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Wednesday September 25, 2024. 07:30 PM
Extorting underfunded public services for $1M isn't a good look Despite being top of the ransomware tree at the moment, RansomHub – specifically, one of its affiliates – clearly isn't that bright as they are reportedly trying to extort Delaware Libraries for around $1...
Memory safety flaws used to represent 76% of 'droid security holes. Now they account for 24% Google says its effort to prioritize memory-safe software development over the past six years has substantially reduced the number of memory safety vulnerabilities in its Android...
Fun retro tweaks, App Center facelift, and more as Oracular Oriole moves into view The beta version of Ubuntu 24.10 has just come out, with GNOME 47 as its default desktop and some fun retro touches.…
DRACO will be born to die in the fires of atmospheric re-entry The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Spanish company Deimos Space a contract for a spacecraft whose sole purpose is to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere so engineers can see what happens.…
AC/DC: America's grid might need to brace itself Comment The multibillion-dollar gamble of Intel and other semiconductor industry players on US-based chipmaking may be about to give America's power infrastructure a bit of a headache.…
Tracking alternative is less invasive than other methods, but is opt out by default Updated Privacy activist group noyb has filed a complaint against Mozilla over a 'Privacy Preserving Attribution' feature that was quietly enabled in Firefox following a July update.…
Better or worse than a surprise U2 album? Apple's on-device AI model, dubbed Apple Intelligence, will require 4 GB of device storage space, and more at a later date. That's about the size of an HD movie, for now.…
Mountain View versus Redmond: Fight over cloud software licensing policies gets formal Google Cloud Platform has filed a complaint with the European Commission alleging Microsoft software licensing policies are anti-competitive, including claims customers are being charged...
Officers put in danger when republican dissidents grabbed hold of their names and details Victims have yet to receive any compensation after a document was mistakenly published in 2023 containing data belonging to members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI),...
Think tank warns of sovereignty risks from subsea cable consolidation The dominance of US-based hyperscalers like Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon in subsea cables has reshaped the industry and put critical infrastructure at risk, an Australian think tank claims.…
After Telegram CEO was charged in France, Element bosses mull the challenges Interview Not upsetting law enforcement with end to end encryption and finding a sustainable way to fund open source development are challenges facing messaging giants and minnows alike.…
Post Office scandal? What scandal? Fujitsu has won a place on a UK tech framework worth up to £600 million ($802 million) despite promising not to bid for public sector contracts while its role in the Post Office Horizon scandal faces scrutiny. The company says bidding for...
Buying computers without the tech to get harder as chipmakers compete for cash, say analysts AI PCs are forecast to account for 43 percent of PCs by 2025, says tech market sales number cruncher and consultancy Gartner, and by 2026, an AI device may be the virtually the only...
Prithvi, Prithvi, Prithvi good Researchers at IBM and NASA this week released an open source AI climate model designed to accurately predict weather patterns while consuming fewer compute resources compared to traditional physics-based simulations.…
Broadcom's software bundles under scrutiny after perhaps irking Fujitsu Updated Japan's Fair Trade Commission, the nation's anti-monopoly agency, has reportedly commenced an investigation into VMware's software licensing practices.…
Wants lunar sample return within three years, Venus launch in 2028, orbiting hab in 2035, boots on Luna five years later India's government last week signed off on three big space missions: a Moon lander, a space station module, and a Venus orbiter.…
Turn on home aircon and maybe peer inside the fridge or oven – all from behind the wheel Samsung and fellow South Korean giants Kia and Hyundai have struck up an IoT alliance that will see cars drive home appliances, and smartphones control some operations inside cars.…
Service due to roll out later this month, despite fears AI will crash the market AI has driven the stock market into a hype-fueled frenzy, and an Israeli startup has even convinced regulators to let its chatbot hallucinate an investment portfolio on your behalf.…
Caroline Ellison thanked for helping take down FTX supremo, ordered to surrender her own billions The former CEO of Alameda Research, Caroline Ellison, has been sentenced to two years in a minimum-security prison after pleading guilty to helping her former boyfriend Sam...
Taipei laughs it off – and so does Beijing, which says political slurs hit sites nobody reads anyway Taiwan has dismissed Chinese allegations that its military sponsored a recent wave of anti-Beijing cyber attacks.…
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