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CHIPS Act hangover sees most US science agency budgets cut for 2024 2024-04-10 at 04:47 By Matthew Connatser 2025 unlikely to see more money flow as Congress turns off the tap An increase in federal spending for the sciences in the US was short-lived, as the 2024 budget has seen significant cuts for many agencies […]

Intel over the Moon as Lunar Lake’s NPU performance TOPS Meteor Lake 2024-04-10 at 04:04 By Matthew Connatser Pat Gelsinger claims 3x performance in next-gen silicon for AI PCs Intel Vision  Intel claims its forthcoming Lunar Lake CPUs will have over 100 Tera Operations Per Second (TOPS) of AI performance – 45 of them from

Microsoft squashes SmartScreen security bypass bug exploited in the wild 2024-04-10 at 03:32 By Jessica Lyons Plus: Adobe, SAP, Fortinet, VMware, Cisco issue pressing updates Patch Tuesday  Microsoft fixed 149 security flaws in its own products this week, and while Redmond acknowledged one of those vulnerabilities is being actively exploited, we’ve been told another hole

PC shipments up for first quarter thanks to AI, say analysts 2024-04-10 at 00:47 By Dan Robinson Vendors rub hands at prospect of higher sales for pricier kit That AI PC pixie dust doesn’t seem to be working its magic just yet as shipments were up for the first quarter of this year, but only

Google Cloud chief is really psyched about this AI thing 2024-04-10 at 00:02 By Thomas Claburn We’re on a highway to ML Google’s cloud business last quarter achieved an annual run rate of $36 billion, more than five times what it was five years ago, announced Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai at the Google Cloud Next

D-Link issues rip and replace order for besieged NAS drives 2024-04-09 at 23:46 By Connor Jones Critical vulns spell bad news for circa 92,000 NAS users D-Link is telling owners of expired NAS devices to pack them away and replace them with newer kit following the publication of security vulnerabilities that together are now being

Notepad++ dev slams Google-clogging notepad.plus ‘parasite’ 2024-04-09 at 23:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo Imitator seemingly swiftly sunk from search after plea to users for help The developer of popular text editor Notepad++ is warning users to beware of a “parasite website” that he says has dubious intentions.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

Arm CEO warns AI’s power appetite could devour 25% of US electricity by 2030 2024-04-09 at 22:17 By Matthew Connatser Robot overlords demand more energy Arm CEO Rene Haas cautions that if AI continues to get more powerful without boosts in power efficiency, datacenters could consume extreme amounts of electricity.… This article is an excerpt

H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid efforts to crack down on abuse 2024-04-09 at 21:48 By Thomas Claburn It’s the gold ticket favored by foreign techies – and IT giants suspected of gaming the system In-depth  The US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) last October proposed new rules to reform the H-1B visa program

Got an unpatched LG ‘smart’ television? It could be watching you back 2024-04-09 at 21:03 By Jessica Lyons Four fatal flaws allow TV takeover A handful of bugs in LG smart TVs running WebOS could allow an attacker to bypass authorization and gain root access on the device.… This article is an excerpt from The

51% of check fraud victims had been targeted two or more times 2024-04-09 at 21:02 By Almost a third of Americans surveyed (31%) admitted to either not following best practices to avoid check fraud or being unsure whether they do so.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original

Ex-Microsoft engineer gets seven years after trying to hire hitman for double murder 2024-04-09 at 20:47 By Iain Thomson Hint: If someone says they’re an assassin on the dark web, they’re probably not A former Microsoft software engineer has been sentenced to seven years in prison after paying $16,000 in Bitcoin to arrange the murder

Despite two previous court victories, Tesla settles third Autopilot liability case 2024-04-09 at 19:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo Amount sealed because it would result in ‘serious injury,’ say company lawyers Tesla has settled an outstanding Autopilot fatality lawsuit before the case could end up before a jury, but on the condition that the settlement amount never

Google joins the custom CPU crowd with Arm-based Axion chips 2024-04-09 at 19:03 By Tobias Mann Neoverse V2 cores available in GCP later this year Cloud Next  Google lifted the veil on its long-rumored Arm CPU, dubbed Axion, during its Cloud Next event in Las Vegas on Tuesday.… This article is an excerpt from The

Intel Gaudi’s third and final hurrah is an AI accelerator built to best Nvidia’s H100 2024-04-09 at 18:48 By Tobias Mann Goodbye dedicated AI hardware and hello to a GPU that fuses Xe graphics DNA with Habana chemistry On paper, Intel’s Habana Gaudi3 AI accelerators don’t look like they’re ready to take on Nvidia’s H100

Empowering Your Company to Embrace Integration & AI 2024-04-09 at 18:31 By According to the recently released Brivo 2024 Top Global Security Trends Report, the security industry today is bursting with innovation. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Post Office slapped down for late disclosure of documents in Horizon scandal inquiry 2024-04-09 at 17:49 By Lindsay Clark Documents from leaders including former CEO Paula Vennells among those handed over at the last minute The Post Office Horizon inquiry may be forced to recall witnesses after the company delayed disclosing evidence – some relating

Hackers Targeting Human Rights Activists in Morocco and Western Sahara 2024-04-09 at 17:48 By Human rights activists in Morocco and the Western Sahara region are the targets of a new threat actor that leverages phishing attacks to trick victims into installing bogus Android apps and serve credential harvesting pages for Windows users. Cisco Talos is tracking the

10-Year-Old ‘RUBYCARP’ Romanian Hacker Group Surfaces with Botnet 2024-04-09 at 17:48 By A threat group of suspected Romanian origin called RUBYCARP has been observed maintaining a long-running botnet for carrying out crypto mining, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), and phishing attacks. The group, believed to be active for at least 10 years, employs the botnet for financial gain, Sysdig

Qualcomm and Qt partner to supercharge UI development for IoT devices 2024-04-09 at 17:05 By Dan Robinson Plus: Qualy punts a ‘micro-power’ Wi-Fi system for the industrial kit Qualcomm and Qt Group are looking to make it easier to build graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for embedded systems using Qt’s cross-platform development tools, while Qualcomm has