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Cards Against Humanity campaigns to encourage voting, expose personal data abuse
Up to $100 for planning to vote and a public smear - how is this not illegal? The troublemakers behind the party game Cards Against Humanity have launched a campaign demonstrating how easy it is to buy sensitive personal data about American voters, while simultaneously encouraging those Americans to plan how to cast a vote in the upcoming presidential election....
Crooks stole personal info of 77k Fidelity Investments customers
But hey, no worries, the firm claims no evidence of data misuse Fidelity Investments has notified 77,099 people that their personal information was stolen in an August data breach....
GSA plows ahead with face matching tech despite its own reliability concerns
A week after saying remote ID verification tech is unreliable, the GSA is expanding access to other agencies The US government's General Services Administration's (GSA) facial matching login service is now generally available to the public and other federal agencies, despite its own recent report admitting the tech is far from perfect....
Microsoft admits Outlook crashes, says impact 'mitigated'
Users just need to 'refresh/restart' their sessions Microsoft's Outlook app is crashing for European users due to memory problems, Redmond has warned, and evidence suggests the problems are spreading to the US....
BBC weather glitch shows 13k mph winds in London, 404℃ in Nottingham
We'd know if it were true, and our reporters are just fine Those who rely on the BBC's online weather forecasts to plan their day would be forgiven if they woke up this morning and thought the world was ending, but those 13,508 mile-an-hour winds in London and 404 lows forecasted for Nottingham tomorrow are an obvious error....
AMD pumps Epyc core count to 192, clocks up to 5 GHz with Turin debut
Just not on the same chip, of course Intel's 128-core Granite Rapids Xeons are barely two weeks old and AMD has already fired back with a family of fifth-gen Epycs that boast double-digit IPC gains with up to 192 cores or clock speeds as high as 5 GHz....
AMD targets Nvidia H200 with 256GB MI325X AI chips, zippier MI355X due in H2 2025
Less VRAM than promised, but still gobs more than Hopper AMD boosted the VRAM on its Instinct accelerators to 256 GB of HBM3e with the launch of its next-gen MI325X AI accelerators during its Advancing AI event in San Francisco on Thursday....
AMD aims latest processors at AI whether you need it or not
Ryzen AI PRO 300 series leans heavily on Microsoft's Copilot+ PC requirements AMD has introduced its latest processors designed for business applications. The line-up includes the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 375, Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370, and Ryzen AI 7 HX PRO 360. Built on AMD's Zen 5 microarchitecture, the devices aim for high performance and advanced AI capabilities for enterprises....
The .io domain isn't going anywhere anytime soon amid treaty
UK-Mauritius handshake holds but Chagos Islands shift could eventually phase out the ccTLD The .io country code top-level domain (ccTLD) will not disappear anytime soon, at least not within the next five years. Beyond that, its future is uncertain....
SAP promises developer 'fusion teams' in cloud low-code environment
But projects must be completed in old desktop IDE TechEd Enterprise software giant SAP is set to introduce a slew of features for developers on its platform, promising AI agents, knowledge graph, and cloud-based integration features in SAP's low code-development environment Build....
Arrow Lake splashdown: Intel pins hopes on replacement for Raptors
New silicon, new architecture, and loads of new motherboards rise to support it, but will power be anchored down? Back in September 2023, Intel unveiled its newly designed Meteor Lake SoC for the mobile market, which was the first disaggregated chip for mobile using multiple tiled packaging. While in consensus opinion indicates Meteor Lake flopped, it did pave the way for Intel to try new things in the consumer space....
Fore-get about privacy, golf tech biz leaves 32M data records on the fairway
Researcher spots 110 TB of sensitive info sitting in unprotected database Nearly 32 million records belonging to users of tech from Trackman were left exposed to the internet, sitting in a non-password protected database, for an undetermined amount of time, according to researcher Jeremiah Fowler....
CISA adds fresh Ivanti vuln, critical Fortinet bug to hall of shame
Usual three-week window to address significant risks to federal agencies applies The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says vulnerabilities in Fortinet and Ivanti products are now being exploited, earning them places in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog....
PC shipments stuck in neutral despite AI buzz
Analysts can't agree whether market is marginally up or down The PC market is not showing many signs of a rebound, despite the hype around AI PCs, with market watchers split over whether unit shipments are up or down slightly....
Mozilla patches critical Firefox vuln that attackers are already exploiting
Firefixed: It's maintenance time for low-complexity, high-impact security flaw It's patch time for Firefox fans as Mozilla issues a security advisory for a critical code execution vulnerability in the browser....
Version 7.6 – the 'OpenBSD of Theseus' – released
Ideal for black-clad ultra-minimalist types. You probably wouldn't like it OpenBSD is arguably the most secure general-purpose OS for general-purpose computers. This version has better laptop support, includes more Arm64 kit, and brings hardware-accelerated video playback....
