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Palantir boss says company’s software the only reason the ‘goose step’ has not returned to Europe 2024-02-28 at 13:16 By Lindsay Clark Motor-mouth CEO Alex Karp claims Palantir stopped ‘innumerable’ terror attacks in Europe The CEO of controversial data-mining firm Palantir has claimed that the company’s technology has prevented terrorist attacks in Europe, thereby implicitly […]

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Superusers Need Super Protection: How to Bridge Privileged Access Management and Identity Management 2024-02-28 at 12:48 By Traditional perimeter-based security has become costly and ineffective. As a result, communications security between people, systems, and networks is more important than blocking access with firewalls. On top of that, most cybersecurity risks are caused by just a few

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Uncle Sam tells nosy nations to keep their hands off Americans’ personal data 2024-02-28 at 12:33 By Jessica Lyons Biden readies executive order targeting China, Russia, and pals US President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order today that aims to prevent the sale or transfer of Americans’ sensitive personal information and government-related

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Plans to heat districts with datacenters may prove too hot to handle 2024-02-28 at 11:41 By Dan Robinson Report points out the difficulties of getting such a system right Using waste heat from datacenters for district heating makes sense from an environmental standpoint, yet there are implementation challenges and potential pitfalls introduced with any government

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Europe probes Microsoft’s €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral 2024-02-28 at 10:47 By Katyanna Quach Cash-for-Azure-access deal went through just as latest LLM landed The European Commission is investigating Microsoft’s €15 million ($16.3 million) investment in French startup Mistral, which came just after the latter released a large language model to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.…

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TimbreStealer Malware Spreading via Tax-themed Phishing Scam Targets IT Users 2024-02-28 at 10:30 By Mexican users have been targeted with tax-themed phishing lures at least since November 2023 to distribute a previously undocumented Windows malware called TimbreStealer. Cisco Talos, which discovered the activity, described the authors as skilled and that the “threat actor has previously used similar tactics,

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Nvidia lures autonomous car boss from China’s Baidu 2024-02-28 at 09:31 By Laura Dobberstein Jensen Huang’s automotive engineering team has now pinched two top Middle Kingdom talents Nvidia has picked up the former head of Baidu’s L2+ Autonomous Driving System, Luo Qi, to head the engineering team of its own automotive business unit.… This article

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Google wants regulators to take Microsoft down a notch before it stifles AI 2024-02-28 at 08:47 By Tobias Mann Ad giant that owns over 80 percent of search traffic yells at cloud monopoly Google has again stoked fears that rival Microsoft is using anticompetitive business practices and licenses to establish a cloud monopoly, and is

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Cybersecurity Agencies Warn Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Users of APT28’s MooBot Threat 2024-02-28 at 08:31 By In a new joint advisory, cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from the U.S. and other countries are urging users of Ubiquiti EdgeRouter to take protective measures, weeks after a botnet comprising infected routers was felled by law enforcement as part of an operation codenamed

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Husqvarna ports Doom to a robot lawnmower – not its chainsaws, thankfully 2024-02-28 at 07:46 By Simon Sharwood Seminal game runs on everything, so exactly why you’ll pay €2,199 to run it on a tiny screen is anyone’s guess Swedish garden appliance maker Husqvarna has ported Doom to one of its robotic lawn mowers.… This

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That home router botnet the Feds took down? Moscow’s probably going to try again 2024-02-28 at 06:48 By Simon Sharwood Non-techies told to master firmware upgrades and firewall rules. For the infosec hardheads: have some IOCs Authorities from eleven nations have delivered a sequel to the January takedown of a botnet run by Russia on

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EU sanctions Indian tech outfit that has partnered with New Delhi’s IT Ministry 2024-02-28 at 05:18 By Laura Dobberstein Si2 Microsystems was tapped for silicon photonics expertise, but has Russian ties that worry Washington and Brussels The European Union has imposed sanctions against Indian microelectronics maker Si2 Microsystems late last week for allegedly providing Russia

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OpenAI claims New York Times paid someone to ‘hack’ ChatGPT 2024-02-28 at 04:02 By Katyanna Quach Super lab claims ‘deceptive prompts’ that it happily processed – and may have tracked – weren’t fair, so case should be dismissed OpenAI has accused The New York Times Company of paying someone to “hack” ChatGPT to generate verbatim

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Texas judge turns out the lights on Federal survey of cryptominers’ energy consumption 2024-02-28 at 02:36 By Thomas Claburn Washington sees potential emergency as miners power up to chase new BTC high A Texas judge has granted a temporary restraining order that prevents the US federal government surveying domestic cryptocurrency miners about their energy consumption.…

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Apple’s Titan(ic) iCar project is dead as self-driving dream fails to materialize 2024-02-28 at 01:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Cruise is parked, Waymo is in trouble, Tesla’s never quite nailed auto-autos so is China in the no-driver’s seat? After nearly a decade of work, two indictments, the departure of a senior exec, and unknown levels of

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US military pulls the trigger, uses AI to target air strikes 2024-02-28 at 00:47 By Katyanna Quach People still make the final decision, but recent raids in Iraq and Syria had help The US Department of Defense has deployed machine learning algorithms to identify targets in over 85 air strikes on targets in Iraq and

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Today in tech layoffs: Sony Interactive and Expedia 2024-02-28 at 00:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Game over for 900 staff as PlayStation London office and more shuttered Sony’s gaming wing has become the latest technology org to announce broad layoffs, including the complete closure of the London office of PlayStation Studios amid other headcount reductions. … This

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What is GitHub Copilot Enterprise? You and your org just might find out firsthand 2024-02-27 at 23:02 By Thomas Claburn Big biz invited to like and subscribe, without fear of litigation GitHub on Tuesday made Copilot Enterprise generally available, hoping to sell corporate developers on automated coding assistance.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Sandvine put on America’s export no-fly list for flogging snoop-ware to Egypt 2024-02-27 at 22:32 By Jessica Lyons Canadian network box maker floats denial The US Commerce Department has blacklisted Sandvine for selling its networking monitoring technology to Egypt, where the Feds say the gear was used to spy on political and human-rights activists.… This

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NIST updates Cybersecurity Framework after a decade of lessons 2024-02-27 at 21:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo The original was definitely getting a bit long in the tooth for modern challenges After ten years operating under the original model, and two years working to revise it, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released version

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