If you thought China's Salt Typhoon was booted off critical networks, think again 13 governments sound the alarm about ongoing unpleasantness China's Salt Typhoon cyberspies continue their years-long hacking campaign targeting critical industries around the world, according to a joint security alert from cyber and law enforcement agencies across 13 countries.… #theregister #IT
China
: 13 governments sound the alarm about ongoing unpleasantness
Online property ad reveals looted Nazi war art, triggers police raid Stolen painting still mising, sadly Police in Argentina reportedly raided a home in a coastal town on Monday after someone spotted a real estate ad that included images of art the Nazis looted in the Second World War.… #theregister #IT
Online property ad shows looted Nazi war art, triggers raid
: Stolen painting still missing, sadly
Japan exploring whether AI could help inspect its nuclear power plants If regulators heed the lessons of Fukushima, testing will have to jump Godzilla-sized hurdles Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has requested extra funds to experiment with AI-powered nuclear plant inspectors.… #theregister #IT
Japan exploring AI to ease nuclear power plant inspections
: If regulators heed the lessons of Fukushima, testing will have to jump Godzilla-sized hurdles
ChatGPT hates LA Chargers fans Harvard researchers find model guardrails tailor query responses to user's inferred politics and other affiliations OpenAI's ChatGPT appears to be more likely to refuse to respond to questions posed by fans of the Los Angeles Chargers football team than to followers of other teams.… #theregister #IT
ChatGPT hates LA Chargers fans
: Harvard researchers find model guardrails tailor query responses to user's inferred politics and other affiliations
AI arms dealer Nvidia laments the many billions lost to US-China trade war China would be a $50 billion a year market for Nvidia if Uncle Sam would let us sell competitive products, says Jensen Huang Nvidia's top brass urged Washington to approve the sale of Blackwell accelerators to China during the GPU giant's Q2 earnings call on Wednesday.… #theregister #IT
Nvidia urges Washington to let Blackwell GPUs into China
: China would be a $50 billion a year market for Nvidia if Uncle Sam would let us sell competitive products, says Jensen Huang
VMware tweaked software licenses for submarines Virtzilla also helping banks to sink and re-float software-defined infrastructure to stop stealthy malware VMware has tweaked its software licensing so submarines can keep their computers running when they’re beneath the waves.… #theregister #IT
We all live in a virtual machine, a virtual machine
: VMware tweaked its licenses to suit submarines
Nvidia details its itty bitty GB10 superchip for local AI development Starting at $2,999, tiny doesn't mean cheap Hot Chips  Back in 2023, Nvidia's superchip architecture introduced a new programming model for accelerated workloads by coupling the CPU to the GPU via a high-speed NVLink fabric that makes PCIe feel positively glacial.… #theregister #IT
Nvidia details GB10 miniaturized Grace Blackwell superchips
Hot Chips: Starting at $2,999, tiny doesn't mean cheap
Sting nails two front firms in Nork IT worker scam There's also a rogue Russian on the list The US Treasury Department has announced sanctions against two Asian companies and two individuals for allegedly helping North Korean IT workers fake their way into US jobs.… #theregister #IT
Sting nails two front firms in North Korea IT worker scam
: There's also a rogue Russian on the list
Crims laud Claude to plant ransomware and fake IT expertise AI lowers the bar for cybercrime, Anthropic admits comment  Anthropic, a maker of AI tools, says that AI tools are now commonly used to commit cybercrime and facilitate remote worker fraud.… #theregister #IT
Crims laud Claude, use Anthropic
comment: AI lowers the bar for cybercrime, Anthropic admits
Windows Backup for Organizations doesn't actually save data files Not a disaster recovery option, but good enough for a migration Microsoft continues to take what's familiar to ordinary users and offer it to enterprises. The latest functionality is Windows Backup for Organizations.… #theregister #IT
Microsoft rolls out Windows Backup for Organizations
: Not a disaster recovery option, but good enough for a migration