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Vast botnet hijacks smart TVs for prime-time cybercrime 2024-01-18 at 12:17 By Connor Jones 8-year-old op responsible for DDoS attacks and commandeering broadcasts to push war material Security researchers have pinned a DDoS botnet that’s infected potentially millions of smart TVs and set-top boxes to an eight-year-old cybercrime syndicate called Bigpanzi.… This article is an […]

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PixieFail UEFI Flaws Expose Millions of Computers to RCE, DoS, and Data Theft 2024-01-18 at 12:02 By Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the TCP/IP network protocol stack of an open-source reference implementation of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification used widely in modern computers. Collectively dubbed PixieFail by Quarkslab, the nine issues reside in the TianoCore

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40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes 2024-01-18 at 11:32 By Iain Thomson The Reg talks to co-creator Ian Bell and coder Mark Moxon about what’s under the cobra’s hood Retro Tech Week  In 1984 the launch of a computer game was reported on British national news. The

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Asia beat US, EU in chip building because the West didn’t invest, Intel CEO claims 2024-01-18 at 10:46 By Tobias Mann Gelsinger reckons pandemic-era supply chain snarls helped demonstrate the sector’s importance The COVID-19 pandemic was a decisive factor in Intel’s decision to re-emphasize its own manufacturing prowess, after decades in which US and European

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Will AI take our jobs? That’s what everyone is talking about at Davos right now 2024-01-18 at 09:32 By Katyanna Quach CEOs believe generative AI will make their companies more efficient, but more energy is needed to power the tech The one question on leaders’ minds as they debate the future of generative AI at

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Samsung’s Galaxy S24 pitch: the AI we baked in makes you more human 2024-01-18 at 09:02 By Simon Sharwood Pen-equipped Ultra is this year’s hero, helped by ‘Circle to Search’ that lets you Google without exiting apps Samsung has made AI the centerpiece of its annual premium handset launch and featured its Galaxy Ultra, the

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India’s big four services giants soar on demand for AI 2024-01-18 at 08:47 By Laura Dobberstein Pipelines are full, but hiring has slowed Indian IT service outfit HCL’s share price hit a record high this week, and scrip for its peers Infosys, TCS and Wipro also spiked, after the four announced quarterly results that revealed

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Global semiconductor revenues slid 11 percent in 2023, despite AI silicon splurge 2024-01-18 at 07:47 By Tobias Mann Nvidia raked in the boatloads of cash, but the rest of the industry is still hurting 2023’s copious chatter about generative AI has not translated into surging semiconductor revenues across the industry, according to analyst firm Gartner.…

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Iranian Hackers Masquerade as Journalists to Spy on Israel-Hamas War Experts 2024-01-18 at 07:01 By High-profile individuals working on Middle Eastern affairs at universities and research organizations in Belgium, France, Gaza, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S. have been targeted by an Iranian cyber espionage group called Mind Sandstorm since November 2023. The threat actor “used bespoke

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Ban on Apple watches with blood oxygen sensors confirmed after failed appeal 2024-01-18 at 06:47 By Katyanna Quach Series 9 and Ultra 2 models cannot be imported to the US starting from 18 January Apple will not be allowed to sell its latest watches containing blood oxygen sensors starting from Thursday, judges from the US

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Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery unit, designs bigger bird to deliver pasta, faster 2024-01-18 at 05:17 By Katyanna Quach Aerial delivery kit doubles payloads Alphabet’s drone delivery biz, Wing, has unveiled a drone capable of carrying up to five pounds (2.26 kg) of payload, almost doubling the capacity of its existing fleet.… This article is an

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Study: Thousands of businesses just love handing over your info to Facebook 2024-01-18 at 05:17 By Iain Thomson Mmm, Zuck up that data The startlingly extent to which websites and brokers hand over details of people’s habits to Facebook was revealed Wednesday.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to

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Insurance website’s buggy API leaked Office 365 password and a giant email trove 2024-01-18 at 04:03 By Thomas Claburn Pen-tester accessed more than 650,000 sensitive messages, and still can, at Indian outfit using Toyota SaaS Toyota Tsusho Insurance Broker India (TTIBI), an Indo-Japanese joint insurance venture, operated a misconfigured server that exposed more than 650,000

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Apple, AMD, Qualcomm GPU security hole lets miscreants snoop on AI training and chats 2024-01-18 at 01:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle So much for isolation A design flaw in GPU drivers made by Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and likely Imagination can be exploited by miscreants on a shared system to snoop on fellow users.… This article

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Facial recognition tech has outpaced US laws – and don’t expect the Feds to catch up 2024-01-18 at 00:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Let’s be realistic: If the EU can’t regulate it well, America definitely won’t comment  If anything could compel the US government to regulate facial-recognition technology, a report sponsored by federal law enforcement urging

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IBM ends inventor rewards program, cancels points for patents 2024-01-17 at 22:17 By Thomas Claburn Big Blue staffers aren’t pleased to lose out on potential bonuses Exclusive  IBM has canceled a program that rewarded inventors at Big Blue for patents or publications, leaving some angry that they are missing out on potential bonuses.… This article

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Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse 2024-01-17 at 20:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘Search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam,’ says study No, it’s not just you – search engine results really are getting worse as the internet is flooded with low-effort garbage from SEO

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Chip wars could lead to oversupply as China increases domestic capacity 2024-01-17 at 20:02 By Dan Robinson Middle Kingdom can make market moves too… as potential global price battles loom China’s chip manufacturing capacity is expected to more than double within the next 5 to 7 years, according to TrendForce, and this could lead to

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Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet 2024-01-17 at 19:01 By Richard Speed Caltech looks back on the highs and lows of the SSPD-1 project A year after the launch of the Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD-1), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is revealing the highs

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NVMe consortium polishes its specs to support computational storage 2024-01-17 at 18:18 By Dan Robinson Tech to shift storage to compute has so far failed to catch on in a big way The NVM Express consortium has updated its specifications by adding a Computational Storage Feature, creating a standardized way for applications to talk to

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