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Dell customer order database of ’49M records’ stolen, now up for sale on dark web 2024-05-09 at 21:01 By Thomas Claburn IT giant tries to downplay leak as just names, addresses, info about kit Dell has confirmed information about its customers and their orders has been stolen from one of its portals. Though the thief […]

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Global attackers targeting US critical infrastructure should be ‘wake-up call’ 2024-05-09 at 21:01 By Jessica Lyons Having China, Russia, and Iran routinely rummaging around is cause for concern, says ex-NSA man RSAC  Digital intruders from China, Russia, and Iran breaking into US water systems this year should be a “wake-up call,” according to former National

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Brain-sensing threads slip from gray matter in first human Neuralink trial 2024-05-09 at 20:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Oh well – next! The first human to get a Neuralink implant may be doing fine now, but that’s after a good deal of work to address post-surgical trouble that saw its performance significantly degrade.… This article is

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Huawei’s latest smartphone features mostly made-in-China components 2024-05-09 at 19:18 By Matthew Connatser New-ish Kirin SoC performance doesn’t impress, however A teardown of Huawei’s Pura 70 Pro reveals that the China tech company’s latest smartphone is mostly made in China, with one notable exception.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Baidu’s PR head has a PR problem after workaholic social media posts 2024-05-09 at 18:46 By Laura Dobberstein Praising 996 culture is so Jack Ma 2019 The vice president and public relations head of Chinese search engine giant Baidu stirred up controversy this week by promoting workaholic behaviors on a personal social media account.… This

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Kremlin-Backed APT28 Targets Polish Institutions in Large-Scale Malware Campaign 2024-05-09 at 18:46 By Polish government institutions have been targeted as part of a large-scale malware campaign orchestrated by a Russia-linked nation-state actor called APT28. “The campaign sent emails with content intended to arouse the recipient’s interest and persuade him to click on the link,” the computer

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Wondering when AI will turn up at your work? Microsoft says look behind you 2024-05-09 at 18:01 By Richard Speed Research lands weeks after the Copilot company said it was still trying to convince customers of benefits Microsoft’s 2024 Work Trend Index makes grand claims about the benefits of AI, but might make disturbing reading

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Investment analyst accuses Palantir of AI washing 2024-05-09 at 17:17 By Lindsay Clark Stick to data pipelines and ontology, says expert after share price dip Spy-tech biz Palantir has overstated its claim to be a generative AI company, according to one investment analyst who thinks this might explain its recent slowdown in growth from commercial

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68 tech companies sign CISA’s secure by design pledge 2024-05-09 at 16:46 By Jessica Lyons Security’s an uphill battle… does this latest move have teeth? RSAC  Some of the biggest names in tech – including AWS, Microsoft, Google, Cisco and IBM – have signed up to a US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency-led effort and promised

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Flexing financial muscles, Arm aims to elbow into Windows PC market 2024-05-09 at 16:17 By Dan Robinson Despite record revenues, Wall Street doesn’t expect growth to last Chip designer Arm predicts that PCs based on its architecture will account for a significant share of the Windows market within three years as the company claims record

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VMware security advisories now behind bureaucratic Broadcom barricade 2024-05-09 at 15:33 By Connor Jones If it ain’t broke, make it less accessible Much to the chagrin of security pros, VMware security advisories are now only viewable if users sign up for a Broadcom Support account first.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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97% of organizations report difficulties with identity verification 2024-05-09 at 15:17 By A survey of 700 IT decision-makers reveals the state of identity fraud. Notably, almost all organizations face challenges with identity verification.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Hypothetical TSMC invasion ‘absolutely devastating’ says Raimondo 2024-05-09 at 15:01 By Laura Dobberstein No it’s not happened, but officials want readiness in the South China Sea The US Secretary of Commerce says it would be “absolutely devastating” if China seized Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and locked down the South China Sea.… This article is

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New Guide: How to Scale Your vCISO Services Profitably 2024-05-09 at 14:46 By Cybersecurity and compliance guidance are in high demand among SMEs. However, many of them cannot afford to hire a full-time CISO. A vCISO can answer this need by offering on-demand access to top-tier cybersecurity expertise. This is also an opportunity for MSPs and MSSPs to

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Mirai Botnet Exploits Ivanti Connect Secure Flaws for Malicious Payload Delivery 2024-05-09 at 14:46 By Two recently disclosed security flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) devices are being exploited to deploy the infamous Mirai botnet. That’s according to findings from Juniper Threat Labs, which said the vulnerabilities CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887 have been leveraged to deliver the botnet payload. While CVE-2023-46805

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UniSuper Google Cloud outage caused by an unfortunate series of events 2024-05-09 at 14:17 By Richard Speed Duplication across geographies no defense against the ‘one-of-a-kind’ accidental deletion Google’s Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has weighed in on the UniSuper fiasco and confirmed that UniSuper’s Private Cloud subscription was accidentally deleted.… This article is an excerpt from

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ML suggests all that relaxing whale song might just be human-esque gossiping 2024-05-09 at 13:31 By Matthew Connatser Now this is our kind of click bait A study into whale language using machine learning has uncovered a complex phonetic system, implying the cetaceans may speak to each other much like humans do.… This article is

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Experimental remix finally brings the former Unity 8 back to Ubuntu 2024-05-09 at 12:32 By Liam Proven Ubuntu Unity 24.04 arrives along with new little sibling, Ubuntu Lomiri Ubuntu Unity Noble Numbat is out, and alongside it, a very much not long-term-supported new variant of the distro: Ubuntu Lomiri.… This article is an excerpt from

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Oracle ULA audits are a license to bill 2024-05-09 at 11:46 By Lindsay Clark Customers can be pushed into renewing agreements for fear of the unknown, but there are cheaper options Oracle is threatening software audits as customers seek to exit Universal License Agreements (ULAs).… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Big brains divided over training AI with more AI: Is model collapse inevitable? 2024-05-09 at 10:31 By Thomas Claburn Gosh, here’s us thinking recursion was a solved problem AI model collapse – the degradation of quality expected from machine learning models that recursively train on their own output – is not inevitable, at least according

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