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Antpool offers to refund affected user the 83 BTC gas fee 30/11/2023 at 16:02 By Cointelegraph By Savannah Fortis The crypto mining platform Antpool says it will refund the unprecedented gas fee of 83 BTC to the affected user provided they produce the necessary identification information. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View […]

Rackspace runs short of Cloud Files storage in LON region 30/11/2023 at 15:33 By Richard Speed Rackspace? More like Lackspace as customers face upload and delete problems Rackspace is running out of, er, space. At least as far as a portion of its Cloud Files customers served by the LON (London) region are concerned.… This

This Free Solution Provides Essential Third-Party Risk Management for SaaS 30/11/2023 at 15:16 By Wing Security recently announced that basic third-party risk assessment is now available as a free product. But it raises the questions of how SaaS is connected to third-party risk management (TPRM) and what companies should do to ensure a proper SaaS-TPRM process

North Korea’s Lazarus Group Rakes in $3 Billion from Cryptocurrency Hacks 30/11/2023 at 15:16 By Threat actors from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are increasingly targeting the cryptocurrency sector as a major revenue generation mechanism since at least 2017 to get around sanctions imposed against the country. “Even though movement in and out of and

HPE targets enterprises with Nvidia-powered platform for tuning AI 30/11/2023 at 15:04 By Dan Robinson ‘We feel like enterprises are either going to become AI powered, or they’re going to become obsolete’ HPE – like many tech companies – is betting big on AI in the hope customers will splash enteprise cash on training or

7 Uses for Generative AI to Enhance Security Operations 30/11/2023 at 14:31 By Welcome to a world where Generative AI revolutionizes the field of cybersecurity. Generative AI refers to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to generate or create new data, such as images, text, or sounds. It has gained significant attention in recent

CACTUS Ransomware Exploits Qlik Sense Vulnerabilities in Targeted Attacks 30/11/2023 at 14:31 By A CACTUS ransomware campaign has been observed exploiting recently disclosed security flaws in a cloud analytics and business intelligence platform called Qlik Sense to obtain a foothold into targeted environments. “This campaign marks the first documented instance […] where threat actors deploying CACTUS ransomware

Six pack of sub-Neptune exoplanets hang tight around nearby star 30/11/2023 at 14:17 By Lindsay Clark Their resonant orbits have remained unchanged for some 4 billion years Scientists have discovered a rare six-exoplanet system orbiting a nearby bright star.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Nostalgia for XP sells out Microsoft’s 2023 ‘Windows Ugly Sweater’ 30/11/2023 at 13:32 By Richard Speed Bliss not your thing? You could win the Paint version Microsoft has once again reminded us of a time when its operating systems only drove us three-quarters around the bend, by issuing the latest Windows Ugly Sweater that features

SAP faces more accusations of breaching on-prem customers’ trust 30/11/2023 at 12:33 By Lindsay Clark Cloud-only innovation strategy slammed as users opt for on-prem and hosted support for S/4HANA SAP again stands accused of breaching trust with customers by a second user group following the decision to introduce innovations in its preferred cloud adoption models

We challenged you to come up with tech predictions for 2024 (wrong answers only) – here are some favorites so far 30/11/2023 at 11:47 By Chris Williams Plus some of our own and the ugly Microsoft sweater one of you will win. Please take it off our hands… Kettle  The other day we challenged our

Honda cooks up an electric motorbike menu, with sides of connectivity 30/11/2023 at 11:18 By Laura Dobberstein Plans buffet of components you can assemble into a dream machine Honda has updated its plan to electrify its motorcycle range, creating modular components that can be assembled into customized motorcycles – most with advanced connectivity features.… This

Weak session keys let snoops take a byte out of your Bluetooth traffic 30/11/2023 at 10:48 By Thomas Claburn BLUFFS spying flaw present in iPhones, ThinkPad, plenty of chipsets Multiple Bluetooth chips from major vendors such as Qualcomm, Broadcom, Intel, and Apple are vulnerable to a pair of security flaws that allow a nearby miscreant

AI offers some novel crystal materials that could form future chips, batteries, more 30/11/2023 at 09:47 By Katyanna Quach What’s more, a robot managed to cook some of them up. So, y’know, it might not be entirely science fiction Google DeepMind says it has developed an AI model capable of predicting millions of inorganic crystal

U.S. Treasury Sanctions Sinbad Cryptocurrency Mixer Used by North Korean Hackers 30/11/2023 at 09:47 By The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday imposed sanctions against Sinbad, a virtual currency mixer that has been put to use by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group to launder ill-gotten proceeds. “Sinbad has processed millions of dollars’ worth of virtual currency from Lazarus Group

OpenAI makes it official: Sam Altman is back as CEO 30/11/2023 at 09:02 By Simon Sharwood Microsoft joins the board in non-voting role OpenAI has made the return of Sam Altman as its CEO official.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

NASA tech reveals he crashed Spirit Mars rover two weeks before vital deadline 30/11/2023 at 07:48 By Simon Sharwood ‘A large pulse of electricity had gone somewhere other than intended, and telemetry stopped coming from the spacecraft’ Astrofuturist and former NASA tech Chris Lewicki has revealed he crashed the Spirit Mars rover, and feared he

China’s Loongson debuts processor that ‘matches Intel silicon circa 2020’ 30/11/2023 at 06:32 By Simon Sharwood Best not to dismiss it, as Asus looks to be onboard and advances are promised Chinese chip houses Loongson and CXMT have debuted products that demonstrate the Middle Kingdom’s increasingly sophisticated semiconductor scene, and an interest for such efforts

US lawmakers have Chinese LiDAR on their threat-detection radar 30/11/2023 at 05:33 By Laura Dobberstein Amid fears Beijing could harvest spatial data, letter suggests Huawei-style bans may be needed A US congressional committee has questioned whether Chinese-made Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) devices might have a negative impact on national security, and suggested they may

Rogue ex-Motorola techie admits cyberattack on former employer, passport fraud 30/11/2023 at 04:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Pro tip: Don’t use your new work email to phish your old firm An ex-Motorola technician in the US has admitted he tried to fraudulently obtain a passport while awaiting trial for a cyberattack on his former employer.…