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by Jessica Lyons on (#6XXYZ)
'BrowserVenom' is pure poison Suspected cybercriminals have created a fake installer for Chinese AI model DeepSeek-R1 and loaded it with previously unknown malware called "BrowserVenom"....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6XXX3)
Design software slinger warns it won't hire devs who aren't good at modern tools Australian SaaS-y graphic design service Canva now requires candidates for developer jobs to use AI coding assistants during the interview process....
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by Iain Thomson on (#6XXX4)
Army joins in push to break vendor grip on military maintenance US Navy Secretary John Phelan has told the Senate the service needs the right to repair its own gear, and will rethink how it writes contracts to keep control of intellectual property and ensure sailors can fix hardware, especially in a fight....
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#6XXTY)
Not that kind of edible - this one's electronic DARPA has announced a research program to explore whether an "ingestible form factor" device can stimulate gut neurons to modulate stress responses, potentially improving decision-making and reducing the risk of PTSD....
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by Thomas Claburn on (#6XXTZ)
Everything is AWESOME!!! OpenAI on Tuesday rolled out its o3-Pro model for ChatGPT Pro and Teams subscribers, slashed o3 pricing by 80 percent, and dropped a blog post from CEO Sam Altman teasing "intelligence too cheap to meter."...
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by Liam Proven on (#6XXRP)
His work set the direction of modern computer interfaces, and much more Obit Bill Atkinson, widely acclaimed as perhaps the most brilliant computer programmer ever, has succumbed to pancreatic cancer at 74....
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by Jessica Lyons on (#6XXRQ)
FIN6 moves from point-of-sale compromise to phishing recruiters In a scam that flips the script on fake IT worker schemes, cybercriminals posing as job seekers on LinkedIn and Indeed are targeting recruiters - a group hated only slightly less than digital crooks - with malware hosted on phony resume portfolio sites....
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by Connor Jones on (#6XXNE)
The 16 other flagged issues are on customers, says CRM giant Salesforce has assigned five CVE identifiers following a security report that uncovered more than 20 configuration weaknesses, some of which exposed customers to unauthorized access and session hijacking....
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#6XXNF)
Customers weren't sold on automation, so the search for ROI continues After lackluster results from customer-facing automation, Starbucks is now redirecting its tech ambitions toward helping its own employees....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6XXNG)
Uses eBPF, which both Google and Meta have proven out at scale Cisco Live Cisco has returned to the load balancing market using open-source software proven at scale by both Google and Meta....
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by Richard Speed on (#6XXJ1)
All about consolidation as mission mouthpieces archived in pursuit of 'improving the experience' NASA is shutting down many of its social media accounts, including those dedicated to the Voyager mission and the Mars Curiosity and Perseverance rovers....
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by Connor Jones on (#6XXJ2)
Interpol coordinates operation, nabs 32 across Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Nauru Thirty-two people across Asia have been arrested over their suspected involvement with infostealer malware in the latest international collaboration against global cybercrime....
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by Iain Thomson on (#6XXEX)
It's still smoking, but help is on hand A tug has reached the Morning Midas, six days after a presumed battery fire broke out, causing the crew to abandon ship....
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by Dan Robinson on (#6XXEY)
With 1 MW racks and prefab bit barns, the heat is on GTC Paris Schneider Electric and Nvidia are jointly developing cooling, management, and control systems for AI datacenters in support of the EU's AI action plan, with Schneider detailing support for racks with 1 MW loads....
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by Richard Speed on (#6XXBV)
Agentless contact center 'not yet technically feasible, nor operationally desirable' Good news for consumers frustrated by wading through pools of AI treacle in search of customer service - businesses are reportedly turning back to human agents "amid AI integration challenges."...
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by Dan Robinson on (#6XXBW)
Server rig aimed at validating Europe's exascale-class silicon and software stacks Euro chip designer SiPearl has released a reference server design featuring its Rhea1 processor, the chip that powers Jupiter, Europe's most powerful supercomputer....
