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JetBrains keeps mum on 26 'security problems' fixed after Rapid7 spat
Connor Jones
Vendor takes hardline approach to patch disclosure to new levels JetBrains TeamCity users are urged to apply the latest version upgrade this week after the vendor disclosed 26 new security issues in the CI/CD web application....
University of Washington's Workday woes leave research grants in limbo
Lindsay Clark
$340M finance upgrade still working out the kinks Hundreds of research grants are stuck in processing limbo as the University of Washington continues to grapple with its $340 million implementation of Workday software....
FTX crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years in prison
Brandon Vigliarolo
Could have been worse: Prosecutors wanted decades more Fallen crypto-king Sam Bankman-Fried has been jailed for 25 years after New York federal judge Lewis Kaplan expressed disbelief at almost every argument from his legal team....
Nvidia's newborn ChatRTX bot patched for security bugs
Matthew Connatser
Flaws enable privilege escalation and remote code execution Nvidia's AI-powered ChatRTX app launched just six week ago but already has received patches for two security vulnerabilities that enabled attack vectors, including privilege escalation and remote code execution....
Intel's green dream is chips without any dips in Mother Nature's health
Dan Robinson
Sustainability Summit pushes industry partners to reduce their environmental impact, including harmful chemicals Intel is seeking alternatives to harmful chemicals that the electronics industry has used for decades, amid growing concerns about the potentially negative impacts on the environment and human health....
US critical infrastructure cyberattack reporting rules inch closer to reality
Jessica Lyons
After all, it's only about keeping the essentials on - no rush America's long-awaited cyber attack reporting rules for critical infrastructure operators are inching closer to implementation, after the Feds posted a notice of proposed rulemaking for the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA)....
How a single buck bought bragging rights in the battle to port Windows 95 to NT
Richard Speed
It reached the desktop and then ... A former Microsoft engineer has waxed lyrical about how he and a colleague made a sporting bet over how far a new build of Windows would get before crashing....
Canonical cracks down on crypto cons following Snap Store scam spree
Liam Proven
In happier news, Ubuntu Pro extended support now goes up to 12 years After multiple waves of cryptocurrency credential-stealing apps were uploaded to the Snap store, Canonical is changing its policies....
Progress outbids private equity in offer for MariaDB plc
Lindsay Clark
MySQL sibling saga continues as 40-year-old infrastructure software firm enters the fray Progress Software has made a bid for MariaDB, offering a price that is less than a tenth of the beleaguered company's value at its IPO launch....
INC Ransom claims responsibility for attack on NHS Scotland
Connor Jones
Sensitive documents dumped on leak site amid claims of 3 TB of data stolen in total NHS Scotland says it managed to contain a ransomware group's malware to a regional branch, preventing the spread of infection across the entire institution....
PostgreSQL pioneer's latest brainchild promises time travel to dodge ransomware
Lindsay Clark
Michael Stonbraker on the neat side effects of putting an operating system on top of a database Database pioneer Michael Stonebraker is promising his new concept of putting the operating system on top of a database could help end ransomware....
Databricks claims its open source foundational LLM outsmarts GPT-3.5
Lindsay Clark
In the AI gold rush, analytics outfit wants to provide the shovels Analytics platform Databricks has launched an open source foundational large language model, hoping enterprises will opt to use its tools to jump on the LLM bandwagon....
These 17,000 unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers are a ticking time bomb
Iain Thomson
One might say this is a wurst case scenario The German Federal Office for Information Security (BIS) has issued an urgent alert about the poor state of Microsoft Exchange Server patching in the country....
AI hallucinates software packages and devs download them - even if potentially poisoned with malware
Thomas Claburn
Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that In-depth Several big businesses have published source code that incorporates a software package previously hallucinated by generative AI....
Execs in Japan busted for winning dev bids then outsourcing to North Koreans
Laura Dobberstein
Government issues stern warning over despot money-making scheme Two executives were issued arrest warrants in Japan on Wednesday, reportedly for charges related to establishing a business that outsourced work to North Korean IT engineers....
China encouraged armed offensive against Myanmar government to protest proliferation of online scams
Laura Dobberstein
Report claims Beijing is most displaced by junta's failure to address slave labor scam settlements The military junta controlling Myanmar has struggled to control all of its territory thanks in part to China backing rebel forces as a way of expressing its displeasure about cyberscam centers operating from the country....
