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Bugging out: 53 years since humans first drove a battery-powered car on the Moon 2024-08-03 at 22:16 By Richard Speed And you thought you had range anxiety Feature  Electric vehicles have generated plenty of discussion over the last decade or so. However, it was 53 years ago this week that one of the battery-powered machines […]

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DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course 2024-08-03 at 13:16 By Thomas Claburn Now that’s a TRACTOR pull request To accelerate the transition to memory safe programming languages, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is driving the development of TRACTOR, a programmatic code conversion vehicle.… This

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DOJ and FTC Sue TikTok for Violating Children’s Privacy Laws 2024-08-03 at 13:16 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), along with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), filed a lawsuit against popular video-sharing platform TikTok for “flagrantly violating” children’s privacy laws in the country. The agencies claimed the company knowingly permitted children to create TikTok

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Hackers Exploit Misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks with Repurposed Minecraft DDoS Tool 2024-08-03 at 08:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack campaign targeting misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks. The activity, codenamed Panamorfi by cloud security firm Aqua, utilizes a Java-based tool called mineping to launch a TCP flood DDoS attack. Mineping is

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San Francisco set to ban rent-hiking software algorithms 2024-08-03 at 01:02 By Thomas Claburn Automated price-fixing screwing over tenants? Fog off! The San Francisco Board of Supervisors this week approved a ban on algorithmic price setting in the rental housing market, a measure targeting real estate management software from the likes of RealPage and Yardi

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Intel tacks two years onto Raptor Lake CPU warranty after voltage crash fiasco 2024-08-02 at 23:17 By Matthew Connatser It’s starting to sink in for Chipzilla that it’s losing some credibility Owners of Intel’s 13th and 14th Gen Core desktop processors are set to get an extra two years of warranty coverage.… This article is

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Say ‘ahhhh’ – AI robots are now gunning for your gums 2024-08-02 at 23:04 By Richard Currie Perceptive turns its automated dental dynamo on humans, and Zuck’s dad thinks it’s great Those with a fear of the dentist’s chair should probably look away now because one day a robot might be doing the job –

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Uncle Sam sues TikTok, accuses vid app of trashing millions of kids’ privacy 2024-08-02 at 22:17 By Chris Williams Remember that promise to be nice? You broke it, say prosecutors The US government is suing TikTok, claiming the mega-popular app broke the law by playing fast and loose with millions of kids’ privacy.… This article

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Microsoft’s results are in, but the E7 subscription remains mythical. For now 2024-08-02 at 21:16 By Richard Speed Does the Windows giant’s love of 365 add-ons spell doom for a super premium tier? Comment  The guessing game over when and if Microsoft might add an E7 tier to its Microsoft 365 lineup continues following the

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Israeli hacktivist group brags it took down Iran’s internet 2024-08-02 at 19:47 By Matthew Connatser WeRedEvils alleges successful attack on infrastructure, including data theft Israel-based hacktivists are taking credit for an ongoing internet outage in Iran.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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APT41 Hackers Use ShadowPad, Cobalt Strike in Taiwanese Institute Cyber Attack 2024-08-02 at 19:46 By A Taiwanese government-affiliated research institute that specializes in computing and associated technologies was breached by nation-state threat actors with ties to China, according to new findings from Cisco Talos. The unnamed organization was targeted as early as mid-July 2023 to

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APT28 Targets Diplomats with HeadLace Malware via Car Sale Phishing Lure 2024-08-02 at 19:46 By A Russia-linked threat actor has been linked to a new campaign that employed a car for sale as a phishing lure to deliver a modular Windows backdoor called HeadLace. “The campaign likely targeted diplomats and began as early as March

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Security leaders respond to HealthEquity data breach 2024-08-02 at 19:16 By 4.3 million individuals were impacted by a HealthEquity data breach, and security leaders are sharing their insights.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Boeing’s Starliner proves better at torching cash than reaching orbit 2024-08-02 at 18:16 By Richard Speed Perhaps those thrusters actually burn dollars after all Lurking in Boeing’s woeful Q2 financials is an admission that while its Starliner spacecraft might be struggling when it comes to burning fuel, it has no problem whatsoever setting fire to

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Breaking the economy of trust: How busts affect malware gangs 2024-08-02 at 17:47 By Brandon Vigliarolo It’s hard to track down individuals, so why not disrupt the underground market itself? Feature  Some of the world’s most notorious ransomware and malware-as-a-service (RaaS/MaaS) operators have shut up shop in the past 12 months thanks to international law

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Azure Linux 3 hits general availability – but don’t expect any frills 2024-08-02 at 16:48 By Richard Speed Microsoft’s distribution gets a new LTS kernel With impeccable timing considering recent Windows issues, Microsoft has made Azure Linux 3.0 generally available. It includes an update to the Linux kernel and new versions of various packages.… This

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