Новости за 10.05.2024

That other processor company is gaining ground, says Mercury Research

Intel continues to rule the roost in the PC chip market, but AMD is gaining ground in server, desktop, and mobile, according to the latest figures from Mercury Research.…

Industry looks towards genAI, interest rate cuts for reprieve as America hangs onto its old phones

Not a lotto luck for these powerball hunters

More than half a million gamblers with a penchant for powerballs will be receiving some fairly unwelcome news very soon, if not already, as cybercriminals have made off with their personal data.…

Spaceplane to be shipped to Kennedy Space Center for launch on a Vulcan Centaur

First big update of the go-to Linux for newer Macs

Lagging the mainstream edition by a couple of weeks, the Asahi-flavored version of Fedora 40 is here – redolent with KDE Plasma 6.…

Major intrusions by both China and Russia leave a lot to be answered for

Cameras tested are specced for Baidu's Apollo

Six boffins mostly hailing from Singapore-based universities have proven it's possible to attack autonomous vehicles by exploiting the system's reliance on camera-based computer vision and cause it to not recognize road signs.…

Competition heats up while profits cool down

Chinese chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is the latest to warn of a potential oversupply in the global market, saying there is an increasingly fierce price war for less advanced silicon in its domestic arena.…

'This was a no sh*tter'

RSAC  A malware-laced USB stick, inserted into a military laptop at a base in Afghanistan in 2008, led to what has been called the worst military breach in US history, and to the creation of the US Cyber Command.…

The deepfake dystopia we’ve been waiting for has already arrived

TikTok intends to begin labelling AI-generated images and videos uploaded to its video-sharing service.…

The deepfake dystopia we’ve been waiting for has already arrived

TikTok intends to begin labelling AI-generated images and videos uploaded to its video-sharing service.…

Sometimes your own invention just isn't enough anymore

Interview  The co-author of SQL, the standardized query language for relational databases, has come out in support of the NoSQL database movement that seeks to escape the tabular confines of the RDBMS.…

Someone in marketing may be getting fired for this

Comment  "This is who we are, this is what we stand for," said Apple co-founder Steve Jobs shortly before he relaunched the company in 1997 with its iconic Think Different marketing campaign. This week, the consumer tech giant showed the world its true colors and some were not impressed.…

HashiCorp's programs are ideal fit for IBM/Red Hat's software lines, but why buy the company when the software's free and open?

One, two, three, four is all you need to pass that door

Rolling hot off the heels of World Password Day (groan), every May 2 we hacks generally receive hundreds of emails from PR companies repping their respective infosec pros, all espousing their expert opinions on how to create an "iron-clad" or "military-grade" password, or something equally cringey.…

Five-star techies share stories of working from the lap of luxury

On Call  On Call is on vacation this week, so it seems appropriate to share a couple of the stories sent our way after our recent tale of a support contract that saw a techie required to spend a weekend in a $5,000/night hotel suite.…

CPU-heavy big iron boasts Intel's HBM-packed Xeons and a tiny complement of Nvidia H100s

That's a new twist on open, then

OpenAI released model safety guidance on Wednesday while acknowledging that it's looking into how to support the creation of content that's NSFW, or "not safe for work."…

Give us an opt-out button or give us (temporary) account death!

Stack Overflow users are revolting against the Q&A site's partnership with OpenAI, announcing they'd rather remove their posts and sacrifice their reputation scores than have their submissions used to train ChatGPT. …

Spoiler alert: We're gonna talk about AI

Interview  Mick Baccio, global security advisor at Splunk, has watched the evolution of election security threats in real time.…