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Intel announces new program for AI PC software developers and hardware vendors

COMPANY NEWS: Intel today announced the creation of two new artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives as part of the AI ​​PC Acceleration Program: the AI ​​PC Developer Program and the addition of independent hardware vendors to the program. These are critical milestones in Intel’s pursuit of enabling the software and hardware ecosystem to optimize and maximize AI on more than 100 million Intel-based AI PCs through 2025.

“We have made great strides with our AI PC Acceleration Program by working with the ecosystem. Today, with the addition of the AI ​​PC Developer Program, we are expanding our reach to go beyond

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Broadcom is Accelerating Digital Transformation with Software-Defined Edge

Reaffirming our commitment to partners for Software-defined edge solutions

Mobile World Congress 24 (#MWC24), taking place this week in Barcelona, ​​features VMware, recently acquired by Broadcom, as an event sponsor. Members of our Software-Defined Edge (SDE) team are among the company executives attending the show and are excited to reconnect, in person, with many of our partners and customers. As the edge increasingly takes a starring role

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TeamCity Flaw Leads to Surge in Ransomware, Cryptomining, and RAT Attacks

Ransomware, Cryptomining

Multiple threat actors are exploiting the recently disclosed security flaws in JetBrains TeamCity software to deploy ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, Cobalt Strike beacons, and a Golang-based remote access trojan called Spark RAT.

The attacks entail the exploitation of CVE-2024-27198 (CVSS score: 9.8) that enables an adversary to bypass authentication measures and gain administrative control over affected servers.

“The attackers were then able to install malware that could reach out to its command-and-control (C&C) server and perform additional commands such as deploying Cobalt Strike beacons and remote access trojans (RATs),” Trend Micro said in a new report .

“Ransomware can then be

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iOS 17: How to Turn On Contact Key Verification in 4 Easy Steps

Apple released iOS 17.4 on March 5, bringing Podcast transcripts, more Stolen Device Protection options and more to you iPhones. But one highly anticipated iPhone security feature arrived with iOS 17.2 in December. That update introduced Contact Key Verification, a security tool meant to help verify that the person you’re texting is who they say they are, to all iPhones.

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Apple wrote in December 2022 that with Contact Key Verification, people who might find themselves in dangerous situations, such as journalists, activists and members of government organizations, can verify that they are messaging who they intend to. While

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