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Researchers have discovered malicious code circulating in the wild that hijacks the earliest stage boot process of Linux devices by exploiting a year-old firmware vulnerability when it remains unpatched on affected models.

The critical vulnerability is one of a constellation of exploitable flaws discovered last year and given the name LogoFAIL. These exploits are able to override an industry-standard defense known as Secure Boot and execute malicious firmware early in the boot process. Until now, there were no public indications that LogoFAIL exploits were circulating in the wild.

The discovery of code downloaded from an Internet-connected web server changes all that. While there are no indications the public exploit is actively being used, it is reliable and polished enough to be production-ready and could pose a threat in the real world in the coming weeks or months. Both the LogoFAIL vulnerabilities and the exploit found on-line were discovered by Binarly, a firm that helps customers identify and secure vulnerable firmware.

A group of Canadian news and media companies filed a lawsuit Friday against OpenAI, alleging that the ChatGPT maker has infringed their copyrights and unjustly enriched itself at their expense.

The companies behind the lawsuit include the Toronto Star, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Globe and Mail, and others who seek to win monetary damages and ban OpenAI from making further use of their work.

The news companies said that OpenAI has used content scraped from their websites to train the large language models that power ChatGPT — content that is “the product of immense time, effort, and cost on behalf of the News Media Companies and their journalists, editors, and staff.”

I heard a friend from my Chinese community that Samsung and Kioxia are reducing production of NAND chips to hike SSD price. Samsung and WD SSD in Amazon UK are quite sold out.

Can anyone confirm this?

EDIT: Related Chinese news from HKEPC https://www.hkepc.com/23015/%E5%82%B3%E4%B8%89%E6%98%9F%E9%8E%A7%E4%BF%A0_NAND_%E8%A8%88%E5%8A%83%E6%B8%9B%E7%94%A2_%E4%BB%A5%E9%98%BB%E6%AD%A2%E5%83%B9%E6%A0%BC%E4%B8%8B%E8%B7%8C___%E7%94%9A%E8%87%B3%E6%89%AD%E8%BD%89%E8%B6%A8%E5%8B%A2

EDIT 2: Add English source

Original title: Kioxia Reportedly Planning Production Cuts Amid NAND Flash Market Challenges

TIL I learned the difference between TED and TEDx.

TEDx events are independently organized TED-like conferences that operate under a free license granted by TED. While they follow the general principles of TED, TEDx events are planned and coordinated by volunteers at the local level, aiming to bring the TED experience to a broader audience.

Fascinating new EIA data

South Dakota produced 110% of its electricity demand with just Wind-Water-Solar for the full year Oct 1 '23-Sep 30 '24

77.5% Wind 30.1% Water 2.2% Solar

Also produced 16.8% gas, 11.7% coal

So SD produced 138% of demand, exporting 38%

https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/WWSBook/Countries100Pct.pdf

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It has fInally happened. And Technology Connections approves.

People in 2024 aren't just swiping right and left on online dating apps — some are crafting their perfect AI match and entering relationships with chatbots.

Eric Schmidt, Google's former CEO, recently shared his concerns about young men creating AI romantic partners and said he believes that AI dating will actually increase loneliness.

"This is a good example of an unexpected problem of existing technology," Schmidt said in a conversation about AI dangers and regulation on "The Prof G Show" with Scott Galloway released Sunday.

Schmidt said an emotionally and physically "perfect" AI girlfriendcould create a scenario in which a younger male becomes obsessed and allows the AI to take over their thinking.

"That kind of obsession is possible," Schmidt said in the interview. "Especially for people who are not fully formed."

Edit: at risk of preemptively saying "solved" - disabling the QoS on the router bumped the desktop browser speedtest from the ~600 up to >950Mbps.

My internet plan with my ISP is for 1000 Mbps. This is far more than I need almost always, but it is what they say I am paying for. However, I can't get any speed tests to read more than ~650 Mbps, which is around about what my old package was.

My router itself has a speedtest functionality and that is what I'm getting off of that. As I'm writing this post, I did a speedtest on my wired-in desktop and got ~590Mbps on speedtest.net.

One thought I had was that maybe the ethernet cables themselves are the limit. All of them say 'cat5e' (actually, just checked and the modem-to-router is cat6), though, which should be 1000Mbps, yea? I swapped out the cable from the modem to the router once and got the same speed with the new ethernet cable.

Maybe the router is just too weak? Well, I used iperf3 between two desktops that are both hardwired in and I got ~940 "Mbits/sec". Unless I'm messing up the unit conversion (which I certainly am annoyed by the difference between "megabytes per second" and "megabits per second"), that is the 1000Mbps that I'd expect to max out the ethernet cables. So, since those two machines are going through the router, it doesn't seem that the router is the bottleneck for my speed to the great outdoors.

The modem? The modem's specsheet says it can do 2.5Gbps (well, actually I assume there is a funny typo - it says "10/100/1000/2500 Gbps RJ-45 port", but I don't think it is doing 2.5 terrabytes/bits per second). The little led on the modem is lit up the color for "an ethernet device is connected at 2500 Mbps".

So, should I start hassling my ISP about my missing 350 Mbps? Is there some other obvious thing I should test before I hassle them? I certainly don't want them to say "have you turned it off and on again"? (once I wrote that, I did go and unplug the modem and router, stand around for 30 seconds, and then plug in the modem and then the router. after I did that, I got one speedtest from the router at 820Mbps, and then the next two tests are back to ~550).

Edit: I do not have fiber, I have a coax cable coming into the house. The person trying to sell me fiber said "your current internet is shared with the neighbors".

Does this burning at 200 j/g really mean it would be a lot safer or do you chalk this up to be company propaganda. Clearly it is a lot lower than gasoline, but since 600-900 proved to still be an issue, could this be enough to stabilize people's fears you think?

Nov 27 (Reuters) - Intel said on Wednesday its deal for $7.86 billion in U.S. government subsidies restricts the company's ability to sell stakes in its chipmaking unit if it becomes an independent entity.

The U.S. Commerce Department announced the subsidy to Intel on Tuesday, part of $39 billion for the sector including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and others in an effort to revitalize chip manufacturing in the United States.

Intel Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger in September said that the company planned to spin its chip manufacturing operations into a subsidiary and was open to taking on outside investors in the unit, called Intel Foundry.

In a securities filing, Intel said on Wednesday the subsidies require it to own at least 50.1% of Intel Foundry if the unit is separated into a new privately held legal entity. If Intel Foundry becomes a public company and Intel itself is not the largest shareholder, the company could sell only 35% of Intel Foundry to any single shareholder before running into change-in-control provisions.

Intel did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the disclosures. A Commerce Department spokesman said the government is negotiating change-in-control provisions with all direct grant recipients.

Intel would need to comply with the restrictions to continue the company's $90 billion worth of projects in Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio, and Oregon and keep manufacturing cutting-edge chips in the U.S., according to the filing. Any changes in control could require Intel to seek permission from the U.S. Department of Commerce, the filing said.