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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
Slashdot
- NASA Fires Lasers At the ISS July 27, 2024joshuark shares a report from The Verge: NASA researchers have successfully tested laser communications in space by streaming 4K video footage originating from an airplane in the sky to the International Space Station and back. The feat demonstrates that the space agency could provide live coverage of a Moon landing during the Artemis missions and […]
- 'Copyright Traps' Could Tell Writers If an AI Has Scraped Their Work July 27, 2024An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Since the beginning of the generative AI boom, content creators have argued that their work has been scraped into AI models without their consent. But until now, it has been difficult to know whether specific text has actually been used in a training data set. […]
- Crooks Bypassed Google's Email Verification To Create Workspace Accounts, Access 3rd-Party Services July 27, 2024Brian Krebs writes via KrebsOnSecurity: Google says it recently fixed an authentication weakness that allowed crooks to circumvent the email verification required to create a Google Workspace account, and leverage that to impersonate a domain holder at third-party services that allow logins through Google's "Sign in with Google" feature. [...] Google Workspace offers a free […]
- Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone At the Border July 27, 2024On Wednesday, Judge Nina Morrison ruled that cellphone searches at the border are "nonroutine" and require probable cause and a warrant, likening them to more invasive searches due to their heavy privacy impact. As reported by Reason, this decision closes the loophole in the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, which Customs and […]
- Nvidia's Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Performing At Parity To Proprietary Driver July 27, 2024Nvidia's new R555 Linux driver series has significantly improved their open-source GPU kernel driver modules, achieving near parity with their proprietary drivers. Phoronix's Michael Larabel reports: The NVIDIA open-source kernel driver modules shipped by their driver installer and also available via their GitHub repository are in great shape. With the R555 series the support and […]
- NASA Fires Lasers At the ISS July 27, 2024
Ars Technica
- People are overdosing on off-brand weight-loss drugs, FDA warns July 26, 2024Bad math and unclear directions are behind overdoses of up to 20 times the normal amount.
- NASA nears decision on what to do with Boeing’s troubled Starliner spacecraft July 26, 2024Boeing won't start flying operational crew missions with Starliner until a year from now.
- Union game performers strike over AI voice and motion-capture training July 26, 2024Use of motion-capture actors' performances for AI training is a sticking point.
- AI and ML enter motorsports: How GM is using them to win more races July 26, 2024From modeling tire wear and fuel use to predicting cautions based on radio traffic.
- ISPs seeking government handouts try to avoid offering low-cost broadband July 26, 2024Despite getting subsidies, ISPs oppose $30 plans for people with low incomes.
- People are overdosing on off-brand weight-loss drugs, FDA warns July 26, 2024
Anandtech
- ASRock Launches Passively Cooled Radeon RX 7900 XTX & XT Cards for Servers July 26, 2024As sales of GPU-based AI accelerators remain as strong as ever, the immense demand for these cards has led to some server builders going off the beaten path in order to get the hardware they want at a lower price. While both NVIDIA and AMD offer official card configurations for servers, the correspondingly high price […]
- SK hynix to Enter 60 TB SSD Club Next Quarter July 25, 2024SK hynix this week reported its financial results for the second quarter, as well as offering a glimpse at its plans for the coming quarters. Notably among the company's plans for the year is the release of a SK hynix-branded 60 TB SSD, which will mark the firm's entry into the ultra-premium enterprise SSD league. […]
- AMD Delays Ryzen 9000 Launch 1 to 2 Weeks Due to Chip Quality Issues July 24, 2024AMD sends word this afternoon that the company is delaying the launch of their Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors. The first Zen 5 architecture-based desktop chips were slated to launch next week, on July 31st. But citing quality issues that are significant enough that AMD is even pulling back stock already sent to distributors, AMD […]
- Micron Launches 9550 PCIe Gen5 SSDs: 14 GB/s with Massive Endurance July 24, 2024Micron has introduced its Micron 9550-series SSDs, which it claims are the fastest enterprise drives in the industry. The Micron 9550 Pro and 9550 Max SSDs with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface promise unbeatable performance amid enhanced endurance and power efficiency, which will be particularly beneficial for data centersMicron's 9550-series solid-state drives are based on a […]
- JEDEC Plans LPDDR6-Based CAMM, DDR5 MRDIMM Specifications July 23, 2024Following a relative lull in the desktop memory industry in the previous decade, the past few years have seen a flurry of new memory standards and form factors enter development. Joining the traditional DIMM/SO-DIMM form factors, we've seen the introduction of space-efficient DDR5 CAMM2s, their LPDDR5-based counterpart the LPCAMM2, and the high-clockspeed optimized CUDIMM. But […]
- ASRock Launches Passively Cooled Radeon RX 7900 XTX & XT Cards for Servers July 26, 2024
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