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SpaceX pulls plug on 2,500 Starlink terminals tied to Myanmar fraud farms
SpaceX says it has shut down thousands of Starlink terminals that were powering Myanmar's notorious scam compounds after its satellite network was found to be keeping human trafficking and cyber-fraud operations online in the country's lawless border zones.…
Microsoft finance slang defines the eternal optimist: The 'hockey stick on wheels'
Microsoft's finance division has a term for an overly optimistic projection that seems to march backward year after year: the hockey stick on wheels.…
OpenBSD 7.8 out now, and you're not seeing double, 9front releases 'Release'
The 59th version of the OpenBSD operating system is here, six months after 7.7, with multiple improvements in various areas.…
UK.gov vows to hack through regulation to get benefit from AI
Ignoring the skeptics and threat of an AI bubble, the UK government is pushing ahead with AI "sandboxing" and backing a raft of projects it claims could benefit from red-tape cutting.…
Apple’s AirDrop makes weird latency spikes for Wi-Fi wonks, researcher finds
Networking researcher Christoff Visser has found that Apple devices cause Wi-Fi networks to “jitter” due to traffic generated by the Apple Wireless Direct Link (AWDL) tech that powers the peer-to-peer AirDrop filesharing tool.…
With impeccable timing, AWS debuts automated cloud incident report generator
In the same week that a massive outage of its own cloud inconvenienced millions of customers, AWS has delivered an improved interactive incident reporting service to help its customers explain what happened when their cloud-hosted resources strike trouble.…
IBM renting GPUs from rivals rather than packing ‘em into its own cloud
If IBM reveals improved profit margins or a fresh round of redundancies, AI may be the reason, because Big Blue today revealed that its own “Project Bob” developer assistance tools have improved productivity among its coders by 45 percent.…
OpenAI's Atlas shrugs off security concerns over prompt injection
OpenAI's brand new Atlas browser is more than willing to follow commands maliciously embedded in a web page, an attack type known as indirect prompt injection.…
Ex-Uber CSO is gellin' like a felon with teen cyber crims, explains why they do it
interview Two convicted felons walk into a room at the request of a federal judge who wanted one of them - Joe Sullivan, the former Uber chief security officer found guilty of attempting to cover up a 2016 breach at the rideshare company - to help rehabilitate the other, whom the feds accused of hacking into corporate networks as a teen and participating in a "significant" digital heist.…
NextSilicon Maverick-2 promises to blow away the HPC market Nvidia left behind
Researchers and engineers working in particle physics, materials analysis, or drug discovery haven't exactly been spoiled for choice when it comes to chips capable of the highly precise double-precision calculations that these workloads depend. NextSilicon aims to change that with Maverick-2, a chip aimed not at AI but the high-performance computing (HPC) community.…
Reddit to Perplexity: Get your filthy hands off our forums
Reddit on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI and three of its alleged data dealers for trafficking in unlawfully scraped information.…