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Monday August 26, 2024. 10:30 AM
Buying PCs off the gray market can (literally) blow up in your face Who, Me? Welcome, gentle reader, to another Monday morning. We here at The Reg hope your working week is starting well – or at least better than it went for the protagonist of this week's instalment of...
Google may be the most successful company in the world. But a Washington Post reporter argues that Google 'makes you largely responsible for dodging the criminals who are hurting legitimate businesses and swindling people.' On Monday, I found what appeared to be impostors of ...
It needs to – Virtzilla's customers, allies, and enemies are all pondering off-ramps and trying to lure unhappy users VMware Explore Adopting – or increasing the use of – a proprietary computing architecture like IBM's POWER is a very niche thing to do in 2024. Yet in...
Rumors swirl that lack of content moderation has angered authorities The founder and CEO of made-in-Russia messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France on Saturday – and subjected to further detention the next day – apparently over his company's alleged...
To build the massive datacenters generative AI requires, major companies like Amazon and Microsoft 'are going nuclear,' reports CIO magazine. AWS: Earlier this year, AWS paid $650 million to purchase Talen Energy's Cumulus Data Assets, a 960-megawatt nuclear-powered data...
Plus: Microsoft issues workaround for dual-boot crashes; ARRL cops to ransom payment, and more Infosec in brief Deniss Zolotarjovs, a suspected member of the Russian Karakurt ransomware gang, has been charged in a US court with allegedly conspiring to commit money...
America's Department of Energy has three R&D labs, according to Wikipedia, one of which is Sandia National Labs. And that New Mexico-based lab has just announced that 'A milestone in quantum sensing is drawing closer, promising exquisitely accurate, GPS-free navigation.'...
Plus: Glowing reports for Fukushima wastewater; New datacenters in Fiji, Malaysia & South Korea; and more ASIA IN BRIEF India's Telecom Regulatory Authority last Friday admitted the nation has fallen 'much below' its target to deploy ten million public Wi-Fi hotspots by...
SecurityWeek reports: A significant backdoor in millions of contactless cards made by China-based Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group allows instantaneous cloning of RFID smart cards used to open office doors and hotel rooms around the world. French security services firm...
Durov has reportedly been detained in France over Telegram’s alleged failure to adequately moderate illegal content on the messaging app. His arrest sparked backlash and left some associates asking, what now?
Sunday August 25, 2024. 11:47 PM
A university in Taiwan was breached with 'a previously unseen backdoor (Backdoor.Msupedge) utilizing an infrequently seen technique,' Symantec reports. The most notable feature of this backdoor is that it communicates with a command-and-control server via DNS traffic... The...
Long-time Slashdot reader UnderAttack explains: A blog post at the SANS Internet Storm Center suggests that OpenAI actions are being abused to scan for WordPress vulnerabilities. Honeypot sensors at the Storm Center detected scans for URLs targeting WordPress that originated ...
Long-time Slashdot reader mmell writes: Recent reports have indicated a near-complete collapse in the population of Snow Crabs in the Bering Sea. Scientists with the US Government's National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration have concluded that warming in the...
Eight days going on eight months for pilots stuck on orbiting space station +Comment NASA has decided the Boeing Starliner pilots stuck on the International Space Station will return to Earth in a SpaceX Crew Dragon pod next year – after the US agency's engineers could not ...
An anonymous reader shared this story from the blog Decrypt: Michael Lewis, author of Going Infinite, an account of the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, has argued that the disgraced FTX founder didn't have 'the character of a thief' in a new The Washington Post article....
One of Slashdot's most-visited stories of all time was the 2016 story asking: Can Cow Backpacks Reduce Global Methane Emissions? 'Enteric fermentation,' or livestock's digestive process, accounts for 22 percent of all U.S. methane emissions, and the manure they produce makes ...
At 360 frames per second, the Samsung Odyssey G6 OLED is fast enough to show me just how bad I really am at Overwatch 2.
The nonprofit American Radio Relay League — founded in 1914 — has approximately 161,000 members, according to Wikipedia (with over 7,000 members outside the U.S.) But sometime in early May its systems network was compromised, 'by threat actors using information they had...
Volkswagen said this week it would wait to see where EV demand goes before building out the last three of its six planned battery factories. And now Ford has also cancelled its planned electric SUV and delayed production of an all-new electric pickup, according to CNBC,...
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