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Progress outbids private equity in offer for MariaDB plc 2024-03-28 at 13:02 By Lindsay Clark MySQL sibling saga continues as 40-year-old infrastructure software firm enters the fray Progress Software has made a bid for MariaDB, offering a price that is less than a tenth of the beleaguered company’s value at its IPO launch.… This article […]

INC Ransom claims responsibility for attack on NHS Scotland 2024-03-28 at 12:32 By Connor Jones Sensitive documents dumped on leak site amid claims of 3 TB of data stolen in total NHS Scotland says it managed to contain a ransomware group’s malware to a regional branch, preventing the spread of infection across the entire institution.…

PostgreSQL pioneer’s latest brainchild promises time travel to dodge ransomware 2024-03-28 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark Michael Stonbraker on the neat side effects of putting an operating system on top of a database Database pioneer Michael Stonebraker is promising his new concept of putting the operating system on top of a database could help end

Databricks claims its open source foundational LLM outsmarts GPT-3.5 2024-03-28 at 10:47 By Lindsay Clark In the AI gold rush, analytics outfit wants to provide the shovels Analytics platform Databricks has launched an open source foundational large language model, hoping enterprises will opt to use its tools to jump on the LLM bandwagon.… This article

Telegram Offers Premium Subscription in Exchange for Using Your Number to Send OTPs 2024-03-28 at 10:16 By In June 2017, a study of more than 3,000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students published by the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) found that 98% of them were willing to give away their friends’ email addresses in exchange for free

These 17,000 unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers are a ticking time bomb 2024-03-28 at 10:02 By Iain Thomson One might say this is a wurst case scenario The German Federal Office for Information Security (BIS) has issued an urgent alert about the poor state of Microsoft Exchange Server patching in the country.… This article is an

AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware 2024-03-28 at 09:16 By Thomas Claburn Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don’t do that In-depth  Several big businesses have published source code that incorporates a software package

Execs in Japan busted for winning dev bids then outsourcing to North Koreans 2024-03-28 at 08:35 By Laura Dobberstein Government issues stern warning over despot money-making scheme Two executives were issued arrest warrants in Japan on Wednesday, reportedly for charges related to establishing a business that outsourced work to North Korean IT engineers.… This article

China encouraged armed offensive against Myanmar government to protest proliferation of online scams 2024-03-28 at 06:31 By Laura Dobberstein Report claims Beijing is most displaced by junta’s failure to address slave labor scam settlements The military junta controlling Myanmar has struggled to control all of its territory thanks in part to China backing rebel forces

Breaking down DE&I barriers: Practical tips for security leaders 2024-03-28 at 06:16 By It has never been more critical to double down on diversity in tech to increase innovation and business success through varied strengths and experiences. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Singapore improves the AI it uses to detect smokers 2024-03-28 at 04:16 By Simon Sharwood Past versions struggled to spot a lungbuster – this time authorities think they’ve reduced false positives Singapore has improved the AI it uses to detect smokers who light up in the many places where the practice is forbidden across the

Hyperfluorescent OLEDs promise more efficient displays that won’t make you so blue 2024-03-28 at 02:32 By Matthew Connatser Novel design might also help reduce those annoying burn-in issues A recent paper published in Nature demonstrates that hyperfluorescent OLEDs could significantly reduce the energy required to display the color blue – potentially mitigating, but not solving,

Zero Trust Essentials 2024-03-28 at 02:16 By David Broggy This is Part 5 in my ongoing project to cover 30 cybersecurity topics in 30 weekly blog posts. The full series can be found here. This article is an excerpt from SpiderLabs Blog View Original Source

Standardization could open door to third-party chiplets in AMD designs 2024-03-28 at 01:31 By Tobias Mann Domain-specific accelerators are ‘essential to progress’ it claims, and a chiplet ecosystem is one way forward Video  Future AMD processors could feature domain-specific accelerators – even some created by third parties, according to senior execs at the chip shop.…

Apple fans flooded with phony password reset requests 2024-03-28 at 00:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Beware support calls offering a fix Apple device owners, consider yourselves warned: A targeted multi-factor authentication bombing campaign is going around with the goal of exhausting iUsers into accidentally allowing a password reset.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Majority of Americans now use ad blockers 2024-03-27 at 23:32 By Thomas Claburn We’re dreaming of a white list, because we’re just like the ones you used to know More than half of Americans are using ad blocking software, and among advertising, programming, and security professionals that fraction is more like two-thirds to three-quarters.… This

NASA gives IXPE observatory the Ctrl-Alt-Del treatment to make it talk sense 2024-03-27 at 23:01 By Richard Speed Hardware misbehaving in orbit? Time for a reset on the avionics NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space observatory has had a problem, prompting engineers on the ground to hit the reset button.… This article is an

‘Thousands’ of businesses at mercy of miscreants thanks to unpatched Ray AI flaw 2024-03-27 at 22:47 By Jessica Lyons Anyscale claims issue is ‘long-standing design decision’ – as users are raided by intruders Thousands of companies remain vulnerable to a remote-code-execution bug in Ray, an open-source AI framework used by Amazon, OpenAI, and others, that

Amazon finishes pumping $4B into AI darling Anthropic 2024-03-27 at 22:05 By Thomas Claburn Adds $2.75B to the ML sweepstakes ante and is counting on Claude Amazon says it has concluded its investment in AI super-startup Anthropic, which now stands at $4 billion, a figure the e-commerce colossus committed to last year.… This article is

SEC cleared to take securities beef against Coinbase to trial 2024-03-27 at 21:37 By Brandon Vigliarolo Judge says watchdog can HODL four of its five charges against crypto exchange The SEC’s lawsuit accusing cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase of operating as an unregistered securities broker has survived its first legal challenge, opening the door for the case