Visiting students can't hide social media accounts from Uncle Sam anymore Visa seekers are reportedly censoring their own posts to visit the land of the free The US State Department last week said foreign nationals seeking to study in the US must make their social media profiles public, prompting some students to delete their social media posts.… #theregister #IT
Citrix bleeds again: This time a zero-day exploited - patch now Two emergency patches issued in two weeks Hot on the heels of patching a critical bug in Citrix-owned Netscaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that one security researcher dubbed "CitrixBleed 2," the embattled networking device vendor today issued an emergency patch for yet another super-serious flaw in the same prod… #theregister #IT
Rack-scale networks are the new hotness for massive AI training and inference workloads Terabytes per second of bandwidth, miles of copper cabling, all crammed into the back of a single rack AnalysisΒ  If you thought AI networks weren't complicated enough, the rise of rack-scale architectures from the likes of Nvidia, AMD, and soon Intel has introduced a new layer of complexity.… #theregister #IT
Amazon's Ring can now use AI to 'learn the routines of your residence' It's meant to cut down on false positives but could be a trove for mischief-makers Ring doorbells and cameras are using AI to "learn the routines of your residence," via a new feature called Video Descriptions.… #theregister #IT
Cosmoe: New C++ toolkit for building native Wayland apps New UI library has 23 years of history – and unexpected roots Cosmoe is a modern C++ UI library, but it's also a new iteration of a project with roots in one of the most elegant GUIs ever written.… #theregister #IT
Computer vision research feeds surveillance tech as patent links spike 5Γ— A bottomless appetite for tracking people as "objects" A new study shows academic computer vision papers feeding surveillance-enabling patents jumped more than fivefold from the 1990s to the 2010s.… #theregister #IT
Supply chain attacks surge with orgs 'flying blind' about dependencies Who is the third party that does the thing in our thing? Yep. Attacks explode over past year The vast majority of global businesses are handling at least one material supply chain attack per year, but very few are doing enough to counter the growing threat.… #theregister #IT
Three goes to zero as UK mobile provider suffers voice and text outage Millions of customers left speechless Britain's Three mobile network has suffered a major outage, with voice calls out of action and limitations on texting.… #theregister #IT
Hyperscalers to eat 61% of global datacenter capacity by decade's end Cloud and AI demand propel rapid buildout as on-prem share drops to 22% Hyperscale operators are expected to account for 61 percent of all datacenter capacity by 2030, thanks in part to the growth of cloud services and rising demand for compute to feed AI.… #theregister #IT
French cybercrime police arrest five suspected BreachForums admins Twentysomethings claimed to be linked to spate of high-profile cybercrimes The Paris police force's cybercrime brigade (BL2C) has arrested a further four men as part of a long-running investigation into the criminals behind BreachForums.… #theregister #IT