Tech Meme

Haaretz: A profile of Andreas Fink, a telecom expert whose services are used for attacking phone networks globally, including by Israeli disinformation unit Team Jorge  —  The international mobile system is exposed and a loophole allows hackers, cybercriminals and states to geolocate targets and even hijack email and web accounts. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal: Documents and officials: the US is investigating if Rockwell Automation’s software facility in China is exposing critical government assets to a cyberattack  —  Investigation of Rockwell looks at whether its software might allow access to critical U.S. government and industrial infrastructure Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: Amazon secures an estimated $1B in tax breaks for five data centers in Morrow County, Oregon, which local officials hope will generate $12B in Amazon spending  —  Port of Morrow commissioners signed off Wednesday on a contentious package of tax incentives for five more Amazon data centers in eastern Oregon … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: A US judge sentences Nickolas Sharp, who worked for IoT maker Ubiquiti, to six years in prison, rejecting claims that his data theft made the company safer  —  An engineer who worked for billionaire Robert Pera’s Ubiquiti Inc. got six years in prison after a judge rejected his claim that his plan … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: US livestream shopping sales are estimated to hit $32B in 2023; PitchBook: investors poured $380M+ into US live shopping companies in 2022, up from $36M in 2020  —  The market for selling goods in real time online is relatively small, but a number of start-ups and big tech names are betting American consumers will catch on. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Microsoft released at least 48 security fixes for Windows and other software, including for two zero-day vulnerabilities under active exploitation  —  Microsoft today released software updates to fix at least four dozen security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: US livestream shopping sales are expected to hit $32B in 2023; PitchBook: investors poured $380M+ into US live shopping companies in 2022, up from $36M in 2020  —  The market for selling goods in real time online is relatively small, but a number of start-ups and big tech names are betting American consumers will catch on. Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pan / Bloomberg: Some crypto miners, like Hive Blockchain and Hut 8 Mining, are repurposing their GPUs to power high-performance computing services for AI clients  —  When the Ethereum blockchain moved away from using a technique for verifying transactions known as proof of work last September … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos says a known cybercrime group gained access to its SharePoint cloud service on May 8 but didn’t breach its internal network  —  Industrial cybersecurity company Dragos today disclosed what it describes as a “cybersecurity event” after a known cybercrime gang attempted … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google’s PaLM 2 paper is forthcoming on many of the LLM’s major limitations, but doesn’t reveal which data or hardware setup the company used to train the model  —  At its annual I/O conference, Google unveiled PaLM 2, the successor to its PaLM large language model for understanding and generating multilingual text. Lees verder op Tech Meme