FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon's botnet [Thu Feb 1 2024]

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Remotely disinfects Cisco and Netgear routers to block Chinese critters

 
 

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Oracle is hiring two new teams to build its cloud faster and stronger

Infrastructure Delivery Engineering team to help build datacenters, data team to create new services

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Alphabet just banked $3B by stretching life of its servers

Q4 results reveal AI is the answer to – or the reason for – everything: a cloud profit, wobbly ads, boosting subscriptions

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Meta boss told in social media safety probe: 'Your product is killing people'

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Samsung pins hopes on AI to return to growth this year

Next generation of devices are going to be packed with it – requiring lots and lots of memory

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Investors threw 50% less money at quantum last year

Yep, you guessed it – at least some of them swapped investments out for gen AI

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'Exemplar' digital hospitals trust hit by multiple tech-related traumas

Retrieving electronic records takes 45 minutes and staff say they don't have time to use systems

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Zen Internet warns customers of an impending IP address change

As if by magic, multiple IPv4s may be reduced to just one

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AMD bets demand for its MI300 accelerator will balance dips across other product lines

Chip biz aims to sell $3.5 billion worth of its Instinct GPUs and APUs in 2024 alone

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FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon's botnet

Remotely disinfects Cisco and Netgear routers to block Chinese critters

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Ransomware payment rates drop to new low – only 29% of victims are forking over cash

It's almost like years of false assurances have made people realize payments are pointless

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Nearly 4-year-old Cisco vuln linked to recent Akira ransomware attacks

Evidence mounts of an exploit gatekept within Russia's borders

We know nations are going after critical systems, but what happens when crims join in?

This isn't going to end well

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Ivanti releases patches for VPN zero-days, discloses two more high-severity vulns

Many versions still without fixes while sophisticated attackers bypass mitigations

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Cloud Software Group effectively snuffs open source XenCenter via a README file

It's an interesting way to get the attention of VMware users feeling bruised by Broadcom

Dems and Repubs agree on something – a law to tackle unauthorized NSFW deepfakes

You could say this was tailored for Swift

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Adobe has 'no plans' to invest in XD despite failed Figma buy

Oh the bitter irony – now Figma can enjoy a monopoly in UX niche, say devs

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Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code

Embrace, extend, and ... port?

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Microsoft posts another set of bumper results. Market's response? Meh

Forecast worries or AI fatigue kicking in? Redmond has an important 12 months ahead

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Web devs fear Apple's iOS shakeup for Europe will be a nightmare for support

Still, there's hope for actual browser competition on iPhones

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OpenAI's GPT-4 finally meets its match: Scots Gaelic smashes safety guardrails

'Tha e comasach inneal spreadhaidh dachaigh a' thogail le stuthan taighe'

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Crunchbang++ versus Bunsen Labs: The pair turn it up to 12

Lightweight rivals, both based on Crunchbang, OpenBox, and Debian

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China puts homegrown GPUs and other AI infrastucture on its national to-do list

Don't have to deal with sanctions if you build it yourself

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Universal Music accuses TikTok of 'intimidation' and threats to replace humans with AI

Made-in-China social network allegedly made lowball licensing offer and abused its platform power

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DeepMind's robot chef cooks up 'novel' materials with a side of controversy

Chemists dispute research claiming millions of recipes for inorganic crystalline compounds

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Japanese space lasers aim to clean up orbital junk

Zap it and trap it like a cosmic Marie Kondo, but will everyone approve?

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