Monthly Archives: September 2022

Arm turns up the heat in the fight for the data center

Arm has lifted the lid on a new generation of Neoverse cores designed to deliver maximal performance and power efficiency in the data center. The new flagship core, Neoverse V2 (codenamed Demeter), is said to offer “market-leading integer performance” across cloud and HPC workloads, in addition to advances in hardware-based security. Neoverse V2 will feature…

Microsoft Teams security flaw lets hackers steal accounts – and there’s no fix in sight

There is a security flaw in Microsoft Teams that allows threat actors to log into other people’s accounts, even if those accounts are protected with multi-factor authentication, researchers have claimed. Cybersecurity analysts from Vectra say the Teams desktop application for Windows, Linux, and Mac, stores user authentication tokens in cleartext, without any locks guarding the…

Trump nearly torpedoed his own stimulus package to get revenge on Mitch McConnell after the 2020 election, book says

This combination of pictures created on February 16, 2021 shows US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, October 27, 2020 and US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on February 5, 2020. Saul Loeb/Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images Trump almost sank an economic relief deal that his administration…

How does the Hilton free breakfast for Gold and Diamond elites work, and who gets a food and beverage credit instead?

Insider’s experts choose the best products and services to help make smart decisions with your money (here’s how). In some cases, we receive a commission from our our partners, however, our opinions are our own. Terms apply to offers listed on this page. Hilton Gold and Diamond elites will continue to receive food and beverage…

Ether tumbles 9% following the completion of Ethereum’s highly anticipated ‘Merge’ to energy-saving proof-of-stake system

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images Ether prices tumbled as much as 9% on Thursday after Ethereum completed its anticipated “Merge.”The “Merge” transitioned ether from a proof-of-work system to proof-of-stake, which increased the overall efficiency of the blockchain.Mining rewards following the “Merge” have been reduced by 90% to just 1,600 ETH per day. Ether…

Senate Democrats are punting a bill to ban members of Congress from trading stocks to the lame-duck session: ‘It’s not going to happen before the election’

Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon at a press conference on banning stock trades for members of Congress on April 07, 2022. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Senate Democrats won’t release a consensus bill to ban congressional stock trading until after the midterms. “It’s not going to happen before the election,” said Sen. Jeff Merkley, a leading…

South Korea is reportedly considering ‘contingency plans’ for currency exchange volatility as the won drops to 13-year lows against the dollar

A bank employee holds South Korean won banknotes at the Korea Exchange Bank in Seoul. JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images South Korea is reviewing “contingency plans” related to foreign exchange volatility, the Financial Times reported Thursday.  The verbal intervention by Finance Minister Choo Kyung-ho took place as the dollar hit a fresh 13-year high against…