Logjam 'hurting infosec processes world over' one expert tells us as US body blows its own Sept deadline NIST has made some progress clearing its backlog of security vulnerability reports to process – though it's not quite on target as hoped.…
Lees meerNow that's the kind of stability we like Tcl/Tk 9.0 has moved to Unicode and 64-bit data structures, and can now access compressed files as if they were file systems. It has been worth the considerable wait.…
Lees meerAttacks began the day after public disclosure "Patch yesterday" is the advice from infosec researchers as the latest critical vulnerability affecting Zimbra mail servers is now being mass-exploited.…
Lees meerBig Red says claims are baseless and wants case thrown out Oracle faces a class action lawsuit over allegations it has failed to deliver on its promises including a new claim that it "obfuscates" onerous contract terms in "hidden" documents.…
Lees meerBig Red says claims are baseless and wants case thrown out Oracle faces a class action lawsuit over allegations it has failed to deliver on its promises including a new claim that it "obfuscates" onerous contract terms in "hidden" documents.…
Lees meerUp and atom! The Biden administration has announced plans to reignite a shuttered Michigan nuclear power plant with a $1.5 billion loan that, combined with other nuclear announcements yesterday, suggests the US federal government is right now all in…
Lees meerIsambard 3 and AI sibling set to pick up the torch The UK's Isambard 2, one of the early Arm-based supercomputers, has officially retired after just a few years of operation. It is superseded by the more powerful Isambard 3 and Isambard-AI, just as …
Lees meerFun experiment, but yeah, don't pipe an LLM raw into /bin/bash Buck Shlegeris, CEO at Redwood Research, a nonprofit that explores the risks posed by AI, recently learned an amusing but hard lesson in automation when he asked his LLM-powered agent to…
Lees meerBother, given the White House has bet big on RPKI – just like we all rely on immature internet infrastructure that usually works The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) protocol has "software vulnerabilities, inconsistent specifications, and o…
Lees meerFeds tell thrilling tale of crypto crooks, Facebook scams, fast cars, guns, betrayal … and leg extensions? Adam Iza, the founder of cryptocurrency trading platform Zort, has been charged with tax evasion and conspiracy in a bizarre tale of corrupt c…
Lees meerPM promises agency to handle complaints as he outlines new digital nation plan Singapore is working on legislation and a dedicated agency that would hold online service providers more accountable for cyber bullying, according to prime minister Lawre…
Lees meerResearch institute seems to have found Huawei to do it – perhaps with Arm cores - despite sanctions China Telcom's AI Research Institute claims it trained a 100-billion-parameter model using only domestically produced computing power – a feat that s…
Lees meerResearch institute seems to have found Huawei to do it – perhaps with Arm cores - despite sanctions China Telcom's AI Research Institute claims it trained a 100-billion-parameter model using only domestically produced computing power – a feat that s…
Lees meerUnix-like to work on infrastructure, SMB reimplementation on 'key milestones' EuroBSDCon Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF), which is backed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, is funding open source work again. This t…
Lees meerUnix-like to work on infrastructure, SMB reimplementation on 'key milestones' EuroBSDCon Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF), which is backed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, is funding open source work again. This t…
Lees meerWants to peer into gaps in DMA to keep Redmond honest in cloud and AI Germany plans to keep closer tabs on Microsoft to identify and "stop anti-competitive practices" that are not currently covered by the European Commission's Digital Markets Act (D…
Lees meerTaxpayer-funded data locked behind insurance firm's paywall The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) cannot reveal weather forecasts from a particularly accurate hurricane prediction model to the public that pays for the American g…
Lees meerRansomware criminals believed to have taken orders from intel services The relationship between infamous cybercrime outfit Evil Corp and the Russian state is thought to be extraordinarily close, so close that intelligence officials allegedly ordered…
Lees meerAleksandr Ryzhenkov alleged to have extorted around $100M from victims, built 60 LockBit attacks The latest installment of the National Crime Agency's (NCA) series of ransomware revelations from February's LockBit Leak Week emerges today as the agen…
Lees meerBlue is the color of some screens after optional KB5043145 update Updated Microsoft's Patch Tuesday preview, KB5043145, arrived last week and is already causing some headaches thanks to serious stability issues.…
Lees meerCode-controlled taxi biz tiptoes back with supervised driving in Phoenix and Dallas Embattled driverless taxi outfit Cruise has been fined $1.5 million for leaving some essential details out of its initial reports to the US government about an accid…
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