jeudi 28 mars 2024
03:28China encouraged armed offensive against Myanmar government to protest ...Report claims Beijing is most displaced by junta's failure to address slave labor scam settlements The military junta controlling Myanmar has struggled to control all of its territory thanks in part to China backing rebel forces as a way of expressing its displeasure about cyberscam centers operating from the country.…
01:02Singapore improves the AI it uses to detect smokersPast versions struggled to spot a lungbuster – this time authorities think they've reduced false positives Singapore has improved the AI it uses to detect smokers who light up in the many places where the practice is forbidden across the island nation, to help local law enforcement more efficiently stub out offenders.…
mercredi 27 mars 2024
21:06Apple fans deluged with phony password reset requestsBeware support calls offering a fix Apple device owners, consider yourselves warned: a targeted multi-factor authentication bombing campaign is under way, with the goal of exhausting iUsers into allowing an unwanted password reset.…
20:26Majority of Americans now use ad blockersWe're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know More than half of Americans are using ad blocking software, and among advertising, programming, and security professionals that fraction is more like two-thirds to three-quarters.…
19:40'Thousands' of businesses at mercy of miscreants thanks to unpatched...Anyscale claims issue is 'long-standing design decision' – as users are raided by intruders Thousands of companies remain vulnerable to a remote-code-execution bug in Ray, an open-source AI framework used by Amazon, OpenAI, and others, that is being abused by miscreants in the wild to steal sensitive data and illicitly mine for cryptocurrency.…
18:55Amazon finishes pumping $4B into AI darling AnthropicAdds $2.75B to the ML sweepstakes ante and is counting on Claude Amazon says it has concluded its investment in AI super-startup Anthropic, which now stands at $4 billion, a figure the e-commerce colossus committed to last year.…
18:31SEC cleared to take securities beef against Coinbase to trialJudge says watchdog can HODL four of its five charges against crypto exchange The SEC's lawsuit accusing cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase of operating as an unregistered securities broker has survived its first legal challenge, opening the door for the case to go to trial.…
18:00Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite dares to game, reaching 30 FPS in...The bare minimum performance, but suggests a beefy integrated GPU Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite has some gaming and graphics prowess as seen in a demo where a reference laptop was shown to be running Baldur's Gate 3 at 1080p resolution and around 30 frames per second.…
16:30Kaby Lake-G chip back from the grave, now on modest...Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU into the processor package resurrected by Topton Kaby Lake-G, the Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU directly into the CPU package itself, was pronounced dead in 2019, but that hasn't stopped one company from reviving it for a mini PC motherboard.…
14:30Meta accused of snarfing people's Snapchat data via traffic decryptionI ain't afraid of no ghosts, but in this case... To spy on rival Snapchat and get data on how the app was being used, Meta – when it was operating as Facebook – allegedly initiated a program called Project Ghostbusters, which intercepted data traffic from mobile apps. And it used that data to harm its competitors' ad business.…
14:00What Nvidia's Blackwell efficiency gains mean for DC operatorsAir cooling's diminishing returns on full display with Nv's B-series silicon Analysis Hotter and more power-hungry CPUs and GPUs were already causing headaches for datacenter operators before Nvidia unveiled its 1,200W Blackwell GPUs at GTC last week.…
12:30Pragmatic Semiconductor opens UK's first 300mm wafer fab in DurhamFacility to bring major leap in domestic chip production amid government support UK chipmaker Pragmatic Semiconductor has officially opened its latest manufacturing facilities in Durham, just over a year after its CEO threatened to move the company out of the country over the government's lack of support for the chip industry.…
10:45Belgian beer study acquires taste for machine learningResearchers reckon results could improve recipe development for food and beverages Joining the list of things that probably don't need improving by machine learning but people are going to try anyway is Belgian beer.…
00:29Alibaba bins listing for its Cainiao logistics limbAlready backed away from cloud spinout, now gradually breaking up with its own breakup plan Chinese tech giant Alibaba has decided not to spin out its logistics limb, Cainiao, and will instead buy back shares in the outfit and integrate it more deeply with its e-commerce operations.…
mardi 26 mars 2024
18:00Intricate mission to de-ice a space telescope is go: Euclid's 'eye' is ...100 minutes of heating to melt a frozen heart... 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth Boffins at the European Space Agency (ESA) are very pleased with themselves following confirmation that the de-icing process they devised for Euclid's optics has 'performed significantly better than hoped.'…