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Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage
Dan Robinson
Boffins show less platinum may be needed for long-lived power source Adding caffeine can enhance the efficiency of fuel cells, reducing the need for platinum in electrodes and significantly reducing the cost of making them, according to researchers in Japan....
LockBit ransomware kingpin gets 4 years behind bars
Jessica Lyons
Canadian-Russian said to have turned to a life of cybercrime during pandemic, now must pay the price - literally A LockBit ransomware kingpin has been sentenced to almost four years behind bars and ordered to pay more than CA$860,000 ($635,000, PS500,000) in restitution to some of his victims by a Canadian court as he awaits extradition to the US....
Google gooses Safe Browsing with real-time protection that doesn't leak to ad giant
Thomas Claburn
Rare occasion when you do want Big Tech to make a hash of it Google has enhanced its Safe Browsing service to enable real-time protection in Chrome for desktop, iOS, and soon Android against risky websites, without sending browsing history data to the ad biz....
Oracle adds GenAI to Fusion with a whopping 50 use cases
Lindsay Clark
But is there one that can sort out failing ERP projects? Well Larry, is there? Oracle has unleashed 50 use cases for gen AI on its Fusion Applications suite, letting vector-based statistical models provide financial report "narratives," help filter job candidates, and provide product descriptions....
Google brains plumb depths of the uncanny valley with latest image-to-video tool
Brandon Vigliarolo
VLOGGER needs just a still photo and an audio recording to generate footage, but it's far from perfect Google has a new AI trick up its sleeve that can animate a still photo using nothing but a recording of a person's speech, and boy is it widening the uncanny valley....
Record breach of French government exposes up to 43 million people's data
Connor Jones
Zut alors! Department for registering and helping unemployed people broken into A French government department - responsible for registering and assisting unemployed people - is the latest victim of a mega data breach that compromised the information of up to 43 million citizens....
Third time is almost the charm for SpaceX's Starship
Richard Speed
Booster hit the water hard and monster rocket lost during re-entry, but otherwise a success! SpaceX has launched its third Starship Super-Heavy rocket on a test flight that went almost entirely to plan....
International effort to disrupt cybercrime moves into operational phase
Jessica Lyons
Will the WEF experiment work? The Cybercrime Atlas, a massive undertaking that aims to disrupt cybercriminals across the globe, enters its operational phase in 2024, two years after organizers laid the groundwork at the RSA Conference....
Developers beware, Microsoft's domain shakeup is coming soon
Richard Speed
If you don't pay attention, your lovely little Teams app will stop working Time is running out for developers and administrators to prepare themselves for Microsoft's one domain to rule them all - cloud.microsoft....
US to probe Change Healthcare's data protection standards as lawsuits mount
Connor Jones
Services slowly coming back online but providers still struggling Change Healthcare is being investigated over the alleged 6 TB data theft by the ALPHV ransomware group as it continues recovery efforts....
Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble
Richard Speed
Veteran spacecraft shows signs of sanity with poke from engineers Engineers are hopeful that the veteran spacecraft Voyager 1 might have turned a corner after spending the last three months spouting gibberish at controllers....
Former US Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin thinking about buying TikTok
Brandon Vigliarolo
SteveTok? TikMnuch? On the heels of the US House of Representatives passing a TikTok ban law, former US Treasury secretary and private equity mogul Steve Mnuchin is apparently thinking about buying the platform....
AI and wearables are scaring the wellbeing out of workers
Brandon Vigliarolo
We thought everyone was thrilled about being spied on and having their jobs taken by bots A survey of UK workers suggests that quality of life declines as exposure to newer technology including wearables, robotics, and AI rises in the workplace....
Exchange Online blocked from sending email to AOL and Yahoo
Richard Speed
Microsoft IP addresses on the spam naughty step If you're an Exchange Online user wondering why emails to Yahoo and AOL users haven't been getting through, don't worry - it isn't just you. Stricter security rules have tripped up Microsoft's email service....
Rancher faces prison for trying to breed absolute unit of a sheep
Richard Currie
Ewe-nique endeavor aimed to create Jurassic Baaa-rk experience for hunters In a case that could have been lifted from a bad movie about a "mad scientist," a Montana rancher has pleaded guilty to wildlife trafficking charges in his quest to genetically engineer an ubersheep for hunting....
SAP accused of age discrimination, retaliation by US whistleblower
Lindsay Clark
Complainant moved to 'retire in place' role after Sarbanes Oxley Act report, filing alleges SAP is being sued for age discrimination and retaliation by an employee that alleges he was moved to a meaningless role after he asked for an investigation of potentially anti-competitive practices....
