Tuesday May 7, 2024
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US State Department launches cyber and digital policy strategyPart of the race with Beijing to set standards and advance norms RSAC The US State Department's latest cybersecurity strategy will not be wildly different from current stances, but offers an alternative path to those presented by the country's adversaries.
13:00Valve vexation: Boeing's Starliner grounded againProblems with Centaur rocket keeps first crewed flight on terra firma Boeing's long-delayed Starliner crewed launch, which was scheduled for today, has been postponed yet again, this time due to a valve problem on the Centaur upper stage. Managers pushed back the next attempt to no earlier than May 10.
12:00TSMC fully booked on advanced packaging until 2025TrendForce warns of 'potential crowding out effects on HBM' TSMC's advanced packaging capacity is fully booked for the next two years, thanks to Nvidia and AMD needs, according to reports that echo an earlier earnings call.
10:30The truth about KEV: CISAs vuln deadlines good influence on...More work to do as most deadlines are missed and worst bugs still take months to fix The deadlines associated with CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog only apply to federal agencies, but fresh research shows they're having a positive impact on private organizations too.
08:35A tale of two Chinas: Our tech governance isn't perfect, but we still...Too many folks who should know better saying info-slurping tactics of Big Tech are just as bad Opinion Which China do you want? The innovative good global citizen, adding to the storehouse of knowledge while making better products and services? Or the autocracy, determined to advance the interests of the leadership through any and all means, untrammeled by legal safeguards within its borders ...
01:10Ransomware evolves from mere extortion to 'psychological attacks'Crims SIM swap execs' kids to freak out their parents, Mandiant CTO says RSAC Ransomware infections have morphed into 'a psychological attack against the victim organization,' as criminals use increasingly personal and aggressive tactics to force victims to pay up, according to Google-owned Mandiant.
00:05Google, Meta, Spotify break Apple's device fingerprinting rules new...And the iOS titan doesn't seem that bothered with data leaking out Last week, Apple began requiring iOS developers justify the use of a specific set of APIs that could be used for device fingerprinting. Yet the iGiant doesn't appear to be making much effort to ensure that Google, Meta, and Spotify comply with the rules, it's claimed.
Monday May 6, 2024
23:35Dear Stack Overflow denizens, thanks for helping train OpenAI's...Microsoft-backed super-lab gets direct access to answers and code forum gets its own AI Stack Overflow, a community-driven Q&A site, and OpenAI, maker of AI models, have agreed to work to improve each other's products, the latest deal in a series of tie-ups to feed machine learning models' thirst for data.
18:50Mastodon delays firm fix for link previews DDoSing sitesDecentralization is great until everyone wants to grab data from your web server Updated Mastodon has pushed back an update that's expected to fully address the issue of link previews sparking accidental distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
17:45Warren Buffett voices AI fears, likens tech to atom bomb'Used in a pro-social way, it's got terrific benefits to society. But, I don't know how you make sure that happens' Video You can add Berkshire Hathaway chief Warren Buffett to the list of folks worried about the implications of artificial intelligence on society.
16:45Cheyenne supercomputer sells at auction for just $480KAnd you thought consumer electronics suffered from depreciation The Cheyenne Supercomputer, a 5.34 peak PFLOPS behemoth that was once one of the fastest systems in the world, has just been sold at auction for $480,085.
14:00Three years on from Biden infosec EO, and we're still trying to check...It's taking time, but isn't a dead issue, US Government Accountability Office security director Marisol Cruz Cain says interview It's been several years since President Biden signed an executive order to improve America's cybersecurity. The US Government Accountability Office said recently there's still a number of critical goals stemming from that order to accomplish.
10:32Has Windows 11 really lost marketshare to Windows 10?Users continue to give Microsoft's latest and greatest a wide berth According to market share figures from Statcounter, the gap between Windows 11 and Windows 10 usage is slightly growing, and not in a way we imagine Microsoft wants.
07:30Undersea bit-barn biz offers 90-day trial of submerged server systemTesting platform for those 'unfamiliar with the subsea environment' Subsea Cloud is offering potential customers the chance to try out its underwater datacenter facilities for up to 90 days before making any further commitments, in a bid to attract new customers to the project.
06:37Techie's enthusiasm for decluttering fails to spark joyThankfully, luck and a handy greybeard came to the rescue Who, me? Welcome once again, dear readerfolk, to the sanctuary of Who, Me? in which Register readers can recount the times when their technical skills abandoned them, even if momentarily, without fear of judgment.
01:30Germany points finger at Fancy Bear for widespread 2023 hacks, DDoS...Also: Microsoft promises to git gud on cybersecurity; unqualified attackers are targeting your water systems, and more Infosec in brief It was just around a year ago that a spate of allegedly Russian-orchestrated cyberattacks hit government agencies in Germany, and now German officials claim to know for a fact who did it: APT28, or Fancy Bear, a Russian threat actor linked to the GRU ...
00:30Google to relocate some US jobs to India and MexicoPlus: Taiwan's subsea cables, Paytm says goodbye to its CEO, China uses WhatsApp despite roadblocks, and more. Asia in brief Google announced the layoff of 200 of its core team professionals last week while moving some roles to India and Mexico, according to reports.
Sunday May 5, 2024
16:55Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia's phone unit then killed it as...When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless Retrospective Ten years ago Microsoft absorbed the handset division of Nokia. The world's biggest operating systems vendor was going mobile in a big way, and buying the erstwhile world leader in mobile phones to ensure its success.
