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FastNetMon says 1.5 Gpps deluge from hijacked routers, IoT kit nearly drowned scrubbing shop

A DDoS mitigation provider was given a taste of the poison it tries to prevent, after being smacked by one of the largest packet-rate attacks ever recorded – a 1.5 billion packets per second (1.5 Gpps) flood that briefly threatened to knock it off the internet.…

AMD Zen hardware and Intel Coffee Lake affected

If you thought the world was done with side-channel CPU attacks, think again. ETH Zurich has identified yet another Spectre-based transient execution vulnerability that affects AMD Zen CPUs and Intel Coffee Lake processors by breaking virtualization boundaries.…

That won't even warm the plasma

America's Department of Energy (DOE) has earmarked $134 million in funding for two programs aimed at securing US leadership in emerging fusion technologies. The move comes amid renewed interest in nuclear power sparked by surging datacenter energy demands.…

Ron Wyden urges FTC to probe failure to secure Windows after attackers used Kerberoasting to cripple Ascension

Microsoft is back in the firing line after US Senator Ron Wyden accused Redmond of shipping "dangerous, insecure software" that helped cybercrooks cripple one of America's largest hospital networks.…

Over 600 security boffins say planned surveillance crosses the line

Europe, long seen as a bastion of privacy and digital rights, will debate this week whether to enforce surveillance on citizens' devices.…

$50 standalone bots now bundled in $30 package

Microsoft is re-badging its Sales, Service, and Finance Copilots and slashing what it charges for them.…

Major UK player cagey on specifics but latest attack follows string blamed on 'third party' suppliers

One of the UK's largest rail operators, LNER, is the latest organization to spill user data via a third-party data breach.…

Academics and OSA stakeholders say watchdog needs to amend how controversial legislation is enforced

Industry experts expressed both concern and sympathy for Ofcom, the Brit regulator that is overseeing the Online Safety Act, as questions mount over the effectiveness of the controversial legislation.…

Battery powered now, fuel-cells tomorrow - all packed in a shipping box

Following a series of trials, defense biz BAE Systems says it is readying an autonomous military submarine for the end of next year.…

Not yet gone and not yet forgotten, but on their way

Microsoft has added a raft of web components to its list of deprecated features, including legacy Edge developer tools and hosted web apps.…

Admins can't stop checking their portals, survey finds

A new survey confirms what many IT pros already know: downtime doesn't exist, with dashboards and alerts intruding on their free time.…

Rust coreutils, TPM encryption, and GNOME 49 line up for October debut

The Quokka is a small, furry, and perpetually smiling marsupial from Australia. It's very cute – and now it's freezing.…

CedarDB pushed to the limit in improbable gaming experiment

The world has moved on from making Doom run on increasingly ridiculous devices. Now it's all about porting it to the most inappropriate of languages. Cue DOOMQL, a version of the shooter written in pure SQL.…

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out the reasons why

NASA has barred Chinese nationals from accessing its premises and assets, even those who hold visas that permit them to reside in the USA.…

Gartner says migrations remain a risky multi-year nightmare, but selective re-platforming can pay off

More than a third of workloads currently running under VMware will run on another platform by 2028, with its own trusted hosting partners pushing some customers to make the move.…

Tick tock Sam, just fifteen months before your first bill is due

OpenAI will pay Oracle $300 billion over the course of five years to fuel Sam Altman's AI ambitions by providing five gigawatts of compute capacity.…

Patch, turn on MFA, and restrict access to trusted networks…or else

Affiliates of the Akira ransomware gang are again exploiting a critical SonicWall vulnerability abused last summer, after a suspected zero-day flaw actually turned out to be related to a year-old bug.…

We went through two hours of Senate hearings so you didn't have to

Video  As the Trump administration pushes to loosen federal rules on AI, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has introduced legislation to give AI developers a two-year waiver from certain regulations, renewable for up to a decade.…

Using GPUs to design better bit barns for GPUs? It’s the circle of AI

With the rush to capitalize on the gen AI boom, datacenters have never been hotter. But before signing that multi-billion dollar purchase order on GPUs, Cadence Systems suggests using a few of them to simulate whether that fancy new bit barn of yours can actually handle the heat.…

Nearly 100 requirements laid down by 10 separate oversight and advisory groups leave agencies tangled in red tape

The US government wants AI in every corner of government, but the unstoppable force of new tech is running into the immovable object of bureaucracy - a growing mass of AI rules.…