Oh look, cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS
Thomas Claburn
Thanks to Europe forcing Apple to offer a browser choice screen. Now, about ditching WebKit ... Since Apple implemented a browser choice screen for iPhones earlier this month to comply with Europe's Digital Markets Act (DMA), Brave Software, Mozilla, and Vivaldi have seen a surge in the number of people installing their web browsers....
Microsoft forges One Teams App To Rule Them All
Simon Sharwood
Windows preview delivers one app to handle multiple accounts, boosts Copilot's capabilities Microsoft is on the cusp of addressing a major frustration caused by its Teams app by introducing a version capable of simultaneously logging in to multiple personae....
Ten nations tell social media, banks, and telcos to get better at stopping scams
Simon Sharwood
Australian minister singles out Meta - where Zuck has 600,000 Nvidia GPUs ready to roll The governments of ten nations have called on social media operators to improve their ability to detect and prevent fraud from flourishing on their platforms....
Korea's SK Innovation liquidates Chinese battery subsidiary
Laura Dobberstein
The Chaebol that also runs chipmaker SK hynix lacks energy to run multiple middle kingdom entities SK Innovation, part of the same Chaebol as chipmaker SK hynix, has liquidated its Chinese battery subsidiary, Blue Dragon Energy....
South Korea goes out on a limb to manage forests with AI, satellites
Laura Dobberstein
Plans to digitally transform trees South Korea's Forest Service announced on Wednesday it plans to establish a real-time forest resource management system and an AI-based forest fire monitoring platform....
US Congress goes bang, bang, on TikTok sale-or-ban plan
Simon Sharwood
Bill proposes to do to China what China already does to the US - make life hard for foreign social networks The United States House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act - a law aimed at forcing TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the app's US operations or face the prospect of a ban....
Nissan to let 100,000 Aussies and Kiwis know their data was stolen in cyberattack
Connor Jones
Akira ransomware crooks brag of swiping thousands of ID documents during break-in Over the next few weeks, Nissan Oceania will make contact with around 100,000 people in Australia and New Zealand whose data was pilfered in a December 2023 attack on its systems - perhaps by the Akira ransomware gang....
Microsoft decides it's done with Azure egress ransoms
Thomas Claburn
Cloud exit toll booth bypass built by EU regulators Microsoft on Wednesday said it will no longer charge customers an egress fee to remove their data from its Azure cloud, following similar declarations earlier this year from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google....
Leaked docs hint Google may use SiFive RISC-V cores in next-gen TPUs
Tobias Mann
Would put those AI accelerators out of Arm's reach, at least Opinion After a difficult 2023, things may be looking up for RISC-V chip designer SiFive, which expects AI to drive strong revenue growth in 2024....
From quantum AI to photonics, what OpenAI's latest hire tells us about its future
Tobias Mann
What's good for quantum optimization could help make models leaner Analysis Quantum computing has remained a decade away for over a decade now, but according to industry experts it may hold the secret to curbing AI's insatiable appetite....
Nvidia rival Cerebras says it's revived Moore's Law with third-gen waferscale chips
Tobias Mann
Startup is also working with Qualcomm on optimized models for its Cloud AI 100 Ultra inference chips Cerebras revealed its latest dinner-plate sized AI chip on Wednesday, which it claims offers twice the performance per watt of its predecessor, alongside a collaboration with Qualcomm aimed at accelerating machine learning inferencing....
Oracle AI buzz means Larry Ellison's worth $15B more today
Paul Kunert
And here you were saying tech hadn't yet made a difference to someone special Larry Ellison's personal wealth is inextricably linked to Oracle and yesterday it ballooned by more than $15 billion following a 12 percent rally of Big Red's stock on the news that it is building an AI datacenter and has a deal with AI darling Nvidia....
Japan's first private satellite launch imitates SpaceX's giant explosions
Simon Sharwood
KAIROS detonated a few seconds after clearing the launchpad Video On another bad day for Japan's space industry, the nation's first private satellite launch failed within seconds of launch....
March Patch Tuesday sees Hyper-V join the guest-host escape club
Jessica Lyons
Critical bugs galore among 61 Microsoft fixes, 56 from Adobe, a dozen from SAP, and a fistful from Fortinet Patch Tuesday Microsoft's monthly patch drop has arrived, delivering a mere 61 CVE-tagged vulnerabilities - none listed as under active attack or already known to the public....