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GPU mining malware spreads via SEO poisoning, AI chatbots

Threat actors are targeting systems with high-performance computers in an ongoing cryptojacking campaign spread through a coordinated SEO poisoning operation that also manipulated AI chatbot recommendations.

The compromise occurs through malicious download pages for utility software typically installed by owners of powerful systems, like CrystalDiskInfo, HWMonitor, Display Driver Uninstaller, FurMark, K-Lite Codec Pack, and PDFgear.

Once a system is infected, the attacker gets persistent access on the machine by deploying the legitimate remote management ScreenConnect tool, which could later be used to install additional malware.

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Nvidia is canning the Control Panel, and I can’t be the only one who’s slightly sad to see it go

And two, the Nvidia App can be quite an online-focused affair in a way the old Control Panel was not. Besides the greyed-out checkbox in the Privacy settings labelled “required data” (something Nvidia explains is “Data that is necessary for Nvidia App to operate and cannot be switched off”), it can also lag quite badly on an unstable connection. In my personal experience, anyway.

Still, change comes for us all. I’ll miss the Control Panel’s classic rotating 3D image preview, the charmingly old-school HDCP menu that shows a rendering of an ancient Nvidia GPU plugged into what looks suspiciously like a plasma TV, and of course, the old Global Settings and Program Settings tabs with all of their many intricacies.

But is it progress? Perhaps. You can pry the Windows Control Panel from my cold, dead hands, though. That old clunker simply refuses to die, although I don’t think it’ll be that long before I write a similar obituary.

The strange quantum property of tomorrow’s insulator

Ultra-fast data transfer and superconductivity: Quantum materials offer significant technological prospects—if we can understand them at the atomic scale. A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), in collaboration with the University of Salerno, the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona, and the National Research Council of Italy, has succeeded in observing the “quantum metric” in a topological insulator—a unique geometric property of these materials, which conduct electricity only on their surface.

Published in Nature Materials, this work represents a major step toward mastering the materials of the future.

Not all materials conduct electricity in the same way. These differences arise from the behavior of the electrons that make up the material. Among them, topological insulators—discovered in 2006—are of particular interest to scientists. Like conventional insulators, they block the flow of electric current through their interior, yet, remarkably, allow it to flow freely across their surface.

Structural plasticity of the membrane-bound protein degradation assembly supports bacterial adaptation to stress

Iqbal et al. show that HflK/C conformational dynamics regulate bacterial adaptation to aminoglycoside stress. Using disulfide crosslinking to constrain the closed state, they demonstrate that stabilizing a closed HflK/C assembly impairs stress recovery and reveal a stress-induced conformation with dual openings that may facilitate FtsH-dependent membrane proteolysis.

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