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LibreOffice 7.6 arrives: Open source stalwart is showing its maturity 23/08/2023 at 14:47 By Liam Proven What comes next, and what the end of the 7.x release series really means LibreOffice 7.6 is the latest – and last – fresh version in the 7.x release series of the FOSS office suite. From next year, the […]

Agile Approach to Mass Cloud Credential Harvesting and Crypto Mining Sprints Ahead 23/08/2023 at 14:47 By Developers are not the only people who have adopted the agile methodology for their development processes. From 2023-06-15 to 2023-07-11, Permiso Security’s p0 Labs team identified and tracked an attacker developing and deploying eight (8) incremental iterations of their

Syrian Threat Actor EVLF Unmasked as Creator of CypherRAT and CraxsRAT Android Malware 23/08/2023 at 14:47 By A Syrian threat actor named EVLF has been outed as the creator of malware families CypherRAT and CraxsRAT. “These RATs are designed to allow an attacker to remotely perform real-time actions and control the victim device’s camera, location, and microphone,”

Generative AI won’t steal your job, just change it, says UN 23/08/2023 at 13:24 By Katyanna Quach Unless you’re a woman in a clerical position, in which case your role might never come into existence Generative AI will probably not replace most current workers, with its impact instead confined to automating some tasks for a

Spacecolon Toolset Fuels Global Surge in Scarab Ransomware Attacks 23/08/2023 at 12:49 By A malicious toolset dubbed Spacecolon is being deployed as part of an ongoing campaign to spread variants of the Scarab ransomware across victim organizations globally. “It probably finds its way into victim organizations by its operators compromising vulnerable web servers or via brute forcing

Want tech cred? Learn how to email like a pro 23/08/2023 at 11:47 By Liam Proven Distinguish tech pros from tech poseurs with this one weird trick Feature  The Reg FOSS Desk, as you might imagine, gets a lot of mail from companies keen to promote their wares. How someone emails instantly betrays real techies,

Criminals go full Viking on CloudNordic, wipe all servers and customer data 23/08/2023 at 10:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle IT outfit says it can’t — and won’t — pay the ransom demand CloudNordic has told customers to consider all of their data lost following a ransomware infection that encrypted the large Danish cloud provider’s servers

Over a Dozen Malicious npm Packages Target Roblox Game Developers 23/08/2023 at 10:16 By More than a dozen malicious packages have been discovered on the npm package repository since the start of August 2023 with capabilities to deploy an open-source information stealer called Luna Token Grabber on systems belonging to Roblox developers. The ongoing campaign, first detected

IBM shows off its sense of humor in not-so-funny letter leak 23/08/2023 at 09:49 By Simon Sharwood Internal memos detail discontinued Dad-joke products It turns out IBM, the elder statesman of global IT and a paragon of corporate seriousness, has a sense of humor – but the real joke may be on its customers.… This

Space junk targeted for cleanup mission was hit by different space junk, making more space junk 23/08/2023 at 08:47 By Laura Dobberstein Of all the spacecraft in all the orbits around the world, it slams into mine On Tuesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that a decade-old piece of space junk it had targeted

VMware sees no need to Arm itself for multi-architecture multi-cloud 23/08/2023 at 06:05 By Simon Sharwood x86 still gets you to where the useful action is, even on the edge Explore  For years, VMware’s strategy has been to run any app in any environment.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

SK hynix ships blazing fast HBM3E DRAM samples – but most customers have to wait 23/08/2023 at 05:32 By Simon Sharwood Everything in 2023 is about AI, which this silicon is said to speed South Korean chipmaker SK hynix has shipped samples of HBM3E DRAM, claiming it should be able to process 1.15 terabytes of

You can now fine-tune OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 for specific tasks – it may even beat GPT-4 23/08/2023 at 05:02 By Katyanna Quach And work out cheaper than top-end model Developers can now fine-tune OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo model to improve its performance on specific tasks – making it potentially more effective and cheaper to run that OpenAI’s

Cool, more promises of a Universal Translator from Big Tech. This time, Meta – again 23/08/2023 at 04:02 By Thomas Claburn SeamlessM4T seems less open source than some might wish Meta on Tuesday released a multimodal AI foundational model called SeamlessM4T that’s designed for translating and transcribing speech and text.… This article is an excerpt

IBM sells off cloud business – yes, we mean Weather.com 23/08/2023 at 03:02 By Tobias Mann What better time for private equity to capitalize on changing climate Weather.com is an IBM business no more. Big Blue has sold off the unit to private equity.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

‘Millions’ of spammy emails with no opt-out? That’ll cost you $650K, Experian 23/08/2023 at 01:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Credit-reporting giant disagrees with FTC, will hand over the pocket change to make Feds go away Experian has agreed to cough up $650,000 after being accused of spamming people with no opt-out button.… This article is

Pentagon dumps $1.5B more into military sat network that’s already slipping behind 23/08/2023 at 00:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo One might say this program is already up in the air Things haven’t gone to plan exactly for the US military’s latest warfighting satellite constellation, but that hasn’t stopped the Department of Defense from shelling out more

Cybersecurity risks found in browser extensions 22/08/2023 at 23:47 By Browser extension security was analyzed in a recent report by Spin.AI, finding extensions with unknown authors attached to personal email accounts. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Microsoft teases Python scripting in Excel 22/08/2023 at 22:46 By Thomas Claburn Snakes on a dataframe Microsoft has added support for running Python code from within Excel, bringing the world’s most popular programming language, by some measures, to the world’s most popular spreadsheet.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

IBM says GenAI can convert that old COBOL code to Java for you 22/08/2023 at 22:01 By Dan Robinson Folks in the Z mainframe game can have a play soon… if they dare IBM is giving its mainframe customers a tool infused with generative AI to translate COBOL code to Java as part of application