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Energy breakthrough needed to build AGI, says OpenAI boss Altman 2024-01-22 at 07:47 By Katyanna Quach ALSO: Google’s geometry reasoning breakthrough; Amazon debuts experimental shopping AI AI In brief  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes that a breakthrough in energy production is required to advance increasingly capable and power-hungry AI models.… This article is an excerpt […]

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NASA lost contact with Mars helicopter Ingenuity, then managed to find it again 2024-01-22 at 06:47 By Laura Dobberstein ESA makes its own discovery: the most water ever found on Mars NASA regained contact with its Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, on Saturday two days after after it lost communication as the vehicle descended from its most

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Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Exploited in New Godzilla Web Shell Attacks 2024-01-22 at 06:01 By Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a “notable increase” in threat actor activity actively exploiting a now-patched flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to deliver the Godzilla web shell on compromised hosts. “The web shells are concealed within an unknown binary format and are

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BreachForums admin ‘Pompourin’ sentenced to 20 years of supervised release 2024-01-22 at 04:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo ALSO: Another UEFI flaw found; Kaspersky discovers iOS log files actually work; and a few critical vulnerabilities in brief  Conor Brian Fitzpatrick – aka “Pompourin,” a former administrator of notorious leak site BreachForums – has been sentenced to 20

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Tencent, Meta, alliance reportedly strains over differing VR visions 2024-01-22 at 02:17 By Laura Dobberstein PLUS: Singapore union tackles Google, Alibaba, layoffs; Thai digital cash plan stalls; AI to consume bulk of APAC IT budgets Asia In Brief  The alliance struck by Tencent and Meta to bring the latter’s Quest VR hardware to China is

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Amazon plots massive cloud expansion in Japan with $15B investment 2024-01-21 at 23:02 By Tobias Mann Land of the rising profit? Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest 2.3 trillion yen ($15.5 billion) to extend its cloud empire in Japan.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Chinese Hackers Silently Weaponized VMware Zero-Day Flaw for 2 Years 2024-01-20 at 13:49 By An advanced China-nexus cyber espionage group previously linked to the exploitation of security flaws in VMware and Fortinet appliances has been linked to the abuse of a critical vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server as a zero-day since late 2021. “UNC3886 has

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How artists can poison their pics with deadly Nightshade to deter AI scrapers 2024-01-20 at 12:17 By Thomas Claburn Models will need to swallow a lot of it, mind you University of Chicago boffins this week released Nightshade 1.0, a tool built to punish unscrupulous makers of machine learning models who train their systems on

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CISA Issues Emergency Directive to Federal Agencies on Ivanti Zero-Day Exploits 2024-01-20 at 07:01 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday issued an emergency directive urging Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to implement mitigations against two actively exploited zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) and Ivanti Policy Secure (IPS) products. The

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Microsoft’s Top Execs’ Emails Breached in Sophisticated Russia-Linked APT Attack 2024-01-20 at 06:16 By Microsoft on Friday revealed that it was the target of a nation-state attack on its corporate systems that resulted in the theft of emails and attachments from senior executives and other individuals in the company’s cybersecurity and legal departments. The Windows

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Invoice Phishing Alert: TA866 Deploys WasabiSeed & Screenshotter Malware 2024-01-20 at 05:02 By The threat actor tracked as TA866 has resurfaced after a nine-month hiatus with a new large-volume phishing campaign to deliver known malware families such as WasabiSeed and Screenshotter. The campaign, observed earlier this month and blocked by Proofpoint on January 11, 2024, involved sending

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Zuckerberg wants to build artificial general intelligence with 350K Nvidia H100 GPUs 2024-01-20 at 04:02 By Katyanna Quach Maybe the AGI can finish that Metaverse, haha – oh wait, they’re serious Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg is redirecting Meta-wide efforts to build artificial general intelligence and wants to secure a whopping 350,000 or more Nvidia H100

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Now OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants billions for AI chip fabs 2024-01-20 at 03:09 By Tobias Mann All those neural network weights aren’t much without ample decent silicon OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly seeking billions of dollars in capital to build out a network of AI chip fabs.… This article is an excerpt from

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Russians invade Microsoft’s exec mail while China jabs at VMware vCenter Server 2024-01-20 at 02:19 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Plus: Uncle Sam says Ivanti exploits ‘consistent with PRC’ snoops A VMware security vulnerability has been exploited by Chinese cyberspies since late 2021, according to Mandiant, in what has been a busy week for nation-state espionage

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Japan’s lunar lander is dying before our eyes after setting down on Moon 2024-01-20 at 00:17 By Katyanna Quach The real SLIM’s shady Japan soft-landed a probe on the Moon today – a first for the nation – though its spacecraft is struggling to generate power from its solar arrays.… This article is an excerpt

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Five ripped off IT giant with $7M+ in bogus work expenses, prosecutors claim 2024-01-19 at 23:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Account manager and pals blew it on hotels, cruise, fancy meals and more allegedly Five people have been accused of pulling off a “brazen” scam that involved submitting more than $7 million in fake work

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US cities are going to struggle to green up their act by 2050 2024-01-19 at 21:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo Instead of 100% renewables, most will reach around a tenth of that Two-hundred and fifty US cities have committed to transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 in the face of slow global progress. However,

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For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything a company needed 2024-01-19 at 20:16 By Dan Robinson Now its functions are shattered between innumerable vendors Retro Tech Week  It may seem that progress in technology proceeds in a linear fashion, with new developments replacing older ones. From this viewpoint, newer technology will always

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HP’s CEO spells it out: You’re a ‘bad investment’ if you don’t buy HP supplies 2024-01-19 at 19:16 By Richard Speed Malware threat from third-party cartridges nothing compared to threat to HP’s bottom line HP CEO Enrique Lores admitted this week that the company’s long-term objective is “to make printing a subscription” when he was

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FTC bans Texas media company from sharing location data 2024-01-19 at 19:01 By The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has banned Texas company InMarket Media from selling precise location data for advertising purposes. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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