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A tiny live-boot Linux installation is back from the dead — sleeping giant awakens for a new lease of life
Damn Small Linux (DSL) has officially received an alpha test 2024 release after a presumed final release back in 2007. Yes, it’s older and fatter now (having grown in file size from 50MB to about 700MB run live, and 3.3GB when fully installed), but even though it won’t fit onto…
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Firm behind software used by AMD, Nvidia to make GPU and CPUs quietly unveils its own supercomputer — as it appears to emulate Apple by bringing hardware and software closer together
Cadence Design Systems, the company known for its software used by AMD and Nvidia to design CPUs and GPUs, has quietly stepped into the supercomputer business. In a move reminiscent of Apple‘s strategy of aligning hardware and software, Cadence unveiled its own supercomputer, the M1, designed to run computational fluid…
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Facebook Marketplace accounts leaked online — thousands of users possible affected, so secure your account now
Hundreds of thousands of Facebook Marketplace users have had their personal information stolen and posted on a dark web forum, putting them at serious risk of phishing, identity theft, and other cybercrime. According to a BleepingComputer report, a known data leaker with the alias IntelBroker posted a new thread on…
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Facebook Marketplace accounts leaked online — thousands of users possibly affected, so secure your account now
Hundreds of thousands of Facebook Marketplace users have had their personal information stolen and posted on a dark web forum, putting them at serious risk of phishing, identity theft, and other cybercrime. According to a BleepingComputer report, a known data leaker with the alias IntelBroker posted a new thread on…
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A new Windows Defender zero-day is already being exploited to drop dangerous malware
Hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Windows Defender SmartScreen to infect crypto traders with malware. Researchers from Trend Micro revealed a threat actor going by Water Hydra (AKA DarkCasino) abused the zero-day, now tracked as CVE-2024-21412, in attacks conducted on New Year’s Eve 2023. Microsoft has since released a…
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Legacy infrastructure is causing a huge sustainability issue for many businesses
A new study has revealed nearly two-thirds (63%) of IT leaders are grappling with a sustainability headache due to their organization’s legacy infrastructure. According to the analysis of 250 senior IT decision-makers by Daisy, legacy hardware could be responsible for more than one-third (37%) of overall power consumption in businesses.…
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