Deciphering the third transport protocol's four RFCs is a task to rival the proverbial blind man trying to understand an elephant While Larry was producing most of the content for the "Request/Reponse" chapter for the next edition of our book, I took the lead on writing a section on QUIC, since I...
Shinkansen upgrade rolling out in October Some Japanese bullet trains will soon be equipped with private suites that include windows with embedded 5G antennas and noise-cancelling technology that envelops passengers in a bubble of quiet.…
Services giant’s staff accused of assaults, inappropriate religious practices Police in the Indian city of Nashik conducted a sting operation at Tata Consultancy Services and allegedly found instances of sexual harassment and other revolting behavior.…
Browser fingerprinting is everywhere Google markets its Chrome browser by citing its superior safety features, but according to privacy consultant Alexander Hanff, Chrome does not protect against browser fingerprinting – a method of tracking people online by capturing technical details about thei...
Like the majority of the companies participating, it remains a mystery Last week, Anthropic surprised the world by declaring that its latest model, Mythos, is so good at finding vulns that it would create chaos if released. Now, under the title of Project Glasswing, over 50 selected companies and...
'LLMs should not be trusted for patient-facing diagnostic reasoning,' boffins advise People ask AI for all kinds of advice, including the kind of questions you'd ask a physician. However, the next time you're tempted to query ChatGPT if that growth on your face is skin cancer, consider this: rese...
Repair of bug that undercounted token usage leads to rapid exhaustion of subscription allowance Microsoft's GitHub last week told Copilot customers that they'd have to reduce their use of the AI service to ease the strain on company servers. This follows the company's discovery last month of a to...
Following in the footsteps of Long Island Iced Tea OPINION Back in December 2017, an obscure American soft drinks company changed its name from Long Island Iced Tea to Long Blockchain.…
No reports of active exploitation (yet) Watch out for more Fortinet vulns! Two critical bugs in Fortinet's sandbox could allow unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication or execute unauthorized code on vulnerable systems.…
Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finished No one can tell software developer Kamila Szewczyk that newer is better: She just fixed a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16, the old-school Linux window manager she favors partly because, ...
Study finds LLMs will smuggle biases into others even if they're scrubbed from training data New research warns about the dangers of teaching LLMs on the output of other models, showing that undesirable traits can be transmitted "subliminally" from teacher to student, even when they are scrubbed ...
Some customer orgs tell staff to block inbound email from the provider Autovista confirms that it called in outside support to help clean up a ransomware infection currently affecting systems in Europe and Australia.…
Y'all been focusing on compute and forgot about how the data moves around AI is reshaping the demands on network infrastructure, and many organizations are not prepared – including some of the so-called neocloud providers offering AI services.…
We've all been there Bork!Bork!Bork! Windows is doing what it does best in California, with a Blue Screen of Death on the wall of a fast food restaurant where order progress is supposed to be.…
Latest in a string of cases that have earned France an unfortunate title A mother and her ten-year-old son are now free after being kidnapped for around 20 hours while the father was being extorted for hundreds of thousands of euros.…
Report says authorities are flouting rules by failing to disclose revenue lost to server farm subsidies Many US states and local authorities are violating generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) by failing to disclose revenue lost to datacenter tax subsidy schemes, according to Good Jobs ...
Here comes 'enterprise vibe coding' as CRM giant aims to open development to anyone on the platform Salesforce has introduced what it calls Headless 360 at its developer event TDX, which starts today in San Francisco, designed to expand the reach of its app-building tools beyond traditional devel...
Vuln old enough to drive lands on CISA's exploited list While Microsoft was rolling out its bumper Patch Tuesday updates this week, US cybersecurity agency CISA was readying an alert about a 17-year-old critical Excel flaw now under exploit.…
Command prefix will require password by default The latest version of Raspberry Pi OS now requires a password for sudo by default.…
Some on the Moon's surface, some in orbit. How does 5 years sound? Do-able, right nerds? The nukes-in-space ambitions of the current US administration have taken a step forward – and the US Office of Science and Technology Policy has just published its hopes for who does what.…