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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite dares to game, reaching 30 FPS in Baldur’s Gate 3 2024-03-27 at 21:01 By Matthew Connatser The bare minimum performance, but suggests a beefy integrated GPU Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite has some gaming and graphics prowess as seen in a demo where a reference laptop was shown to be running Baldur’s […]

NASA to shoot rockets at April solar eclipse to see how it messes with the atmosphere 2024-03-27 at 20:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Boffins hope to better understand how phenomena disrupt comms tech in order to prevent future outages There’s a total solar eclipse coming up in North America, and NASA plans to shoot some rockets

Red Hat tries on a McKinsey cap in quest to streamline techies’ jobs 2024-03-27 at 20:16 By Liam Proven Some staff are worried – can’t think why Mutterings of alarm are emerging from the cloisters of Red Hat after the world’s largest management consultancy was hired to help the IBM subsidiary focus engineers on their

Kaby Lake-G chip back from the grave, now on NAS motherboard 2024-03-27 at 19:32 By Matthew Connatser The Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU into the processor package resurrected by Topton Kaby Lake-G, the Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU directly into the CPU package itself, was pronounced dead in 2019, but that

Intel throws chips on the table, Microsoft plays the Copilot card in wild bet on AI PCs 2024-03-27 at 18:50 By Richard Speed Does anyone actually want one? Intel has muddied the AI PC waters by sharing some of Microsoft’s requirements while also claiming that its own take on the concept has Intel silicon at

TSMC’s 3nm node powers up, setting stage for tech giants’ next-gen chips 2024-03-27 at 18:16 By Matthew Connatser AMD, Apple, Intel throw weight – and cash – behind process technology TSMC will see its 3nm node represent over 20 percent of its revenue this year as the node of choice for upcoming processors designed by

92% of IT leaders report cyberattacks are more frequent than last year 2024-03-27 at 18:16 By Cyberattacks are growing in volume and sophistication, and security leaders must adapt to face increasingly complex threats.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Hackers Hit Indian Defense, Energy Sectors with Malware Posing as Air Force Invite 2024-03-27 at 18:16 By Indian government entities and energy companies have been targeted by unknown threat actors with an aim to deliver a modified version of an open-source information stealer malware called HackBrowserData and exfiltrate sensitive information in some cases by using

Meta accused of snarfing people’s Snapchat data via traffic decryption 2024-03-27 at 17:46 By Thomas Claburn I ain’t afraid of no ghosts, but in this case… To spy on rival Snapchat and get data on how the app was being used, Meta – when it was operating as Facebook – allegedly initiated a program called

What Nvidia’s Blackwell efficiency gains mean for DC operators 2024-03-27 at 17:16 By Tobias Mann Air cooling’s diminishing returns on full display with Nv’s B-series silicon Analysis  Hotter and more power-hungry CPUs and GPUs were already causing headaches for datacenter operators before Nvidia unveiled its 1,200W Blackwell GPUs at GTC last week.… This article is

Navigating the identity security landscape 2024-03-27 at 17:01 By Jeff Reich, Executive Director of the Identity Defined Security Alliance, discusses the challenges security professionals face in the evolving landscape of identity security threats. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Boeing and subsidiary file trade secrets lawsuit against Virgin Galactic 2024-03-27 at 16:48 By Richard Speed Oh, and there’s small matter of an alleged $26M in unpaid bills Boeing and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation have sued Virgin Galactic, alleging the space tourism company has misappropriated trade secrets.… This article is an excerpt from

Google reveals zero-day exploits in enterprise tech surged 64% last year 2024-03-27 at 16:02 By Jessica Lyons Crooks know where the big bucks are Zero-day exploits targeting enterprise-specific software and appliances are now outpacing zero-day bugs overall, according to Google’s threat hunting teams.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

CISA Warns: Hackers Actively Attacking Microsoft SharePoint Vulnerability 2024-03-27 at 16:01 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a security flaw impacting the Microsoft Sharepoint Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog based on evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-24955 (CVSS score: 7.2), is a critical

Pragmatic Semiconductor opens UK’s first 300mm wafer fab in Durham 2024-03-27 at 15:46 By Dan Robinson Facility to bring major leap in domestic chip production amid government support UK chipmaker Pragmatic Semiconductor has officially opened its latest manufacturing facilities in Durham, just over a year after its CEO threatened to move the company out of

Unveiling the Latest Ransomware Threats Targeting the Casino and Entertainment Industry 2024-03-27 at 15:17 By Anyone who has visited a casino knows these organizations go to a great deal of expense and physical effort to ensure their patrons do not cheat. Still, there is a large group of actors who are uninterested in card counting

Microsoft Edge Bug Could Have Allowed Attackers to Silently Install Malicious Extensions 2024-03-27 at 15:17 By A now-patched security flaw in the Microsoft Edge web browser could have been abused to install arbitrary extensions on users’ systems and carry out malicious actions.  “This flaw could have allowed an attacker to exploit a private API, initially

Why We Should Probably Stop Visually Verifying Checksums 2024-03-27 at 15:01 By Tom Neaves Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. Let me get straight into it and start things off with what a checksum is to be inclusive of all audiences here, from Wikipedia [1]: This article is an excerpt from SpiderLabs Blog View Original

In-app browsers are still a privacy, security, and choice problem 2024-03-27 at 14:46 By Thomas Claburn Regulators reminded that longstanding concerns haven’t been addressed Competition cops in Europe and the United Kingdom have started paying attention to in-app browsers, a controversial mechanism for presenting web content within native apps.… This article is an excerpt from

Belgian beer study acquires taste for machine learning 2024-03-27 at 14:02 By Lindsay Clark Researchers reckon results could improve recipe development for food and beverages Joining the list of things that probably don’t need improving by machine learning but people are going to try anyway is Belgian beer.… This article is an excerpt from The