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Coinbase extorted for $20M. Support staff bribed. Customers scammed. One hell of a breach disclosure…
Coinbase says some of its overseas support staff were paid off to steal information on behalf of cybercriminals, and the company is now being extorted for $20 million.…
Socket buys Coana to tell you which security alerts you can ignore
In its latest gambit to reduce the noise of unnecessary security alerts, Socket has acquired Coana, a startup founded in 2022 by researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark that tells users which vulnerabilities they can safely ignore.…
Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs in favor of AI alternative
Microsoft is retiring Bing Search APIs on August 11, directing customers toward AI products as an alternative.…
Snowflake CISO on the power of 'shared destiny' and 'yes and'
interview Being the chief information security officer at Snowflake is never an easy job, but last spring it was especially challenging.…
Next week's SpaceX Starship test still needs FAA authorization
SpaceX supremo Elon Musk says the next Starship will launch next week, however, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) hasn't yet given it the green light.…
70-knot winds blamed for yacht disaster that killed Brit tech tycoon Mike Lynch
An interim report by the UK's Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has indicated that extreme wind was to blame for the sinking of the yacht Bayesian, claiming the lives of UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch, his daughter, and five others.…
Royal Navy freshens up ships' electromagnetic warfare defenses
Britain's Royal Navy is to get updated electromagnetic warfare (EW) capabilities including launchable decoys to help defend its vessels against threats such as modern anti-ship missiles.…
The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet
The "End of 10" website is a cooperative effort to let people know that they have other options besides buying a new computer.…
A year on, Valkey charts path to v9 after break from Redis
Interview Version 8.1 of Valkey was recently released, marking a year since the creation of the Redis fork. Valkey's co-maintainer, Madelyn Olson, is looking ahead to version 9 as the project settles down.…
Google DeepMind promises to help you evolve your algos
Google's AI shop DeepMind has unveiled AlphaEvolve, its "evolutionary coding agent" powered by large language models to discover and optimize algorithms.…
Here's what we know about the DragonForce ransomware that hit Marks & Spencer
DragonForce, a new-ish ransomware-as-a-service operation, has given organizations another cyber threat to worry about — unless they’re in Russia, which is off limits to the would-be extortionists.…
Meet your new colleague – the ML Admin, who tames LLMs so they're ready to rock
Some organizations have started hiring for a new tech job: The Machine Learning Administrator – aka the “ML admin”.…
Chip bans? LOL! Chinese web giant Tencent says it has enough GPUs for future AI model training
Chinese web giant Tencent says it has enough high-end GPUs to train new AI models for years, in part because it’s found more efficient ways to do so.…
AMD’s first crack at Nvidia hampered by half-baked training software, says TensorWave boss
Interview After some teething pains, TensorWave CEO Darrick Horton is confident that AMD's Instinct accelerators are ready to take on large-scale AI training.…
GAO finds billions in possible government savings, all without Elon's help
Comment Cost-trimming in the US federal government is all the rage right now – and a new report finds more than $100 million in savings available to the Feds by doing nothing but eliminating redundant and unnecessary IT investments. …
Metal maker meltdown: Nucor stops production after cyber-intrusion
Nucor, the largest steel manufacturer in the US, shut down production operations after discovering its servers had been penetrated.…
Intuitive Machines blames dim lighting and dodgy data for second lunar faceplant
Intuitive Machines has blamed poor lighting, a problematic altimeter, and difficulties spotting craters for the company's second lunar lander tipping over.…
RHEL 10 quietly leaks ahead of Red Hat Summit
Red Hat appears to have quietly made RHEL 10 available to paying customers, days ahead of its expected debut at next week's Red Hat Summit.…
The future of LLMs is open source, Salesforce's Benioff says
The future of large language models is likely to be open source, according to Marc Benioff, co-founder and longstanding CEO of Salesforce.…
Uncle Sam pulls $2.4B Leidos deal to support CISA after rival alleges foul play
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) scrapped a highly lucrative cybersecurity contract originally awarded to Leidos following a legal challenge from rival bidder Nightwing, yet insists the pushback had nothing to do with it.…