWS pledges billions to Singapore Tech giants including Intel and AWS joined Microsoft and others this week in announcing investments in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region to build out

Online security job leads 2024-05-09 at 07:16 By Security job seekers have many ways to find job leads. For the sheer volume of apparently potential opportunities, though, it is hard to ignore job boards. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Navigating retail security challenges: A comprehensive approach 2024-05-09 at 07:16 By Retail spaces can be exposed to a number of risks, meaning security leaders need to be extra careful when creating security plans. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Asia’s hyperscalers hustle for juice as datacenters drain grid 2024-05-09 at 04:46 By Laura Dobberstein Power shortages are driving the industry to once-unthinkable places Southeast Asia’s hyperscalers face plenty of challenges – from securing talent, property, and keeping construction costs down – but these hurdles pale in comparison to the task of banking enough power.…

DeepMind spinoff Isomorphic claims AlphaFold 3 predicts bio-matter down to the DNA 2024-05-09 at 04:16 By Thomas Claburn AI may help drug discovery, but not US drug affordability Google and DeepMind spinoff Isomorphic Labs has developed an AI model called AlphaFold 3 that can, it’s claimed, predict the structure of molecules more accurately than existing

What do Europeans, Americans and Australians have in common? Scammed $50M by fake e-stores 2024-05-09 at 02:31 By Matthew Connatser BogusBazaar ripped off shoppers and scraped card details, but not in China A crime ring dubbed BogusBazaar has scammed 850,000 people out of tens of millions of dollars via a network of dodgy shopping websites.…

Microsoft builds $3.3B cloud campus on Foxconn’s failed Wisconsin LCD plant plot 2024-05-09 at 02:01 By Tobias Mann A Pleasant spot to Mount an AI push After Foxconn’s failed effort to turn Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, into an LCD manufacturing mecca, the site is getting a new lease on life after Microsoft revealed a $3.3 billion

Microsoft builds $3.3B cloud campus on Foxconn’s failed Wisconsin LCD plant 2024-05-09 at 01:46 By Tobias Mann A Pleasant spot to Mount an AI push After Foxconn’s failed effort to turn Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, into an LCD manufacturing mecca, the site is getting a new lease on life after Microsoft revealed a $3.3 billion investment

Rivian crawls out covered in $1.5B of red ink, panting that it’s still alive 2024-05-09 at 00:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Leccy car maker ships bunch of vehicles, losing around $39K on each one Cost-cutting layoffs have had little effect on Rivian’s bottom line, as the troubled electric car maker has limped from another quarter with

Undersea cables are high-priority targets – it’s high time to make these global pathways more resilient 2024-05-09 at 00:16 By Jessica Lyons It’s ‘essential to national security’ ex-Navy intel officer tells us Interview  As undersea cables carry ever-increasing amounts of data, they become even higher priority targets for both cyber and physical attacks.… This article

America will make at least quarter of advanced chips in 2032, compared to China’s 2% 2024-05-08 at 23:31 By Matthew Connatser Projecting much, US semiconductor industry? By 2032 America is projected to produce 28 percent of the world’s most advanced processors while China will be making just two percent, or so the US Semiconductor Industry

SpiNNcloud Systems unveils Arm-based ‘neuromorphic supercomputer’ 2024-05-08 at 22:32 By Dan Robinson Brain-inspired chip folks set to show off hardware at ISC next week SpiNNcloud Systems says it is making commercially available a hybrid AI high performance computer system based on an architecture pioneered by Steve Furber, one of the designers of the original Arm

Apple broke the law with anti-union tactics in NYC, labor watchdog barks 2024-05-08 at 21:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Interrogations, confiscating flyers, and prohibiting literature is no bueno, board says in final decision of 2022 case Apple tried to protest, but the complaints fell on deaf ears as the US National Labor Relations Board has finally