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by Lindsay Clark on (#6XX9Y)
14.2B Sizewell C among the investments along side Small Modular Reactors The UK has bet big on nuclear power - both big and small - following a series of warnings about energy capacity and supply for datacenter investments....
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by Richard Speed on (#6XX9Z)
On your marks, get set... bork! Microsoft has set a new record with June's security update for the time between release and an admission of borkage....
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by Lindsay Clark on (#6XX8F)
How much wishful thinking has entered the pipeline will come to light in 2027 Opinion Today, the UK chief finance minister is set to detail government spending for the next three years and capital budgets for the next four. As the first multi-year spending review since 2021, it is a big deal....
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by Mark Pesce on (#6XX8G)
Model Context Protocol has many fine uses, but then it hinted at becoming a Von Neumann machine Column Generative AI is changing so rapidly, it's hard to stay up to date, so I generally avoid the newest shiny thing until it becomes unavoidable....
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by Dan Robinson on (#6XX71)
Building AMD computational cancer research super and ICL workhorse with Intel inside Lenovo has pulled a couple of European supercomputer wins out of the bag, one using Intel chips for Imperial College London and an AMD-based system for the European Institute of Oncology....
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by Jessica Lyons on (#6XX72)
The botnet's still alive and evolving Badbox 2.0, the botnet that infected millions of smart TV boxes and connected devices before private security researchers and law enforcement partially disrupted its infrastructure, is readying for a third round of fraud and digital attacks, according to one of the threat hunters who uncovered the original scheme....
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by Thomas Claburn on (#6XX4S)
AI could bring a new round of browser wars Mozilla is concerned that Google's efforts to build Gemini into its Chrome browser will make it even more difficult for rivals to compete with the search and ads giant....
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by Iain Thomson on (#6XX26)
Stealthy Falcon swoops on WebDAV and Redmond's even patching IE! Patch Tuesday It's Patch Tuesday time again, and Microsoft is warning that there are a bunch of critical fixes to sort out - and two actively exploited bugs....
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Cisco president says dredging coding syntax from wetware memory wastes engineers' expensive synapses
by Simon Sharwood on (#6XX0J)
Wants to let AI do the boring bits so his team can invent more cool stuff Cisco Live Cisco president Jeetu Patel wants the company's engineers to halve the amount of code they write....
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by Thomas Claburn on (#6XWXY)
After twenty years, it's Intel outside Apple's macOS operating system will drop support for Intel chips next year, marking the end of a twenty-year relationship....
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#6XWXZ)
The AI.gov repository and staging site vanished when we asked questions, but don't worry - we captured backups We're less than a month away from the Trump administration's launch of an initiative to push AI across the entire federal government, based on a code repository eagle-eyed onlookers spotted on GitHub before it disappeared....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6XWY0)
Not just a salve for netadmins - this is also a play to ensure Switchzilla is AI-relevant Cisco Live There's light at the end of the tunnel for netadmins tired of juggling multiple management consoles: Cisco announced it's testing a tool called Cloud Control that will drive all its networking, security, and observability tools - and hopefully make the biz more relevant in the AI era....
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by Jessica Lyons on (#6XWY1)
Plus: AWS launches second Secret-level cloud region AI has been a "game changer" for the intelligence community, according to US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who noted two key applications of the technology for classified government work at the Amazon Web Services DC Summit on Tuesday....
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by Iain Thomson on (#6XWV6)
Lone Star State drivers with accident records need to be careful about fraud The Texas Department of Transportation says a compromised user account was used to improperly download nearly 300,000 crash reports, exposing personal data that could be exploited for financial fraud against Lone Star drivers....
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#6XWV7)
Federal court blocks further data sharing, blasts lack of safeguards The US federal government's HR department violated the law and bypassed its own cybersecurity safeguards by giving DOGE affiliates access to personnel records, a federal judge ruled Monday, issuing a preliminary injunction to halt further disclosures....
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by Richard Speed on (#6XWV8)
Scientists improve knowledge by 20% thanks to James Webb Space Telescope data The chance of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon has increased, according to boffins making observations from the James Webb Space Telescope....
