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Experts reported the hack of several supercomputers across Europe

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Organizations managing supercomputers across Europe reported their systems have been compromised to deploy cryptocurrency miners. Crooks have compromised supercomputers across Europe to deploy cryptocurrency miners, incidents have been already reported in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland. Rumors are circulating about a similar infection of a supercomputer located in Spain.

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Now Chrome Can Block Ads That Leach Power From Your CPU

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Google developers have built a feature to help you avoid abusive ads. Here’s how to turn it on now.

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Elexon, a middleman in the UK power grid network hit by cyber-attack

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Elexon, a middleman in the UK power grid network, recently reported it was hit by a cyber attack. Elexon , a middleman in the UK power grid network, was the victim of a cyber attack, the incident impacted only affected the internal IT network, including the company’s email server, and employee laptops. “Hackers have targeted a critical part of the UK’s power network, locking staff out of its systems and leaving them unable to send or receive emails.” reads a post publishe

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Coronavirus-themed attacks May 10 – May 16, 2020

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This post includes the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from May 10 to May 16, 2020. Threat actors exploit the interest in the Coronavirus outbreak while infections increase worldwide, experts are observing new campaigns on a daily bases. Below a list of attacks detected this week. May 12 – Zeus Sphinx continues to be used in COVID-19-themed attacks.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 264

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A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Blue Mockingbird Monero-Mining campaign targets web apps Shiny Hunters group is selling data from 11 companies on the Dark Web Swiss rail vehicle manufacturer Stadler hit by a malware-based attack ATM vendor Diebold Nixdorf suffered a Ransomware attack Experts disclose security flaws in Oracles iPlanet Web Server GDPR Data Security Checklist in