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Where there’s a will, there’s Huawei to develop one’s own chipmaking kit 2024-04-12 at 01:16 By Dan Robinson Export restrictions and sanctions working well, we see A sprawling industrial complex being built by Huawei near Shanghai will be used to research and develop chipmaking equipment to help the tech giant overcome restrictions imposed on it […]

GenAI will be bigger than the cloud or the internet, Amazon CEO hopes 2024-04-12 at 00:16 By Tobias Mann And Andy Jassy will happily take your money along the way It’s safe to say Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is pretty jazzed about generative AI’s potential to drive profits.… This article is an excerpt from The

Apple to allow some iPhones to be repaired with used parts 2024-04-11 at 23:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘A strategy of half-promises and unnecessarily complicated hedges’ The right to repair movement just scored a major win with Apple’s announcement that it plans to begin supporting iPhone repairs with used parts this fall. … This article is an

Intel fuels Huawei’s AI PC ambitions with Meteor Lake CPUs in MateBook X Pro 2024-04-11 at 22:32 By Matthew Connatser But for how much longer? Intel’s Meteor Lake-based Core Ultra CPUs will power Huawei’s newest MateBook X Pro, the company’s first AI PC.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Next Vision, or Vision Next? What we really thought about Google and Intel’s AI events 2024-04-11 at 22:02 By Iain Thomson We sat though these conferences so you didn’t have to Kettle  This week kicked off with two conferences, Intel Vision and Google Cloud Next, that as you can imagine had artificial intelligence at the

ChatGPT-3.5, Claude 3 kick pixelated butt in Street Fighter III tournament for LLMs 2024-04-11 at 21:16 By Matthew Connatser But don’t expect them to compete with human pros anytime soon Large language models (LLMs) can now be put to the test in the retro arcade video game Street Fighter III, and so far it seems

US, Japan announce joint AI research projects funded by Nvidia, Microsoft, and others 2024-04-11 at 20:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Not that $110M will go very far, mind The Japanese and US governments have announced new academic AI partnerships that are getting a $110 million cash infusion from Nvidia, Microsoft, and a group of Japanese firms.…

Dell shaves months off lead times for GPU-powered AI servers 2024-04-11 at 19:16 By Matthew Connatser TSMC turns advanced packaging production knob to 11 Dell lead times for computers with GPUs like Nvidia’s H100 have come down to eight to 12 weeks, a significant reduction from nearly 40 weeks late last year.… This article is

96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers 2024-04-11 at 18:16 By Jessica Lyons Could have been worse – last time researchers checked it was 98.6% Hospitals – despite being places where people implicitly expect to have their personal details kept private – frequently use tracking technologies on their websites

Apple Updates Spyware Alert System to Warn Victims of Mercenary Attacks 2024-04-11 at 17:31 By Apple on Wednesday revised its documentation pertaining to its mercenary spyware threat notification system to mention that it alerts users when they may have been individually targeted by such attacks. It also specifically called out companies like NSO Group for developing commercial

TA547 Phishing Attack Hits German Firms with Rhadamanthys Stealer 2024-04-11 at 17:31 By A threat actor tracked as TA547 has targeted dozens of German organizations with an information stealer called Rhadamanthys as part of an invoice-themed phishing campaign. “This is the first time researchers observed TA547 use Rhadamanthys, an information stealer that is used by multiple cybercriminal threat actors,”

Python’s PyPI Reveals Its Secrets 2024-04-11 at 17:31 By GitGuardian is famous for its annual State of Secrets Sprawl report. In their 2023 report, they found over 10 million exposed passwords, API keys, and other credentials exposed in public GitHub commits. The takeaways in their 2024 report did not just highlight 12.8 million new exposed secrets in GitHub, but

‘eXotic Visit’ Spyware Campaign Targets Android Users in India and Pakistan 2024-04-11 at 17:31 By An active Android malware campaign dubbed eXotic Visit has been primarily targeting users in South Asia, particularly those in India and Pakistan, with malware distributed via dedicated websites and Google Play Store. Slovak cybersecurity firm said the activity, ongoing since

Fortinet Rolls Out Critical Security Patches for FortiClientLinux Vulnerability 2024-04-11 at 17:31 By Fortinet has released patches to address a critical security flaw impacting FortiClientLinux that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution. Tracked as CVE-2023-45590, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.4 out of a maximum of 10. “An Improper Control of

We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners 2024-04-11 at 17:17 By Jude Karabus Complainants smack back after hardware giant moves to dismiss lawsuit HP “sought to take advantage of customers’ sunk costs,” printer owners claimed this week in a class action lawsuit against the hardware giant.… This article is an excerpt

AWS must pay $525M to cloud storage patent holder, says jury 2024-04-11 at 16:01 By Dan Robinson Computing giant will appeal ruling, which found infringement was not ‘wilful’ Amazon Web Services has been ordered by a jury to pay $525 million for infringing distributed data storage patents in a case brought by a technology outfit

PumpkinOS carves out a FOSS PalmOS-compatible runtime environment 2024-04-11 at 15:31 By Liam Proven And rePalm may yet bring real PalmOS to new hardware … even the Raspberry Pi PumpkinOS is a somewhat usable runtime environment that can run some Palm apps on top of Windows or Linux, without using or needing real PalmOS.… This

A vulnerability in Linux distributions may allow unauthorized access 2024-04-11 at 15:16 By A recently detected vulnerability in many Linux distributions may open the door for malicious actors to gain unauthorized access.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

MPs ask: Why is it so freakin’ hard to get AI giants to pay copyright holders? 2024-04-11 at 14:46 By Lindsay Clark Agreement on consent and compensation has failed to materialize UK lawmakers have slammed the government for its lack of action in protecting copyright holders against the infringement of their intellectual property by developers

TA547 Phishing Attack Hits German Firms with Rhadamanthys Stealer 2024-04-11 at 14:46 By A threat actor tracked as TA547 has targeted dozens of German organizations with an information stealer called Rhadamanthys as part of an invoice-themed phishing campaign. “This is the first time researchers observed TA547 use Rhadamanthys, an information stealer that is used by multiple cybercriminal threat actors,”