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by Liam Proven on (#6XWR0)
Project to modernize the X.org X11 server seems to actively court controversy The recently released Xlibre server aims to modernize the X.org X11 server and improve both its security and performance....
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by Connor Jones on (#6XWR1)
The open-source XDR/SIEM provider's servers are in other botnets' crosshairs too Cybercriminals are trying to spread multiple Mirai variants by exploiting a critical Wazuh vulnerability, researchers say - the first reported active attacks since the code execution bug was disclosed....
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by Richard Currie on (#6XWMZ)
Vulpes vulpes has run of five-story park before staffers move in Over a billion dollars, a renowned architect, and more than a decade under construction haven't prevented Google being beaten to its new London digs by unexpected tenants - urban foxes....
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by Richard Speed on (#6XWHS)
Windows Insiders will be first to see if the Windows 10 itch has been scratched The latest changes to Microsoft's Start Menu are being rolled out to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. However, users in the European Economic Area have a little longer to wait for the promised Android and IOS device integration....
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by Jessica Lyons on (#6XWHT)
Also axes secure software mandates - optional is the new secure, apparently President Donald Trump late Friday signed a cybersecurity-focused executive order that, in the White House's words, "amends problematic elements of Obama and Biden-era Executive Orders."...
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#6XWHV)
Oh, great - now who'll do my thinking for me? Updated If you're having trouble getting ChatGPT to do your work for you this morning, you wouldn't be alone. It appears OpenAI services are experiencing a variety of issues....
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by Iain Thomson on (#6XWFA)
Chocolate Factory fixes issue, pays only $5K A researcher has exposed a flaw in Google's authentication systems, opening it to a brute-force attack that left users' mobile numbers up for grabs....
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by Lindsay Clark on (#6XWFB)
Data analytics vendors have tried this before with limited success In the past few weeks, both Snowflake and Databricks dipped into their respective acquisition funds and found the resources to buy specialist providers of PostgreSQL database systems....
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by Connor Jones on (#6XWFC)
A milestone in cyberattack recovery - but deliveries will take a while and normal service not yet back UK retailer Marks & Spencer has reinstated online orders for some customers, marking a major milestone in its recovery from a cyberattack in April....
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by Connor Jones on (#6XWD1)
Majority of exposures located in the US, including datacenters, healthcare facilities, factories, and more Security researchers managed to access the live feeds of 40,000 internet-connected cameras worldwide and they may have only scratched the surface of what's possible....
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by Tobias Mann on (#6XWD2)
Full system expected to break the exaFLOP barrier - perhaps in time for SC25 this fall? ISC Germany's long-awaited Jupiter supercomputer launched into the number four spot on the Top500 list of publicly ranked systems, dethroning Italy's HPC6 as Europe's biggest, baddest iron....
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by Richard Speed on (#6XWBD)
Will your data still be readable in half a century? The State of Storage As storage media grows denser and more complex over time, it's worth remembering that older formats were sometimes far more durable. Sometimes....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6XWBE)
Ren Zhengfei says his company is a generation behind, but he knows Huawei to catch up Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei has said the USA overestimates his company's semiconductor design prowess, which is at least a generation behind rival chipmakers....
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by Thomas Claburn on (#6XWA3)
Swift-based containerization framework aims to improve performance and security Apple on Monday unveiled an open source containerization framework for creating and running Linux container images on the Mac....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6XW7G)
Elon Musk suggested this to Beijing years ago China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has ordered extensive trials of intelligent aged care robots....
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by Thomas Claburn on (#6XW2B)
Annual infomercial spruiks visual change, modest functional enhancements, and a movie Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday opened the company's annual developer conference by talking up a forthcoming racing film called F1"....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6XW2C)
Worries lawyers overseeing poll may have disqualifying entanglements The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has called for changes to the roster of officials appointed to oversee the forthcoming election at the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC), the latest twist in a conflict that stretches back years and has left the African regional internet registry in limbo....
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#6XW2D)
The last effort never went anywhere AI is here to stay, so representatives Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Shontel Brown (D-OH) have introduced a bill to ensure more US federal government employees are properly trained to use it....
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