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Rocket Factory Augsburg breaks down the SaxaVord blowout 2024-08-28 at 11:32 By Richard Speed ‘Enjoy the footage. It has cost us quite some money to generate’ With impressive speed and candor, Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has provided an update on the anomaly that caused last week’s rocket firing at SaxaVord in Shetland, Scotland, to end

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Woman uses AirTags to nab alleged parcel-pinching scum 2024-08-28 at 10:46 By Iain Thomson Phew! Consumer-grade tracking devices are good for more than finding your keys and stalking Theft of packages is an ongoing problem, so one California woman tried a high tech solution to the problem – and her use of Apple’s consumer-grade AirTags

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Gartner warns Omnissa – formerly VMware’s end-user compute biz – represents new risks 2024-08-28 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Weak roadmap, tricky migration path, and Broadcom dependencies add up to uncertainty Analyst firm Gartner has advised customers of Omnissa – the company spun out from VMware’s end-user compute business – that they need to take

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CISA Flags Critical Apache OFBiz Flaw Amid Active Exploitation Reports 2024-08-28 at 09:16 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw affecting the Apache OFBiz open-source enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The

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Big Tech: Malaysia won’t let us set our own rules and that’s not fair and makes us grumpy 2024-08-28 at 08:46 By Laura Dobberstein Asia Internet Coalition asks for rethink of social media licensing law with the old ‘You’ll scare away investors’ line – a week after AWS opened a region The Asia Internet Coalition

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Critical WPML Plugin Flaw Exposes WordPress Sites to Remote Code Execution 2024-08-28 at 07:31 By A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the WPML WordPress multilingual plugin that could allow authenticated users to execute arbitrary code remotely under certain circumstances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-6386 (CVSS score: 9.9), impacts all versions of the plugin

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How IT leaders can balance software needs with limited budgets 2024-08-28 at 07:16 By IT budget constraints are here to stay; thankfully, IT leaders can balance software needs with limited budgets. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Chinese broadband satellites may be Beijing’s flying spying censors, think tank warns 2024-08-28 at 05:16 By Simon Sharwood Ground stations are the perfect place for the Great Firewall to block things China finds unpleasant The multiple constellations of broadband-beaming satellites planned by Chinese companies could conceivably run the nation’s “Great Firewall” content censorship system, according

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Copper’s reach is shrinking so Broadcom is strapping optics directly to GPUs 2024-08-28 at 03:46 By Tobias Mann What good is going fast if you can’t get past the next rack? In modern AI systems, using PCIe to stitch together accelerators is already too slow. Nvidia and AMD use specialized interconnects like NVLink and Infinity

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Facebook whistleblower calls for transparency in social media, AI 2024-08-28 at 02:46 By Thomas Claburn Frances Haugen says navigating the digital world requires a North Star Frances Haugen, a transparency and accountability advocate known for blowing the whistle on Facebook, believes the tech industry needs to find a North Star to navigate through ethical and

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Tenstorrent’s Blackhole chips boast 768 RISC-V cores and almost as many FLOPS 2024-08-28 at 00:46 By Tobias Mann Shove 32 of ’em in a box and you’ve got nearly 24 petaFLOPS of FP8 perf Hot Chips  RISC-V champion Tenstorrent offered the closest look yet at its upcoming Blackhole AI accelerators at Hot Chips this week,

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Intel’s Software Guard Extensions broken? Don’t panic 2024-08-27 at 23:16 By Iain Thomson More of a storm in a teacup Today’s news that Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX) security system is open to abuse may be overstated.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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A last look at the Living Computers museum before collection heads to auction 2024-08-27 at 22:31 By Richard Speed A guided tour of vintage hardware set to be scattered to the winds The Living Computers museum’s tech collection is set for auction. Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer took a last look and mused on the

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Google’s Irish bit barn plans denied over eco shortfall 2024-08-27 at 21:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo DCs on the Emerald Isle better be green, says Dublin council – unless your name is Microsoft Google’s plans to expand its Dublin datacenter presence have been derailed by Irish county officials who say the project isn’t sustainable enough. … This

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Broadcom boss Hock Tan says public cloud gave IT departments PTSD 2024-08-27 at 21:31 By Simon Sharwood While datacenter silos have left you ‘so screwed’ VMware Explore  Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has opened the VMware Explore conference by saying CEOs’ decisions to push their companies into public clouds have left their IT departments with post-traumatic

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Volt Typhoon suspected of exploiting Versa SD-WAN bug since June 2024-08-27 at 20:46 By Jessica Lyons The same Beijing-backed cyber spy crew the feds say burrowed into US critical infrastructure It looks like China’s Volt Typhoon has found a new way into American networks as Versa has disclosed a nation-state backed attacker has exploited a

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IBM reveals upcoming chips to power large-scale AI on next-gen big iron 2024-08-27 at 20:01 By Dan Robinson Telum II Processor and Spyre Accelerator set to boost performance and expand IO capacity IBM has unveiled a more powerful processor for its famed mainframe systems, promising enhanced on-chip AI acceleration for inferencing plus integrated data processing

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