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)

CLI-beautifying ANSI escape sequences can also make your log files a security threat

(2023/08/09)

Black Hat When you can't even cat your telemetry safely, who can you trust?



X tries to win back advertisers with brand safety promises

(2023/08/09)

Meanwhile, platform keeps paying creators a share of ad revenue, but without similar safety features



DARPA tells AI world: Make a model that secures software, there's $25M in it for you

(2023/08/09)

Black Hat If you're so smart, prove it by safeguarding our infrastructure



Say hello to Downfall, another data-leaking security hole in several years of Intel chips

(2023/08/09)

Black Hat It is with a heavy heart that we must announce that the boffins are at it again



Researchers discover algorithm to create shapes that roll down pre-determined paths

(2023/08/09)

Lopsided solids promise applications in quantum mechanics and medicine



Rapid7 prepares to toss 18% of workforce to cut costs

(2023/08/09)

Operating expenses almost as high as actual turnover in latest quarterly numbers



Pope goes fire and brimstone on the dangers of AI

(2023/08/09)

We hope the World Peace Day statement was not written by ChatGPT



Can 'Mad Libs for incident response' prevent the next MOVEit fiasco?

(2023/08/09)

Black Hat IBM X-Force lead says yes



Northern Ireland police may have endangered its own officers by posting details online in error

(2023/08/09)

At least it was a blunder and not a hostile attack, unlike what happened to another UK public body this week



Sparkling fresh updates to Ubuntu, Mint and Zorin on way

(2023/08/09)

What's new in the world of Irish Ubuntu derivatives



It's that time of the year again: The trinity of infosec conferences

(2023/08/09)

Black Hat A quick guide to Hacker Summer Camp



Google teases Project IDX, an AI-infused code editing thing

(2023/08/09)

Rival to CoPilot and CodeWhisperer sees the Big G join the error-ridden robo-coding market



Palantir lobbied UK pensions department for its software to tackle fraud

(2023/08/09)

Approach follows successful contracts in the health sector



Apple, Samsung, and Intel to invest in Arm IPO, and emerge with some control: report

(2023/08/09)

SoftBank CFO says news of float is imminent, suggests firm will keep a solid chunk



TSMC and pals chip in for €10B German fab

(2023/08/09)

NXP, Infineon, Bosch each nab 10% stake in joint venture



IBM gives z/OS an AI infusion in major upgrade aimed in part at easing admin chores

(2023/08/09)

Big Blue bakes in brainbox tech to get models running – because kids these days don't want a career in big iron



Verizon to 'sunset' Blue Jeans vidconf platform

(2023/08/09)

Also-ran service done in by ‘changing market conditions in a post-pandemic landscape'



INTERPOL shutters '16shop' phishing-as-a-service outfit

(2023/08/09)

Alleged administrator cuffed in Indonesia, associate arrested in Japan, accused of selling fake Amazons for $60



We need to be first on the Moon, uh, again, says NASA

(2023/08/09)

'I don't want China to get to the south pole with humans and then say: this is ours, stay out'



Nvidia gives Grace Hopper superchip an HBM3e upgrade – sometime next year

(2023/08/09)

641GB of total memory ought to be enough for anybody (and their LLM)



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