What a twist! MGM Resorts wants the FTC to halt a probe into last year's ransomware infection at the mega casino chain – because the watchdog's boss Lina Khan was a guest at one of its hotels during the cyberattack.…
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Lees meerMuted the audio? That's an advert. Paused a video? That's an advert Roku TVs of the future may throw up targeted ads on the screen whenever you pause a video.…
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Lees meerGiven the electric car maker's annus horribilis so far in 2024, does the chief even deserve it? A Delaware court may have voided Elon Musk's $56 billion Tesla pay package in February, but now the board is asking shareholders to reinstate it.…
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Lees meerGuess what it's great for? Go on, have a guess... 20 points if you muttered an abbreviation starting with A and ending in I Samsung has revealed its upgraded LPDDR5X memory modules, which features improved performance, capacity, and efficiency.…
Lees meerCIQ also has an alternative approach to compatible kernels with RockyLinux The bigger RHELatives continue to diverge slightly from Red Hat, with additional drivers and newer kernel versions.…
Lees meerRace on to patch as researchers warn of mass exploitation of directory traversal bug Various infosec researchers have released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for the maximum-severity vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS used in GlobalProtect…
Lees meerAnticompetitive remedies? We've heard of them Apple is turning on Web Distribution for iOS apps, allowing EU users to download applications directly from developer websites.…
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Lees meerWhile some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck AI agents, which combine large language models with automation software, can successfully exploit real world security vulnerabilities by reading security advisories, academics have claimed.…
Lees meerProper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types FOSDEM 2024 NetBSD 10 marks a new level of maturity for this venerable open source Unix system, which somehow manages to be both modern and retro at the same time.…
Lees meerThe answer is not to hide from AI, but to be honest about it It's taken less than eighteen months for human- and AI-generated media to become impossibly intermixed. Some find this utterly unconscionable, and refuse to have anything to do with any me…
Lees meerComms services and AI contributing to increase, but vendors are taking 'risks' Gartner expects global IT spending to grow 8 percent in 2024 to $5.06 trillion in a revised forecast from the 6.8 percent uptick which the analyst predicted in January.…
Lees meerIf you wanna make money you've gotta spend money. And against Samsung it's gonna cost a lot Analysis Three years after CEO Pat Gelsinger announced Intel would create a foundry business that took on contract manufacturing gigs, Chipzilla has committ…
Lees meerNot all at once, of course Google will eventually invest $100 billion in AI, according to DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis.…
Lees meerJust doesn't believe it will sort out the mess that saw data leak from LINE messaging app Japan's government has considered the proposed security improvements developed by Yahoo!, found them wanting, and ordered the onetime web giant to take new mea…
Lees meerAI is so good at drawing pictures and driving cars, why not let it govern a country? India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, used AI to help develop the nation's 25-year development roadmap, according to comments made during a live-streamed interview…
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