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Google will delete data collected from ‘private’ browsing 2024-04-02 at 02:46 By Thomas Claburn Declares victory in settlement of class action lawsuit, but individual claims remain possible In hopes of settling a lawsuit challenging its data collection practices, Google has agreed to destroy web browsing data it collected from users browsing in Chrome’s private modes […]

US House of Reps tells staff: No Microsoft Copilot for you! 2024-04-02 at 01:48 By Tobias Mann At least not until Redmond’s government edition is ready to roll Staff working at the US House Of Representatives have been barred from using Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot and AI productivity tools, pending the launch of a version tailored

Malicious xz backdoor reveals fragility of open source 2024-04-02 at 00:31 By Thomas Claburn This time, we got lucky. It mostly affected bleeding-edge distros. But that’s not a defense strategy Analysis  The discovery last week of a backdoor in a widely used open source compression library called xz could have been a security disaster had

Microsoft, OpenAI may be dreaming of $100B 5GW AI ‘Stargate’ supercomputer 2024-04-01 at 23:35 By Tobias Mann Play it again, Sam OpenAI is believed to be in talks with Microsoft to construct a massive supercomputer code-named Stargate containing millions of AI accelerators at a cost of up to $100 billion.… This article is an excerpt

Rickroll meme immortalized in custom ASIC that includes 164 hardcoded programs 2024-04-01 at 21:02 By Matthew Connatser We’re never going to give you up… An ASIC designed to display the infamous Rickroll meme is here, alongside 164 other assorted functions.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Cloned in 15 seconds: OpenAI reveals AI voice duplication tool 2024-04-01 at 20:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Don’t worry: Your benevolent AI overlords don’t intend to release it (yet) OpenAI’s latest trick needs just 15 seconds of audio to clone a person’s voice, but don’t worry, the biz wants everyone to know it’s not going to

TSMC boss says one-trillion transistor GPU is possible by early 2030s 2024-04-01 at 18:46 By Matthew Connatser Timing predictions aside, multi-chip designs with 3D stacking will be the path forward 3D chiplets will be the key to building the world’s first one-trillion transistor GPU, says TSMC chairman Mark Liu and chief scientist H.-S. Philip Wong.…

Indian Government Rescues 250 Citizens Forced into Cybercrime in Cambodia 2024-04-01 at 17:31 By The Indian government said it has rescued and repatriated about 250 citizens in Cambodia who were held captive and coerced into running cyber scams. The Indian nationals “were lured with employment opportunities to that country but were forced to undertake illegal

Florida Pediatric Associates health data impacted by data breach 2024-04-01 at 17:16 By Florida Pediatric Associates (FPA) announced that a data breach experienced by Bowden Barlow Law may have affected FPA health information. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Ex-White House CIO tells The Reg: TikTok ban may be diplomatic disaster 2024-04-01 at 16:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Theresa Payton on why US needs a national privacy law Interview  Congress is mulling legislation that will require TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance to cut ties with the video-sharing mega-app, or the social network will be banned in

AT&T admits massive 70m+ mid-March data dump is real, but claims it’s years old 2024-04-01 at 15:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Time to update that password – and four-digit account pin, which was also among the pilfered records That rumored AT&T dark web customer data dump from mid-March has been confirmed, and it’s a whopper: A

Detecting Windows-based Malware Through Better Visibility 2024-04-01 at 15:31 By Despite a plethora of available security solutions, more and more organizations fall victim to Ransomware and other threats. These continued threats aren’t just an inconvenience that hurt businesses and end users – they damage the economy, endanger lives, destroy businesses and put national security at

Microsoft consolidates Power BI licenses in line with Fabric platform 2024-04-01 at 13:33 By Lindsay Clark Guess what? Some users should look out for expensive surprises Microsoft has consolidated its licensing terms for Power BI with its Fabric data platform, leaving some users facing steep price hikes according to one analyst.… This article is an

Malicious Apps Caught Secretly Turning Android Phones into Proxies for Cybercriminals 2024-04-01 at 13:17 By Several malicious Android apps that turn mobile devices running the operating system into residential proxies (RESIPs) for other threat actors have been observed on the Google Play Store. The findings come from HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence team, which said the

4 practices CISOs should prioritize in their mobile security strategy 2024-04-01 at 10:17 By The mobile threat is twofold: you must secure your enterprise’s mobile apps and mobile devices accessing the enterprise.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Vultur Android Banking Trojan Returns with Upgraded Remote Control Capabilities 2024-04-01 at 09:17 By The Android banking trojan known as Vultur has resurfaced with a suite of new features and improved anti-analysis and detection evasion techniques, enabling its operators to remotely interact with a mobile device and harvest sensitive data. “Vultur has also started masquerading

How to fix the growing cybersecurity skills gap 2024-04-01 at 07:04 By Cyber and ransomware threats are growing at a rapid rate, critically endangering organizations’ sensitive data.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Rust developers at Google are twice as productive as C++ teams 2024-03-31 at 19:47 By Thomas Claburn Code shines up nicely in production, says Chocolate Factory’s Bergstrom Echoing the past two years of Rust evangelism and C/C++ ennui, Google reports that Rust shines in production, to the point that its developers are twice as productive

Why Microsoft’s Copilot will only kinda run locally on AI PCs for now 2024-03-31 at 14:46 By Tobias Mann Redmond’s strategy for blending cloud and client is finally taking shape Comment  Microsoft’s definition of what does and doesn’t constitute an AI PC is taking shape. With the latest version of Windows, a dedicated Copilot key,

The Register meets the voice of Siri Down Under 2024-03-31 at 00:16 By Simon Sharwood Karen Jacobsen had no idea what she was getting into when she applied for a very odd job in 2002 Interview  In 2002 Australian singer-songwriter Karen Jacobsen was living in New York City when she was offered the chance to