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NCSC exposes Fancy Bear’s Authentic Antics malware attacks

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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a formal notice attributing a series of hostile cyber attacks using a variety of malware dubbed Authentic Antics to Russian-state operated advanced persistent threat (APT) group Fancy Bear. Authentic Antics is designed to steal login credentials and tokens for its victims email accounts, allowing Russian cyber…

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July Patch Tuesday brings over 130 new flaws to address

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Microsoft has patched a total of 130 new common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) across its product suite in its monthly Patch Tuesday update, including 10 critically dangerous flaws, many of them in Microsoft Office, while a bunch of third-party issues bring the monthly total to approximately 140. However, despite its wide breadth, Redmond’s latest update…

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Podcast: Container storage challenges and how to overcome them

7 minutes of reading / automation, business continuity, containers, Google, Kubernetes, Microsoft, open source, Tech / By

In this podcast, we talk to Pure Storage’s Venkat Ramakrishnan about customer challenges when dealing with containers and storage and data protection. Ramakrishnan, vice-president of products and engineering for Portworx, talked about customers who take on container deployments without thinking through the future scale, technical requirements and cost they are likely to accrue. Here, Ramakrishnan…

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Nvidia’s AI texture compression seems to work brilliantly in new demo, dropping GPU memory usage by almost 90%

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Nvidia’s Neural Texture Compression feature just became more efficientIt got this boost thanks to Microsoft’s new Cooperative Vector in DXR 1.2Testing with a demo showed almost a 90% reduction in video RAM footprint for textures, but that won’t apply in all scenarios (by any means)Worried your Nvidia graphics card may be underpowered in terms of…

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Why I’m worried the iPhone 17 Air will be more expensive than expected

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We’re only two months away from Apple’s big iPhone launch event. The iPhone 17 series will be unveiled in September, hitting stores around 10 days after the launch event.As with every year, we already have plenty of information about Apple’s upcoming iPhone series. We expect four iPhone 17 models this year, including the iPhone 17…

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Irish bank rolls out AI tools to 10,000 staff

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AIB is embedding artificial intelligence (AI) into business tools throughout the bank for 10,000 staff to free up their time for higher value work. As well as using AI in conjunction with Microsoft tools such as Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint, the Irish bank’s AI Centre of Excellence will work on developing new tools…

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Ciaran Martin: AI might disturb attacker-defender security balance

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Ciaran Martin founded the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and served as its first CEO from 2013 to 2020. He is a distinguished former civil servant who has worked directly with five prime ministers and a variety of senior ministers across three political parties, and has held senior positions at HM Treasury and the…

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Interview: Developing a CIO strategy for artificial intelligence

6 minutes of reading / AI, ChatGPT, Microsoft, Tech / By

When Chris Loake joined Hiscox in November 2023 as the company’s group information officer, the insurance firm had already begun on a journey to pilot using the artificial intelligence (AI) in Microsoft Copilot (M365 Copilot). “We’ve been a big Microsoft partner for a while,” he says. “When the ChatGPT revolution began, there was a view…

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It looks like we might get a Nintendo Switch 2 price hike after all

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When Nintendo finally unveiled the Nintendo Switch 2 in early April, gamers were surprised to see the next-gen handheld console priced higher than expected. Most leaks and analysts suggested $399 was the sweet spot, but Nintendo set the price $50 higher. A bundle with the Mario Kart World game came in at $499.99. Switch 2…

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