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US government tells federal agencies they have 48 hours to repair Ivanti VPN tech following breaches

US Government agencies using Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure have been told to disconnect these solutions immediately and not turn them back on until they’re absolutely certain they’ve been properly patched, and their networks disinfected from possible hacker incursions. This stark warning was issued by the Cybersecurity and…

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AWS sees another record year for Amazon as AI push drives cloud growth

Amazon has unveiled its latest quarterly results, revealing in the three months leading up to December 31, 2023, it drew in $170 billion in revenue, marking a 14% increase over the previous quarter. Of that, $24.2 billion was driven by its cloud division, Amazon Web Services, representing a 13% increase…

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Zoom is cutting hundreds more jobs as conditions fail to improve

Zoom has announced another round of layoffs reportedly pushed by its investors’ desire for greater efficiency in response to an evolving market and a continually tough economy. The video conferencing company announced it would be making 150 workers redundant, accounting for around 2% of its current headcount, according to CNBC.…

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Samsung to showcase record-smashing 280-layer QLC NAND flash memory chip — expect cheaper, large capacity SSDs but endurance remains an unknown

Samsung is preparing to introduce a number of new products at the upcoming International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), one of which will be a groundbreaking 280-layer QLC V9 NAND flash memory chip that will pave the way to more affordable, higher-capacity solid-state drives (SSD). As with all of the other…

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Google seemingly embraces AI dogfooding with gutso — cancels huge contract which could see thousands of quality rater jobs terminated and change SEO forever

Google has cancelled a significant contract with Appen, an Australian data services company, in a move that could potentially result in the termination of thousands of quality rater jobs.  Appen, which provides a substantial number of third-party search quality raters for Google, was reportedly blindsided by the termination notice, and…

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Don’t believe everything you read – hackers are pushing malware via media, news sites

Hackers with an apparently novel sense of creativity have been found hiding malicious code on legitimate platforms such as video and news sites, security researchers are warning. Cybersecurity researchers from Mandiant have published a new report detailing the campaigns. As per the writeup, a threat actor labeled as UNC4990 was…

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