Advania UK gobbles up IT services rival CCS Media
Acquisition signals consolidation in the market Exclusive The consolidation of the British tech services market is continuing with Advania UK's acquisition of CCS Media....
Post Office CEO tells inquiry: Leadership was in 'dream world' over Horizon scandal
Hired in 2019, he claims the recruitment failed to mention ongoing litigation The chief executive of the Post Office has agreed the organization's leadership team was living in a "dream world" in the months leading up to the launch of a statutory inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in UK history....
Hold my Pimms! Wimbledon turns to tech for line-ball calls
Humans dumped by famously fusty tennis tournament The All England Lawn Tennis Club, organizer of the famed Wimbledon tennis tournament, will make line-ball calls with machines instead of human in 2025....
Dutch cops reveal takedown of 'world's largest dark web market'
Two arrested after allegedly trying to make off with their ill-gotten gains The alleged administrators of the infamous Bohemia and Cannabia dark web marketplaces have been arrested after apparently shuttering the sites and trying to flee with their earnings....
You have issues with 'Issues' always being called 'Issues' in Jira, so Atlassian now allows them to be called ‘Tasks’
Developers get auto-coding ideas drawn from bug reports, and more AI besides Atlassian has debuted a new cut of its project management and bug-tracking tool Jira, which for the first time allows users to deal with things other than issues"....
OpenAI says Chinese gang tried to phish its staff
Claims its models aren't making threat actors more sophisticated - but is helping debug their code OpenAI has alleged the company disrupted a spear-phishing campaign that saw a China-based group target its employees through both their personal and corporate email addresses....
Internet Archive leaks user info and succumbs to DDoS
31 million users' usernames, email addresses and salted-encrypted passwords are out there The Internet Archive had a bad day on the infosec front, after being DDoSed and exposing user data....
Moscow-adjacent GoldenJackal gang strikes air-gapped systems with custom malware
USB sticks help, but it's unclear how tools that suck malware from them are delivered A cyberespionage APT crew named GoldenJackal hacked air-gapped PCs belonging to government and diplomatic entities at least twice using two sets of custom malware, according to researchers from antivirus vendor ESET....
Deno 2.0 looks to backward compatibility to move forward
Modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript plays nicer with Node.js Deno, the runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript, reached version 2.0 on Wednesday, bringing with it baggage from the past in the form of broad Node.js compatibility....
Smart TVs are spying on everyone
Regulators know this is a nightmare and have done little to stop it. Privacy advocacy group wants that to change Smart TVs are watching their viewers and harvesting their data to benefit brokers using the same ad technology that denies privacy on the internet....
Marriott settles for a piddly $52M after series of breaches affecting millions
Intruders stayed for free on the network between 2014 and 2020 Marriott has agreed to pay a $52 million penalty and develop a comprehensive infosec program following a series of major data breaches between 2014 and 2020 that affected more than 344 million people worldwide....
Severe solar storm could disrupt power, communications
On the bright side, auroras may dazzle skies as far south as mid-latitudes Watch out, Earth: There's another strong geomagnetic storm headed our way from the Sun, following the G5-class one that hit back in May....
National Public Data files for bankruptcy, admits 'hundreds of millions' potentially affected
One-man-band faces a mountain of lawsuits but has few assets The Florida business behind data brokerage National Public Data has filed for bankruptcy, admitting "hundreds of millions" of people were potentially affected in one of the largest information leaks of the year....
Nobel Chemistry Prize goes to AlphaFold, Rosetta creators - another win for AI
Let's just hope they don't give the literature award to a bot, too This year's Nobel Prizes are shaping up to be a triumph for AI. After awarding the physics prize to early AI pioneers yesterday, the chemistry prize has now gone to the creators of AI protein prediction platform AlphaFold and protein design tool Rosetta....
US DoJ wades into Realtek lawsuit that accuses MediaTek of patent abuse
Fabless chip shop alleged to be hiring 'litigation hit men' to kneecap rival Taiwanese chip firm MediaTek is under scrutiny with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) taking an interest in an antitrust dispute with semiconductor compatriot Realtek....
Bitcoin creator suspect says he is not Bitcoin creator suspect
'If I was Satoshi I would have destroyed my ability to prove I'm Satoshi' The man identified as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto in a new HBO documentary has something to say: Wrong again, world....
CIQ takes Rocky Linux corporate with $25K price tag
Backs RHEL-compatible distro with indemnification and update guarantees CIQ has unveiled a version of Rocky Linux backed by service level objectives and indemnities for enterprises requiring more than the support of an enthusiastic community behind an operating system....
