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World’s fastest broadband connection went live down under — Nokia demos 100 gigabit internet line in Australia in record-breaking attempt but doesn’t say when it will go on sale
Faster broadband is on the way, and it won’t require network providers to overhaul their infrastructure. nbn, the largest wholesale broadband provider in Australia, used Nokia’s Lightspan MF fiber platform, to deliver 10G, 25G, 50G and 100G broadband speeds over its existing fiber network. Nokia’s Lightspan delivers next-generation Passive Optical…
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UnitedHealth confirms major cyberattack, says hackers stole “substantial” amount of patient data
UnitedHealth Group has issued an update on the data breach that recently struck its subsidiary, Change Healthcare. The healthcare giant suffered a ransomware attack that knocked some of its services offline and affected different pharmacies and other adjacent businesses across the United States. In an update, UnitedHealth Group said that…
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China somehow got its hands on advanced Nvidia chips, despite the sanctions
China has reportedly managed to successfully dodge Nvidia chip sanctions by purchasing server products produced by Super Micro Computer, Dell, and Taiwan’s Gigabyte through resellers. A report from Reuters claims these servers then made their way to a number of Chinese universities and scientific research centers. The US government banned…
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Open Internet, web scraping, and AI: the unbreakable link
Last year, a nonprofit internet archival organization, The Internet Archive (IA), lost the first circuit court (Hachette v. Internet Archive) against four major publishers that sued IA for its decision to act as a digital library during the pandemic, lending more than one copy of a book at a single…
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South Korea defense firms hit by North Korean attacks
Multiple North Korean state-sponsored hacking groups have been attacking South Korean defense companies for more than a year, stealing login credentials and sensitive data. A Reuters report, citing South Korea’s law enforcement, claims three major threat actors – Lazarus, Kimsuky, and Andariel, have been going after defense organizations and third-party…
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Could ChatGPT be the next big cybersecurity worry — researchers say it can crack systems faster than ever before
LLMs such as ChatGPT might just be the next cybersecurity worry, according to the latest findings by researchers. Previously believed to only be able to exploit simpler cybersecurity vulnerabilities, LLMs have shown a surprisingly high proficiency in exploiting complex ones as well. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)…
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