Singapore improves the AI it uses to detect smokers
Simon Sharwood
Past versions struggled to spot a lungbuster - this time authorities think they've reduced false positives Singapore has improved the AI it uses to detect smokers who light up in the many places where the practice is forbidden across the island nation, to help local law enforcement more efficiently stub out offenders....
Hyperfluorescent OLEDs promise more efficient displays that won't make you so blue
Matthew Connatser
Novel design might also help reduce those annoying burn-in issues A recent paper published in Nature demonstrates that hyperfluorescent OLEDs could significantly reduce the energy required to display the color blue - potentially mitigating, but not solving, screen burn-in....
Standardization could open door to third-party chiplets in AMD designs
Tobias Mann
Domain-specific accelerators are 'essential to progress' it claims, and a chiplet ecosystem is one way forward Video Future AMD processors could feature domain-specific accelerators - even some created by third parties, according to senior execs at the chip shop....
Apple fans deluged with phony password reset requests
Brandon Vigliarolo
Beware support calls offering a fix Apple device owners, consider yourselves warned: a targeted multi-factor authentication bombing campaign is under way, with the goal of exhausting iUsers into allowing an unwanted password reset....
Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
Thomas Claburn
We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know More than half of Americans are using ad blocking software, and among advertising, programming, and security professionals that fraction is more like two-thirds to three-quarters....
NASA gives IXPE observatory the Ctrl-Alt-Del treatment to make it talk sense
Richard Speed
Hardware misbehaving in orbit? Time for a reset on the avionics NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space observatory has had a problem, prompting engineers on the ground to hit the reset button....
'Thousands' of businesses at mercy of miscreants thanks to unpatched Ray AI flaw
Jessica Lyons
Anyscale claims issue is 'long-standing design decision' - as users are raided by intruders Thousands of companies remain vulnerable to a remote-code-execution bug in Ray, an open-source AI framework used by Amazon, OpenAI, and others, that is being abused by miscreants in the wild to steal sensitive data and illicitly mine for cryptocurrency....
Amazon finishes pumping $4B into AI darling Anthropic
Thomas Claburn
Adds $2.75B to the ML sweepstakes ante and is counting on Claude Amazon says it has concluded its investment in AI super-startup Anthropic, which now stands at $4 billion, a figure the e-commerce colossus committed to last year....
SEC cleared to take securities beef against Coinbase to trial
Brandon Vigliarolo
Judge says watchdog can HODL four of its five charges against crypto exchange The SEC's lawsuit accusing cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase of operating as an unregistered securities broker has survived its first legal challenge, opening the door for the case to go to trial....
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite dares to game, reaching 30 FPS in Baldur's Gate 3
Matthew Connatser
The bare minimum performance, but suggests a beefy integrated GPU Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite has some gaming and graphics prowess as seen in a demo where a reference laptop was shown to be running Baldur's Gate 3 at 1080p resolution and around 30 frames per second....
NASA to shoot rockets at April solar eclipse to see how it messes with the atmosphere
Brandon Vigliarolo
Boffins hope to better understand how phenomena disrupt comms tech in order to prevent future outages There's a total solar eclipse coming up in North America, and NASA plans to shoot some rockets at it to see how the ionosphere changes as the Sun is obscured by the Moon....
Kaby Lake-G chip back from the grave, now on modest firewall-router-NAS mobo
Matthew Connatser
Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU into the processor package resurrected by Topton Kaby Lake-G, the Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU directly into the CPU package itself, was pronounced dead in 2019, but that hasn't stopped one company from reviving it for a mini PC motherboard....
Miscreants are exploiting enterprise tech zero days more and more, Google warns
Jessica Lyons
Crooks know where the big bucks are The discovery and exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities in enterprise-specific software and appliances appears to be outpacing the leveraging of zero-day bugs overall, judging by Google's latest research....
CEO of UK's National Grid warns of datacenters' thirst for power
Tobias Mann
Predicts 500 percent increase in consumption over a decade and suggests 800 kilovolt fix John Pettigrew, the CEO of Britain's National Grid, warned on Tuesday that datacenter power consumption is on track to grow 500 percent over the next decade....
BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who
Simon Sharwood
Finally, a power greater than ML hype: Angry fandom Pics The BBC has decided to exterminate its experiments using generative AI to promote venerable sci-fi show Doctor Who....