Month: December 2024

Neue Details stärken die Gerüchte: Auch Apple will mit einem eigenen KI-Beschleuniger unabhängiger werden. Mit dabei ist Broadcom. (KI, Google)

Neue Details stärken die Gerüchte: Auch Apple will mit einem eigenen KI-Beschleuniger unabhängiger werden. Mit dabei ist Broadcom. (KI, Google)

Die Blockaden der US-Regierung treffen Chinas Halbleiterbranche. Die sollte sich komplett unabhängig machen und neu denken, schlägt ein Professor vor. (Halbleiterfertigung, Prozessor)

Die Blockaden der US-Regierung treffen Chinas Halbleiterbranche. Die sollte sich komplett unabhängig machen und neu denken, schlägt ein Professor vor. (Halbleiterfertigung, Prozessor)

Penetration Testing wird eingesetzt, um IT-Systeme effektiv abzusichern. Eine praxisorientierte Einführung in die Methoden und Techniken zum Aufspüren und Schließen von Sicherheitslücken bietet ein zweitägiger Workshop. (Golem Karrierewelt, Sicherheitslücke)

Penetration Testing wird eingesetzt, um IT-Systeme effektiv abzusichern. Eine praxisorientierte Einführung in die Methoden und Techniken zum Aufspüren und Schließen von Sicherheitslücken bietet ein zweitägiger Workshop. (Golem Karrierewelt, Sicherheitslücke)

PHOENIX—Dodge gave its development team a relatively simple brief for the new Charger: It had to look, drive, and sound like a traditional Dodge muscle car. "If we don't make people uncomfortable, where are we going," asked Matt McAleer, Dodge and SRT's CEO. And you can see what he means: customers will have a choice of battery-electric or, from next year, an inline-six gasoline engine. For now, there is no throbbing V8 version, and those options will surely make some Dodge muscle car purists a little uncomfortable.

But the new car certainly looks the part. According to Scott Krueger, vice president for exterior design at Dodge, the stylists' aimed for "heritage, not retro," and they achieved that with a sedan shape that certainly evokes the classic 1968 Charger without directly copying any of its lines. It's a car that looks great in the metal, and features like the LED strip of daylight running lights and the so-called "R-wing" at the front ensure that the design feels thoroughly modern and not a pastiche.

The Charger Daytona name is just for the BEV variant—when the straight-six Charger debuts next year it won't be a Daytona. Credit: Jonathan Gitlin

It's not exactly compact, though—at 206.9 inches (5,248 mm) long, 78.1 inches (2,028 mm) wide, and 58.9 inches (1,497 mm) tall, the Charger was built with American roads (and parking spaces) in mind, and is in fact 2 inches (50 mm) wider than the outgoing Charger Hellcat widebody.

Read full article

Comments

Russian nation-state hackers have followed an unusual path to gather intel in the country's ongoing invasion of Ukraine—appropriating the infrastructure of fellow threat actors and using it to infect electronic devices its adversary’s military personnel are using on the front line.

On at least two occasions this year, the Russian hacking group tracked under names including Turla, Waterbug, Snake, and Venomous Bear has used servers and malware used by separate threat groups in attacks targeting front-line Ukrainian military forces, Microsoft said Wednesday. In one case, Secret Blizzard—the name Microsoft uses to track the group—leveraged the infrastructure of a cybercrime group tracked as Storm-1919. In the other, Secret Blizzard appropriated resources of Storm-1837, a Russia-based threat actor with a history of targeting Ukrainian drone operators.

The more common means for initial access by Secret Blizzard is spear phishing followed by lateral movement through server-side and edge device compromises. Microsoft said that the threat actor’s pivot here is unusual but not unique. Company investigators still don’t know how Secret Blizzard obtained access to the infrastructure.

Read full article

Comments

Google’s mid-range phones have earned a solid reputation as decent devices that offer many of the same features as the company’s flagships at lower price points. And the latest leaks suggest the Pixel 9a will be continue that tradition. But with an expected starting price of $499 (which, to be fair, is the same as […]

The post Lilbits: More Pixel 9a details leaked, playing PS3 games on ARM PCs, and mor appeared first on Liliputing.

The macOS 15.2 update that was released earlier today came with a handful of new features, plus something unexpected: an apparently accidental reference to the upcoming M4 MacBook Airs. MacRumors reports that the "Mac16,12" and "Mac16,13" model identifiers reference 13- and 15-inch models of the M4 Air and that both are coming in 2025.

That a MacBook Air refresh is planned for next year isn't much of a surprise at this point—in reporting that pretty much nailed the details of the first M4 Macs, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has said that the Air, the Mac Studio, and the Mac Pro are all slated for updates throughout 2025.

But a reference in the current release of macOS could point to a launch sooner rather than later; the M4 Mac mini was referenced in a macOS update in mid-September around a month and a half before it was released. The M3 Airs came out in March this year, but Apple has been known to put out new Macs as early as January in recent years.

Read full article

Comments