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Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme

Tue, 2024-03-26 11:00
Selection comes despite Japanese supplier's role in Post Office scandal

A UK government-endorsed ID card scheme is set to appoint Fujitsu as a business outsourcing supplier despite the Japanese company's earlier promise to refrain from participating in UK public procurement.…

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FreeBSD Foundation hands out Beacon gongs for safer software

Tue, 2024-03-26 10:15
Multiple CHERI-related projects win money for important research that prizes safety over speed

The inaugural Beacon Awards has handed three prizes to projects working on safer software for CHERI-enabled hardware running on the CheriBSD operating system.…

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UK elections are unaffected by China's cyber-interference, says deputy PM

Tue, 2024-03-26 09:30
Sanctions galore for APT31, which has been blamed for two major attacks on democracy

The UK's deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, says China has been unsuccessful in its attempts to undermine UK elections.…

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Row breaks out over true severity of two DNSSEC flaws

Tue, 2024-03-26 08:24
Some of us would be happy being rated 7.5 out of 10, just sayin'

Two DNSSEC vulnerabilities were disclosed last month with similar descriptions and the same severity score, but they are not the same issue.…

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Cloudflare reveals it's automated empathy to avoid fixing flaky hardware too often

Tue, 2024-03-26 07:26
Error budget' and other server maintenance/site reliability secrets revealed

Cloudflare has revealed a little about how it maintains the millions of boxes it operates around the world – including the concept of an "error budget" that enacts "empathy embedded in automation."…

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SWIFT embraces central bank digital currencies after sandbox success

Tue, 2024-03-26 06:30
Promises it can handle digi-bucks and tokenized assets without new infrastructure, maybe next year

One of the many sanctions imposed on Russia after its illegal invasion of Ukraine was exclusion from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) – the messaging network that most of the world's banks use to move money across borders.…

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RISC-V PCIe 5 SSD controller for the rest of us hits 14GB/s

Tue, 2024-03-26 05:26
Speed-reading flash drives no longer just an Arm wrestle

A demo of Yingren Technology's YRS820 PCIe 5.0 SSD controller – built entirely on the RISC-V architecture – showed it reading at 14GB/sec and writing at 12GB/sec, without any active cooling required.…

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New Zealand to world: China attacked us, too!

Tue, 2024-03-26 03:30
Reveals 2021 incident that saw parliamentary agencies briefly probed

The government of South Pacific island nation New Zealand has revealed that it, too, has been attacked by China.…

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After threatening to block Binance for months, Philippines does the deed

Tue, 2024-03-26 01:30
Points out scofflaw crypto outfit needs a license

The Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered the nation's National Telecommunications Commission to block access to cryptocurrency exchange Binance, for the simple reason that platform doesn't have a licence.…

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Coherent lights the way to massive AI clusters with optical circuit switches

Mon, 2024-03-25 23:45
Could end-to-end lasers keep long training jobs on track?

Networking biz Coherent unveiled an optical circuit switch designed to support high-density AI clusters at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference on Monday.…

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US charges Chinese nationals with cyber-spying on pretty much everyone for Beijing

Mon, 2024-03-25 22:15
Plus: Alleged front sanctioned, UK blames PRC for Electoral Commission theft, and does America need a Cyber Force?

The United States on Monday accused seven Chinese men of breaking into computer networks, email accounts, and cloud storage belonging to numerous critical infrastructure organizations, companies, and individuals, including US businesses, politicians, and their political parties.…

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Twitter's lawsuit against anti-hate-speech crusaders gets SLAPPed out of court

Mon, 2024-03-25 19:59
How's that free comment thing working out, Elon?

Elon Musk's attempt to use the courts to silence a nonprofit documenting hate speech on X has been dismissed by a California judge, who said it was clear the billionaire's legal action was all about putting a lid on criticism.…

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As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot real estate

Mon, 2024-03-25 19:30
Cheap low-carbon energy? What's not to love...

The land surrounding a nuclear power plant might not sound like prime real estate, but as more bit barns seek to trim costs, it's poised to become a rather hot commodity.…

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First release candidate of Linux kernel 6.9 looks 'fairly normal,' says Torvalds

Mon, 2024-03-25 19:01
Improved workqueues mean the end of tasklets is looming at long last

Linus Torvalds just announced the first RC of 6.9 on the Linux Kernel mailing list, saying it "looks to be fairly normal", although it's a recordbreaker in size.…

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Tiny Corp launching Nvidia-powered AI computer because 'it just works'

Mon, 2024-03-25 18:30
Startup criticizes AMD over buggy firmware

After a weeks-long struggle to get its AMD RX 7900XTX-based TinyBox working on open source firmware, Tiny Corp says it will be launching an Nvidia RTX 4090 version for users who want something that "just works."…

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Over 170K users hit by poisoned Python package ruse

Mon, 2024-03-25 18:00
Supply chain attack targeted GitHub community of Top.gg Discord server

More than 170,000 users have been affected by an attack using fake Python infrastructure with "successful exploitation of multiple victims."…

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Google's AI-powered search results are loaded with spammy, scammy garbage

Mon, 2024-03-25 17:30
If you're seeing AI-generated results in Google Search and you didn't opt in, be careful what you click

Google's new AI-generated search results feature is suffering from the same problem that its regular results have had of late: Spammy, if not outright malicious links are rising to the top of the SERP stack.…

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AI bubble or not, Nvidia is betting everything on a GPU-accelerated future

Mon, 2024-03-25 17:00
LLMs powering generative AI may be moving GPUs, but Huang and co already looking at next big opportunity

Comment For many, apps like ChatGPT, Copilot, Midjourney, or Gemini are generative AI.…

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Woz calls out US lawmakers for TikTok ban: 'I don’t like the hypocrisy`

Mon, 2024-03-25 16:30
'Look at what we're accusing TikTok of, and then go look at Facebook and Google...'

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has criticized the US government's targeting of TikTok, saying it is hypocritical to single out one social media platform for tracking users and not apply the same rule to all.…

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ZenHammer comes down on AMD Zen 2 and 3 systems

Mon, 2024-03-25 16:00
Boffins demonstrate Rowhammer memory meddling on AMD DDR4 hardware

ZenHammer would be the perfect name for a heavy metal band, but alas, it's an AMD-focused variant of the decade-old Rowhammer attack that compromises computers by flipping bits of memory.…

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