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Hugely expanded Section 702 surveillance powers set for US Senate vote 2024-04-18 at 03:01 By Jessica Lyons Opponents warn almost anyone could be asked to share info with Uncle Sam On Thursday the US Senate is expected to reauthorize the contentious warrantless surveillance powers conferred by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), […]

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Snowmobile, Amazon’s truck-powered migration service, reaches the end of the road 2024-04-18 at 02:17 By Tobias Mann Demand for bulk storage on wheels turned out to be wan Amazon Web Services is abandoning its fleet of Snowmobile data haulers, the trucks packed with petabytes of spinning disks designed to get large enterprises into the cloud.…

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Uncle Sam earmarks $54M of CHIPS funding for small-biz semiconductor boffinry 2024-04-18 at 01:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo Up to 24 outfits to bag taxpayer cash for projects ‘developing a viable product or service’ for US chip industry Small businesses wishing they could get their hands on some of those billions of dollars in semiconductor funding

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Psst, hey. It’s the NSA. You want some AI security advice? 2024-04-18 at 00:46 By Thomas Claburn You can trust us, we’re the good guys The NSA has released guidance to help organizations protect their AI systems and better defend the defense industry.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React

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America may end up with paid-for 5G fast lanes under net neutrality anyway 2024-04-18 at 00:16 By Dan Robinson Damn you, network virtualization A law professor is warning a proposed reintroduction net neutrality in the US will allow cellular networks to create “fast lanes” for some applications, and that this undermines the entire net neutrality

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ASML ships another high NA EUV lithography machine to mystery client 2024-04-17 at 23:31 By Matthew Connatser The cutting-edge chipmaking tool for a secret customer Dutch semiconductor toolmaker ASML has shipped its second-ever high numerical aperture (NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine to an undisclosed customer.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Kremlin’s Sandworm blamed for cyberattacks on US, European water utilities 2024-04-17 at 23:01 By Jessica Lyons Water tank overflowed during one system malfunction, says Mandiant The Russian military’s notorious Sandworm crew was likely behind cyberattacks on US and European water plants that, in at least one case, caused a tank to overflow.… This article is

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Boston Dynamics’ humanoid Atlas is dead, long live the … new commercial Atlas 2024-04-17 at 22:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo If the plan was to make this all-electric droid look mildly terrifying, mission accomplished Video  Atlas, the humanoid robot that’s been a centerpiece of Boston Dynamics’ robot lineup for nearly a decade, has been retired. In

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Are we in a cost of technology crisis? Our vultures seem to think so 2024-04-17 at 22:01 By Iain Thomson Won’t somebody please think of the shareholders Kettle  The price of everything is going up because corporations gotta corp and produce record profits year after year. That means you and I are expected to cough

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Future Roku TVs may inject tailored ads into anything and everything when you pause 2024-04-17 at 21:16 By Matthew Connatser Muted the audio? That’s an advert. Paused a video? That’s an advert Roku TVs of the future may throw up targeted ads on the screen whenever you pause a video.… This article is an excerpt

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NASA confirms nuclear powered Dragonfly drone is going to Titan 2024-04-17 at 20:32 By Richard Speed Whew! Relief for boffins as rotorcraft slated to arrive at Saturn moon in 2034 NASA has finally confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission will be heading to Titan, one of Saturn’s Moons, meaning the team behind the project can finalize

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Tesla asks shareholders to reinstate Musk’s voided $56B pay package 2024-04-17 at 20:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo Given the electric car maker’s annus horribilis so far in 2024, does the chief even deserve it? A Delaware court may have voided Elon Musk’s $56 billion Tesla pay package in February, but now the board is asking shareholders

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Sandia National Lab takes delivery of Intel’s latest brain in a box 2024-04-17 at 19:16 By Tobias Mann Hala Point system crams more than a thousand neurochips into a 6U chassis to tackle real-time AI Intel Labs revealed its largest neuromorphic computer on Wednesday, a 1.15 billion neuron system, which it says is roughly analogous

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Samsung boosts LPDDR5X to 10.7 Gbps, ups efficiency and capacity for mobile and servers 2024-04-17 at 18:47 By Matthew Connatser Guess what it’s great for? Go on, have a guess… 20 points if you muttered an abbreviation starting with A and ending in I Samsung has revealed its upgraded LPDDR5X memory modules, which features improved

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Crypto conferences liquidated after biblical flooding in Dubai 2024-04-17 at 18:17 By Richard Currie There’s something nice about seeing Web3 fanatics in ankle-deep water And the Lord looked down upon the crypto bros and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will send down upon thee a flood to wash out

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AlmaLinux 9.4 beta prepares to tread where RHEL dares not 2024-04-17 at 17:46 By Liam Proven CIQ also has an alternative approach to compatible kernels with RockyLinux The bigger RHELatives continue to diverge slightly from Red Hat, with additional drivers and newer kernel versions.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Whistleblower cries foul over alleged fuselage gaps in Boeing 787 Dreamliner 2024-04-17 at 17:16 By Richard Speed Company rejects claims as ‘inaccurate’ A Boeing whistleblower has called for the embattled aircraft manufacturer’s fleet of 787s to be grounded for gap checks.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this

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Russian APT Deploys New ‘Kapeka’ Backdoor in Eastern European Attacks 2024-04-17 at 17:01 By A previously undocumented “flexible” backdoor called Kapeka has been “sporadically” observed in cyber attacks targeting Eastern Europe, including Estonia and Ukraine, since at least mid-2022. The findings come from Finnish cybersecurity firm WithSecure, which attributed the malware to the Russia-linked advanced persistent threat

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Exploit code for Palo Alto Networks zero-day now public 2024-04-17 at 16:31 By Connor Jones Race on to patch as researchers warn of mass exploitation of directory traversal bug Various infosec researchers have released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for the maximum-severity vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS used in GlobalProtect gateways.… This article is an excerpt

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ASML profits plunge 40% amid dip in chipmaking tool orders 2024-04-17 at 16:16 By Dan Robinson Except in China, where customers accounted for almost half of the photolithography giant’s top line Chipmaking kit maestro ASML generated almost half of its sales from China in calendar Q1, amid a wider downturn in orders and plunging profits.…

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