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Minister insists 'modest' bill is not an assault on privacy-preserving tech The Danish government wants the public to weigh in on its proposed laws restricting use of VPNs to access certain corners of the internet.…
If a major disaster like Fukushima or Chernobyl ever happens again, the world would know almost straight away, thanks to an array of government and DIY radiation-monitoring programs running globally.
Oracle has news to share that’s making even the most AI-optimistic investors sweat. The tech giant has revealed lease commitments that nearly tripled in just three months, raising urgent questions about whether this unprecedented infrastructure spending spree signals massive...
iRobot Corp – perhaps most famous for its Roomba robot vacuum cleaners – has filed for bankruptcy. The company has proposed that control be handed over Shenzhen PICEA Robotics Co, its main Chinese supplier. The Chapter 11 process comes after iRobot has been under...
I'm dreaming of a white hat mass Opinion It was 40 years ago that four young British hackers set about changing the law, although they didn't know it at the time. It was a cross-platform attack including a ZX Spectrum, a BBC Micro, and a Tatung Einstein slamming British...
InfoWorld celebrates the year’s best products From AI-powered coding assistants to real-time analytics engines, the software stack is undergoing its biggest shakeup in decades. Generative AI (genAI) and agentic AI tools are redefining how code is written, tested, and...
It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate the signal from the noise in the world of artificial intelligence. Every day brings a new benchmark, a new “state-of-the-art” model, or a new claim that yesterday’s architecture is obsolete. For developers tasked with...
New tools are landing thick and fast in WhatsApp, with Meta announcing, “another bundle of features just in time for the holidays”. There is a lot to explore, but the highlight that is being pushed is the voicemail-like missed calls messages. There are also changes to...
Superintelligence has become 'a quasi-political forecast' with 'very little to do with any scientific consensus, emerging instead from particular corridors of power.' That's the warning from James O'Sullivan, a lecturer in digital humanities from University College Cork. In...
Enterprises leveraging our rapidly digitizing world must also have a robust understanding of how cyber threats are evolving. AI deepfakes are already becoming too convincing to be easily spotted by common sense approaches. Malicious actors are using AI to find...
One keypress turned a tricky Windows NT balancing act into a life of leisure Who, Me? After a weekend of R&R, The Register welcomes you back to the working week with a new installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column in which you confess to workplace errors and ...
AI is now as much a utility as any other ongoing business cost, and IT leaders setting out their AI budgets for 2026 need to consider the costs of the underlying resources — the GPUs in modern data centers that are unlocking AI’s potential. In the three years since...
The fact that the guardrails from all the major AI players can be easily bypassed is hardly news. The mostly unaddressed problem is what enterprise IT leaders need to do about it. Once IT decision-makers accept that guardrails don’t consistently protect anything, the...
That’s just one of 16 innovative and experimental sats that launched Sunday Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is celebrating after the successful Sunday launch of its Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration No. 4, which is packed with 16 intriguing...
'A SpaceX executive says a satellite deployed from a Chinese rocket risked colliding with a Starlink satellite,' reports PC Magazine: On Friday, company VP for Starlink engineering, Michael Nicolls, tweeted about the incident and blamed a lack of coordination from the...
Roomba manufacturer iRobot filed for bankruptcy today, reports Bloomberg. After 35 years, iRobot reached a 'restructuring support agrement that will hand control of the consumer robot maker to Shenzhen PICEA Robotics Co, its main supplier and lender, and Santrum Hong Kong...
Two people were found dead Sunday afternoon at a West Los Angeles residence owned by director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele. The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call for medical assistance around 3:30 PM, with police arriving shortly after. — Read the rest The p...
PLUS: Drugs found in ink cartridges; Censorship fighters criticize Vultr; Coupang CEO resigns; And more! Asia In Brief A SpaceX executive has claimed that a Chinese satellite launch came within 200 meters of hitting a Starlink satellite.…
'As Australia began enforcing a world-first social media ban for children under 16 years old this week, Denmark is planning to follow its lead,' reports the Associated Press, 'and severely restrict social media access for young people.' The Danish government announced last...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: OpenBSD 7.8 News: Jolla is working on a new Linux phone, Germany is saving money with Linux, Ubuntu to package AMD software for AI tasks, Fedora demonstrates how not to ...
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