Raspberry Pi offloads AI inferencing to the camera itself
WEB10 hours ago · HANDS ON Raspberry Pi has launched a camera module with AI smarts on board. But all that inferencing goodness comes at a price. Looking for all the world like a normal camera module – if ever so slightly thicker – the Raspberry Pi AI Camera is based on Sony's IMX500 Intelligent Vision Sensor, which combines a 12.3-megapixel CMOS image sensor with on-board inferencing.
Critical Linux bug is CUPS-based remote-code execution hole
WEB4 days ago · Thu 26 Sep 2024 // 17:34 UTC. Final update After days of anticipation, what was billed as one or more critical unauthenticated remote-code execution vulnerabilities in all Linux systems was today finally revealed. In short, if you're running the Unix printing system CUPS, with cups-browsed present and enabled, you may be vulnerable to attacks ...
US Army using AI to bolster lousy recruiting numbers
WEB4 days ago · Plagued by recruiting shortfalls, the US Army is turning to AI to help it sift through the chaff for fresh recruits. Speaking at a webinar hosted by the Association of the United States Army, Major General Johnny Davis, Commanding General of US Army Recruiting Command, shared a tool, dubbed "Recruit 360," that the Army has been testing for the past couple of months in five unnamed cities.
You paid the ransom, and now the decryptor doesn't work
WEBSep 11, 2024 · After paying the ransom in exchange for a decryptor to restore the encrypted files, the decryptor did not work. The Register did not talk to the victim organization in this case – its executives declined to be interviewed about their experience – so we don't know the specifics including sector, ransom demand, what files were locked up, etc.
AWS claims its cloud faces competition from on-premises IT
WEBDan Robinson. Tue 17 Sep 2024 // 15:16 UTC. Cloud behemoth AWS says it is facing stiff competition from on-premises infrastructure, which is a turnaround from its once-proud boast that all workloads would eventually move to the cloud. In a summary of evidence given to UK watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), AWS denies that ...
Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time
WEBSep 16, 2024 · The COVID-19 work-from-home era is over, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has told staff in a Monday memo, signaling his desire for staff to return to working in an office five days a week. The chief exec said the hybrid model of working partially at home and the rest in the office, which has been running for the past 15 months at the internet superpower ...
Disney making the move from Slack to Teams • The Register
WEBSep 20, 2024 · 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 …
Google successfully appeals €1.5B AdSense fine in EU
WEBBrandon 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 ...
Could eBPF have spared us the Crowdstrike incident?
WEB4 days ago · Interview The CrowdStrike chaos was caused by software running riot in the Windows kernel after an update tripped up the code. eBPF is a useful tool for kernel tracing and observability, but could it have mitigated the CrowdStrike incident? "It's interesting," Tom Wilkie, CTO of observability specialist Grafana Labs tells The Register, "because there was a vulnerability in the eBPF runtime ...
Cybercrook leaks 20 GB of data 'stolen' from Capgemini
WEBSep 12, 2024 · Updated A miscreant claims to have broken into Capgemini and leaked a large amount of sensitive data stolen from the technology services giant – including source code, credentials, and T-Mobile's virtual machine logs.. The French multinational IT and consulting firm did not immediately respond to The Register's request for comment, and has yet to formally confirm or deny the cyber-criminal's ...