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Southern Water to drink up tech deals worth up to £358 million 29/08/2023 at 12:32 By Lindsay Clark Wide-ranging procurements hint at prospect of SAP ERP system replacement Southern Water — the £792 million ($996 million) UK utility business — is on the hunt for technology suppliers to take part in a £358 million ($450 […]

OpenAI pops an enterprise sticker on ChatGPT to give big biz some peace of mind 29/08/2023 at 11:32 By Katyanna Quach Here’s what you actually get for this VIP level. And how is Microsoft happy with this? OpenAI launched ChatGPT Enterprise on Monday, a tier of the text-generating chatbot focused on alleviating concerns about privacy

Japan complains Fukushima water release created terrifying Chinese Spam monster 29/08/2023 at 10:35 By Simon Sharwood Asks Beijing to stop the phone calls harassing civilians, as tests show impact of nuke plant water Japan last week commenced the release of water from the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant, and the neighbors aren’t pleased.… This article

Nvidia just made a killing on AI – where is everyone else? 29/08/2023 at 09:45 By Tobias Mann It doesn’t matter if your GPU is better at training if no one can get hold of them Comment  Nvidia’s latest quarter marked a defining moment for AI adoption.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

Phishing-as-a-Service Gets Smarter: Microsoft Sounds Alarm on AiTM Attacks 29/08/2023 at 09:01 By Microsoft is warning of an increase in adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing techniques, which are being propagated as part of the phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) cybercrime model. In addition to an uptick in AiTM-capable PhaaS platforms, the tech giant noted that existing phishing services like PerSwaysion

USA and China agree to keep talking about chip bans, without discussing their end 29/08/2023 at 08:32 By Laura Dobberstein Intel and Micron made the agenda, but action to ease their woes was not The US Commerce Department said on Monday that it’s reached an agreement with Chinese authorities to facilitate the exchange of export

Samsung realizes behaving ethically is good for business, says compliance boss 29/08/2023 at 07:02 By Laura Dobberstein Mega-corp has mastered the complexity of numerous technologies but it took several scandals to impart this obvious lesson Samsung’s compliance committee chair has told local media the massive conglomerate is now on the straight and narrow, after years

The US Air Force wants $6 billion to build 2,000 AI-powered drones 29/08/2023 at 06:04 By Katyanna Quach Pilots’ Goose cooked as uncrewed vehicles prove cheaper and perhaps more versatile The US Air Force wants to spend around $5.8 billion on up to 2,000 pilotless AI-powered drones, to serve alongside human pilots.… This article is

America’s financial cops say NFTs are securities in first-of-its-kind case 29/08/2023 at 05:04 By Brandon Vigliarolo Dissenting opinion asserts position is wrong and that many headaches linger In its first enforcement action concerning the issuance of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, if you can remember that sad fad, the SEC has declared they should be considered

Need a datacenter processor? Try our take-and-bake Neoverse N2 cores, says Arm 29/08/2023 at 04:20 By Tobias Mann Just bring your own accelerator Hot Chips  Arm has unveiled a set of blueprints called Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS) that – inadvertently or not – takes the biz an inch closer to straight-up designing processors for its

Health, payment info for 1.2M people feared stolen from Purfoods in IT attack 29/08/2023 at 01:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Meal delivery biz leaves bitter taste Purfoods has notified more than 1.2 million people that their personal and medical data — including payment card and bank account numbers, security codes, and some protected health information —

Intel promises next year’s Xeons will challenge AMD on memory, IO channels 29/08/2023 at 00:17 By Tobias Mann Plus more insights on x86 titan’s all E-core datacenter chips Hot Chips  Intel today for the Hot Chips 2023 conference shed light on the architecture changes, including improvements to memory subsystems and IO connectivity, coming to its

OpenTF forks Terraform, insists HashiCorp is the splinter group 28/08/2023 at 23:32 By Thomas Claburn and Liam Proven Dude, stop hitting yourself Two weeks after HashiCorp changed the terms under which its Terraform software is licensed, users of the infrastructure automation project – corporate rivals among them – have created a fork of the Terraform

Gregory Thompson appointed as first CISO at Vantage Data Centers 28/08/2023 at 23:16 By Gregory Thompson has been appointed as Chief Information Security Officer at Vantage Data Centers. Thompson is the first CISO at the company.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Silicon Valley billionaires secretly buying up land for new California city 28/08/2023 at 22:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Not just a company town – it’s the new feudal age A gaggle of tech billionaires want to start their own metropolis in California, and they’ve spent the past five years buying up thousands of acres of land

Key takeaways from BlackHat 2023 28/08/2023 at 20:46 By The best cyber defenses will only go so far. As Ukraine has shown, cyberattacks are not the only way to take down critical infrastructure. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Experts Uncover How Cybercriminals Could Exploit Microsoft Entra ID for Elevated Privilege 28/08/2023 at 19:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a case of privilege escalation associated with a Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) application by taking advantage of an abandoned reply URL. “An attacker could leverage this abandoned URL to redirect authorization codes

Malware loader lowdown: The big 3 responsible for 80% of attacks so far this year 28/08/2023 at 19:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Top of the list to trip sensors Three malware loaders — QBot, SocGholish, and Raspberry Robin — are responsible for 80 percent of observed attacks on computers and networks so far this year.…

Developers Beware: Malicious Rust Libraries Caught Transmitting OS Info to Telegram Channel 28/08/2023 at 19:02 By In yet another sign that developers continue to be targets of software supply chain attacks, a number of malicious packages have been discovered on the Rust programming language’s crate registry. The libraries, uploaded between August 14 and 16, 2023,

UK flights disrupted by ‘technical issue’ with air traffic computer system 28/08/2023 at 18:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo British Bank Holiday blues as flight plans have to be filed by hand The UK’s National Air Traffic Service (NATS) is spending a bank holiday Monday dealing with an unspecified “technical issue” that has disrupted flights across the