Why we’re ready to pay the price for open banking
It’s not every day you hear a company asking to pay for something. But in our response to the upcoming roll-out of commercial Variable Recurring Payments (VRPs), we’re doing exactly…
Can data centers keep up with AI demands?
The International Energy Agency has predicted that the boom in Artificial Intelligence (AI) will cause data centers to consume twice as much electricity by 2026. Understandably, such forecast has raised…
Supercomputer-on-a-chip goes live: single PCIe card packs more than 6,000 RISC-V cores, with the ability to scale to more than 360,000 cores — but startup still remains elusive on pricing
InspireSemi has announced the successful tapeout of the Thunderbird I Accelerated Computing chip for fabrication at TSMC. This highly differentiated “supercomputer cluster-on-a-chip” features 1,536 custom 64-bit RISC-V CPU cores, tailored…
The rise of RISC-V: Modular laptop vendor releases RISC-V motherboard as competition heats up for x86 — Framework eschews Qualcomm and Arm for now as it bets on growing interest for third force
Framework, best known for its modular laptops, has certainly been busy lately. The firm recently unveiled a new version of its Framework Laptop 13 with Intel Core Ultra processors, 9.2-megapixel…
Medusa Android malware returns to target users around the world — here’s how to stay safe
Medusa, an Android banking trojan that had been laying low for roughly a year now, has made a fresh appearance, experts have warned A new, lightweight Medusa variant has been…
Thousands of websites told to ditch Polyfill service after Chinese hackers hijack it to serve malware
Website administrators are being urged to remove the Polyfill.io service immediately after it was found to be serving malware to site visitors. A polyfill is a piece of code (typically…
Companies are finally increasing their cybersecurity protection — to get better insurance
Businesses are finally improving their cybersecurity stances, just not necessarily for the right reasons, new research from Sophos has found. With cyber threats becoming increasingly prevalent amid global geopolitical tensions,…
Tackling the role human error plays in data breaches
Cyberattacks today are an inevitable occurrence, rather than mere possibility. Near-daily comes news of another organization seeing their systems taken offline or their data being stolen as a result of…
Multiple WordPress plugins are being hacked to attack websites across the world
Thousands of WordPress websites are at risk of being completely taken over by hackers, after the updating process of multiple plugins was compromised to deploy malicious code. Security researchers from…
External SSD set to catch up with internal SSDs thanks to new chip — ASMedia demoed USB4 v2 silicon that allow transfer speeds of up to 15GBps but the first products won’t be out until next year
ASMedia recently demonstrated its USB4 v2 physical layer (PHY) chips at Computex 2024, which will allow external SSDs to reach speeds of up to 15GBps, potentially matching the performance of…