Officer pay, limited command duties and writing 'code for your country' Skilled IT professionals considering a career change have a new option, as the US Air Force is reintroducing warrant officer ranks exclusively "within the cyber and information …
Lees meerSome company admin and customers data exposed, but bad guys were there for 'only' a day Prudential Financial, the second largest life insurance company in the US and eight largest worldwide, is dealing with a digital break-in that exposed some inter…
Lees meerScribes may have a point about unfair competition, will need to try again on infringement A US judge has dismissed some of the claims made by writers in a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, though gave the wordsmiths another chance to am…
Lees meerAlphabet owned autonomous vehicle biz files voluntary recall report saying it tweaked wares via over-the-air update Self-driving car company Waymo – a subsidiary of Google owner Alphabet – has voluntarily filed a recall report after one of its vehic…
Lees meerEmergency impacting more than 100 facilities appears to be caused by incident at software provider The Romanian national cybersecurity agency (DNSC) has pinned the outbreak of ransomware cases across the country's hospitals to an incident at a servi…
Lees meerWorld's only EUV photolithography maker finished 2023 with order backlog worth €39B Even as the chip industry lifts itself out of the current deep downcycle, ASML is worried geopolitical developments outside its control could still have an unforesee…
Lees meerHeartBlocker extension aimed at the 'forever alone' crowd Opera is rolling out an extension to the gamer version of its eponymous browser aimed at users who would rather not be reminded of the significance of February 14.…
Lees meerThe company also curiously disappears from Black Basta leak site UK utilities giant Southern Water admits between 5 and 10 percent of its customers have had their data stolen during a January cyberattack.…
Lees meerTrying to break in with malicious Word documents? How very 2015 of you The Bumblebee malware loader seemingly vanished from the internet last October, but it's back and - oddly - relying on a vintage vector to try and gain access.…
Lees meerReady for cruising: successful deployment leaves the ball in the scientists' court NASA says its latest take on solar sail technology is ready for proposals for it to be flown on science missions.…
Lees meerDSL 2024 is not as svelte as it used to be – but who is? Seventeen years after its last major version, an old favorite, Damn Small Linux, is back with a new 2024 release.…
Lees meerDecades of obsessing about always going faster have left us in constant danger Column Before he woke up on the first day of February, one of my friends was robbed.…
Lees meerDecades of obsessing about always going faster have left us in constant danger Column Before he woke up on the first day of February, one of my friends was robbed.…
Lees meerDid someone say a safety word? iMessage, Bing, Edge, Ads avoid gatekeeper restrictions The European Commission has reversed its decision that some Apple and Microsoft offerings qualify as "gatekeeper services" under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), me…
Lees meerOf course it's bristling with Noctuas – how else do you cool a 1kW desktop? Nvidia's long-teased GH200 CPU-GPU Superchips are finally going on sale, and the 1,000-Watt chip – built to run in servers and handle hefty AI training and inference tasks –…
Lees meerReckons OpenAI and Google are mere infrastructure players who don't understand apps or how AI will change them Airbnb sees AI as its ticket out of the travel industry ghetto, and a passport to expanding its services into other industries.…
Lees meer$1.3 billion lost as identity fraud – and greed – saw 57,000 or more seek unearned tax refunds One hundred and fifty people who worked for the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) have been investigated – and some prosecuted – for participating in a tax…
Lees meerScribes may have a point about unfair competition, will need to try again on infringement A US judge has dismissed some of the claims made by writers in a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, though gave the wordsmiths another chance to am…
Lees meerSAP, Adobe, Intel, AMD also issue fixes as well as Google for Android Patch Tuesday Microsoft fixed 73 security holes in this February's Patch Tuesday, and you better get moving because two of the vulnerabilities are under active attack.…
Lees meerFirefox Mobile also getting increased attention Firefox maker Mozilla has laid off "approximately 60" staff, or around five percent of its workforce.…
Lees meer'You don't have to do more than that to disconnect an entire network' El Reg told as patches emerge A single packet can exhaust the processing capacity of a vulnerable DNS server, effectively disabling the machine, by exploiting a 20-plus-year-old d…
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