CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months [Mon Jul 15 2024]

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CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months

Red team exercise revealed a score of security fails

 
 

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Game dev accuses Intel of selling ‘defective’ Raptor Lake CPUs

High-end processor instability headaches, failures pushed one studio to switch to AMD

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HPE to build supercomputer to 'enhance Japan's AI sovereignty'

Powered by Nvidia GPUs, natch, as GPU maker's CEO talks up mega bitbarn 'AI factories'

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EU officials say X’s paid-for blue check deceives users and breaks law

Preliminary findings also claim platform not compliant with DSA requirements for transparency, research access

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Smartphone is already many folks' only computer – say hi to optional desktop mode in Android 15 beta

Future Androids may let you dock them and use them as a desktop – as standard

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Microsoft 365's Chinese host uses just four percent renewable energy: Greenpeace

Red clouds are in no rush to go green

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SoftBank buys struggling UK AI chipmaker Graphcore

Potential for combo with Arm tantalizes

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UK cyber-boss slams China's bug-hoarding laws

Plus: Japanese scientists ID ancient supernova; AWS dismisses China trouble rumor; and more

Three words to send a chill down your spine: Snowflake. Intrusion. Alert

And can AI save us from the scourge of malware? In theory, why not, but in practice ... Color us skeptical

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CISA broke into a US federal agency, and no one noticed for a full 5 months

Red team exercise revealed a score of security fails

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Call, text logs for 110M AT&T customers stolen from compromised cloud storage

Snowflake? Snowflake

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Singapore's banks to ditch texted one-time passwords

Accessibility be damned, preventing phishing is the priority

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Unlocking growth: How HR leaders are helping their organizations compete

SuccessFactors Win NN Oxford Content Syndication Email

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Unlocking Financial Excellence: Aberdeen

New Aberdeen report spotlights the rising capabilities of midmarket companies

Software

Honey, I shrunk the LLM! A beginner's guide to quantization – and testing it

Just be careful not to shave off too many bits ... These things are known to hallucinate as it is

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White House urged to double check Microsoft isn't funneling AI to China via G42 deal

Windows maker insisted everything will be locked down and secure – which given its reputation, uh-oh!

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PowerToys bring fun tweaks to Windows 10 and 11

Mac migrants (if any exist) will find Powertoys Run strangely familiar

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New Outlook set for GA despite missing some key features

Classic Outlook for Windows shuffles a little closer to the end of the road

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Google can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usage

OK, now tell us why this isn't an EU DMA violation – asking for a friend in Brussels

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SAP's bid to woo open source community meets muted response

German software giant says open source is a 'catalyst for innovation' but is unlikely to release proprietary code

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Stop installing that software – you may have just died

They're called role-playing games for a reason ...

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Car dealer software slinger CDK Global said to have paid $25M ransom after cyberattack

15K dealerships take estimated $600M+ hit

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IcedID henchman gets nine years in clanger for abusing malware to drain bank accounts

The slippery Ukrainian national must also pay a hefty $74 million on top of the jail time

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Offbeat

SpaceX hit by inflight Falcon 9 failure

Upper stage engine suffers a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly, leaving Starlink satellites too low

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BOFH: It's not generative AI at all, it's degenerate AI

It's training day at HQ... which means pub time is getting closer

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South Korea orders 'Star Wars' lasers to blast Northern drones out of the sky

Ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side

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