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Robocallers who called the FCC pretending to be from the FCC land telco in trouble

Don’t laugh: The $4.5m fine proposed for carrier Telnyx shows how the Trump administration will run its comms regulator In its first enforcement action of the Trump presidency, the FCC has voted to propose fining Telnyx $4,492,500 – after scammers pretending to be the watchdog’s staff started calling actual FCC staffers via the VoIP telco.… READ MORE HERE…

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Google: How to make any AMD Zen CPU always generate 4 as a random number

Malicious microcode vulnerability discovered, fixes rolling out for Epycs at least Googlers have not only figured out how to break AMD’s security – allowing them to load unofficial microcode into its processors to modify the silicon’s behavior as they wish – but also demonstrated this by producing a microcode patch that makes the chips always output 4 when asked for a random number.… READ MORE HERE…

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