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Nvidia rival Cerebras says it’s revived Moore’s Law with third-gen waferscale chips 2024-03-13 at 15:15 By Tobias Mann Startup is also working with Qualcomm on optimized models for its Cloud AI 100 Ultra inference chips Cerebras revealed its latest dinner-plate sized AI chip on Wednesday, which it claims offers twice the performance per watt of […]

Making Security a Priority From the Start 2024-03-13 at 15:02 By Best practices to get optimum results from the “Security by Design” survey. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Oracle AI buzz means Larry Ellison’s worth $15B more today 2024-03-13 at 14:35 By Paul Kunert And here you were saying tech hadn’t yet made a difference to someone special Larry Ellison’s personal wealth is inextricably linked to Oracle and yesterday it ballooned by more than $15 billion following a 12 percent rally of Big

Stanford University failed to detect ransomware intruders for 4 months 2024-03-13 at 14:17 By Connor Jones 27,000 individuals had data stolen, which for some included names and social security numbers Stanford University says the cybersecurity incident it dealt with last year was indeed ransomware, which it failed to spot for more than four months.… This

Can AI shorten PC replacement cycles? Dell seems to think so 2024-03-13 at 13:17 By Paul Kunert Might be wishful thinking from finance exec following two-year computer sector recession AI could be the mechanism to shorten notebook replacement cycles, according to the chief financial officer at Dell.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Researchers Highlight Google’s Gemini AI Susceptibility to LLM Threats 2024-03-13 at 13:00 By Google’s Gemini large language model (LLM) is susceptible to security threats that could cause it to divulge system prompts, generate harmful content, and carry out indirect injection attacks. The findings come from HiddenLayer, which said the issues impact consumers using Gemini Advanced with Google

Join Our Webinar on Protecting Human and Non-Human Identities in SaaS Platforms 2024-03-13 at 13:00 By Identities are the latest sweet spot for cybercriminals, now heavily targeting SaaS applications that are especially vulnerable in this attack vector. The use of SaaS applications involves a wide range of identities, including human and non-human, such as service

Sunak’s defunct SaaS scheme spent seven percent of budget designed to help 100,000 SMEs 2024-03-13 at 12:33 By Lindsay Clark Unicorn Kingdom prime minister fails to provide £300 million of magic software beans promised A local software subsidy scheme launched by UK PM Rishi Sunak, designed to help struggling small businesses following the pandemic, has

Alert: Cybercriminals Deploying VCURMS and STRRAT Trojans via AWS and GitHub 2024-03-13 at 12:17 By A new phishing campaign has been observed delivering remote access trojans (RAT) such as VCURMS and STRRAT by means of a malicious Java-based downloader. “The attackers stored malware on public services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and GitHub, employing a

Fedora 41’s GNOME to go Wayland-only, says goodbye to X.org 2024-03-13 at 11:48 By Liam Proven Don’t worry, you can still put it back, but it’s an accessibility snag The Fedora development team is discussing dropping the GNOME on X11 session in Fedora 41, meaning that the flagship edition will be Wayland-only.… This article is

Researchers jimmy OpenAI’s and Google’s closed models 2024-03-13 at 10:48 By Thomas Claburn Infosec folk aren’t thrilled that if you poke APIs enough, you learn AI’s secrets Boffins have managed to pry open closed AI services from OpenAI and Google with an attack that recovers an otherwise hidden portion of transformer models.… This article is

Japan’s first private satellite launch imitates SpaceX’s giant explosions 2024-03-13 at 09:52 By Simon Sharwood KAIROS detonated a few seconds after clearing the launchpad Video  On another bad day for Japan’s space industry, the nation’s first private satellite launch failed within seconds of launch.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Your PC can probably run inferencing just fine – so it’s already an AI PC 2024-03-13 at 09:52 By Mark Pesce Language models are entirely happy on the desktop What is it that makes a PC an AI PC? Beyond some vague hand-waving at the presence “neural processing units” and other features only available on

Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi adds electric vehicle to its mobility offerings 2024-03-13 at 08:39 By Laura Dobberstein 100,000 Chinese drivers join queue just to check out the ‘SU7’ in a showroom The electric vehicle subsidiary of Chinese consumer electronics brand Xiaomi on Tuesday announced its first product – the Speed Ultra 7 (SU7) sedan –

Microsoft’s March Updates Fix 61 Vulnerabilities, Including Critical Hyper-V Flaws 2024-03-13 at 08:39 By Microsoft on Tuesday released its monthly security update, addressing 61 different security flaws spanning its software, including two critical issues impacting Windows Hyper-V that could lead to denial-of-service (DoS) and remote code execution. Of the 61 vulnerabilities, two are rated Critical, 58 are

South Korea cracks down on offshore e-commerce, with seeming focus on China 2024-03-13 at 07:13 By Simon Sharwood Seoul wants AliExpress and Temu to step up customer service, maybe Meta too South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has announced a raft of measures aimed at ensuring offshore e-commerce services meet their service and support obligations. And

Developing a security coaching tree 2024-03-13 at 06:06 By The NFL has seen successful coaching trees — assistant coaches who went on to become head coaches — across the organization. Does the same go for enterprise security? This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Dirty data shocks Indian taxpayers with huge bills 2024-03-13 at 04:47 By Laura Dobberstein Extra zeroes added to transaction values, just a handful of days before a payment deadline India’s income tax collection efforts hit a snag this week when it was found that an automated data feed somehow added an extra two zeroes to

GitHub fixes pull request delay that derailed developers 2024-03-13 at 04:47 By Simon Sharwood More like GitFlub, amirite? GitHub is experiencing a second day of degraded performance, following a bad update that threw the code locker into chaos.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Meet the Proxinator: a hyperbox that puts SATA at the heart of VMware migrations 2024-03-13 at 03:21 By Simon Sharwood Proxmox box sees fresh dedicated hardware become part of the market for Virtzilla alternatives Exclusive  Every vendor capable of spelling “virtualization” has spent a good chunk of 2024 making a pitch for its products as