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GitHub struggles to keep up with automated malicious forks 2024-03-01 at 03:04 By Thomas Claburn Cloned then compromised, bad repos are forked faster than they can be removed A malware distribution campaign that began last May with a handful of malicious software packages uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) has spread to GitHub and […]

The Who’s Who of AI just chipped in to fund humanoid robot startup Figure 2024-03-01 at 02:03 By Tobias Mann $675 million to accelerate development of machine that can lift, but can’t keep up with humans If you thought blue collar jobs were safe from AI, think again. Robotics startup Figure aims to replace millions

Elon and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad legal week 2024-03-01 at 01:18 By Brandon Vigliarolo Workers allege discrimination, missing payments To say Elon Musk’s business empire is having a week of legal woe may be an understatement, after filings revealed yesterday suggest his social network X and electric car outfit Tesla both face

US courts asked to allow access to push notification metadata at least 130 times 2024-03-01 at 00:35 By Thomas Claburn Cops love it because popup messages can reveal location, device details, IP address and more More than 130 attempts seeking access to push notification metadata have been filed in US courts, according to a Washington

White House goes to court, not Congress, to renew warrantless spy powers 2024-02-29 at 23:48 By Jessica Lyons Choose your own FISA Section 702 adventure: End-run around lawmakers or business as usual? The Biden Administration has asked a court, rather than Congress, to renew controversial warrantless surveillance powers used by American intelligence and due to

Electronic Arts frags 5% of staff ‘to grow fandom’ 2024-02-29 at 22:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo Dating app Bumble also finds breaking up is easy to do for a third of its crew It’s been a bad week to work in the video game industry. First Sony closed its London studio and cut staff, and now

Chinese ‘connected’ cars are a national security threat, says Biden 2024-02-29 at 21:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo No Chinese automakers sell cars in the US, but the feds are still going to investigate whether they’re a threat Concerned over the chance that Chinese-made cars could pose a future threat to national security, Biden’s administration is proposing

More than 60% of consumers would avoid a retailer post-breach 2024-02-29 at 20:16 By A recent report studies consumer trends after an organization experiences a data breach, highlighting a breach’s impact on reputation and customer base.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

KDE Plasma 6.0 brings the same old charm and confusion 2024-02-29 at 20:02 By Liam Proven The big new version of the other desktop, complete with improved HDR and a spinning desktop cube The latest major release of KDE Plasma is here, a decade after KDE 5. This is only the fifth February 29 since

Sandra Rivera’s next mission: Do for FPGAs what she did for Intel’s Xeon 2024-02-29 at 19:02 By Tobias Mann Intel resurects Altera brand as former datacenter chief takes the helm Sandra Rivera, a longtime Intel veteran and chief executive of the chipmaker’s FPGA business, reprised the Altera brand during a webcast Thursday in which she

Ransomware gangs are paying attention to infostealers, so why aren’t you? 2024-02-29 at 18:32 By Jessica Lyons Analysts warn of big leap in cred-harvesting malware activity last year There appears to be an uptick in interest among cybercriminals in infostealers – malware designed to swipe online account passwords, financial info, and other sensitive data from

New Silver SAML Attack Evades Golden SAML Defenses in Identity Systems 2024-02-29 at 18:32 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new attack technique called Silver SAML that can be successful even in cases where mitigations have been applied against Golden SAML attacks. Silver SAML “enables the exploitation of SAML to launch attacks from an identity provider like

It’s that most wonderful time of the year when tech cannot handle the date 2024-02-29 at 17:32 By Richard Currie Fuel pumps refuse payment, smartwatches stop – all part of the rich tapestry of computer calendars Today is February 29, an unusual day in that it is added to the common 28 in years that

Water worries flood in as chip industry and AI models grow thirstier 2024-02-29 at 17:02 By Dan Robinson Mega makers already operate in water-scarce areas, and worry is they’ll drink us dry Water supply is seen as a growing risk factor for the chip industry with consumption rising by up to ten percent each year,

Biden administration issues executive order to secure U.S. ports 2024-02-29 at 17:01 By Security experts offer their perspective on the recent Biden-Harris executive order, which is intended to secure the nation’s ports.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Buffalo Public School District improves video surveillance systems 2024-02-29 at 16:19 By The Buffalo Public School District (BPSD) has improved its security measures with increased video surveillance cameras and monitoring solutions. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Snowflake share price falls after revenue forecasts dip below expectations 2024-02-29 at 16:02 By Lindsay Clark CEO Frank Slootman announces retirement as former data cloud rising star sees value sink The value of cloud-based data warehouse vendor Snowflake plunged 24 percent in extended trading in the US last night after it announced lower-than-expected forecasts for

Atos hires three board directors to stop ship from sinking 2024-02-29 at 15:46 By Paul Kunert One of them, One Point CEO David Layani, tried to buy rudderless integrator The long-running Atos saga took another twist today after it announced the nomination to its board of One Point CEO David Layani, who previously made an

Meta’s pay-or-consent model hides ‘massive illegal data processing ops’: lawsuit 2024-02-29 at 15:16 By Jude Karabus GDPR claim alleges Facebook parent’s ‘commercial surveillance practices are fundamentally illegal’ Consumer groups are filing legal complaints in the EU in a coordinated attempt to use data protection law to stop Meta from giving local users a “fake choice”

Hold up world, HP’s all-in-one print subscription’s about to land, and don’t forget AI PCs 2024-02-29 at 14:32 By Paul Kunert Too late to prevent Q1 from being 7th straight decline for US titan HP Ink recorded its seventh quarter of shrinking revenues as enterprise customers voted to sweat their assets for longer amid economic