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Chip wars could lead to oversupply as China increases domestic capacity 2024-01-17 at 20:02 By Dan Robinson Middle Kingdom can make market moves too… as potential global price battles loom China’s chip manufacturing capacity is expected to more than double within the next 5 to 7 years, according to TrendForce, and this could lead to […]

Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet 2024-01-17 at 19:01 By Richard Speed Caltech looks back on the highs and lows of the SSPD-1 project A year after the launch of the Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD-1), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is revealing the highs

NVMe consortium polishes its specs to support computational storage 2024-01-17 at 18:18 By Dan Robinson Tech to shift storage to compute has so far failed to catch on in a big way The NVM Express consortium has updated its specifications by adding a Computational Storage Feature, creating a standardized way for applications to talk to

Could immutability be a Leap too far for openSUSE users? 2024-01-17 at 17:47 By Liam Proven Update on Linux distro’s next major version heralds big changes ahead The future of openSUSE is firming up, but possibly not in the direction that existing users of the distro will enjoy.… This article is an excerpt from The

What’s worse than paying an extortion bot that auto-pwned your database? 2024-01-17 at 17:17 By Connor Jones Paying one that lied to you and only saved the first 20 rows of each table Publicly exposed PostgreSQL and MySQL databases with weak passwords are being autonomously wiped out by a malicious extortion bot – one that

PAX PoS Terminal Flaw Could Allow Attackers to Tamper with Transactions 2024-01-17 at 17:01 By The point-of-sale (PoS) terminals from PAX Technology are impacted by a collection of high-severity vulnerabilities that can be weaponized by threat actors to execute arbitrary code. The STM Cyber R&D team, which reverse engineered the Android-based devices manufactured by the

Combating IP Leaks into AI Applications with Free Discovery and Risk Reduction Automation 2024-01-17 at 17:01 By Wing Security announced today that it now offers free discovery and a paid tier for automated control over thousands of AI and AI-powered SaaS applications. This will allow companies to better protect their intellectual property (IP) and data against the

AI investment still at the planning stage through 2024, Gartner says 2024-01-17 at 16:47 By Lindsay Clark Imagined impact of GenAI on GDP is over-optimistic, analyst firm says Gartner thinks the ever-expanding GenAI ecosystem is being hyped with real customer deployments not emerging in earnest until next year.… This article is an excerpt from The

AI political disinformation is a huge problem – but harder to fight than ever 2024-01-17 at 16:02 By Katyanna Quach How OpenAI, Microsoft, and others are trying to combat deepfakes and more Analysis  Tackling AI disinformation is more crucial than ever for tech companies this year as they brace for the upcoming US presidential election.…

Post Office boss unable to say when biz knew Horizon could be remotely altered 2024-01-17 at 15:32 By Lindsay Clark CEO stays tight-lipped in front of MPs while Fujitsu admits moral responsibility for compensation Post Office chief exec Nick Read left British politicians shocked with his evidence before a Parliamentary committee yesterday after he admitted

Beyond the Facade: Unraveling URL Redirection in Google Services 2024-01-17 at 15:16 By In the murky waters of cyber threats, one tactic has steadily gained wide adoption: URL redirection in phishing attacks. This stealthy technique allows cybercriminals to cloak malicious links, making them appear harmless to unsuspecting users. Among the vast expanse of online services,

Microsoft touts migration to Windows 11 as painless, though wallets may disagree 2024-01-17 at 14:47 By Richard Speed Millions have perfectly serviceable PCs running Windows 10 at home Microsoft’s desperation to persuade customers that migrating to Windows 11 is a painless process has taken a new turn, thanks to a relentlessly perky video: “Make Your

Windows Server 2022 patch is breaking apps for some users 2024-01-17 at 14:02 By Richard Speed Uninstall the update or edit the Windows registry to restore order The latest Windows Server 2022 patch has broken the Chrome browser, and short of uninstalling the update, a registry hack is the only way to restore service for

Webinar: The Art of Privilege Escalation – How Hackers Become Admins 2024-01-17 at 13:46 By In the digital age, the battleground for security professionals is not only evolving, it’s expanding at an alarming rate. The upcoming webinar, “The Art of Privilege Escalation – How Hackers Become Admins,” offers an unmissable opportunity for IT security experts

Feds Warn of AndroxGh0st Botnet Targeting AWS, Azure, and Office 365 Credentials 2024-01-17 at 13:46 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned that threat actors deploying the AndroxGh0st malware are creating a botnet for “victim identification and exploitation in target networks.” A Python-based malware, AndroxGh0st was first documented by Lacework in

The ‘nothing-happened’ Y2K bug – how the IT industry worked overtime to save world’s computers 2024-01-17 at 13:17 By Lindsay Clark …though bonkers conspiracies on solving date-field problem never died down Retro Tech Week  Forty years ago, both Jerome and Marilyn Murray saw their brainchild reach the light of day. In 1984, their book, Computers

New iShutdown Method Exposes Hidden Spyware Like Pegasus on Your iPhone 2024-01-17 at 13:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have identified a “lightweight method” called iShutdown for reliably identifying signs of spyware on Apple iOS devices, including notorious threats like NSO Group’s Pegasus, QuaDream’s Reign, and Intellexa’s Predator.  Kaspersky, which analyzed a set of iPhones that were compromised with Pegasus, said the

BT to spell out contract price hikes in pounds and pence 2024-01-17 at 12:17 By Paul Kunert None of this inflation-linked percentage nonsense, says Ofcom BT is ditching mid-contract price hikes linked to inflation before Britain’s comms regulator issues a blanket ban in pursuit of greater transparency for customers.… This article is an excerpt from

Home improvement marketers dial up trouble from regulator 2024-01-17 at 11:32 By Paul Kunert ICO slaps penalties on two businesses that collectively made more than 3 million cold calls Another week and yet another couple of pesky cold callers face fines from the UK’s data privacy watchdog for “bombarding” unsuspecting households with marketing messages about

YouTube video lag wrongly blamed on its ad-blocking animus 2024-01-17 at 10:47 By Thomas Claburn Slowdowns apparently due to a bug afflicting browser extensions, not retaliation against filters Google claims users of popular ad-blocking extensions have wrongly blamed YouTube for slow video streaming speeds – and that the content filters themselves are the reason for