Microsoft on a roll for terrible rebranding with Windows App
WEB2 hours ago · A one-stop shop for everything Windows. The Windows App has been in preview for a while and users of the Remote Desktop client were given a heads-up that the rebrand was coming. It is designed to be a "unified experience," according to Microsoft. It'll run on Windows, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and web browsers, although the …
Disney making the move from Slack to Teams • The Register
WEB6 hours ago · Of this latest development, Hodgson told The Register: "It appears the breach wasn't enough for Disney to prioritize secure communications. It's moved from one insecure platform to another – Microsoft Teams." We asked Microsoft, Slack, and Disney to comment and will update with any responses. In the meantime, the warning has to be: Don't mess ...
Google successfully appeals €1.5B AdSense fine in EU
WEB1 day ago · Brandon 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 ...
1 in 10 firms dump infosec wares after Crowstrike outage
WEB1 day ago · Connor Jones. Thu 19 Sep 2024 // 16:13 UTC. Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) says one in ten organizations in the country affected by CrowdStrike's outage in July are dropping their current vendor's products. Four percent of organizations have already abandoned their existing …
Cloud giants point the finger at each other in CMA hearings
WEB2 days ago · AWS is a member and backer of CISPE, a group of 27 cloud providers in Europe. When it comes to itself, poor AWS tells the CMA that it faces competition from on-premises IT, as we reported yesterday, saying some customers are moving from the cloud back to their own datacenters. AWS says the evidence demonstrates that "customers can …
No major AI model is safe, but some are safer than others
WEB2 days ago · Tue 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.
Four major desktop hypervisor upgrades arrived at once
WEB3 days ago · VirtualBox, Parallels, and VMware have all upgraded. September has been a big month for desktop hypervisors, with the field's big players all delivering significant updates. Oracle delivered VirtualBox version 7.1, billed as a major upgrade thanks to its implementation of a UI with a "modernized look and feel, offering a …
MI6 and CIA using Gen AI to combat tech-driven threats
WEBMon 9 Sep 2024 // 06:34 UTC. CIA director Bill Burns and UK Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) chief Richard Moore have for the first time penned a joint opinion piece in which the two spookmasters reveal their agencies have adopted generative AI. "We are now using AI, including generative AI, to enable and improve intelligence activities ...
The ultimate dual-use tool for cybersecurity • The Register
WEBAug 28, 2024 · AI is the latest and most powerful example of a common technology trope: the dual-use tool. For decades, tools from password crackers to Metasploit have had a light and a dark side. Penetration testers have used them for good, highlighting holes in systems that admins can then patch. But cyber criminals - from script kiddies to nation-state ...
Google Chrome gets a mind of its own for some security fixes
WEBSep 12, 2024 · Google has enhanced Chrome's Safety Check so that it can make some security decisions on the user's behalf. Safety Check debuted in 2020 as a way to check when passwords stored in Chrome have been compromised, to encourage browser updates, and to warn users when websites have been deemed unsafe by Google's Safe Browsing service.. It was expanded in the years since with real-time Safe Browsing ...