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IBM flags up NorthPole chip to scale AI – though it’s still far from shipping 23/10/2023 at 12:36 By Dan Robinson Paper describes work in massively parallel, interconnected system – with limits to data in on-chip memory IBM is back with an updated neuromorphic processor chip that it hopes will enable it to more efficiently […]

NASA just patched Voyager 2’s software but spared Voyager 1 the risky rewrite 23/10/2023 at 09:47 By Simon Sharwood The upgrade might not go well, so prioritized the probe doing better science NASA patched its Voyager 2 spacecraft last week, to address a bug that last year saw its sibling generate corrupted telemetry data, but

South Korea approves Broadcom’s VMware buy 23/10/2023 at 08:47 By Simon Sharwood Virtzilla’s final releases as an indepdent company might be biggish upgrades to its desktop hypervisors South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has conditionally approved Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, leaving China as the holdout ahead of the forecast October 30 closing day for the mammoth

Indonesia grounds second broadband satellite to free up digital inclusion funds 23/10/2023 at 07:17 By Laura Dobberstein Boeing and SpaceX lose out. Ministry is betting 70 million people without internet access won’t Indonesia has decided not to launch a hot backup satellite (HBS) to support its single broadband-beaming bird and plans to spend the money

India plans semiconductor research institute to rival the world’s finest 23/10/2023 at 05:49 By Simon Sharwood And gives itself five years to build silicon photonics cores India’s government has endorsed two massive investments in semiconductors as it seeks to propel the nation into the top ranks of manufacturing and research.… This article is an excerpt

There’s no Huawei Chinese chipmakers can fill Nvidia’s shoes… anytime soon 22/10/2023 at 14:18 By Tobias Mann Chinese AI and GPU vendors face a less than fab-ulous dilemma where to get their chips built moving forward Analysis  Chinese chipmakers face an uphill battle filling the void left by the Biden administration’s latest round of export

Europol Dismantles Ragnar Locker Ransomware Infrastructure, Nabs Key Developer 21/10/2023 at 17:31 By Europol on Friday announced the takedown of the infrastructure associated with Ragnar Locker ransomware, alongside the arrest of a “key target” in France. “In an action carried out between 16 and 20 October, searches were conducted in Czechia, Spain, and Latvia,” the

Still got a job at the end of this week? You’re lucky, as more layoffs hit the tech industry 21/10/2023 at 16:17 By Iain Thomson ‘Beatings will continue until morale improves’ Kettle  It has been a bad week for thousands of tech workers this week, with multiple corporations announcing that headcount reduction will continue for

International Criminal Court blames spies for ‘targeted and sophisticated attack’ 21/10/2023 at 13:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Tell us it’s Russia without telling us it’s Russia Unknown intruders broke the International Criminal Court last month in what the Hague war crimes tribunal described on Friday as a “a targeted and sophisticated attack with the objective

Okta’s Support System Breach Exposes Customer Data to Unidentified Threat Actors 21/10/2023 at 12:16 By Identity services provider Okta on Friday disclosed a new security incident that allowed unidentified threat actors to leverage stolen credentials to access its support case management system. “The threat actor was able to view files uploaded by certain Okta customers

Cisco Zero-Day Exploited to Implant Malicious Lua Backdoor on Thousands of Devices 21/10/2023 at 07:31 By Cisco has warned of a new zero-day flaw in IOS XE that has been actively exploited by an unknown threat actor to deploy a malicious Lua-based implant on susceptible devices. Tracked as CVE-2023-20273 (CVSS score: 7.2), the issue relates to a privilege escalation

The problem with Jon Stewart is that Apple appears to have cancelled his show 21/10/2023 at 00:35 By Thomas Claburn Planned episodes on China and AI reportedly worried Apple top brass The Problem With Jon Stewart, popular show on Apple TV with the eponymous host, will not be returning to the streaming service for a

23andMe announce data breach 21/10/2023 at 00:02 By 23andMe announced that customer profile information was accessed without user consent, including DNA Relatives profiles for individual accounts. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Web Summit CEO’s comments on Israeli conflict ‘war crimes’ sparks boycott 20/10/2023 at 23:47 By Tobias Mann Intel, Siemens, Google, Meta, and Stripe among event walkouts Meta and Stripe have joined Google, Intel, and Siemens in a growing boycott of next month’s Web Summit in Lisbon after the event’s chief executive compared Israel’s actions in

How to improve your Web2 business with blockchain 20/10/2023 at 23:02 By Cointelegraph By Wolfgang Rückerl Although blockchain has become a mainstream topic in the finance and business worlds for several years now, it’s definitely not too late to join this wave of innovation. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

Admin behind E-Root stolen creds souk extradited to US 20/10/2023 at 22:52 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle There was a young man from Moldova, who the Feds just want to roll over, but with 20 inside, and nowhere to hide, he just wants it all to be over A Moldovan who allegedly ran the compromised-credential marketplace

48% of organizations predict cyberattack recovery to take weeks 20/10/2023 at 22:51 By According to a cloud adoption report, 72% of respondents are using generative AI and 74% leveraging public cloud AI and analytics services. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Astroboffins spot high-power 8b year old radio burst from pre-Earth event 20/10/2023 at 21:43 By Brandon Vigliarolo Signal could help astronomers suss out the mass of the universe An international team of scientists have discovered a fast radio burst (FRB) so distant that it blows the previous record away, but is still one of the

Bad Vibrations: Music publishers sue Anthropic AI for using copyrighted lyrics 20/10/2023 at 20:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo You Can’t Always scrape What You Want, even if the lyrics are Blowin’ in the (digital) Wind A trio of music publishers has sued AI outfit Anthropic for slurping up song lyrics without asking for permission as it

Net neutrality is back in the Land of the Free – for now 20/10/2023 at 19:35 By Iain Thomson Until the Democrats leave office, that is The FCC has voted on a plan to reinstate net neutrality rules that require ISPs treat all data equally – rules which were canceled under the Trump administration in