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King Charles III signs off on UK Online Safety Act, with unenforceable spying clause 27/10/2023 at 13:02 By Thomas Claburn It’s now up to Ofcom to sort out this messy legislation With the assent of King Charles, the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act has become law, one that the British government says will “make the […]

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Mars’ iron core surrounded by molten rock, seismic studies show 27/10/2023 at 12:32 By Lindsay Clark Two new pieces of research suggest center is smaller than previously thought Two new studies from a NASA Mars probe suggest the red planet’s core is surrounded by a layer of molten rock, and the core is smaller than

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PIRG petitions Microsoft to extend the life of Windows 10 27/10/2023 at 11:47 By Richard Speed Do not go gentle into that overflowing landfill The Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) has delivered a petition to Microsoft calling on the company to rethink the impending abandonment of Windows 10 in the face of millions of PCs

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Bug bounty hunters load up to stalk AI and fancy bagging big bucks 27/10/2023 at 09:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Google offers AI-specific rewards, HackerOne sees more specializations Google has expanded its bug bounty program to include its AI products, and will pay ethical hackers to find both conventional infosec flaws and bad bot behaviour.…

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Airbus commissions three wind-powered ships to sail the Atlantic 27/10/2023 at 08:32 By Simon Sharwood To move parts while making less CO2, so it can build more planes that make plenty Airbus has decided to commission three ships powered, in part, by the wind.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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F5 Issues Warning: BIG-IP Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution 27/10/2023 at 07:49 By F5 has alerted customers of a critical security vulnerability impacting BIG-IP that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The issue, rooted in the configuration utility component, has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-46747, and carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of

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Microsoft enlists iFixit to extend Surface spare parts program 27/10/2023 at 07:03 By Simon Sharwood Appears to have expanded coverage to at least 30 nations Microsoft has extended its spare parts program for Surface PCs by selling components at teardown artists iFixit.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to

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Infosys co-founder calls for youth to work 70-hour weeks 27/10/2023 at 04:32 By Simon Sharwood Do it for India, says Narayana Murthy, seemingly unaware that China, Japan, and South Korea all have overworking problems Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has called for Indian youth to voluntarily work 70-hour weeks.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Intel CEO Gelsinger dismisses ‘pretty insignificant’ Arm PC challenge 27/10/2023 at 03:46 By Tobias Mann Chipzilla beats revenue guidance but datacenter biz is still in the dumps Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has downplayed the threat of rival chipmakers creating processors based on the Arm architecture for PCs.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Micron, SK-Hynix’s shipping bandwidth-boosting LPDDR5 for on-device AI 27/10/2023 at 02:02 By Tobias Mann So long as you don’t mind that it’s soldered down Memory vendors Micron and SK Hynix this week began shipping their first LPDDR5 memory modules capable of achieving speeds up to 9,600MT/s.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Meta decides to Just Say No to Oversight Board requests and allow paid posts for ketamine 27/10/2023 at 01:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Because says nothing like quality medical care like an ad for the ‘magical entry into another dimension’ Meta has decided that some of its Oversight Board’s objections posts related to intoxicating drugs aren’t

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Apple drops urgent patch against obtuse TriangleDB iPhone malware 27/10/2023 at 00:37 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Kaspersky first found this software nasty on its own phones Apple pushed several security fixes on Wednesday, including one for all iPhone and iPads used before September last year that has already been exploited by cyber snoops.… This article

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Forget the outside hacker, the bigger threat is inside by the coffee machine 26/10/2023 at 23:17 By Iain Thomson After a week of incidents, Register vultures pick over the innards Kettle  In this week’s Kettle the topic is one that’s been much in the news this week – the much-underrated insider threat issue.… This article

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Amazon Ads rolls out generative AI for ad image composition 26/10/2023 at 22:47 By Thomas Claburn Not enough gourds in your product pics? Try the ‘Pumpkin spice’ theme Amazon on Wednesday said its Amazon Ads customers can begin beta testing the deployment of AI-generated images for pitching products on its sales platform.… This article is

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On-by-default video calls come to X, disable to retain your sanity 26/10/2023 at 21:35 By Brandon Vigliarolo Oh, and happy Twitter acquisition day eve to Elon. Will year 2 be better? Not if the bankers get ahold of him, it seems Don’t want to start being bombarded by video calls from Xitter? Then you’d better

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Side channel attacks take bite out of Apple silicon with iLeakage exploit 26/10/2023 at 21:02 By Connor Jones Nearly six years on from Spectre and Meltdown, novel method steals passwords, emails, texts University researchers have developed a novel exploit that can steal information from virtually all modern Apple Macs, iPhones, and iPads.… This article is

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iLeakage: New Safari Exploit Impacts Apple iPhones and Macs with A and M-Series CPUs 26/10/2023 at 21:02 By A group of academics has devised a novel side-channel attack dubbed iLeakage that exploits a weakness in the A- and M-series CPUs running on Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS devices, enabling the extraction of sensitive information from the Safari

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75% of Americans want government regulations for AI 26/10/2023 at 20:02 By The public perception of AI was analyzed in a recent report by IONOS, finding that 75% of respondents want some form of government oversight. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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NASA to equip International Space Station with frikkin lasers (for comms) 26/10/2023 at 19:49 By Dan Robinson Why, what did you think they were for? US space agency NASA plans to run a technology demonstration for space lasers using the International Space Station next month, to test how this could be used to transmit terabytes

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Firefox 119 adds more PDF handiness, but 120 can spot the fakes 26/10/2023 at 19:04 By Liam Proven Mozilla’s review-check firm acquisition to bear fruit really soon Firefox 119 is out with improved inter-device sync and PDF editing, but the next version looks likely to have a whole new ability.… This article is an excerpt

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