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Linus Torvalds releases Linux 6.6 30/10/2023 at 07:48 By Simon Sharwood Removes references to the NSA, adds KSMBD in-kernel server SMB networking After a typically calm development process, Linus Torvalds has given the world a new cut of the Linux kernel – version 6.6 to be precise.… This article is an excerpt from The Register […]

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Hackers Using MSIX App Packages to Infect Windows PCs with GHOSTPULSE Maware 30/10/2023 at 07:47 By A new cyber attack campaign has been observed using spurious MSIX Windows app package files for popular software such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Grammarly, and Cisco Webex to distribute a novel malware loader dubbed GHOSTPULSE. “MSIX is a Windows app

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LockBit alleges it boarded Boeing, stole ‘sensitive data’ 30/10/2023 at 05:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo ALSO: CISA begs for a consistent budget, Las Vegas school breach; Nigeria arrests six cyber princes, the week’s critical vulnerabilities Security In Brief  Notorious ransomware gang LockBit has reportedly exfiltrated “a tremendous amount of sensitive data from aerospace outfit Boeing.… This

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Boffins find AI stumbles when quizzed on the tough stuff 29/10/2023 at 14:14 By Thomas Claburn Must try harder, D+ AI models can manage well enough when prompted with text or images, and may even solve complex problems when not making terrible errors.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React

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Sorry Pat, but it’s looking like Arm PCs are inevitable 28/10/2023 at 17:01 By Tobias Mann History suggests Arm’s place in the PC market will be anything but ‘insignificant’ Opinon  Pat Gelsinger may not be worried about Arm-compatible PCs eating into Intel’s profit margins, but, if recent history tells us anything, he probably should be.…

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Pope tempted by Python! Signs off on coding scheme for kids 28/10/2023 at 13:26 By Iain Thomson In the name of the firewall, the server, and the home page default, amen The Pope has given his blessing to a free online learning portal aimed at encouraging children to take up software development, while he administers

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Researchers Uncover Wiretapping of XMPP-Based Instant Messaging Service 28/10/2023 at 11:20 By New findings have shed light on what’s said to be a lawful attempt to covertly intercept traffic originating from jabber[.]ru (aka xmpp[.]ru), an XMPP-based instant messaging service, via servers hosted on Hetzner and Linode (a subsidiary of Akamai) in Germany. “The attacker has issued

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Apple Private Wi-Fi hasn’t worked for the past three years 28/10/2023 at 01:33 By Thomas Claburn Not exactly the MAC daddy Three years after Apple introduced a menu setting called Private Wi-Fi Address, a way to spoof network identifiers called MAC addresses, the privacy protection may finally work as advertised, thanks to a software fix.…

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Biden’s facing the clock to veto Apple Watch import ban after ITC patent ruling 28/10/2023 at 00:33 By Tobias Mann I’ll huff and I’ll puff and Masimo will blow your sales down The Apple Watch is once again facing a possible US import ban again after the International Trade Commission determined the wearable violated patents

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It took seven years but over-40s fired by HP win $18m settlement 27/10/2023 at 23:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo $15,000 per plaintiff, after lawyers’ fees. Justice is done! After over seven years of legal battles, a group of former HP employees who claim the venerable firm discriminated against older staff when culling jobs has won a

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Wayland heading for default status as Mint devs mix it into Cinnamon 6 bun 27/10/2023 at 22:37 By Liam Proven Plus Linux Mint 22 to be based on Ubuntu ‘Noble Numbat’ The creators of Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop are experimenting with the Wayland protocol – and so is the original developer of Xfce.…

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Daily malware activity doubled year over year for small businesses 27/10/2023 at 21:51 By Small business cybersecurity was analyzed in a recent Comcast report, finding that daily malware activity in 2023 roughly doubled since 2022. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Cruise blues: Robotaxi firm pauses all driverless operations 27/10/2023 at 21:39 By Brandon Vigliarolo Decision comes after CA revokes firm’s driverless license and NHTSA signal an investigation Robotaxi operator Cruise’s bad week just keeps getting worse: Now the GM-backed business has paused driverless operations across the entire fleet.… This article is an excerpt from The

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F5 hurriedly squashes BIG-IP remote code execution bug 27/10/2023 at 20:48 By Connor Jones Fixes came earlier than scheduled as vulnerability became known to outsiders F5 has issued a fix for a remote code execution (RCE) bug in its BIG-IP suite carrying a near-maximum severity score.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Russia hustles to fill impending void left by the ISS 27/10/2023 at 19:25 By Richard Speed First module of new space station to be launched in 2027 Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a project to build an Orbital Station following a meeting regarding the development of the country’s space industry.… This article is an

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The battle between open source and ‘sort of’ open source is as old as software 27/10/2023 at 18:33 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols There’s nothing new about HashiCorp leaving the principle behind Opinion  At the Linux Foundation Members Summit in Monterrey, California, topic number one was artificial intelligence and open source. Number two was about HashiCorp

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N. Korean Lazarus Group Targets Software Vendor Using Known Flaws 27/10/2023 at 18:33 By The North Korea-aligned Lazarus Group has been attributed as behind a new campaign in which an unnamed software vendor was compromised through the exploitation of known security flaws in another high-profile software. The attack sequences, according to Kaspersky, culminated in the deployment of

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Missouri school district announces data breach 27/10/2023 at 18:17 By Reeds Spring School District discovered in late September that threat actors had gained access to files between April 26, 2023 and May 18, 2023.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Tenfold electric vehicles on 2030 roads could be a shock to the system 27/10/2023 at 17:47 By Paul Kunert Robust policies for renewables needed to increase energy mix to nearly 50% There could be ten times the number of electric cars on the road by 2030 and stronger renewable energy policies are needed not just

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AWS CEO talks up AI to focus minds of Wall Street types 27/10/2023 at 17:21 By Paul Kunert Q3 sales below forecasts, profits up, and conversation centers on LLMs and GenAI Amazon’s cloud biz disappointed analysts with lower-than-expected sales as customers generally continue to look for ways to cut costs rather than spin up new

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