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Tough luck, bosses, AI is coming for your job, too 2024-04-05 at 09:46 By Thomas Claburn Algorithms as PHBs – who wouldn’t want that? Nearly half of US office workers expressed concern that AI might take their jobs in a February survey by investment banking biz Jefferies.… This article is an excerpt from The Register […]

Academics probe Apple’s privacy settings and get lost and confused 2024-04-05 at 08:47 By Matthew Connatser Just disabling Siri requires visits to five submenus A study has concluded that Apple’s privacy practices aren’t particularly effective, because default apps on the iPhone and Mac have limited privacy settings and confusing configuration options.… This article is an

Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs 2024-04-05 at 08:19 By Simon Sharwood Today’s lesson covers the potential for Loongson’s made-in-China architecture to hurt Microsoft and Intel China’s long march towards creation and adoption of its own information technology stack has taken a long stride forward after a school district commenced a trial of

Taiwan quake to hit chipmakers’ capex, not chip supply 2024-04-05 at 07:18 By Laura Dobberstein Some equipment suffered minor damage, but the silicon show must go on Wednesday’s earthquake in Taiwan will hit at least one chipmaker in the wallet, but won’t weaken the overall silicon supply chain, according to analyst outfit TrendForce.… This article

World’s second-largest eyeglass lens-maker blinded by infosec incident 2024-04-05 at 05:01 By Simon Sharwood Also makes components for chips, displays, and hard disks, and has spent four days groping for a fix If ever there was an incident that brings the need for good infosec into sharp focus, this is the one: Japan’s Hoya –

Lambda borrows half a billion bucks to grow its GPU cloud 2024-04-05 at 03:32 By Tobias Mann Will buy tens of thousands of Nvidia’s prized accelerators, which will be collateral for the loan Lambda Labs, operator of a GPU-infused cloud, on Thursday revealed it has secured a $500 million loan to fund the expansion of

Tech titans assemble to decide which jobs AI should cut first 2024-04-04 at 22:17 By Tobias Mann But don’t worry, if tech takes your job, we’ll retrain you Of all the tech CEOs touting AI’s potential to empower workers, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has been among the most vocal about its ability to replace them.…

Feds probe massive alleged classified US govt data theft and leak 2024-04-04 at 21:32 By Jessica Lyons State Dept keeps schtum ‘for security reasons’ Uncle Sam is investigating claims that a criminal stole and leaked classified information from the Pentagon and other national security agencies.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Sleuths who cracked Zodiac Killer’s cipher thank the crowd 2024-04-04 at 20:17 By Thomas Claburn Fifty-one years of community contributions, software, and clever cryptanalysis contributed Three men received recognition in December 2020 for cracking the Zodiac Killer’s 340-character cipher (Z340) – but they want to share credit with the community of sleuths who helped with

NASA taps trio of companies to build the next generation of lunar rover 2024-04-04 at 19:46 By Richard Speed At $4.6 billion, this Moon malarkey is getting expensive NASA has selected three companies to develop designs for a lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) to transport astronauts around the Moon.… This article is an excerpt from The

Thank the bots, your blue check is back on X 2024-04-04 at 19:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo What a great way to inflate those numbers Elon What Elon taketh away, Elon also giveth. Fee-free blue checks on Twitter are back, but only for users with a certain number of followers who pay for X Premium.… This

DHS proposes reporting rules for critical infrastructure 2024-04-04 at 19:16 By Security leaders respond to the proposed critical infrastructure rules set forth by the DHS.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Vietnam-Based Hackers Steal Financial Data Across Asia with Malware 2024-04-04 at 19:16 By A suspected Vietnamese-origin threat actor has been observed targeting victims in several Asian and Southeast Asian countries with malware designed to harvest valuable data since at least May 2023. Cisco Talos is tracking the cluster under the name CoralRaider, describing it as financially

New Phishing Campaign Targets Oil & Gas with Evolved Data-Stealing Malware 2024-04-04 at 19:16 By An updated version of an information-stealing malware called Rhadamanthys is being used in phishing campaigns targeting the oil and gas sector. “The phishing emails use a unique vehicle incident lure and, in later stages of the infection chain, spoof the

Google ponders making AI search a premium option 2024-04-04 at 18:46 By Richard Speed Ad-free search experience might not be on the cards Google is reportedly considering tweaks to its search engine, including making some AI features subscription-only – an ad-free search experience is seemingly not on the cards.… This article is an excerpt from

Ivanti commits to secure-by-design overhaul after vulnerability nightmare 2024-04-04 at 18:17 By Connor Jones CEO addresses whirlwind start to 2024 and how it plans to prevent a repeat Ivanti has committed to adopting a secure-by-design approach to security as it gears up for an organizational overhaul in response to the multiple vulnerabilities in Connect Secure

Microsoft’s playdate in Google’s Privacy Sandbox gets messy 2024-04-04 at 17:47 By Thomas Claburn Targeted ads in Edge may be blocked before they even arrive Analysis  Inspired by Google’s Privacy Sandbox ad tech renovation initiative, Microsoft last month announced plans for a “privacy preserving” mechanism to deliver interest-based ads in its Edge browser.… This article

German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice 2024-04-04 at 17:33 By Matthew Connatser ‘Complete digital sovereignty’ … sounds familiar Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions.…

Microsoft unbundling Teams is to appease regulators, not give customers a better deal 2024-04-04 at 16:47 By Richard Speed Think before you pull the trigger, warn analysts If you’re planning to save money by cutting out the unbundled Teams product from your Microsoft 365 subscription, the decision might not be as straightforward as you’d think.…

Nvidia’s ‘China special’ RTX 4090D hits great wall of US export controls 2024-04-04 at 16:18 By Dan Robinson Nerfed GPU included in revised list of cards deemed to be too powerful The US government has published an updated list of tech export controls that looks to be bad news for Nvidia as it now includes