Month: October 2024
ECL builds gigawatt hydrogen-powered data center to keep up with AI’s insatiable demand for power — and it’s already planning an expansion
As technology companies continue to expand their use of artificial intelligence, the demand for energy-intensive data centers is growing rapidly. Tech firms are searching for sustainable ways to power these operations, with a focus on reducing their environmental impact, and while nuclear energy is being viewed as an attractive option…
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Financial newsletter accuses Roblox of enabling child abuse
A popular financial newsletter is accusing Roblox of allowing large-scale child sexual exploitation and inappropriate content on its platform, drawing on years of media reports. The allegations are detailed in The Bear Cave, a short selling newsletter — but Roblox says The Bear Cave’s founder is highlighting rare instances of…
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A buggy Samsung smart home update broke old Galaxy S10 phones, but there’s a fix
A Samsung smart home software update released this week put some users’ Galaxy S10 and Note 10 (including e, Lite, Plus, and 5G versions) and A90 and M51 smartphones in an infinite boot loop, rendering their devices useless. After some sleuthing, Reddit users narrowed it down to a Samsung SmartThings…
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Watch out – those browser updates could be a fake spreading malware
Cybersecurity researchers from Gen Threat Labs have observed multiple websites distributing a piece of malware called WarmCookie disguised as updates for popular softwarre. These websites were either built from scratch, or were legitimate once and then taken over at some point, the experts noted, but were all seen serving a…
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This is how much the average CISO makes in the US – and why it’s so much
New data has suggested Chief Information Security Officers (CISOS) in the US and Canada have seen their salaries rise to $565,000 ($426,000) on average. The findings come from the fifth annual survey from IANS Research, which also suggests that the best way to boost your salary as a CISO is…
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Microsoft promises Windows 11’s Edge browser will become “very fast” – but will it be enough to beat Chrome?
Microsoft Edge’s settings page is getting an overhaul in December, which the company promises will boost its performance. This overhaul is the latest in a series aimed at improving the responsiveness of the browser overall in a bid to gain more market share from Google’s rival web browser, Chrome, which…
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