United States lawmakers are mulling a new proposal to designate countries from which cyber criminal ransomware gangs operate as state sponsors of terrorism. The law forms part of the Intelligence Authorisation Act for the 2025 fiscal year, which is being brought forward by Mark Warner, a Democratic senator for Virginia, and chair of the Senate…
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has begun looking at whether it should investigate Amazon’s partnership with Anthropic under the merger provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002. The CMA is already looking at Anthropic’s partnership with Google owner Alphabet, as well as Microsoft’s partnership with Inflection. In October 2023, Alphabet invested $2bn in OpenAI rival…
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The year of record-breaking data breaches continues unabated as public records data provider National Public Data has reportedly been hacked. According to HackRead.com, a hacker going by the pseudonym “Fenice” posted a collection of 2.9 billion records stolen from National Public Data on the cybercrime platform Breach Forums this week.“Many different businesses use our service…
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The cyber criminal ransomware gang that previously operated as Royal has rebranded and relaunched as BlackSuit, and is actively targeting organisations across multiple sectors with significant extortion demands, according to an alert from the United States’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) under the auspices of its ongoing #StopRansomware campaign. Likely descended from the defunct…
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Silicon Motion’s SM2320 native USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 controller for USB flash drives and portable SSDs has enjoyed great market success with a large number of design wins over the last few years. Silicon Motion proudly displayed a selection of products based on the SM2320 on the show floor at FMS 2024. The SM2320 went…
There’s a pesky loophole lurking in every major browser, including Apple’s Safari, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox, that hackers have been exploiting for the past 18 years.This breach lets hackers access private networks of homes and businesses, granting access to data that should have been private. As first reported by Forbes, researchers from Israeli cybersecurity…
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Listen to this podcast We speak to Google’s director of product management for confidential computing about ensuring the protection of data in use How do you offer a trusted environment for hosting applications and data in the public cloud? It is an area Google’s Nelly Porter is very much focused on. Porter is a director…
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Imec and ASML have announced that the two companies have printed the first logic and DRAM patterns using ASML’s experimental Twinscan EXE:5000 EUV lithography tool, the industry’s first High-NA EUV scanner. The lithography system achieved resolution that is good enough for 1.4nm-class process technology with just one exposure, which confirms the capabilities of the system…
Western Digital’s FMS 2024 demonstrations included a preview of their upcoming PCIe 5.0 x4 M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs for mobile workstations and consumer desktops. The Gen 5 client SSD market has been dominated by solutions based on Phison’s E26 controller. The first generation products launched with slower NAND flash, while the more recent ones have…
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A week after Western Digital confirmed that it had begun sampling of its 64 TB SSDs for datacenters, the company has teased its next-generation product, a 128 TB solid-state drive at FMS 2024. For now, all we know about Western Digital’s 128 TB SSD is that it uses the company’s BiCS8 QLC NAND memory and…
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