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We challenged you to come up with tech predictions for 2024 (wrong answers only) – here are some favorites so far 30/11/2023 at 11:47 By Chris Williams Plus some of our own and the ugly Microsoft sweater one of you will win. Please take it off our hands… Kettle  The other day we challenged our […]

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Honda cooks up an electric motorbike menu, with sides of connectivity 30/11/2023 at 11:18 By Laura Dobberstein Plans buffet of components you can assemble into a dream machine Honda has updated its plan to electrify its motorcycle range, creating modular components that can be assembled into customized motorcycles – most with advanced connectivity features.… This

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Weak session keys let snoops take a byte out of your Bluetooth traffic 30/11/2023 at 10:48 By Thomas Claburn BLUFFS spying flaw present in iPhones, ThinkPad, plenty of chipsets Multiple Bluetooth chips from major vendors such as Qualcomm, Broadcom, Intel, and Apple are vulnerable to a pair of security flaws that allow a nearby miscreant

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AI offers some novel crystal materials that could form future chips, batteries, more 30/11/2023 at 09:47 By Katyanna Quach What’s more, a robot managed to cook some of them up. So, y’know, it might not be entirely science fiction Google DeepMind says it has developed an AI model capable of predicting millions of inorganic crystal

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U.S. Treasury Sanctions Sinbad Cryptocurrency Mixer Used by North Korean Hackers 30/11/2023 at 09:47 By The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday imposed sanctions against Sinbad, a virtual currency mixer that has been put to use by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group to launder ill-gotten proceeds. “Sinbad has processed millions of dollars’ worth of virtual currency from Lazarus Group

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OpenAI makes it official: Sam Altman is back as CEO 30/11/2023 at 09:02 By Simon Sharwood Microsoft joins the board in non-voting role OpenAI has made the return of Sam Altman as its CEO official.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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NASA tech reveals he crashed Spirit Mars rover two weeks before vital deadline 30/11/2023 at 07:48 By Simon Sharwood ‘A large pulse of electricity had gone somewhere other than intended, and telemetry stopped coming from the spacecraft’ Astrofuturist and former NASA tech Chris Lewicki has revealed he crashed the Spirit Mars rover, and feared he

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China’s Loongson debuts processor that ‘matches Intel silicon circa 2020’ 30/11/2023 at 06:32 By Simon Sharwood Best not to dismiss it, as Asus looks to be onboard and advances are promised Chinese chip houses Loongson and CXMT have debuted products that demonstrate the Middle Kingdom’s increasingly sophisticated semiconductor scene, and an interest for such efforts

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US lawmakers have Chinese LiDAR on their threat-detection radar 30/11/2023 at 05:33 By Laura Dobberstein Amid fears Beijing could harvest spatial data, letter suggests Huawei-style bans may be needed A US congressional committee has questioned whether Chinese-made Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) devices might have a negative impact on national security, and suggested they may

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Rogue ex-Motorola techie admits cyberattack on former employer, passport fraud 30/11/2023 at 04:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Pro tip: Don’t use your new work email to phish your old firm An ex-Motorola technician in the US has admitted he tried to fraudulently obtain a passport while awaiting trial for a cyberattack on his former employer.…

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Meta yanks VR headset’s strap-on booster battery after charging bricks it 30/11/2023 at 03:33 By Tobias Mann A misbehaving Li-ion on your noggin – what could possibly go wrong? Meta has paused shipments of the wearable battery-slash-head strap accessory for its Quest 3 VR goggles amid reports the device bricks itself when charged.… This article

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Meta: If you’re in our house running AI-massaged political ads, you need to ‘fess up 30/11/2023 at 02:19 By Katyanna Quach Vows to protect two billion voters, but US gets more protection than India, Indonesia, Mexico, EU Meta will require advertisers to disclose whether their political ads on its platforms contain any AI-generated or digitally

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Goldman sacked: Apple ‘wants out’ of credit card collab 30/11/2023 at 01:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Don’t be too shocked: Financial giant has been fleeing normie banking lately after failing to find footing The future of Apple’s credit card offering has been thrown into limbo, as the iPhone giant apparently wants out of its collaboration with

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Car dealers openly beg Biden to put brakes on electric vehicle drive 30/11/2023 at 01:03 By Brandon Vigliarolo No one’s buying these things. Just, uh, ignore the massive markups Nearly 4,000 US auto dealers have signed an open letter urging the Biden administration to slow its plan to push electric vehicles (EVs) onto the populace

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Uncle Sam probes cyberattack on Pennsylvania water system by suspected Iranian crew 30/11/2023 at 00:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle CISA calls for stronger IT defenses as Texas district also hit by ransomware crew CISA is investigating a cyberattack against a Pennsylvania water authority that has been linked to what are suspected to be Iranian miscreants.

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56% of companies educate workers on AI risks 30/11/2023 at 00:02 By According to a Kolide report on AI, there is a significant gap between the percentage of employees allowed to use AI and those who actually use it. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React

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Time to take action: Google’s inactive account purge begins Friday 29/11/2023 at 22:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo You should’ve received an email if you’re affected, but here’s a reminder just in case Consider this your final warning: Google is going to start wiping inactive accounts on Friday, December 1. … This article is an excerpt from The

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Dragonfly delayed – formal confirmation of journey to Saturn’s moon slips into 2024 29/11/2023 at 21:47 By Richard Speed Titan trip postponed while NASA awaits the FY 2025 budget request The future of NASA’s Dragonfly trip to Saturn’s moon Titan is looking uncertain after the agency gave the go-ahead for work to proceed on the

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Over 25% of organizations’ physical security setups are in the cloud 29/11/2023 at 21:46 By According to a recent physical security report, 44% of security leaders have more than 25% of their physical security setups are in the cloud. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React

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IBM’s vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS’s cloud bandwagon 29/11/2023 at 21:02 By Lindsay Clark Users on the mainframe will have to wait for their system to become available in the cloud service, though Cloud giant AWS has announced the inclusion of IBM’s Db2 database — among the first relational databases on the market —

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