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INC Ransom claims responsibility for attack on NHS Scotland

donderdag 28 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Sensitive documents dumped on leak site amid claims of 3 TB of data stolen in total NHS Scotland says it managed to contain a ransomware group's malware to a regional branch, preventing the spread of infection across the entire institution.…

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PostgreSQL pioneer's latest brainchild promises time travel to dodge ransomware

donderdag 28 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Michael Stonbraker on the neat side effects of putting an operating system on top of a database Database pioneer Michael Stonebraker is promising his new concept of putting the operating system on top of a database could help end ransomware.…

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Databricks claims its open source foundational LLM outsmarts GPT-3.5

donderdag 28 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

In the AI gold rush, analytics outfit wants to provide the shovels Analytics platform Databricks has launched an open source foundational large language model, hoping enterprises will opt to use its tools to jump on the LLM bandwagon.…

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These 17,000 unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers are a ticking time bomb

donderdag 28 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

One might say this is a wurst case scenario The German Federal Office for Information Security (BIS) has issued an urgent alert about the poor state of Microsoft Exchange Server patching in the country.…

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AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them – even if potentially poisoned with malware

donderdag 28 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that In-depth  Several big businesses have published source code that incorporates a software package previously hallucinated by generativ…

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Execs in Japan busted for winning dev bids then outsourcing to North Koreans

donderdag 28 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Government issues stern warning over despot money-making scheme Two executives were issued arrest warrants in Japan on Wednesday, reportedly for charges related to establishing a business that outsourced work to North Korean IT engineers.…

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China encouraged armed offensive against Myanmar government to protest proliferation of online scams

donderdag 28 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Report claims Beijing is most displaced by junta's failure to address slave labor scam settlements The military junta controlling Myanmar has struggled to control all of its territory thanks in part to China backing rebel forces as a way of expressi…

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Singapore improves the AI it uses to detect smokers

donderdag 28 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Past versions struggled to spot a lungbuster – this time authorities think they've reduced false positives Singapore has improved the AI it uses to detect smokers who light up in the many places where the practice is forbidden across the island nati…

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Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

donderdag 28 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know More than half of Americans are using ad blocking software, and among advertising, programming, and security professionals that fraction is more like two-thirds to thr…

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China encouraged armed offensive against Myanmar government to protest proliferation of online scams

donderdag 28 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Report claims Beijing is most displaced by junta's failure to address slave labor scam settlements The military junta controlling Myanmar has struggled to control all of its territory thanks in part to China backing rebel forces as a way of expressi…

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Singapore improves the AI it uses to detect smokers

donderdag 28 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Past versions struggled to spot a lungbuster – this time authorities think they've reduced false positives Singapore has improved the AI it uses to detect smokers who light up in the many places where the practice is forbidden across the island nati…

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Hyperfluorescent OLEDs promise more efficient displays that won't make you so blue

donderdag 28 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Novel design might also help reduce those annoying burn-in issues A recent paper published in Nature demonstrates that hyperfluorescent OLEDs could significantly reduce the energy required to display the color blue – potentially mitigating, but not …

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Amazon finishes pumping $4B into AI darling Anthropic

donderdag 28 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Adds $2.75B to the ML sweepstakes ante and is counting on Claude Amazon says it has concluded its investment in AI super-startup Anthropic, which now stands at $4 billion, a figure the e-commerce colossus committed to last year.…

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Standardization could open door to third-party chiplets in AMD designs

woensdag 27 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Domain-specific accelerators are 'essential to progress' it claims, and a chiplet ecosystem is one way forward Video  Future AMD processors could feature domain-specific accelerators – even some created by third parties, according to senior execs at…

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Apple fans deluged with phony password reset requests

woensdag 27 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Beware support calls offering a fix Apple device owners, consider yourselves warned: a targeted multi-factor authentication bombing campaign is under way, with the goal of exhausting iUsers into allowing an unwanted password reset.…

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Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

woensdag 27 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know More than half of Americans are using ad blocking software, and among advertising, programming, and security professionals that fraction is more like two-thirds to thr…

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'Thousands' of businesses at mercy of miscreants thanks to unpatched Ray AI flaw

woensdag 27 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Anyscale claims issue is 'long-standing design decision' – as users are raided by intruders Thousands of companies remain vulnerable to a remote-code-execution bug in Ray, an open-source AI framework used by Amazon, OpenAI, and others, that is being…

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Kaby Lake-G chip back from the grave, now on modest firewall-router-NAS mobo

woensdag 27 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU into the processor package resurrected by Topton Kaby Lake-G, the Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU directly into the CPU package itself, was pronounced dead in 2019, but that hasn't stopped one company fr…

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NASA gives IXPE observatory the Ctrl-Alt-Del treatment to make it talk sense

woensdag 27 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Hardware misbehaving in orbit? Time for a reset on the avionics NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space observatory has had a problem, prompting engineers on the ground to hit the reset button.…

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'Thousands' of businesses at mercy of miscreants thanks to unpatched Ray AI flaw

woensdag 27 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Anyscale claims issue is 'long-standing design decision' – as users are raided by intruders Thousands of companies remain vulnerable to a remote-code-execution bug in Ray, an open-source AI framework used by Amazon, OpenAI, and others, that is being…

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CEO of UK's National Grid warns of datacenters' thirst for power

woensdag 27 maart 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Predicts 500 percent increase in consumption over a decade and suggests 800 kilovolt fix John Pettigrew, the CEO of Britain's National Grid, warned on Tuesday that datacenter power consumption is on track to grow 500 percent over the next decade.…

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