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- Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Records August 31, 20222.5 million people were affected, in a breach that could spell more trouble down the line.
- Watering Hole Attacks Push ScanBox Keylogger August 30, 2022Researchers uncover a watering hole attack likely carried out by APT TA423, which attempts to plant the ScanBox JavaScript-based reconnaissance tool.
- Tentacles of ‘0ktapus’ Threat Group Victimize 130 Firms August 29, 2022Over 130 companies tangled in sprawling phishing campaign that spoofed a multi-factor authentication system.
- Ransomware Attacks are on the Rise August 26, 2022Lockbit is by far this summer’s most prolific ransomware group, trailed by two offshoots of the Conti group.
- Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras August 25, 2022Tens of thousands of cameras have failed to patch a critical, 11-month-old CVE, leaving thousands of organizations exposed.
- Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Records August 31, 2022
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- Microsoft Shuts Down Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda May 7, 2024Wesley Yin-Poole, reporting for IGN: Microsoft has closed a number of Bethesda studios, including Redfall maker Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush and The Evil Within developer Tango Gameworks, and more in devastating cuts at Bethesda, IGN can confirm. Alpha Dog Studios, maker of mobile game Mighty Doom, will also close. Roundhouse Games will be absorbed by […]
- Ten Years Ago Microsoft Bought Nokia's Phone Unit, Then Killed It As a Tax Write-Off May 7, 2024The Register provides a retrospective look at how Microsoft "absorbed the handset division of Nokia" ten years ago, only to kill the unit two years later and write it off as a tax loss. What went wrong? "It was a fatal combination of bad management, a market evolving in ways hidebound people didn't predict, and […]
- Boeing Starliner's First Crewed Mission Scrubbed May 7, 2024"Out of an abundance of caution," Boeing says its historic Starliner launch has been postponed, citing an issue with the oxygen relief valve on the Atlas V rocket's upper stage. It was expected to launch tonight at 10:34 p.m. ET. TechCrunch reports: There are backup launch opportunities on May 7, 10 and 11. After years […]
- Apple's iPhone Spyware Problem Is Getting Worse May 7, 2024An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: In April, Apple sent notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries, warning them they'd been targeted with spyware. "Apple detected that you are being targeted by a mercenary spyware attack that is trying to remotely compromise the iPhone associated with your Apple ID," the notification reads. Users […]
- Stockholm Exergi Lands World's Largest Permanent Carbon Removal Deal With Microsoft May 7, 2024Swedish energy company Stockholm Exergi and Microsoft have announced a 10-year deal that will provide the tech giant with more than 3.3 million tons of carbon removal certificates through bioenergy with carbon capture and storage. While the value of the deal was not disclosed, it stands as the largest of its kind globally. Carbon Herald […]
- Microsoft Shuts Down Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda May 7, 2024
Ars Technica
- Here’s why a rich guy going to space for a second time actually matters May 7, 2024Polaris Dawn will be the first time that SpaceX employees have actually gone to space.
- Faulty valve scuttles Starliner’s first crew launch May 7, 2024The soonest opportunity for Atlas V and Starliner to launch is Friday night.
- Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game May 6, 2024New method could help high-score chasers trying to avoid game-ending crashes.
- Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose May 6, 2024TunnelVision vulnerability has existed since 2002 and may already be known to attackers.
- Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices May 6, 2024Scales, trackers, and other fitness devices that don't get updated will stop syncing
- Here’s why a rich guy going to space for a second time actually matters May 7, 2024
Anandtech
- Samsung Tapes Out Its First 3nm Smartphone SoC, Gets A Boost From Synopsys AI-Enabled Tools May 3, 2024This week Samsung Electronics and Synopsys announced that Samsung has taped out its first mobile system-on-chip on Samsung Foundry's 3nm gate-all-around (GAA) process technology. The announcement, coming from electronic design automation Synopsys, further notes that Samsung used the Synopsys.ai EDA suite to place-n-route the layout and verify design of the SoC, which in turn enabled […]
- SK hynix Reports That 2025 HBM Memory Supply Has Nearly Sold Out May 2, 2024Demand for high-performance processors for AI training is skyrocketing, and consequently so is the demand for the components that go into these processors. So much so that SK hynix this week is very publicly announcing that the company's high-bandwidth memory (HBM) production capacity has already sold out for the rest of 2024, and even most […]
- The XPG Core Reactor II VE 850W PSU Review: Our First ATX 3.1 Power Supply May 2, 2024Just over 18 months ago, Intel launched their significantly revised ATX v3.0 power supply standard, and with it, the 600 Watt-capable 12VHPWR cable to power video cards and other high-drain add-in cards. The release of the standard came with a lot of fanfare and excitement – the industry was preparing for a future where even […]
- AMD Zen 5 Status Report: EPYC "Turin" Is Sampling, Silicon Looking Great May 1, 2024As part of AMD's Q1'2024 earnings announcement this week, the company is offering a brief status update on some of their future products set to launch later this year. Most important among these is an update on their Zen 5 CPU architecture, which is expected to launch for both client and server products later this […]
- PCI-SIG Completes CopprLink Cabling Standard: PCIe 5.0 & 6.0 Get Wired May 1, 2024The PCI-SIG sends word over this morning that the special interest group has completed their development efforts on the group’s new PCI-Express cabling standard, CopprLink. Designed to go hand-in-hand with PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 6.0, CopprLink defines both internal and external copper cabling for the latest PCIe standards, giving system vendors and assemblers the ability […]
- Samsung Tapes Out Its First 3nm Smartphone SoC, Gets A Boost From Synopsys AI-Enabled Tools May 3, 2024
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