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Gawd, after that week, we wonder what’s next for China and the Western world 2024-05-18 at 15:46 By Iain Thomson For starters: Crypto, import tariffs, and Microsoft shipping out staff Kettle  It’s been a fairly troubling week in terms of the relationship between China and the Western world.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

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Gentoo and NetBSD ban ‘AI’ code, but Debian doesn’t – yet 2024-05-18 at 11:46 By Liam Proven The problem isn’t just that LLM-bot generated code is bad – it’s where it came from Comment  The Debian project has decided against joining Gentoo Linux and NetBSD in rejecting program code generated with the assistance of LLM

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How two brothers allegedly swiped $25M in a 12-second Ethereum heist 2024-05-18 at 09:31 By Matthew Connatser Feds scoff at blockchain integrity while software bug said to have been at heart of the matter The US Department of Justice has booked two brothers on allegations that they exploited open source software used in the Ethereum

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Aussie cops probe MediSecure’s ‘large-scale ransomware data breach’ 2024-05-18 at 02:46 By Jessica Lyons Throw another healthcare biz on the barby, mate Australian prescriptions provider MediSecure is the latest healthcare org to fall victim to a ransomware attack, with crooks apparently stealing patients’ personal and health data.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Leasing North American datacenters before they’re finished is so hot right now 2024-05-18 at 01:01 By Matthew Connatser Yup, demand’s that strong Since 2023, the leasing rate for datacenters in North America that haven’t even been fully built yet has shot up and now stands at 84 percent for the first quarter of this year.…

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Reddit goes AI agnostic, signs data training deal with OpenAI 2024-05-17 at 23:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Now Google and OpenAI can slurp up your precious memes and priceless comments Still upset that Reddit decided to sell all its content to Google for training its AI? Well, bad news: Now OpenAI has jumped into the mix

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Graph database shows Biden outspends Trump in social media ad war 2024-05-17 at 22:46 By Lindsay Clark But incumbent is mentioned a lot more in attack material Although Joe Biden spends more on Facebook and Instagram ads than Donald Trump, ads attacking the US president outnumber those attacking his likely rival in this year’s presidential

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Three arrested for helping North Koreans to secure remote IT jobs in US 2024-05-17 at 21:46 By Connor Jones Your local nail tech could be a secret agent for Kim’s cunning plan Three individuals accused of facilitating North Korea’s bid to fund its weapon program using US money are now in handcuffs.… This article is

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CoreWeave debt deal with investment firms raises $7.5B for AI datacenter startup 2024-05-17 at 20:46 By Matthew Connatser Funds to be used for purchasing servers and networking kit AI server startup CoreWeave has raised $7.5 billion in a debt deal from private equity companies Blackstone, BlackRock, and others.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Kinsing Hacker Group Exploits More Flaws to Expand Botnet for Cryptojacking 2024-05-17 at 20:31 By The cryptojacking group known as Kinsing has demonstrated its ability to continuously evolve and adapt, proving to be a persistent threat by swiftly integrating newly disclosed vulnerabilities to exploit arsenal and expand its botnet. The findings come from cloud security firm Aqua, which described

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Rosalind Franklin rover gets another shot at Mars after string of bad luck 2024-05-17 at 19:46 By Richard Speed Could 2030 bring touchdown at last? NASA and ESA have signed an agreement to finally send the long-delayed ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover to the Red Planet.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Cyber attribution: Do you really need to know? 2024-05-17 at 19:16 By Cyber attribution — finding exactly who perpetrated a given cyberattack — has seemingly become a cybersecurity goal in and of itself. But do organizations really need to know? This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

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Hugging Face to make $10M worth of old Nvidia GPUs freely available to AI devs 2024-05-17 at 18:46 By Tobias Mann You get a GPU, you get a GPU, everyone gets a ZeroGPU! Open source AI champion Hugging Face is making $10 million in GPU compute available to the public in a bid to ease

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UK competition regulator says Microsoft’s stake in Mistral is not a merger 2024-05-17 at 17:31 By Paul Kunert Drops official probe but Microsoft’s deal with Inflection AI and Amazon’s with Anthropic still in play Britain’s competition watchdog does not think Microsoft’s investment in Mistral AI constitutes a merger situation – just weeks after calling for

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Underwater datacenters could sink to sound wave sabotage 2024-05-17 at 16:46 By Dan Robinson Ensure there are no sperm whales in the area Underwater datacenters have yet to take off in any meaningful way, but it seems they could prove vulnerable to attack using sound waves, according to researchers.… This article is an excerpt from

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China-Linked Hackers Adopt Two-Stage Infection Tactic to Deploy Deuterbear RAT 2024-05-17 at 15:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed more light on a remote access trojan (RAT) known as Deuterbear used by the China-linked BlackTech hacking group as part of a cyber espionage campaign targeting the Asia-Pacific region this year. “Deuterbear, while similar to Waterbear in many ways,

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New XM Cyber Research: 80% of Exposures from Misconfigurations, Less Than 1% from CVEs 2024-05-17 at 15:46 By A new report from XM Cyber has found – among other insights – a dramatic gap between where most organizations focus their security efforts, and where the most serious threats actually reside. The new report, Navigating the Paths of Risk: The

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Apple geofences third-party browser engine work for EU devices 2024-05-17 at 15:32 By Thomas Claburn Rival coders must have EU staff to build and test non-WebKit surfing Apple’s grudging accommodation of European law – allowing third-party browser engines on its mobile devices – apparently comes with a restriction that makes it difficult to develop and

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To pay or not to pay? Negotiating in the age of ransomware 2024-05-17 at 15:17 By As with any cybersecurity incident, preparation is key — ransomware is no exception. In fact, an ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original

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First LockBit, now BreachForums: Are cops winning the war or just a few battles? 2024-05-17 at 14:46 By Jessica Lyons TLDR: Peace in our time is really really hard Interview  On Wednesday the FBI and international cops celebrated yet another cybercrime takedown – of ransomware brokerage site BreachForums – just a week after doxing and

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