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WEBChina trains 100-billion-parameter AI model on home grown infrastructure. Research institute seems to have found Huawei to do it – perhaps with Arm cores - despite sanctions. NIST's security flaw database still backlogged with 17K+ unprocessed bugs. Not great. Logjam 'hurting infosec processes world over' one expert tells us as US body blows ...
BOFH Archive - The Register
WEBEpisode 1 Er, I mean, droid. In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the OFFICE OF NEVERMORE. BOFH 22 Jan 2021 | 75. BOFH: Time for the MMOCC. You know, the Massively Moronic Online Christmas Call. Episode 10 This year, starring an utterly, er, empowering personal presence guru.
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WEBMicrosoft hits go on Windows 11 24H2: Fresh features, bugs, and a whole lotta AI. Complete with Copilot Vision – but sessions won't be stored, insists Redmond. OSes 20 hrs | 21. NIST's security flaw database still backlogged with 17K+ unprocessed bugs. Not great.
Twitter leak: 200m+ account database now free to download
WEBThu 5 Jan 2023 // 21:30 UTC. Updated More than 200 million Twitter users' information is now available for anyone to download for free. This latest data dump, which includes account names, handles, creation dates, follower counts, and email addresses, turns out to the be same — albeit cleaned up — leak reported last month that affected more ...
Twitter probes privacy breach claims affecting 5.4m users
WEBJul 25, 2022 · Twitter is investigating claims that a near-seven-month-old vulnerability in its software has been exploited to obtain Twitter account IDs linked to phone numbers and email addresses of a reported 5.4 million users. A miscreant using the handle "devil" claims to have siphoned the details and is selling it all on a cyber-crime forum, according ...
Microsoft patches CVE-2024-38063 IPv6 RCE vulnerability
WEBAug 14, 2024 · Six ransomware gangs behind over 50% of 2024 attacks. Microsoft listed four vulnerabilities as publicly disclosed, albeit not yet exploited, so maybe put these high on your to-patch list: CVE-2024-38200 – a Microsoft Office Spoofing Vulnerability with a 6.5 CVSS rating. CVE-2024-38199 – a Windows Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Service RCE ...
BT puts old phone books online - The Register
WEBNov 29, 2007 · BT is putting its entire archive of old phone books online for genealogists, or anyone else, to browse, and a commercial genealogy company is opening up access to all UK burial records since 1538. The phone books date back to 1880 and contain 280 million names. They can be used to track down relatives, but you can also use the service to …
Google cuts ties with Entrust in Chrome over trust issues
WEBJun 28, 2024 · Google is severing its trust in Entrust after what it describes as a protracted period of failures around compliance and general improvements. Entrust is one of the many certificate authorities (CA) used by Chrome to verify that the websites end users visit are trustworthy. From November 1 in Chrome 127, which recently entered beta, TLS server ...
AWS hits $100 billion revenue run rate, expands margins
WEBMay 1, 2024 · Simon Sharwood. //. Amazon Web Services is on track to earn $100 billion of revenue in FY2024, has improved its margins, and provides the bulk of its parent company's operating income. News of the cloudy concern's performance arrived on Tuesday with Amazon.com's Q1 results, which featured sales of $143.3 billion – up 13 percent year on …
Capita breach class action nears 1,000 sign-ups • The Register
WEBJul 21, 2023 · The law firm that last month sent a Letter of Claim to Capita over a security breach in late March says it has signed up nearly 1,000 clients as it prepares a class action lawsuit aimed at the outsourcing giant. UK-based Capita confirmed the cyber-burglary in early April, saying at the time intruders had spent nine days on the inside of its IT ...