Passkeys were supposed to be secure and simple; here’s how they fail
I’ve been arguing that passwords are horrible for the best part of a decade now, and was an enthusiastic early adopter of the far better approach of passkeys. Passkeys were supposed to achieve the holy grail of an approach which is both more secure t...
2024-12-31 13:47
ByteDance plans to sidestep U.S. sanctions by renting Nvidia GPUs in the cloud — report says it has set aside $7 billion budget
ByteDance to become one of the major renters of Nvidia's GPUs for AI in 2025 as it intends to spend some $7 billion on this, according to a report.
2024-12-31 13:36
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Call of Duty continues to dominate the charts as the most-played game on Xbox and PlayStation after a free trial weekend
The holidays have graced many of us with more free time than usual, but it hasn't helped other games dethrone Call of Duty as the most played game for the week of December 21.
2024-12-31 13:36
RTX 5080 16GB spotted in early pre-built listing from iBuyPower — Sports the upcoming 65W Intel Core Ultra 9 285 and an unreleased B860 motherboard
A new listing featuring an upcoming pre-built PC from iBuyPower popped up, powered by Nvidia's RTX 5080 16GB GPU.
2024-12-31 13:20
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SilverStone DA750R Gold PSU Review
The SilverStone DA750R Gold offers solid performance, 80Plus Gold efficiency, and modern features at a competitive price, but is held back by mid-tier components and a high retail price.
2024-12-31 13:00
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US Army soldier arrested over data breach extortion of AT&T and Verizon
A US Army soldier has been arrested on suspicion of extorting money from AT&T and Verizon, following data breaches which saw a massive amount of customer data obtained. The 20-year-old was arrested near the Army base in Fort Hood, Texas, on suspicion o...
2024-12-31 13:00
Dock the Code Search window in Visual Studio 2022
Ever felt frustrated with the search window cluttering your workspace? The latest feature in Visual Studio 2022 gives you more control over the behavior of the Code and Feature Search window, making your search experience smoother and more efficient. S...
2024-12-31 13:00
CarPlay 2 deadline arrives with no announcement; is the project dead? [Poll]
CarPlay 2, aka next-generation CarPlay, was announced way back in the summer of 2022. At the time, Apple said that a list of supporting cars would be available in 2023, and two brands were later said to be launching in 2024. Today is the last chance to...
2024-12-31 12:24
Intel prepares new "Twin Lake" low-powered N processors (basically an Alder Lake refresh)
Intel's upcoming N-series low-powered processors leaked in all their spec glory ahead of the official announcement. Read more...
2024-12-31 11:36
Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 Brings RISC-V & Drops i386 Installer
In working toward the Debian 13 "Trixie" stable release in 2025, as a lovely New Year's Eve surprise today is the first alpha release of the Debian Installer for Trixie...
2024-12-31 11:20
Chinese APT Exploits BeyondTrust API Key to Access U.S. Treasury Systems and Documents
The United States Treasury Department said it suffered a "major cybersecurity incident" that allowed suspected Chinese threat actors to remotely access some computers and unclassified documents.  "On December 8, 2024, Treasury was notified by a third-...
2024-12-31 11:12
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Apple @ Work Podcast: DDM, Wi-Fi, and you
Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & pro...
2024-12-31 11:00
ZLUDA v4 Released For Initial CUDA Support On Non-NVIDIA GPUs
One of the unexpected twists this year was after several years of AMD quietly funding the ZLUDA developer for enabling unmodified CUDA applications to run on AMD GPUs at near-native performance, the ZLUDA atop AMD HIP code was made available and open-s...
2024-12-31 10:40
Samsung Galaxy S20 & S9 With Exynos 9810 Support Coming To Linux 6.14
The Samsung ARM device updates are in the process of being queued up to the SoC tree ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.14 merge window in January...
2024-12-31 10:23
Samsung increases share in Rainbow Robotics in aim to boost humanoid robot development
According to a press release, Samsung's share in Rainbow Robotics will be 35%, with plans to advance robotic technology and improve automation systems. Read more...
2024-12-31 10:18
Misconfigured Kubernetes RBAC in Azure Airflow Could Expose Entire Cluster to Exploitation
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered three security weaknesses in Microsoft's Azure Data Factory Apache Airflow integration that, if successfully exploited, could have allowed an attacker to gain the ability to conduct various covert actions, inclu...
2024-12-31 10:05
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Microsoft Continued With Many Linux & Open-Source Announcements In 2024
This year was another interesting year for Microsoft with continuing to make more of their software projects open-source, adding more Unix/Linux-like features to Windows, continuing to advance Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), keeping up with maintena...
2024-12-31 09:50
The vital role of red teaming in safeguarding AI systems and data
Companies are feeling pressure to adopt generative AI to stay ahead in a competitive global market. To ensure they adopt responsibly, governing and regulatory bodies across the world are convening to debate and understand the best ways to address AI...
2024-12-31 09:00
Corsair MP600 PRO XT 8TB SSD with heatsink: Massive price drop - 18% off! (Lowest ever)
If you're upgrading your PC, get the Corsair MP600 PRO XT 8TB SSD at its lowest-ever price on Amazon at just $773.49. In recent days it saw its biggest ever price drop. Read more...
2024-12-31 08:50
Wayland's Wild 2024 With Better KDE Plasma Support, NVIDIA Maturity & More Desktops
It was a mighty fine year for the Wayland ecosystem on the Linux desktop with KDE Plasma 6 having brought much more polished Wayland support and now at parity to its X11 session, the NVIDIA driver stack seeing much better Wayland support with its lates...
2024-12-31 07:20