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Toward the end of August 2024, a customized malware dubbed “Voldemort” based on strings found in its code was used in a cyber espionage campaign targeting various countries.


Until 2019, it was a Google partner running full Android. Then it forked its own version of Android, called it HarmonyOS, stopped including Google proprietary apps, and set up its own Android app store.


As previously discussed in this post, Xiong’an New Area (Xiong’an), a pilot city established in 2017 about 100 kilometres west of Beijing, aims to be a model for future digital cities, built with IPv6-only infrastructure from the start.


A little over three dozen security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in various open-source artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models, some of which could lead to remote code execution and information theft.


Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of Kentik’s Cloud Latency Map, a public service that uses Kentik Synthetics to continuously measure latency between the regions of the biggest cloud providers.


Data can undergo a similar transformation—two pieces of data, linked, such that changing one has an impact on the other. Think of this as “spooky data at a distance.”


In this work, we aim to address the limitations in the recent poisoning (backdoor) attacks on the code completion

models [5, 68], and introduce a stronger and easy-to-trigger backdoor attack (“CODEBREAKER”), which can mislead the

backdoored model to generate codes with disguised vulnerabilities, even against strong detection.


Many fiber businesses clearly have the goal of growing large enough to flip to somebody larger. The investors in these businesses are largely venture capitalists who hope to sell companies at a premium multiple of what they paid to build the business.


It’s a vast domain ecosystem that needs to be protected from online threats. Often, to better understand this need for domain security, we need to understand how critical and interconnected domains are within a business.


Both due to workload creep and the proliferation of third-party solutions, having a document automation framework in place is a downright necessity that saves time and large sums of money for organizations at all growth stages.


Microsoft is experimenting with datacenters made out of wood in a bid to cut the growing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that result from constructing its expanding network of bit barns.


On the other side are investment analysts who believe that big productivity improvements and profits are right around the corner.


Meta’s plan to build a nuclear-powered datacenter for AI workloads has been undone by bugs, specifically bees.