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Hive RAT Creators and $3.5M Cryptojacking Mastermind Arrested in Global Crackdown 2024-04-16 at 11:31 By Two individuals have been arrested in Australia and the U.S. in connection with an alleged scheme to develop and distribute a remote access trojan called Hive RAT (previously Firebird). The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) said the malware “gave the malware purchasers control […]

Intel’s effort to build a foundry biz is costing far more – and taking longer – than expected 2024-04-16 at 11:16 By Tobias Mann If you wanna make money you’ve gotta spend money. And against Samsung it’s gonna cost a lot Analysis  Three years after CEO Pat Gelsinger announced Intel would create a foundry business

NASA needs new ideas and tech to get Mars Sample Return mission off the ground 2024-04-16 at 10:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Current plans are too expensive and slow, meaning China could win race to score red rocks NASA still wants to proceed with its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission but needs its cost to drop

Broadcom throws VMware customers on perpetual licenses a lifeline 2024-04-16 at 09:02 By Simon Sharwood Meanwhile, Gartner predicts massive market share loss and European regulators start asking questions Broadcom has blinked, and made a couple of changes to support VMware customers who don’t want to move to its new software bundle subscriptions.… This article is

Alibaba Cloud reveals network telemetry tool that cut number of engineers needed by 86% 2024-04-16 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood Zoonet employs ‘elegant generalization of ping and traceroute’ among other tricks Exclusive  Alibaba Cloud has detailed the telemetry tool it uses to look out for glitches in customers’ virtual networks, and revealed it’s reduced the

OpenAI launches Asian operations in Tokyo to avoid being lost in translation 2024-04-16 at 07:33 By Laura Dobberstein Local customers get early access to Japanese-language GPT-4 On Sunday, OpenAI announced the launch of its operations in Asia, beginning with a office in Tokyo, Japan. It’s OpenAI’s third outpost beyond the United States, following offices in

Navigating cybersecurity in telecommunications: The FCC’s 7-day rule 2024-04-16 at 07:02 By Under heightened national and economic security scrutiny, telecom operators must rise to the challenge.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Rethinking network and security monitoring in the age of TLS 1.3 2024-04-16 at 07:02 By The adoption of the TLS 1.3 creates a watershed moment for cybersecurity, revolutionizing encryption and data protection standards. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Konica Minolta and Fujifilm ponder JV to cut costs of printer businesses 2024-04-16 at 05:16 By Simon Sharwood Japanese giants have big brands, but tiny shares of a shrinking market Japanese imaging manufacturers Konica Minolta and Fujifilm have revealed talks aimed at creating a joint venture to handle printer manufacturing and R&D for both brands.…

Los Alamos Lab powers up Nvidia-laden Venado supercomputer 2024-04-16 at 03:48 By Tobias Mann Promises up to ten AI exaFLOPs of grunt – if you turn down the resolution a bit Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has flipped the switch on its Venado supercomputer – a machine capable of bringing ten exaFLOPS of performance to

CISA in a flap as Chirp smart door locks can be trivially unlocked remotely 2024-04-16 at 01:48 By Matthew Connatser Hard-coded credentials last thing you want in home security app Some smart locks controlled by Chirp Systems’ software can be remotely unlocked by strangers thanks to a critical security vulnerability.… This article is an excerpt

What’s up with AI lately? Let’s start with soaring costs, public anger, regulations 2024-04-15 at 23:32 By Thomas Claburn ‘Obtaining genuine consent for training data collection is especially challenging’ industry sages say The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has issued its seventh annual AI Index Report, which reports a thriving industry facing growing

Halving 2024: Where is Bitcoin heading next? 2024-04-15 at 22:02 By Cointelegraph by Marco Castrovilli In our latest Cointelegraph video, we explain everything you need to know about the imminent Bitcoin halving, assessing its impact on both the mining industry and BTC’s value. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Senator Warren slams Intuit’s ‘junk fees’ as America’s Tax Day rolls around again 2024-04-15 at 22:02 By Iain Thomson Says the IRS can do this stuff for free As Americans go through their annual ceremony of tax day, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has reminded the FTC that tax software biz Intuit is making bank on

Samsung snags $6.4B in CHIPS Act funds for Texas fabs 2024-04-15 at 21:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo Work in Austin, Taylor will include new 2nm facility, packaging plant, and Pentagon partnership Samsung is the latest chipmaker to benefit from CHIPS and Science Act funds, with the US Commerce Department today announcing the Korean megacorporation is getting

Stopping the New and Unknown 2024-04-15 at 20:48 By Advance Machine Learning Team Using Advanced Machine Learning Technology To Protect Against Zero-Day Threats This article is an excerpt from Broadcom Software Blogs View Original Source

US lawmakers rage over Intel Meteor Lake-powered Huawei PC 2024-04-15 at 20:48 By Matthew Connatser Special export license granted to Intel by President Trump unlikely to be renewed Huawei’s launch of its newest MateBook Pro X, which uses Intel’s latest Meteor Lake CPU has invoked the ire of Republican members of Congress in the US.…

Japan may turn up heat on Apple and Google with hefty fines 2024-04-15 at 20:03 By Matthew Connatser Antitrust proposals could stretch to 30% of annual revenues for app store monopolies Apple, Google, and other companies with app store monopolies could be fined 20 or even 30 percent of their sales in Japan if updated

Intel and Lenovo BMCs Contain Unpatched Lighttpd Server Flaw 2024-04-15 at 20:02 By A security flaw impacting the Lighttpd web server used in baseboard management controllers (BMCs) has remained unpatched by device vendors like Intel and Lenovo, new findings from Binarly reveal. While the original shortcoming was discovered and patched by the Lighttpd maintainers way back in

Tesla decimates staff amid ongoing performance woe 2024-04-15 at 19:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Shares of the worst performing member of the S&P 500 slide some more as news unlikely to please investors Tesla is starting the week on a low note by laying off “more than” 10 percent of its employees just days after Cybertruck