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California governor goes on AI law signing spree, but demurs on the big one

California governor goes on AI law signing spree, but demurs on the big one 2024-09-18 at 18:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Newsom still worried about SB 1047’s ‘chilling effect’ on AI industry tax dollar revenue innovation in California California Governor Gavin Newsom signed five AI-related bills into law this week, but a pivotal one remains unsigned,

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Chinese Engineer Charged in U.S. for Years-Long Cyber Espionage Targeting NASA and Military

Chinese Engineer Charged in U.S. for Years-Long Cyber Espionage Targeting NASA and Military 2024-09-18 at 18:01 By A Chinese national has been indicted in the U.S. on charges of conducting a “multi-year” spear-phishing campaign to obtain unauthorized access to computer software and source code created by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), research universities,

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Microsoft unveils Office LTSC 2024 for users that remain stubbornly offline

Microsoft unveils Office LTSC 2024 for users that remain stubbornly offline 2024-09-18 at 17:47 By Richard Speed What do you mean you don’t want Copilot and Microsoft 365 services? Microsoft has released what could be the penultimate perpetual licensed version of Office.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to

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Intuitive Machines shoots for the Moon with NASA’s $4.82B lunar relay jackpot

Intuitive Machines shoots for the Moon with NASA’s $4.82B lunar relay jackpot 2024-09-18 at 17:02 By Richard Speed Surely at least one crew will get there in the next ten years? Intuitive Machines has bagged a contract worth up to $4.82 billion to support NASA’s lunar relay systems.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Microsoft, BlackRock form fund to sink up to $100B into AI infrastructure

Microsoft, BlackRock form fund to sink up to $100B into AI infrastructure 2024-09-18 at 16:46 By Dan Robinson Tech is going to need datacenters and power sources, and a lot of ’em Microsoft is joining with BlackRock and other private equity investors in a new AI fund that aims to eventually raise $100 billion for

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Cops across the world arrest 51 in orchestrated takedown of Ghost crime platform

Cops across the world arrest 51 in orchestrated takedown of Ghost crime platform 2024-09-18 at 15:31 By Connor Jones Italian mafia mobsters and Irish crime families scuppered by international cops Hours after confirming they had pwned the supposedly uncrackable encrypted messaging platform used for all manner of organized crime, Ghost, cops have now named the

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Claims of hacked voter data aims to cause distrust in elections

Claims of hacked voter data aims to cause distrust in elections 2024-09-18 at 15:16 By Claims of hacked voter data are intended to cause distrust in the election process, the FBI and CISA warn.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, and going gray

Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, and going gray 2024-09-18 at 14:46 By Thomas Claburn AI-coded contributions? Most would rather skip the bot’s work The majority of open source project maintainers are not being paid for their work, spend three times as much time on security than they did three years ago, and have

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Why Pay A Pentester?

Why Pay A Pentester? 2024-09-18 at 14:46 By The evolution of software always catches us by surprise. I remember betting against the IBM computer Deep Blue during its chess match against the grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997, only to be stunned when the machine claimed victory. Fast forward to today, would we have imagined just

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UK pensions department’s project to unite government ERP systems comes to £1.9B

UK pensions department’s project to unite government ERP systems comes to £1.9B 2024-09-18 at 14:16 By Lindsay Clark Four branches attempt to streamline HR and business processes The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is leading a £958.7 million ($1.2 billion) search for a supplier to develop business processes for new ERP and HR

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North Korean Hackers Target Energy and Aerospace Industries with New MISTPEN Malware

North Korean Hackers Target Energy and Aerospace Industries with New MISTPEN Malware 2024-09-18 at 14:01 By A North Korea-linked cyber-espionage group has been observed leveraging job-themed phishing lures to target prospective victims in energy and aerospace verticals and infect them with a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed MISTPEN. The activity cluster is being tracked by Google-owned

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Cloud giants point the finger at each other during regulator hearings

Cloud giants point the finger at each other during regulator hearings 2024-09-18 at 13:16 By Dan Robinson Those are some mighty powerful underdogs you’ve got there Google thinks Microsoft’s software licensing is impeding customer choice; Microsoft says AWS has “first mover” advantage; AWS also picks on Microsoft’s licensing – but all are against remedies being

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Despite Russia warnings, Western critical infrastructure remains unprepared

Despite Russia warnings, Western critical infrastructure remains unprepared 2024-09-18 at 12:32 By Jessica Lyons ‘Lives will be lost’ as Moscow ramps up offensive cyber military units Feature  As Russian special forces push more overtly into online operations, network defenders should be on the hunt for digital intruders looking to carry out cyberattacks that end in

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Chrome Introduces One-Time Permissions and Enhanced Safety Check for Safer Browsing

Chrome Introduces One-Time Permissions and Enhanced Safety Check for Safer Browsing 2024-09-18 at 12:16 By Google has announced that it’s rolling out a new set of features to its Chrome browser that gives users more control over their data when surfing the internet and protects against online threats. “With the newest version of Chrome, you

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The case for handcrafted software in a mass-produced world

The case for handcrafted software in a mass-produced world 2024-09-18 at 11:47 By Liam Proven As AI automates programming, it could be worth exploring the value of bespoke code Part 2  A thought experiment: If the computer business responds to commoditization and globalization like other manufacturing industries do, where does that leave programmers – and

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Python in Excel goes live – but only for certain Windows users

Python in Excel goes live – but only for certain Windows users 2024-09-18 at 10:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Mac and Android loyals: you can look, but no calculation for now Office power users, rejoice: Python in Excel is now generally available – provided you have the right license and machine. … This article is an excerpt

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GSMA Plans End-to-End Encryption for Cross-Platform RCS Messaging

GSMA Plans End-to-End Encryption for Cross-Platform RCS Messaging 2024-09-18 at 10:01 By The GSM Association, the governing body that oversees the development of the Rich Communications Services (RCS) protocol, on Tuesday, said it’s working towards implementing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to secure messages sent between the Android and iOS ecosystems. “The next major milestone is for

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New RFC explains how protocol developers can avoid building human rights abuses into the internet

New RFC explains how protocol developers can avoid building human rights abuses into the internet 2024-09-18 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Something tells us Vlad and Xi probably won’t bother reading it The Internet Research Task Force has published a Request For Comments document its authors hope will mean developers of comms protocols and architectures

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China’s tech giants buy into Indonesia – just like US tech giants did in India

China’s tech giants buy into Indonesia – just like US tech giants did in India 2024-09-18 at 09:03 By Laura Dobberstein GoTo commits to the Alibaba Cloud, and Alibaba promises not to sell its stake Chinese tech giant Alibaba showed it’s not just Meta, Google and Amazon that can use their financial heft to buy

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