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Juno fly-by detects lower levels of oxygen on Europa than expected 2024-03-05 at 12:34 By Lindsay Clark Less abundant molecular oxygen narrow chances of life being found on Jupiter’s icy moon Jupiter’s moon Europa has a lot less free oxygen than previously thought, narrowing the odds that life may have evolved in this remote orb.… […]

Spam crusade lands charity in hot water with data watchdog 2024-03-05 at 11:33 By Paul Kunert Penny Appeal sent more than 460,000 texts asking for money to help war-torn countries, no opt out Typically it is energy improvement peddlers or debt help specialists that are disgraced by Britain’s data watchdog for spamming unsuspecting households, but

US and Europe try to tame surveillance capitalism 2024-03-05 at 10:42 By Thomas Claburn Trade watchdog argues that browsing and location data are sensitive and deserve to be defended The US Federal Trade Commission on Monday warned that data brokers need to rethink how they define sensitive data in light of recent enforcement actions involving

Dell exec reveals Nvidia has a 1,000-watt GPU in the works 2024-03-05 at 09:34 By Tobias Mann Hot and hungry, yet direct liquid cooling may not be required If you thought Nvidia’s 700W H100s were hot and power-hungry machines, just wait until the GPU slinger’s B100 arrives later this year.… This article is an excerpt

AMD may have failed to dumb down its chips enough to allow China sales 2024-03-05 at 08:05 By Simon Sharwood Washington reportedly decided chipmaker hadn’t done too little AMD reportedly failed at an attempt to dumb down its AI chips to a level at which Washington is happy for them to be exported to China.…

Asian superapp grab shrank its app by a quarter to survive 2024-03-05 at 06:31 By Laura Dobberstein Large APKs and disk footprints spell doom in a developing market In 2019, Southeast Asia’s superapp company Grab spotted a problem: its app was growing by one percent per month, making it less suited to the modest smartphones

Critical JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises Flaws Could Lead to Server Takeovers 2024-03-05 at 05:47 By A new pair of security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises software that could be exploited by a threat actor to take control of affected systems. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2024-27198 (CVSS score: 9.8) and CVE-2024-27199 (CVSS score: 7.3),

Twitter’s ex-CEO, CFO, and managers sue Elon Musk for $128M 2024-03-05 at 04:47 By Katyanna Quach Musk playbook described as ‘Keep money he owes other people, and force them to sue him’ Four top former executives who were let go after Elon Musk acquired the social media platform have sued the tech billionaire for $128

Cloudflare wants to put a firewall in front of your LLM 2024-03-05 at 03:46 By Jessica Lyons Claims to protect against DDoS, sensitive data leakage Cloudflare has tweaked its web application firewall (WAF) to add protections for applications using large language models.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Anthropic releases Claude 3 and claims it’s better than ChatGPT and Gemini 2024-03-05 at 02:47 By Katyanna Quach Boasts of ‘near-human levels of comprehension and fluency’ AI startup Anthropic has released Claude 3, the latest iteration of its large language model, which it claims is more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4.… This article is an excerpt

Amazon goes nuclear, acquires Cumulus Data’s atomic datacenters for $650M 2024-03-05 at 01:47 By Tobias Mann E-commerce giant on the hook for 480MW of power from Susquehanna plant Amazon Web Services on Monday added a nuclear-powered datacenter campus to its public cloud empire as part of a $650 million deal with Talen Energy – an

American Express admits card data exposed and blames third party 2024-03-05 at 01:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Don’t leave home without … IT security A security failure at a third-party vendor exposed an untold number of American Express card numbers, expiry dates, and other data to persons unknown.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Flying car biz Alef claims 3K preorders, still hasn’t done a proper demo 2024-03-04 at 23:48 By Brandon Vigliarolo What will happen first by 2026? Model A in production or end of the world? Alef Aeronautics claims to have more than 2,850 preorders for its Model A, which CEO Jim Dukhovny opines is the world’s

Change Healthcare attack latest: ALPHV bags $22M in Bitcoin amid affiliate drama 2024-03-04 at 23:03 By Jessica Lyons No honor among thieves? ALPHV/BlackCat, the gang behind the Change Healthcare cyberattack, has received more than $22 million in Bitcoin in what might be a ransomware payment.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Seoul accuses North Korea of stealing southern chipmakers’ designs 2024-03-04 at 22:17 By Jessica Lyons Kim Jong Un’s all in for home-built silicon says warning North Korean government spies have broken into the servers of at least two chipmakers and stolen product designs as part of attempts to spur Kim Jong Un’s plans for a

Apple gets in on the AI PC hype, claims fanless M3 MacBook Air is fab for LLMs 2024-03-04 at 21:18 By Tobias Mann Plus a new anodization seal should make Midnight edition more resilient to gamer grease Four months after Apple launched its M3 processors alongside refreshed MacBook Pros, the chips have finally arrived on

Google advances with vector search in MySQL, leapfrogging Oracle in LLM support 2024-03-04 at 20:32 By Lindsay Clark Meanwhile, only 22% of orgs are looking at GenAI strategy for databases Google has introduced vector search to its MySQL database service, surpassing Oracle – custodian of the open source database – which has so far failed

German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco’s WebEx 2024-03-04 at 20:05 By Connor Jones Officials can’t tell whether the tape was edited, but fear Kremlin has more juicy bits to release in the future The German Ministry of Defense (Bundeswehr) has confirmed that a recording of a call between high-ranking officials discussing war

Updates are plenty but fans are few in Windows 11 land 2024-03-04 at 19:24 By Richard Speed Copilot failed to shift the dial. Could Moment 5 and upcoming invitations do the trick? Microsoft is adding fresh features to Windows 11 and preparing to fling yet more update nagware at Windows 10 users in the hope

Evolving cloud threats were observed in the last half of 2023 2024-03-04 at 19:23 By A recent report indicates that malicious actors broadened their techniques and may present more threats to security leaders.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source