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Telcos find cloud migrations, security, are a pain in the IaaS 2024-10-22 at 11:35 By Laura Dobberstein Carriers consume less than half the cloud they committed to use Telecom companies have consumed only 48 percent of the cloud they have committed to, yet seek to secure more, according to a report released late last week […]

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Major publishers sue Perplexity AI for scraping without paying 2024-10-22 at 10:35 By Iain Thomson We sell that to OpenAI – how dare you steal it and make stuff up Major US news publishers Dow Jones & Co and NYP Holdings have sued AI search engine startup Perplexity for scraping their content without paying for

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VMware Releases vCenter Server Update to Fix Critical RCE Vulnerability 2024-10-22 at 10:19 By VMware has released software updates to address an already patched security flaw in vCenter Server that could pave the way for remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38812 (CVSS score: 9.8), concerns a case of heap-overflow vulnerability in the implementation

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Lab-grown human brain cells drive virtual butterfly in simulation 2024-10-22 at 09:35 By Thomas Claburn Could organoid-driven computing be the future of AI power? Researchers affiliated with the neuroscience platform FinalSpark have devised a 3D simulation depicting a butterfly that’s directed by human brain cells.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Pixel perfect Ghostpulse malware loader hides inside PNG image files 2024-10-22 at 08:33 By Connor Jones Miscreants combine it with an equally tricky piece of social engineering The Ghostpulse malware strain now retrieves its main payload via a PNG image file’s pixels. This development, security experts say, is “one of the most significant changes” made

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CISA Adds ScienceLogic SL1 Vulnerability to Exploited Catalog After Active Zero-Day Attack 2024-10-22 at 08:04 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical security flaw impacting ScienceLogic SL1 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation as a zero-day. The vulnerability in question, tracked as

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India, Nvidia, discuss jointly developed AI chip 2024-10-22 at 07:34 By Simon Sharwood Current capabilities mean local manufacturing is not likely – but a chip tuned to Indian needs could work India’s government is reportedly in talks with Nvidia to co-develop AI silicon.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React

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Redrawing the line of perimeter protection 2024-10-22 at 07:03 By Perimeter security is about boundaries; however, new threats are pushing physical security professionals to reconsider how they approach their first line of defense.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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China Telecom’s next 150,000 servers will mostly use local processors 2024-10-22 at 06:50 By Simon Sharwood Intel and AMD left scrapping over about a third of the deal, and license fees Most years, China Telecom posts a tender for new servers to help it run the apps it needs to serve its hundreds of millions

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Intern allegedly messed with ByteDance’s LLM training cluster 2024-10-22 at 05:48 By Laura Dobberstein No losses caused – except the intern’s job – says TikTok parent ByteDance has terminated an intern for “maliciously interfering” with a large language model training project.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this

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US leans on Japan to curb sales of chipmaking equipment to China 2024-10-22 at 04:49 By Dan Robinson Tokyo between a rock and a hard place as Beijing threatens to retaliate The “chip wars” between the US and China have taken a new turn with members of a House Select Committee threatening action against Japanese

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Drone maker DJI sues Pentagon over ‘Chinese military company’ label 2024-10-22 at 03:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo Pending CCP drone ban could render the suit irrelevant Chinese drone maker DJI has sued the US Department of Defense, alleging it was added to a list of companies affiliated with the Chinese military and denied the opportunity to

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US moves ahead with crackdown on data brokers selling to six ‘countries of concern’ 2024-10-22 at 02:34 By Iain Thomson Biden’s Executive Order finally getting its day in the sun, soonish The US federal government is poised to implement an Executive Order that would ban data brokers selling significant amounts of information to buyers in

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Tesla, Warner Bros. sued for allegedly ripping off images from ‘Blade Runner 2049’ to promote cybercab 2024-10-22 at 01:49 By Reuters Alcon said it had refused a request from Warner Bros. to use images from the firm for Tesla’s Oct. 10 live-streamed cybercab unveiling. Tesla then used images created with AI, the lawsuit said. This

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China’s Spamouflage cranks up trolling of US Senator Rubio as election day looms 2024-10-22 at 01:35 By Jessica Lyons Note to Xi: Marco and Ted Cruz aren’t the same person China’s Spamouflage disinformation crew has been targeting US Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) with its fake news campaigns over the past couple of months, trolling the

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Sophos to snatch Secureworks in $859M buyout: Why fight when you can just buy? 2024-10-22 at 00:36 By Iain Thomson Private equity giant Thoma Bravo adds another trophy to its growing collection British security biz Sophos has announced a plan to gobble up competitor Secureworks in an $859 million deal that will make Dell happy.…

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Microsoft says its Copilot AI agents set to tackle employee tasks in November 2024-10-21 at 23:34 By Tobias Mann Let bots manage your supply chain? What could possibly go wrong? Since announcing Copilot Studio last year, Microsoft claims it has achieved significant efficiency gains across multiple business units using its tools. Starting next month, customers

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The billionaire behind Trump’s ‘unhackable’ phone is on a mission to fight Tesla’s FSD 2024-10-21 at 22:39 By Iain Thomson Dan O’Dowd tells El Reg about the OS secrets and ongoing clash with Musk Interview  This month, presidential hopeful Donald Trump got a tool in his arsenal, some allegedly “unhackable” communications kit, and The Register

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China ramps up semiconductor patents amid US export restrictions 2024-10-21 at 21:34 By Gavin Bonshor AI innovation and geopolitical tensions push Middle Kingdom filings up 42% China’s semiconductor industry is speeding up in response to US export controls, according to research by a specialist in intellectual property.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Musk’s $1M election lottery raises serious legal concerns, says Pennsylvania governor 2024-10-21 at 20:34 By Brandon Vigliarolo C’mon, do you really think ol’ Elon’s handing out all that cash, day after day? Elon Musk’s plan to give $1 million each day to a random registered “swing state” voter who has signed his election petition could

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