ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Cisco plans to slash thousands more jobs amid AI, cybersecurity push

(2024/08/12)

Updated Cuts reportedly to come as soon as Wednesday's earnings release



What a glimpse inside the Black Hat NOC reveals about infosec pros' security habits

(2024/08/12)

Black Hat Basic Auth among web traffic? Possible flaw in a well-known commercial VPN product? 'Security has to watch its own things'



Attacker steals personal data of 200K+ people with links to Arizona tech school

(2024/08/12)

Nearly 50 different data points were accessed by cybercrim



It's all drying up: Microsoft to erase 3D Paint from digital store

(2024/08/12)

Unloved multi dimensional doodler set for axe as its predecessor gets an AI update



Mega money, unfathomable violence pervade thriving underground doxxing scene

(2024/08/12)

Black Hat It also attracts exactly the type of unempathetic people you would think it does



Twitter's former chairman sues X over unpaid options

(2024/08/12)

Seeks $23 million in damages over Musk's alleged reluctance to pay his bills



Google-commissioned report claims early adopters already enjoying fruits of gen-AI labor

(2024/08/12)

Analysis 43% of the time, it really, really works 45% of the time



CrowdStrike president cheered after accepting 'Epic Fail' Pwnie award

(2024/08/12)

DEF CON Michael Sentonas hopes trophy will remind staff that failure is unacceptable



India’s Bharti Enterprises now largest shareholder in UK's BT Group

(2024/08/12)

'Surprising move' for Indian megacorp but less so for French seller Altice



In celebration of Curiosity's successful landing on Mars

(2024/08/12)

Forget the woes of Starliner with an audacious NASA landing on another planet that went very very right



LLM-driven C-to-Rust. Not just a good idea, a genie eager to escape

(2024/08/12)

Opinion Automatic for the people? Don’t mind if we do



Cigarette break burned out a huge chunk of Africa's internet

(2024/08/12)

who, me? A fake hacker trying to take credit didn't help much, either



Former YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, 56, succumbs to cancer

(2024/08/12)

A career and life so classically Silicon Valley



Trump campaign cites Iran election phish claim as evidence leaked docs were stolen

(2024/08/12)

Dots have been joined, but hard evidence is not apparent



Alibaba Cloud claims K8s service meshes can require more resources than the apps they run

(2024/08/12)

SIGCOMM 2024 Built its own replacement – Canal Mesh – that it says leaves Google's Istio and Ambient eating dust



The UN unanimously agrees that cybercrime is bad, mkay?

(2024/08/12)

Infosec in brief Also: British nuke subs get code from Russia; and BlackSuit begs for $500M



Chinese satellite broadband launch rocket breaks up into space junk

(2024/08/12)

Asia In Brief Plus: Vietnam's PM leads chips push; Tesla backs out of Thailand; Drones fly trash off Everest; and more



Gas pipeline players in talks to fuel AI datacenter demand

(2024/08/11)

Utility tapped out? Why not build your own?



How to ingeniously and wirelessly inject malware onto someone's nearby Windows PC via Google's Quick Share

(2024/08/10)

DEF CON Or rather could, until the web giant was tipped off



Twilio's Segment SDK challenged with wiretapping claim

(2024/08/10)

Mobile app analytics software said to surreptitiously snarf data



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