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MIT boffins build battery alternative out of cement, carbon black, and water 02/08/2023 at 06:05 By Brandon Vigliarolo Imagine your home’s foundation was its own energy-storing supercapacitor Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claim to have found a novel new way to store energy using nothing but cement, a bit of water, and powdered […]

Socket moves beyond JavaScript and Python and gets into Go 02/08/2023 at 05:03 By Thomas Claburn CEO, fresh with funds, lays out the dependency dilemma Interview  Open source security biz Socket is extending its source code dependency checker, which previously addressed only JavaScript and Python, by adding support for checking Go code.… This article is

AMD hopes for rebound in the second half of the year as Q2 profits plunge 94% 02/08/2023 at 04:03 By Tobias Mann Don’t worry, AI will fix everything, predicts CEO Lisa Su AMD crawled back to profitability in the second quarter of 2023, reporting net income of $27 million – a drop of 94 percent

Google wants to ‘supercharge Assistant’ with AI as Meta gives bots a personality 02/08/2023 at 02:18 By Katyanna Quach Does that include Zuck or? The chatbot craze isn’t slowing any time soon. Google is understood to be injecting generative AI features into its digital assistant. Meanwhile Meta is said to be planning to launch virtual

Twitter sues Brit non-profit, claims hate-speech reports scared off advertisers 02/08/2023 at 00:18 By Thomas Claburn Are we out of touch? No, it’s the charity that’s wrong Twitter, lately known as X Corp, is suing the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) for allegedly harming its advertising business by documenting vitriol on the social network.…

MacOS malware discovered on Russian dark web forum 01/08/2023 at 23:02 By Hidden virtual network computing (hVNC) malware specifically targeting macOS was identified by Guardz on the Russian dark web forum Exploit. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

First US nuclear power plant built this century goes online 01/08/2023 at 22:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Westinghouse’s 2017 bankruptcy almost ended the Vogtle 3 reactor It’s more than half a decade late coming online and has cost billions more than estimated, but Georgia Power’s Vogtle Unit 3, the first US nuclear reactor built from scratch

The hidden dangers of ‘low risk’ data 01/08/2023 at 22:36 By Although it may seem counterintuitive, prioritizing the protection of low risk data can actually end up being a better use of resources. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Bacterial byproducts may help stop the stink in future spacesuits 01/08/2023 at 21:49 By Brandon Vigliarolo ESA is testing that pink stuff from your dirty bathtub as an antimicrobial Moon suit lining European space researchers are turning to an interesting place to find new antimicrobial coatings to keep the insides of future space suits from

Bad news: Another data-leaking CPU flaw. Good news: It’s utterly impractical 01/08/2023 at 20:04 By Thomas Claburn Collide+Power vulnerability leaks secrets bit by bit – but could take months or years to learn a useful secret Boffins in Austria and Germany have devised a power-monitoring side-channel attack on modern computer chips that exposes sensitive data,

Matthew Horace hired as Chief Security Officer at Progress Residential 01/08/2023 at 19:48 By Matthew Horace has been hired as Progress Residential’s Chief Security Officer. Horace brings nearly 35 years of experience in the security industry. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

SEC lawsuit against Terraform Labs and cofounder Do Kwon lives to fight another day 01/08/2023 at 18:49 By Laura Dobberstein Crypto bad boy’s appeal denied, despite recent Ripple Labs ruling A Manhattan judge ruled on Monday that a lawsuit from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon

Using Asset Management to Keep a Cloud Environment Secure 01/08/2023 at 18:49 By In modern network environments focused on cloud technology, organizations have undergone a significant transformation in the development and deployment of their IT assets. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original Source

New NodeStealer Targeting Facebook Business Accounts and Crypto Wallets 01/08/2023 at 18:49 By Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a Python variant of a stealer malware NodeStealer that’s equipped to fully take over Facebook business accounts as well as siphon cryptocurrency. Palo Alto Network Unit 42 said it detected the previously undocumented strain as part of a campaign that

10% of expired certificates on the internet pose a security threat 01/08/2023 at 18:16 By A  survey found that nearly 80% of transport layer security (TLS) certificates on the Internet are vulnerable to Man in the Middle (MiM) attacks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Mattress maker Tempur Sealy says it isolated tech system to contain cyber burglary 01/08/2023 at 17:34 By Paul Kunert Mega memory foam bedding maker says no sign yet personal info was stolen This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Astronomers testing next-gen asteroid-hunting algorithm discover potentially hazardous object 01/08/2023 at 16:31 By Katyanna Quach Scientists explain how the new HelioLinc3D software works to The Register Astronomers have spotted a potentially hazardous asteroid thanks to a new algorithm that will be deployed in the upcoming Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile, which is currently under

Czech energy billionaire in talks to buy Atos unit in $2.2B deal 01/08/2023 at 15:50 By Dan Robinson French IT supplier to complete split by selling non-Eviden bits to investment outfit Ailing French IT supplier Atos is looking to complete its ‘transformation’ by selling off the remaining half of itself to EP Equity Investment for

Report finds 164% increase in cyber threats targeting brands 01/08/2023 at 15:35 By A new report reveals an increase in key personnel and corporate social media impersonation accounts, among other threats targeting brands. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source