Microsoft cleans up hot mess of Patch Tuesday preview
Go forth and install your important security fixes Microsoft says that the problems with the Windows 11 Patch Tuesday preview have now been resolved....
Cognizant discriminated against non-Indian workers in H-1B visa case, US jury finds
IT service giant denies claims, will appeal against verdict A US jury has found that employment practices at Cognizant constitute discriminatory conduct toward non-Indian workers in a case that originated in 2013 and claimed the tech giant favored H-1B visa holders from India over local workers....
Ransomware gang Trinity joins pile of scumbags targeting healthcare
As if hospitals and clinics didn't have enough to worry about At least one US healthcare provider has been infected by Trinity, an emerging cybercrime gang with eponymous ransomware that uses double extortion and other "sophisticated" tactics that make it a "significant threat," according to the feds....
Uncle Sam may force Google to sell Chrome browser, or Android OS
Tech giant snaps back, calls DoJ proposals on splitting up Alphabet and more 'government overreach' The US government has confirmed it is considering asking a judge to force Google to divest parts of its business as part of potential remedies in the antitrust case over its control of online searches....
Microsoft sprinkles AI 'magic' and additional storage tiers on OneDrive
Big emphasis on photos in mobile app Microsoft has unveiled a slew of new features for its OneDrive cloud storage service "all through the magic of AI."...
UK Regulatory Innovation Office vows to slash red tape – but we've heard it all before
The real issue is a reluctance to invest Comment Over summer, the UK witnessed a change in government. However, the incoming Labour Party shares some ideas about regulation and innovation with its Conservative predecessor....
Game of phones: Voda-Three merger left rivals dialing for help
BT and some MVNOs very much against union, VMO2 more relaxed because of spectrum deal Opinion is divided in the telecoms industry over the proposed Vodafone and Three UK merger, with at least one rival in favor of the deal, while others want to see the Brit competition regulator scrap it altogether....
Thunderbird for Android is go – at least the beta is
A traditional-style rich email client - but for tablets MZLA, the company behind the Thunderbird email client, is finally putting its mobile email client app into beta testing - but it's a lot more mature than that sounds....
Copilot's crudeness has left Microsoft chasing Google, again
Surely Redmond knows that almost nobody has tamed unstructured data? Opinion A year ago it looked as if the world could be Microsoft's oyster. The software giant dominated the enterprise, was catching up to cloudy rivals, and then managed to purchase forty-nine percent of the for-profit subsidiary of ChatGPT creator OpenAI....
Missing Thunderbirds footage found in British garden shed
5, 4, 3, 2, 1, new Supermarionation is GO! Video Previously unseen footage from the classic British TV show Thunderbirds has been found in a garden shed and restored - where possible - for viewing next year....
Supermicro crams 18 GPUs into a 3U AI server that's a little slow by design
Can handle edge inferencing or run a 64 display command center GPU-enhanced servers can typically pack up to eight of the accelerators, but Supermicro has built a box that manages to fit 18 of them inside an air-cooled chassis that'll eat up just 3U of rack space....
OpenAI appoints international expansion boss
Picks Singapore as APAC hub and outlines desire to get governments onside Chat GPT-maker Open AI announced today that it's appointed a new boss to lead its international expansion....
MediaTek enters the 4th Dimensity with 3nm octa-core 9400 smartphone brains
Still sticking with Arm and not taking RISC-Vs Fabless Taiwanese chip biz MediaTek has unveiled the fourth flagship entry in its Dimensity family of system-on-chips for smartphones and other mobile devices. It's sticking with close companion Arm rather than jumping ship to RISC-V for the CPU cores, for those wondering....
Asian crime gangs are growing – fast – thanks to AI and other tech
UN report finds Telegram, cryptocurrency are tools of a growing 'criminal service economy' Organized crime syndicates across Asia are using AI, messaging platforms like Telegram, and cryptocurrency to help them expand, with help from dedicated service providers, according to a report the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) published on Monday....
LinkedIn: If our AI gets something wrong, that's your problem
Artificial intelligence still no substitute for the real thing Microsoft's LinkedIn will update its User Agreement next month with a warning that it may show users generative AI content that's inaccurate or misleading....
Microsoft issues 117 patches – some for flaws already under attack
Plus: SAP re-patches a failed patch for critical-rated flaw Patch Tuesday It's the second Tuesday of the month, which means Patch Tuesday, bringing with it fixes for numerous flaws, bugs and vulnerabilities in major software. And this one is a doozy....
AI godfather-turned-doomer shares Nobel with neural network pioneer
First-ever awarded for contributions to artificial intelligence If you needed another sign that we've well and truly entered the AI age, here it is: The first Nobel Prize has been awarded for contributions to artificial intelligence....
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