Could eBPF have spared us the Crowdstrike incident?
WEB15 hours ago — Wilkie is referring to an incident in June, where Red Hat warned its customers of an issue related to CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor.The problem paled into insignificance compared to what happened to a few short weeks later, when a CrowdStrike update left 8.5 million Windows computers across the world stuck in a blue screen boot loop.. eBPF allows software to run in a virtual machine (VM) in the ...
NASA seeks suggestions for Astrobee applications • The Register
WEB13 hours ago — NASA is looking for ideas on what to do with the Astrobee drones flying around the International Space Station (ISS). The Astrobee robots are free-flying cubes, roughly 32 centimeters (12.5 inches) wide, that prowl around the microgravity environment of the ISS using their cameras to perform inventory or document experiments conducted by the crew.. The trio of robots – Honey, Queen, and ...
FBI raids HQ of US govt IT giant Carahsoft • The Register
WEB2 days ago — A spokesperson for the biz, which bills itself using the trademarked term "the Trusted Public Sector IT Solutions Provider," told us: "Representatives from the Department of Justice came to the Carahsoft office today as they are conducting an investigation into a company with which Carahsoft has done business …
Human genome stored for 'eternity' in 5D memory crystal
WEB5 days ago — Researchers led by optoelectronics professor Peter Kazansky have used an ultra-fast laser to inscribe the human genome in a 5D memory crystal, a storage medium designed to last billions of years. Earth's deoxygenation is expected sooner than that, in about one billion years, and the Sun is expected to …
'Cybersecurity issue' blamed for MoneyGram's ongoing outage
WEB3 days ago — Mon 23 Sep 2024 // 21:32 UTC. A "cybersecurity issue" has shut down MoneyGram's systems and payment services since Friday, and the fintech leader has yet to update customers as to when it expects to have its global money transfer services back up and running. The downed services reportedly include in …
No major AI model is safe, but some are safer than others
WEBTue 17 Sep 2024 // 20:30 UTC. Feature Anthropic has positioned itself as a leader in AI safety, and in a recent analysis by Chatterbox Labs, that proved to be the case. Chatterbox Labs tested eight major large language models (LLMs) and all were found to produce harmful content, though Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet fared better than rivals.
Google successfully appeals €1.5B AdSense fine in EU
WEBBrandon Vigliarolo. Wed 18 Sep 2024 // 21:59 UTC. Google has some thank-you cards to send, as the European Union's General Court (GC) has nullified a €1.49 billion ($1.66 billion) fine levied against the tech giant for anti-competitive advertising behavior. Google was fined the aforementioned amount by the European Commission in 2019 for ...
You paid the ransom, and now the decryptor doesn't work
WEBSep 11, 2024 — After paying the ransom in exchange for a decryptor to restore the encrypted files, the decryptor did not work. The Register did not talk to the victim organization in this case – its executives declined to be interviewed about their experience – so we don't know the specifics including sector, ransom demand, what files were locked up, etc.
AWS claims its cloud faces competition from on-premises IT
WEBDan Robinson. Tue 17 Sep 2024 // 15:16 UTC. Cloud behemoth AWS says it is facing stiff competition from on-premises infrastructure, which is a turnaround from its once-proud boast that all workloads would eventually move to the cloud. In a summary of evidence given to UK watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), AWS denies that ...
Musk's Starlink dominance sparks FCC competition concerns
WEBThu 12 Sep 2024 // 22:00 UTC. When Elon Musk's Starlink hit its 7,000th satellite milestone, it's unlikely he expected the FCC chair to suggest his space dominance might be stifling competition—but here we are. Speaking at the US Chamber of Commerce's annual Global Aerospace Summit, FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel expressed a desire to ...
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