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Huawei’s latest flagship smartphone contains no world-shaking silicon surprises 2024-04-19 at 09:16 By Simon Sharwood Kirin 9010 SoC powering the Pura 70 is impressive, but doesn’t indicate unforeseen prowess When Huawei debuted its Mate 60 smartphone in mid-2023, it turned heads around the world after teardown artists found it contained a system-on-chip manufactured by Chinese […]

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Oracle scores big win with Fujitsu Japan for its Alloy partner cloud 2024-04-19 at 08:01 By Simon Sharwood But Big Red’s $8 billion investment plan may not be all it seems Oracle has had a big win in Japan that could turn into something enormous, and also revealed plans to score more success in the

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Meta lets Llama 3 LLM out to graze, claims it can give Google and Anthropic a kicking 2024-04-19 at 04:01 By Tobias Mann Plans multilingual 400 billion parameter version, but starts with more modest fare Meta has unleashed its latest large language model (LLM) – named Llama 3 – and claims it will challenge much

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US Air Force says AI-controlled F-16 fighter jet has been dogfighting with humans 2024-04-19 at 03:01 By Thomas Claburn Robo-plane was made to restrain itself so as not to harm pilot or airframe Video  The US Air Force Test Pilot School and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) claim to have achieved a breakthrough

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Ransomware feared as IT ‘issues’ force Octapharma Plasma to close 150+ centers 2024-04-19 at 01:31 By Jessica Lyons Source blames BlackSuit infection – as ISP Frontier confirms cyberattack Octapharma Plasma has blamed IT “network issues” for the ongoing closure of its 150-plus centers across the US. It’s feared a ransomware infection may be the root

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Crooks exploit OpenMetadata holes to mine crypto – and leave a sob story for victims 2024-04-19 at 01:01 By Jessica Lyons ‘I want to buy a car. That’s all’ Crooks are exploiting month-old OpenMetadata vulnerabilities in Kubernetes environments to mine cryptocurrency using victims’ resources, according to Microsoft.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Stability AI decimates staff just weeks after CEO’s exit 2024-04-19 at 00:02 By Tobias Mann More like Instability AI, right kids? Stability AI is laying off staff in its search of steadier footing following the sudden departure of its CEO late last month.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React

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IBM accused of cheating its own executive assistants out of overtime pay 2024-04-18 at 23:32 By Thomas Claburn Big Blue bosses retaliate against those seeking overtime, lawsuit claims IBM has been accused of cheating its executive assistants by denying them overtime pay and meal breaks and retaliating against them for accurately reporting their working hours.…

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Google fires 28 staff after sit-in protest against Israeli cloud deal ends in arrests 2024-04-18 at 22:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Alphabet Workers Union says bosses refuse to listen to concerns Google has fired more than two dozen employees after they staged sit-ins at the web giant’s offices in protest of its cloud contract with the

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Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students 2024-04-18 at 21:47 By Matthew Connatser Do not pass go, do not collect $200, says government agency The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has slapped coding boot camp BloomTech with several punishments for alleged deceptive business practices.… This article is an excerpt

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Microsoft aims to triple datacenter capacity to fuel AI boom 2024-04-18 at 21:32 By Dan Robinson And it’s far from the only hyperscaler getting in on the act Microsoft is looking to significantly expand datacenter space to service expected AI demand, tripling the rate at which it adds capacity early in its next financial year.

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House passes bill banning Uncle Sam from snooping on citizens via data brokers 2024-04-18 at 20:46 By Connor Jones Vote met strong opposition from Biden’s office A draft law to restrict the US government’s ability to procure data on citizens through data brokers will progress to the Senate after being passed in the House of

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October 2025 will be a support massacre for a bunch of Microsoft products 2024-04-18 at 20:02 By Richard Speed Not just Windows 10. Don’t forget about Exchange Server, Skype for Business, and all those Office installations Windows 10 isn’t the only Microsoft product due for the chop next year – end of support also beckons

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Korean researcher details scheme abusing Apple’s third-party pickup policy 2024-04-18 at 19:16 By Laura Dobberstein Criminals make lucrative use of stolen credit cards Speaking at Black Hat Asia on Thursday, a Korean researcher revealed how the discovery of one phishing website led to uncovering an operation whose activities leveraged second-hand shops and included using Apple’s

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911 goes MIA across multiple US states, cause unclear 2024-04-18 at 18:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo Some say various cell services were out, others still say landlines were affected. What just happened? Widespread 911 outages in the US appear to have mostly been resolved, but that doesn’t mean the cause is clear.… This article is an

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TSMC expects customers to pay more for chips fabbed overseas 2024-04-18 at 18:17 By Matthew Connatser It’ll be pricier, but there are geopolitical benefits, says CEO TSMC boss C C Wei says customers who want to fabricate in the chip giant’s non-Taiwan facilities will need share the cost by paying more.… This article is an

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The mathematics of Bitcoin halvings: Cracking the equations and formulas 2024-04-18 at 18:01 By Cointelegraph by Onkar Singh The Bitcoin halving is a fascinating interplay of code and economics. Explore how these events control Bitcoin’s supply, inflation and long-term appeal. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

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OfflRouter Malware Evades Detection in Ukraine for Almost a Decade 2024-04-18 at 18:01 By Select Ukrainian government networks have remained infected with a malware called OfflRouter since 2015. Cisco Talos said its findings are based on an analysis of over 100 confidential documents that were infected with the VBA macro virus and uploaded to the

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NASA will send astronauts to patch up leaky ISS telescope 2024-04-18 at 17:46 By Richard Speed Thermal shield damage is screwing with daytime observations of X-ray bursts NASA is sending astronauts out to fix an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station (ISS) after the instrument developed a “light leak.”… This article is an excerpt

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FIN7 Cybercrime Group Targeting U.S. Auto Industry with Carbanak Backdoor 2024-04-18 at 17:16 By The infamous cybercrime syndicate known as FIN7 has been linked to a spear-phishing campaign targeting the U.S. automotive industry to deliver a known backdoor called Carbanak (aka Anunak). “FIN7 identified employees at the company who worked in the IT department and

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