New Zealand government claims it also suffered attacks from Chinese hacking groups

New Zealand has joined the UK in accusing China of sponsoring hacking groups in their attempts to steal sensitive information from western nations. The country’s government has pointed the finger at a group tracked as APT40, which has been linked to a breach of the Parliamentary Counsel Office and the Parliamentary Service in 2021, around … Read more

Startup claims to boost LLM performance using standard memory instead of GPU HBM — but experts remain unconvinced by the numbers despite promising CXL technology

MemVerge, a provider of software designed to accelerate and optimize data-intensive applications, has partnered with Micron to boost the performance of LLMs using Compute Express Link (CXL) technology.  The company’s Memory Machine software uses CXL to reduce idle time in GPUs caused by memory loading. The technology was demonstrated at Micron’s booth at Nvidia GTC … Read more

US Department of Defense claims to have flushed out 50,000 vulnerabilities with bug bounty program

The US Department of Defense (DoD) passed the significant milestone of logging more than 50,000 vulnerabilities through its vulnerability disclosure program (VDP). The VDP was launched in November 2016 by the DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3), and logged the 50,000th bug bounty on the March 15 2024. The DC3 VDP program incentivises white-hat hackers to … Read more

Pence claims that in reaction to the Pentagon’s abortion policy, he ‘commends’ senators delaying military nominees.

Former Vice President Mike Pence said that Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville is fighting for the rights of “tens of millions of pro-life, tax-paying Americans.”Former Vice President Mike Pence, who is running for the GOP presidential nomination in 2024, said he is proud of U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., for stopping hundreds of military jobs in … Read more