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Google Chrome cookie encryption system can be easily bypassed, experts warn
The cookie encryption system that Google introduced to the Chrome browser a few months ago can easily be bypassed, experts have warned. In fact, a security researcher has recently published a new tool that does just that. In July 2024, Google released Chrome 127, a new version of the Chrome…
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Nvidia GPU owners told to update now to patch a range of serious security flaws
Nvidia has released a new patch for its GPU Display Driver for Windows and Linux to fix a handful of rather serious vulnerabilities. If exploited, the vulnerabilities mostly lead to code execution, denial of service, escalation of privileges, information disclosure, and data tampering, which means they are rather serious. Among…
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“How do these ‘snort your coffee’ numbers arise?”: Expert questions the validity of Zettascale and Exascale-class AI supercomputers, and presents a simple compelling car analogy to explain not all FLOPs are the same
A leading expert has raised critical questions about the validity of claims surrounding “Zettascale” and “Exascale-class” AI supercomputers. In an article that delves deep into the technical intricacies of these terms, Doug Eadline from HPCWire explains how terms like exascale, which traditionally denote computers achieving one quintillion floating-point operations per…
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Bitwarden clarifies open source commitment amid user concerns
Bitwarden has sought to calm user backlash in the wake of source code changes that had raised concerns among users. Phoronix readers recently flagged concerns about the company’s apparent shift away from an open source model. The password manager platform has traditionally operated on a ‘freemium’ model, providing some code…
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Salesforce unveils its Agentforce future of AI to the world
Salesforce has made its Agentforce platform open in general availability, bringing what the company says is the next generation of AI for businesses. First unveiled at its Dreamforce 2024 event earlier this year, Agentforce marks a new way for companies to develop and build AI agents. Available as part of…
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What cloud outages tell us about putting your eggs in one basket
In July, what seemed like an innocuous software update from a cybersecurity vendor, CrowdStrike, caused millions of Windows-based machines across the globe to crash. This wasn’t the first major tech outage, and nor will it be the last. In fact, outages occur regularly across the tech landscape, for a huge…
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