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Microsoft yanks Windows 11 update after boot loop blunder 2024-06-27 at 14:46 By Richard Speed Tour of recovery options not supposed to be part of KB5039302 Microsoft has pulled a Windows 11 update after users reported boot loops and startup failures.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this […]

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Atos’s UK auditor raises ‘material uncertainty’ about future 2024-06-27 at 14:06 By Paul Kunert Looming debt repayments and stalling restructure talks cause for concern The UK wing of Atos, the ailing IT services provider that has scored billions of pounds in government contracts locally, has pointed to a “material uncertainty” over its ability to continue

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How to Use Python to Build Secure Blockchain Applications 2024-06-27 at 13:31 By Did you know it’s now possible to build blockchain applications, known also as decentralized applications (or “dApps” for short) in native Python? Blockchain development has traditionally required learning specialized languages, creating a barrier for many developers… until now. AlgoKit, an all-in-one development

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Elon Musk to destroy the International Space Station – with NASA’s approval, for a fee 2024-06-27 at 12:46 By Simon Sharwood SpaceX wins contract for ‘deorbit vehicle’ at a pleasing price Elon Musk’s SpaceX has won a NASA contract to de-orbit the International Space Station (ISS).… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Prompt Injection Flaw in Vanna AI Exposes Databases to RCE Attacks 2024-06-27 at 12:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a high-severity security flaw in the Vanna.AI library that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution vulnerability via prompt injection techniques. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5565 (CVSS score: 8.1), relates to a case of prompt

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How many Microsoft missteps were forks that were just a bit of fun? 2024-06-27 at 11:36 By Richard Speed Raymond Chen on cutting loose with a copy of the code Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has dropped another nugget of Microspeak – the “fun fork.”… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Russian National Indicted for Cyber Attacks on Ukraine Before 2022 Invasion 2024-06-27 at 11:36 By A 22-year-old Russian national has been indicted in the U.S. for his alleged role in staging destructive cyber attacks against Ukraine and its allies in the days leading to Russia’s full-blown military invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. Amin Timovich

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Reddit hopes robots.txt tweak will do the trick in scaring off AI training data scrapers 2024-06-27 at 10:56 By Tobias Mann Pay up or go away, pretty please? For many Reddit has become the go to repository of community and crowdsourced knowledge, a fact that has no doubt made it a prime target for AI

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Critical SQLi Vulnerability Found in Fortra FileCatalyst Workflow Application 2024-06-27 at 10:36 By A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Fortra FileCatalyst Workflow that, if left unpatched, could allow an attacker to tamper with the application database. Tracked as CVE-2024-5276, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8. It impacts FileCatalyst Workflow versions 5.1.6

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Alibaba Cloud reveals its datacenter design and homebrew network used for LLM training 2024-06-27 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood 15,000 GPUs per DC, in hosts packing eight apiece, plus nine NICs – helped by switches with custom heat sinks Exclusive  Alibaba Cloud has revealed the design of an Ethernet-based network it created specifically to carry

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Indian gov investigating claims Foxconn won’t hire married women 2024-06-27 at 08:31 By Laura Dobberstein Cultural traditions clash with manufacturing ambitions India’s Ministry of Labor and Employment has ordered an investigation of Foxconn – the contract manufacturer supplier also known as Hon Hai Precision and one of Apple’s main suppliers – after reports emerged alleging

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AI arms race: Cybersecurity defenders in the age of evolving threats 2024-06-27 at 07:16 By By harnessing AI’s capabilities, organizations will strengthen their resilience and enhance adaptability, forging a formidable defense against relentless cyber adversaries. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Lenovo brings its virtualization and cloud stack to Loongson’s CPU architecture 2024-06-27 at 06:16 By Simon Sharwood NAS vendors, healthcare software vendors, and government buyers join the march to silicon sovereignty Chinese chip shop Loongson, which has built modest CPUs based on its own MIPS-like architecture, is on the march.… This article is an excerpt

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Korean telco allegedly infected its P2P users with malware 2024-06-27 at 05:01 By Laura Dobberstein KT may have had an entire team dedicated to infecting its own customers A South Korean media outlet has alleged that local telco KT deliberately infected some customers with malware due to their excessive use of peer-to-peer (P2P) downloading tools.…

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WhisperGate suspect indicted as US offers a $10M bounty for his capture 2024-06-27 at 03:46 By Jessica Lyons Russian national accused of attacks in lead-up to the Ukraine war The US Department of Justice has indicted a 22-year-old Russian for allegedly attacking Ukrainian government computers and destroying critical infrastructure systems in the so-called “WhisperGate” wiper

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Microsoft founder Paul Allen’s tech museum closes, sells off collection 2024-06-27 at 02:46 By Matthew Connatser Letter from Einstein, vintage space suit, and ancient computers all up for sale The estate of the late Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has decided to close Living Computers: Museum + Labs, the Seattle site which housed his beloved

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Apple set to pay away Batterygate, audio defect lawsuits 2024-06-27 at 01:46 By Thomas Claburn Pocket-change settlements of $6M and $35M await approval in July Apple is preparing to settle two lawsuits next month over alleged iPhone flaws, provided the respective judges agree to the terms of the deals.… This article is an excerpt from

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Feds put $5M bounty on ‘CryptoQueen’ Ruja Ignatova 2024-06-27 at 01:01 By Jessica Lyons OneCoin co-founder allegedly bilked investors out of $4B in digicash Uncle Sam has put a $5 million bounty on any information leading to the arrest or conviction of self-titled “CryptoQueen” Ruja Ignatova, who is wanted in the US for apparently bilking

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FCC slaps Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again 2024-06-27 at 00:31 By Matthew Connatser Less than an hour’s profit – that sends a strong message for emergency cover America’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined Verizon a little over a million dollars for failing to route 911 calls during a cellular outage.…

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AI’s appetite for power could double datacenter electricity bills by 2030 2024-06-26 at 23:31 By Matthew Connatser Believe it or not, this is modest relative to other predictions A study predicts that US power consumption from datacenters will more than double by 2030.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React

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