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14 August 2024

Who uses LLM prompt injection attacks IRL? Mostly unscrupulous job seekers, jokesters and trolls Because apps talking like pirates and creating ASCII art never gets old

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Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS

Once-great platform tanks another major political livestream, bigly

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Small datacenters face the axe under China's new energy policy

Tech industry told to clean up its act – and help others to do likewise – in pursuit of 2035 'Beautiful China' goal

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Biden tries to cut through fog of confusion caused by deliberately deceptive customer service tricksTargets impossible unsubscribes, elusive human assistance, and other wallet-draining time sinks5 Comments

Google brings more Gemini AI features to Android, saves the best for Pixel 9

And four more phones. Woo. Yay.

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Akeana debuts RISC-V CPU designs on $100M budget, longs for an Arm wrestle

Whatever happened to the team behind Marvell’s ThunderX2 chips? Oh, hello

Another GPU cloud emerges. This time, upstart Foundry

Biz set sights beyond just another rent-an-accelerator cluster provider

Huawei's Ascend 910 launches this October to challenge Nvidia's H100

US sanctions may make things hard for Huawei, but the tech titan still has big GPU ambitions

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Demand for AI servers causing a run on enterprise SSDs, hiking prices

Bad news if you're buying personal kit as consumer flash starts getting $$$

4 Comments

UK semi industry exposed to supply chain risk, China state ownership

Report suggests govt get cracking on a proper ownership structure survey and ... hang on, did they forget the Midlands?

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An insider's guide to BigQuery cost optimization Discover the best practices that help you optimize both cost and performance of BigQuery

Four stages to success with AI for marketing Discover what’s possible for marketers, right now, with AI on Google Clo

Security

Patch Tuesday brings 90 new Microsoft CVEs, six already under exploit

Plus more pain for Intel which fixed 43 bugs, SAP and Adobe also in on the action

Six ransomware gangs behind over 50% of 2024 attacks

Plus many more newbies waiting in the wings

US accuses man of being 'elite' ransomware pioneer they've hunted for years

Authorities allege 'J.P. Morgan' practiced ‘extreme operational and online security’

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Feds bust minor league Radar/Dispossessor ransomware gang

The takedown may be small but any ransomware gang sent to the shops is good news in our book

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Orion SA says scammers conned company out of $60 million

Incident sounds like a BEC fraud targeting an unwitting staffer

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'Digital arrest' scams are big in India and may be spreading

Bad guys claim they're cops, keep you on hold for hours until you pay to make loved ones' crimes go away

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AMD won’t patch Sinkclose security bug on older Zen CPUs

Kernel mode not good enough for you? Maybe you'll like SMM of this

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Google sets BigQuery apart with GenAI, Open Choices, and Cross-Cloud Querying

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Software

Linux Foundation wades into AI as Open Model Initiative joins ranks

Penguins reiterate commitment to 'fostering open, collaborative' development, licensing

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Who uses LLM prompt injection attacks IRL? Mostly unscrupulous job seekers, jokesters and trolls

Because apps talking like pirates and creating ASCII art never gets old

12 Comments

AI chatbots amplify creation of false memories, boffins reckon – or do they?

We can misremember it for you wholesale

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Special Features

DEF CON badge disagreement gets physical as firmware dev removed from event stage

Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing?

28 Comments

Offbeat

FTC urges judge to spank Google over Android App market monopoly

Pay no attention to web giant's whining about the cost of compliance, watchdog argues

5 Comments

InSight data suggests plentiful water lies beneath Mars' surface

There's water in them thar hills, but it'll be really hard to get to

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SpaceX tries to wash away Texas pollution allegations

Elon Musk: Aiming for Mars, but sometimes ends up with Mercury?

28 Comments

US standards body proposes atomic clocks in lunar orbit to keep Moon time

Knowing precise time on satellite essential if we want accurate GPS-like system for exploration

14 Comments

Getting up close and personal with Concorde, Concordski, and Buran

The Reg flies to Germany to visit the Speyer and Sinsheim palaces of engineering marvels

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{* Daily Headlines *}

Who uses LLM prompt injection attacks IRL? Mostly unscrupulous job seekers, jokesters and trolls

Off-Prem

Elon Musk claims live Trump interview on X derailed by DDoS

Small datacenters face the axe under China's new energy policy

Do you need a better approach to trading partner collaboration?

Finance Infographic

On-Prem

Google brings more Gemini AI features to Android, saves the best for Pixel 9

Akeana debuts RISC-V CPU designs on $100M budget, longs for an Arm wrestle

Another GPU cloud emerges. This time, upstart Foundry

Huawei's Ascend 910 launches this October to challenge Nvidia's H100

Demand for AI servers causing a run on enterprise SSDs, hiking prices

UK semi industry exposed to supply chain risk, China state ownership

An insider's guide to BigQuery cost optimization

Four stages to success with AI for marketing

Security

Patch Tuesday brings 90 new Microsoft CVEs, six already under exploit

Six ransomware gangs behind over 50% of 2024 attacks

US accuses man of being 'elite' ransomware pioneer they've hunted for years

Feds bust minor league Radar/Dispossessor ransomware gang

Orion SA says scammers conned company out of $60 million

'Digital arrest' scams are big in India and may be spreading

AMD won’t patch Sinkclose security bug on older Zen CPUs

Google sets BigQuery apart with GenAI, Open Choices, and Cross-Cloud Querying

Software

Linux Foundation wades into AI as Open Model Initiative joins ranks

Who uses LLM prompt injection attacks IRL? Mostly unscrupulous job seekers, jokesters and trolls

AI chatbots amplify creation of false memories, boffins reckon – or do they?

Special Features

DEF CON badge disagreement gets physical as firmware dev removed from event stage

Offbeat

FTC urges judge to spank Google over Android App market monopoly

InSight data suggests plentiful water lies beneath Mars' surface

SpaceX tries to wash away Texas pollution allegations

US standards body proposes atomic clocks in lunar orbit to keep Moon time

Getting up close and personal with Concorde, Concordski, and Buran

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