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America may end up with paid-for 5G fast lanes under net neutrality anyway 2024-04-18 at 00:16 By Dan Robinson Damn you, network virtualization A law professor is warning a proposed reintroduction net neutrality in the US will allow cellular networks to create “fast lanes” for some applications, and that this undermines the entire net neutrality […]

ASML ships another high NA EUV lithography machine to mystery client 2024-04-17 at 23:31 By Matthew Connatser The cutting-edge chipmaking tool for a secret customer Dutch semiconductor toolmaker ASML has shipped its second-ever high numerical aperture (NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine to an undisclosed customer.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Kremlin’s Sandworm blamed for cyberattacks on US, European water utilities 2024-04-17 at 23:01 By Jessica Lyons Water tank overflowed during one system malfunction, says Mandiant The Russian military’s notorious Sandworm crew was likely behind cyberattacks on US and European water plants that, in at least one case, caused a tank to overflow.… This article is

Boston Dynamics’ humanoid Atlas is dead, long live the … new commercial Atlas 2024-04-17 at 22:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo If the plan was to make this all-electric droid look mildly terrifying, mission accomplished Video  Atlas, the humanoid robot that’s been a centerpiece of Boston Dynamics’ robot lineup for nearly a decade, has been retired. In

Are we in a cost of technology crisis? Our vultures seem to think so 2024-04-17 at 22:01 By Iain Thomson Won’t somebody please think of the shareholders Kettle  The price of everything is going up because corporations gotta corp and produce record profits year after year. That means you and I are expected to cough

Future Roku TVs may inject tailored ads into anything and everything when you pause 2024-04-17 at 21:16 By Matthew Connatser Muted the audio? That’s an advert. Paused a video? That’s an advert Roku TVs of the future may throw up targeted ads on the screen whenever you pause a video.… This article is an excerpt

NASA confirms nuclear powered Dragonfly drone is going to Titan 2024-04-17 at 20:32 By Richard Speed Whew! Relief for boffins as rotorcraft slated to arrive at Saturn moon in 2034 NASA has finally confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission will be heading to Titan, one of Saturn’s Moons, meaning the team behind the project can finalize

Tesla asks shareholders to reinstate Musk’s voided $56B pay package 2024-04-17 at 20:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Given the electric car maker’s annus horribilis so far in 2024, does the chief even deserve it? A Delaware court may have voided Elon Musk’s $56 billion Tesla pay package in February, but now the board is asking shareholders

Sandia National Lab takes delivery of Intel’s latest brain in a box 2024-04-17 at 19:16 By Tobias Mann Hala Point system crams more than a thousand neurochips into a 6U chassis to tackle real-time AI Intel Labs revealed its largest neuromorphic computer on Wednesday, a 1.15 billion neuron system, which it says is roughly analogous

Samsung boosts LPDDR5X to 10.7 Gbps, ups efficiency and capacity for mobile and servers 2024-04-17 at 18:47 By Matthew Connatser Guess what it’s great for? Go on, have a guess… 20 points if you muttered an abbreviation starting with A and ending in I Samsung has revealed its upgraded LPDDR5X memory modules, which features improved

Crypto conferences liquidated after biblical flooding in Dubai 2024-04-17 at 18:17 By Richard Currie There’s something nice about seeing Web3 fanatics in ankle-deep water And the Lord looked down upon the crypto bros and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will send down upon thee a flood to wash out

AlmaLinux 9.4 beta prepares to tread where RHEL dares not 2024-04-17 at 17:46 By Liam Proven CIQ also has an alternative approach to compatible kernels with RockyLinux The bigger RHELatives continue to diverge slightly from Red Hat, with additional drivers and newer kernel versions.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Whistleblower cries foul over alleged fuselage gaps in Boeing 787 Dreamliner 2024-04-17 at 17:16 By Richard Speed Company rejects claims as ‘inaccurate’ A Boeing whistleblower has called for the embattled aircraft manufacturer’s fleet of 787s to be grounded for gap checks.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Russian APT Deploys New ‘Kapeka’ Backdoor in Eastern European Attacks 2024-04-17 at 17:01 By A previously undocumented “flexible” backdoor called Kapeka has been “sporadically” observed in cyber attacks targeting Eastern Europe, including Estonia and Ukraine, since at least mid-2022. The findings come from Finnish cybersecurity firm WithSecure, which attributed the malware to the Russia-linked advanced persistent threat

Exploit code for Palo Alto Networks zero-day now public 2024-04-17 at 16:31 By Connor Jones Race on to patch as researchers warn of mass exploitation of directory traversal bug Various infosec researchers have released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for the maximum-severity vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS used in GlobalProtect gateways.… This article is an excerpt

ASML profits plunge 40% amid dip in chipmaking tool orders 2024-04-17 at 16:16 By Dan Robinson Except in China, where customers accounted for almost half of the photolithography giant’s top line Chipmaking kit maestro ASML generated almost half of its sales from China in calendar Q1, amid a wider downturn in orders and plunging profits.…

Fake Dialog Boxes to Make Malware More Convincing 2024-04-17 at 16:16 By Ram Prakash Let’s explore how SpiderLabs created and incorporated user prompts, specifically Windows dialog boxes into its malware loader to make it more convincing to phishing targets during a Red Team engagement. This article is an excerpt from SpiderLabs Blog View Original Source

Official: EU users can swerve App Store and download iOS apps from the web 2024-04-17 at 15:47 By Richard Speed Anticompetitive remedies? We’ve heard of them Apple is turning on Web Distribution for iOS apps, allowing EU users to download applications directly from developer websites.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Mega city council’s Oracle ERP system still not legally safe, compliant… 2 years after rollout 2024-04-17 at 15:16 By Lindsay Clark Fusion software misses another deadline, one external auditors for Birmingham City Council described as ‘absolutely crucial’ Birmingham City Council has failed to enter the new financial year with auditable accounting software after a disastrous

Pentesting accounts for an average of 13% of total IT security budgets 2024-04-17 at 15:16 By A recent report has emphasized the prevalence and importance of pentesting among enterprise security teams.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source