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Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors ‘unappointable’ 12/10/2023 at 12:33 By Lindsay Clark Mangled mismatch of formats, macros, and VLOOKUP practice hits wannabe anesthetists Exclusive  Computer errors, bad technology choices, and flawed processes have disrupted the recruitment of trainee anesthetists in England and Wales.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View […]

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Researchers Uncover Malware Posing as WordPress Caching Plugin 12/10/2023 at 12:16 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new sophisticated strain of malware that masquerades a WordPress plugin to stealthily create administrator accounts and remotely control a compromised site. “Complete with a professional looking opening comment implying it is a caching plugin, this rogue

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Brit competition regulator will make or break Vodafone and Three union 12/10/2023 at 11:32 By Paul Kunert Interested parties invited to speak now or forever hold your peace Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority is asking the mobile industry for feedback on Vodafone’s local merger with Three to determine if the agreement could negatively impact rivals,

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AI safety guardrails easily thwarted, security study finds 12/10/2023 at 10:32 By Thomas Claburn OpenAI GPT-3.5 Turbo chatbot defenses dissolve with ’20 cents’ of API tickling The “guardrails” created to prevent large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo from spewing toxic content have been shown to be very fragile.… This article is an

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Google’s third-party cookie culling to begin in Q1 2024 … for 1% of Chrome users 12/10/2023 at 09:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo And in full swing by next October Google has decided to kick third-party cookies out of its Chrome browser for one percent of users in early 2024, and to banish the web trackers entirely

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Researchers Uncover Ongoing Attacks Targeting Asian Governments and Telecom Giants 12/10/2023 at 09:31 By High-profile government and telecom entities in Asia have been targeted as part of an ongoing campaign since 2021 that’s designed to deploy basic backdoors and loaders for delivering next-stage malware. Cybersecurity company Check Point is tracking the activity under the name Stayin’

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EU consultation on future telecoms cools on having big tech pay for network builds 12/10/2023 at 08:47 By Simon Sharwood €1.5 trillion needed in the next five years – some to turf Huawei – and nobody’s quite sure where to find it The European Commission’s consultation on the future of the bloc’s telecoms sector has

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Two High-Risk Security Flaws Discovered in Curl Library – New Patches Released 12/10/2023 at 08:01 By Patches have been released for two security flaws impacting the Curl data transfer library, the most severe of which could potentially result in code execution. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2023-38545 (CVSS score: 7.5) – SOCKS5 heap-based buffer overflow

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Mars helicopter to try for new speed record on Thursday 12/10/2023 at 07:47 By Simon Sharwood 57 flights past expected lifetime and still improving NASA has scheduled the 62nd flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter and given it the job of achieving a new speed record for rotorcraft on Mars.… This article is an excerpt

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Security career competition from the public sector 12/10/2023 at 07:16 By Security job openings attract competition from private sector and public sector candidates. What qualities make a successful security leader? This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Giving up the ghost in security job searches 12/10/2023 at 07:16 By Don’t get “ghosted” — being communicative during the job search process is critical for both the security job seeker and the hiring organization. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Gulf states and ‘The Stans’ could become new tech hotspot: analyst 12/10/2023 at 07:02 By Simon Sharwood One has the talent, one has the money – both want more tech The gulf states and former Soviet nations of central Asia are set to become a new hub of tech activity, according to Anatoly Motkin, president

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Casino giant Caesars tells thousands: Yup, ransomware crooks stole your data 12/10/2023 at 04:17 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle House always wins, er, wait … As more details emerge from September’s Las Vegas casino cyberattacks, Caesars Entertainment – the owner of Caesars Palace – has disclosed more than 41,000 Maine residents alone had their info stolen

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Bennu unboxing shows ancient asteroid holds carbon and water 12/10/2023 at 03:32 By Katyanna Quach Just some building blocks for life – in a few billion years, who knows what could develop? Initial analyses of samples collected from the surface of Bennu reveal the ancient asteroid contains water and carbon-based molecules, vital materials needed to

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Hell no, we won’t pay, says Microsoft as Uncle Sam sends $29B bill for back taxes 12/10/2023 at 02:17 By Simon Sharwood Says it has enough cash to foot the demand Microsoft today revealed the IRS last month sent the Windows maker a bill for $28.9 billion in back taxes – and has vowed to

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Latest SiFive RISC-V cores aim to boost performance, accelerate AI workloads 12/10/2023 at 00:47 By Tobias Mann Those are some fat vector registers SiFive today launched a pair of RISC-V CPU cores aimed at high-performance and AI/ML applications.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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California’s Governor Newsom signs laws on right to repair and data deletion 12/10/2023 at 00:02 By Thomas Claburn ‘Digital emancipation proclamation’ praised by tech tinkerers, but info brokers aren’t happy On Tuesday, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom signed two law bills that give people more control over their devices and their data, the Right to Repair

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Delays to NASA’s in-orbit satellite refueling robot to push costs over $2B target 11/10/2023 at 23:19 By Brandon Vigliarolo Contractor blamed by watchdog for late SPIDER arm work A NASA plan to robotically repair and refuel satellites in orbit is way behind schedule and well over budget, says NASA’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG),

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US Navy sailor admits selling secret military blueprints to China for $15K 11/10/2023 at 22:48 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Worth it for 20 years behind bars? A US Navy service member pleaded guilty yesterday to receiving thousands of dollars in bribes from a Chinese spymaster in exchange for passing on American military secrets.… This article

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First half of 2023 sees more ransomware victims than all of 2022 11/10/2023 at 22:47 By A recent Deep Instinct report found that more victims were affected by ransomware in the first half of 2023 than in the entirety of 2022.   This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View

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