Network and Beyond NaB

When the massive trove of data was posted for sale on a cybercrime forum early this month, AT&T said it did not originate from its systems, even though the poster said it was stolen from a 2021 breach of the telecommunications giant. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102459-att-confirms-data-leak-affecting-73-million-customers.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

On Friday, CD Projekt Red Chief Financial Officer Piotr Nielubowicz participated in a live chat with investors on the Polish platform Stockwatch. During the talk, Nielubowicz confirmed that the studio has no plans to implement microtransactions (MXT) in its single-player games while leaving them open for future multiplayer projects. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102457-cd-projekt-cfo-rules-out-microtransactions-single-player.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Signs of life have emerged for Intel's Battlemage high-end graphics cards. A few months ago, YouTube rumor brokers had given it up for dead. These new leaks come from @momomo_us on X, who shared several shipment manifests, including one for Battlemage showing a pair of desktop (Xe2-HPG) graphics cards, one... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102454-new-battlemage-leaks-suggest-intel-hasnt-abandoned-plans.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The Wall Street Journal reports that Discord will begin in-app advertising within the coming week. The decision abandons the platform's long-time stance against using paid advertisements and promotions. The change is part of the company's plan to boost gaming-related and Nitro subscription revenue. However, as described, the promotions don't sound... Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102455-discord-looks-boost-gaming-revenue-ditching-long-time.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Andres Freund, a PostgreSQL developer at Microsoft, was doing some routine micro-benchmarking when we noticed a small 600ms delay with ssh processes, noticing that these were using a surprising amount of CPU even though they should be failing immediately, according to his post on Mastodon. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102456-linux-could-have-brought-down-backdoor-found-widely.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Baikal Electronics, one of Russia's major processor developers, has been struggling in the wake of sanctions imposed by the US and UK governments following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Until then, the company ordered the production of chips, including their packaging, from TSMC. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102453-russia-primary-chip-producer-struggles-meet-demand-defect.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The Information reports that Microsoft and OpenAI are in the early planning stages for an enormously ambitious new AI supercomputer installation. Unnamed sources state executives peg the budget at $100 billion for the US-based facility, which could house millions of cutting-edge AI chips. Read Entire Article https://www.techspot.com/news/102452-microsoft-openai-massive-100b-targate-supercomputer-could-reshape.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger