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Using iPhone Mirroring at work? You might have just overshared to your boss 2024-10-08 at 21:32 By Jessica Lyons What does IT see but a dating app on your wee little screen If you’re using iPhone Mirroring at work: it’s time to stop, lest you give your employer’s IT department the capability to snoop through […]

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Incumbent congressman not turning up to debates? Train an AI on his press releases 2024-10-08 at 21:18 By Richard Speed Hallucinations, made-up facts… and that’s just the human politicians Generative AI has reached its logical conclusion with a chatbot ready to stand in for a congressional incumbent at a debate.… This article is an excerpt

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Starlink was offered for free to those hit by Hurricane Helene. It is not actually free 2024-10-08 at 20:19 By Brandon Vigliarolo Usual customer trial dressed up as disaster relief The free Starlink service Elon Musk and SpaceX so graciously promised for communities devastated by Hurricane Helene in the US is not actually entirely free,

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Gamers Tricked Into Downloading Lua-Based Malware via Fake Cheating Script Engines 2024-10-08 at 20:19 By Users searching for game cheats are being tricked into downloading a Lua-based malware that is capable of establishing persistence on infected systems and delivering additional payloads. “These attacks capitalize on the popularity of Lua gaming engine supplements within the student

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Zero-Day Alert: Three Critical Ivanti CSA Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited 2024-10-08 at 20:19 By Ivanti has warned that three new security vulnerabilities impacting its Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) have come under active exploitation in the wild. The zero-day flaws are being weaponized in conjunction with another flaw in CSA that the company patched last month, the

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Apple supplier Foxconn and Nvidia team up to deploy Taiwan’s fastest AI supercomputer 2024-10-08 at 19:02 By Gavin Bonshor How does 90 exaFLOPS sound? Nvidia has confirmed it will be working with mega electronics contractor Foxconn to construct Taiwan’s most powerful AI supercomputer.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React

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DoE awards next-gen nuclear fuel contracts backwards 2024-10-08 at 18:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘Deconversion’ can begin now, but initial enrichment, transportation and storage to processors is still TBD The US Department of Energy has awarded shares of an $800 million contract for advanced nuclear fuel deconversion to four companies, but it’s unclear who will be

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Netizens are torturing Google’s AI podcast hosts 2024-10-08 at 17:31 By Richard Currie NotebookLM’s Audio Overview feature rudely discovers its wife never existed The demise of HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey remains a haunting cinema moment nearly six decades on for the questions it raises about consciousness, the ethics of AI

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US lawmakers dig into FCC’s $900M Starlink snub in wake of Hurricane Helene 2024-10-08 at 16:46 By Richard Speed Nearly a billion dollars in rural broadband subsidies wouldn’t go amiss The Chairman of the US House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, James Comer, is investigating the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to revoke an award

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Eric Schmidt: Build more AI datacenters, we aren’t going to ‘hit climate goals anyway’ 2024-10-08 at 16:16 By Dan Robinson Perhaps the power-draining tech is the solution after all, posits former Google CEO Google’s former chief Eric Schmidt thinks we shouldn’t let AI’s ballooning power consumption worry us, because putting AI to work on climate

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Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good 2024-10-08 at 15:46 By Liam Proven Stability? Predictability? Reliability? Where’s the fun in that? EuroBSDcon 2024  One of Stefano Marinelli’s NetBSD boxes sat quietly serving for a decade, because everyone forgot about it. This is how Unix is meant to be.… This article is an

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Security leaders discuss the new vulnerability added to CISA’s catalog 2024-10-08 at 15:01 By CISA has issued a warning regarding a known, exploited vulnerability. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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81% of U.S. workers have not been trained on generative AI 2024-10-08 at 15:01 By Security practices were analyzed in a recent report, finding that one in two office workers admit to using personal devices to log into work networks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

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AI-driven e-commerce fraud is surging, but you can fight back with more AI 2024-10-08 at 14:31 By Thomas Claburn Juniper Research argues the only way to beat them is to join them E-commerce fraud is expected to surge in the next five years thanks to AI, and merchants are advised to respond with … AI.…

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Cyberattack Group ‘Awaken Likho’ Targets Russian Government with Advanced Tools 2024-10-08 at 14:31 By Russian government agencies and industrial entities are the target of an ongoing activity cluster dubbed Awaken Likho. “The attackers now prefer using the agent for the legitimate MeshCentral platform instead of the UltraVNC module, which they had previously used to gain

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New Case Study: The Evil Twin Checkout Page 2024-10-08 at 14:31 By Is your store at risk? Discover how an innovative web security solution saved one global online retailer and its unsuspecting customers from an “evil twin” disaster. Read the full real-life case study here. The Invisible Threat in Online Shopping When is a checkout

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Linus Torvalds declares war on the passive voice 2024-10-08 at 13:32 By Jude Karabus Linux contributors told to sort out their grammar lest they be actively corrected Picture this. A developer submits a patch to improve the kernel’s performance, only to be met with the scornful gaze of Linux chieftain Linus Torvalds, who declares: “Ah,

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GoldenJackal Target Embassies and Air-Gapped Systems Using Malware Toolsets 2024-10-08 at 13:16 By A little-known threat actor tracked as GoldenJackal has been linked to a series of cyber attacks targeting embassies and governmental organizations with an aim to infiltrate air-gapped systems using two disparate bespoke toolsets. Victims included a South Asian embassy in Belarus and

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Workday beats Oracle and Microsoft in UK ‘Matrix’ ERP deal 2024-10-08 at 12:46 By Lindsay Clark The SaaS-only provider and Cognizant snag £144.3M in gov software shake-up A cluster of government departments has opted for Workday HR and finance software, as Oracle and Microsoft make up the vendors losing out to the SaaS-only provider.… This

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Microsoft veteran ditches Team Tabs, blaming storage trauma of yesteryear 2024-10-08 at 11:35 By Richard Speed How do you indent yours? Veteran Microsoft engineer Larry Osterman is the latest to throw his hat into the “tabs versus spaces” ring.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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