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Monday November 11, 2024. 10:56 AM
As third-party risk continues to be a critical concern for enterprises, the need for effective risk management strategies has never been more pressing. We spoke with Bob Maley, CISO of third-party risk management specialist Black Kite, to get his insights into effective...
What's the difference between a broken update system and a malware injection engine? Opinion A seemingly simple, single mistake in metadata that auto-trashes a critical, major component in the Windows ecosystem sounds bad. And it is, in so many ways.…
Heralded as the fourth standard of the web, WebAssembly, or Wasm for short, has sparked heated discussion since its origins. Wasm is an assembly-like programming language, a compact binary format, and a compilation target for C, C++, C#, Go, JavaScript, Python, Rust, and...
Modern software must function smoothly within a diverse ecosystem, from on-premises monoliths to ever-evolving cloud-based microservices. Architectural choices made during software development, be they explicit or implicit, add complexity and create interdependencies, often...
I have always been suspicious of the “private cloud.” I get why the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) included the term in the description of cloud computing almost 17 years ago. However, the term was quickly interpreted as a way to bundle aging...
To absolutely no one’s surprise, a new Gartner survey of more than 3,100 CIOs and technology executives found that 52% of digital initiatives fail. If anything, the surprise is that the number isn’t higher. Way back in 2014, I was writing about how and why big data...
On its 20th anniversary, Firefox 'is still going strong, and it is a better browser today than it ever was,' according to TechCrunch. In an interview, Mozilla's interim CEO says one of the first things they did when was to 'unlock a bunch of money towards Firefox product...
Ready to bring your PC into the future? With Microsoft Windows 11 Pro, now only $17.97, you’re not just upgrading your operating system—you’re getting a whole new toolkit for productivity, gaming, and secure, seamless performance. Windows 11 Pro’s Copilot AI...
Those old operating systems had awesome power – you had to be careful wielding it who, me? Good morning and welcome, once again, to Who, Me? in which Register readers share tales of tech support moments they might prefer to forget. But forgetting is not a way to learn from ...
Renew Home says they're building a 'virtual power plant' in Texas by 'enabling homes to easily reduce and shift the timing of energy use.' Thursday they announced a 10-year project distributing hundreds of thousands of smart thermostats to customers of Texas-based power...
Monkey Island has been one of the more beloved adventure game franchises for years, attracting legions of fans with its offbeat humor and campy pirate aesthetic. Although the franchise is still going strong – the last game released in 2022 – you can play a brand-new Monkey...
Also: Crypto hacks will continue; CoD hacker gets thousands banned, and more Infosec in brief One of the suspected masterminds behind the widespread Snowflake breach has been arrested in Canada – but the saga isn't over, eh. …
Linus has released 6.12-rc7 for testing. 'No big surprises, and I think everything is on track for a final 6.12 release next weekend.'
Wednesday Cuba was hit by a major hurricane which took down its entire power grid again, this time for about 24 hours, according to CNN: Videos of the aftermath showed power infrastructure turned into a mangled mess and power poles down on streets. Hundreds of technicians...
Plus: A premium minimum wage for Malaysian datacenter workers; N Koreans maybe discover spicy content; S Korea fines Meta for data misuse, and more Asia In Brief Taiwanese silicon wafer provider GlobalWafers said last week it expects its award from the CHIPS and Science Act...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Bazzite 40, Playtron OS Alpha 1, Tucana Linux 3.1 News: Redox being ported to RISC-V and running the COSMIC software centre, TrueNAS talks about new ZFS features,...
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When a volcano erupted in 1980 about 70 miles from Portland, 'lava incinerated anything living for miles around,' remembers an announcement from the University of California at Riverside. But 'As an experiment, scientists later dropped gophers onto parts of the scorched...
When a volcano erupted in 1980 about 70 miles from Portland, 'lava incinerated anything living for miles around,' remembers an announcement from the University of California at Riverside. But 'As an experiment, scientists later dropped gophers onto parts of the scorched...
Sunday November 10, 2024. 11:34 PM
Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis writes: Despite its impressive output, a recent study from MIT suggests generative AI doesn't have a coherent understanding of the world. While the best-performing large language models have surprising capabilities that make it seem...
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