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August, 2023: Thousands of Crypto Scammers are Enslaved by Human-Trafficking Gangsters, Says Bloomberg Reporter. ('They'd lure young people from across Southeast Asia...with the promise of well-paying jobs in customer service or online gambling.') February, 2025: A...
Insiders say board members must be held accountable and drive positive change from the top down Analysis Walk into any hospital and ask the same question – 'Which security system should we invest in?' – to both a doctor and a board member, and you may get different...
In New York and other cities where congestion pricing policies, bike infrastructure projects, and car bans have been put in place, cyclists are finding the streets more welcoming.
Mission-critical app migration, 'if it ain't broke...' and more. All that glitters isn't gold when it comes to biz needs Comment Administrators tend to be a conservative lot, which is bad news for tech vendors such as Microsoft that are seeking to pump their latest and...
In his address to Congress last week, US President Donald J. Trump renewed his criticism of the CHIPS Act, the initiative aimed at reshoring the semiconductor industry, calling it “horrible.” He also called for any remaining funds to be returned to taxpayers. Instead,...
As with other forms of 'off the books' shadow tech, used by employees without company approval, shadow AI is a double-edged sword. Cyberhaven Labs recently reported a sharp 485 percent increase in corporate data flowing to AI systems, with much of it going to risky shadow AI ...
Space is the place? Not if you're nuts about neutrinos Opinion High energy neutrinos are the coolest particles in astrophysics. Born in distant cosmic cataclysms, they speed through the universe almost as if it wasn't there. With no charge and a truly tiny rest mass –...
I regret to inform you that vibes don’t pay the bills. Specifically, open source vibes. For as long as I’ve followed open source, there has been a tendency for the industry to focus on normative values of open source, i.e., why people should embrace open source, as if it ...
There’s currently no stopping generative AI spending. Analyst firm Omdia expects spending on generative AI applications to hit $58 billion by 2028. Yet while this level of investment is a significant amount, actual deployment of generative AI applications is still slow....
It was 30 years ago today, Sgt. JavaScript taught the web to play. Well, not exactly but close enough. The programming language began in 1995 as a project in the depths of the browser maker Netscape. It lived under several different names including Mocha and LiveScript...
Using one green screen to manage multiple machines needs more than a Friday afternoon brain Who, Me? Shifting focus from weekend fun to the reality of a return to work can be hard, so The Register tries to ease the transition with a fresh instalment of 'Who, Me?', our...
Security researchers have shared details of newly discovered, undocumented commands in ESP32 Bluetooth firmware that can be exploited by an attacker. The Chinese-made chip is found in millions of devices, meaning the findings are significant. Speaking at RootedCON in Madrid, ...
The Washington Post reports: Meta was willing to go to extreme lengths to censor content and shut down political dissent in a failed attempt to win the approval of the Chinese Communist Party and bring Facebook to millions of internet users in China, according to a new...
Likening memory safety bugs to smallpox may not soothe sensitive C coders Rust is alive and well in the Linux kernel and is expected to translate into noticeable benefits shortly, though its integration with the largely C-oriented codebase still looks uneasy.…
Prompts see it scour the web for info and turn it into decent documents at reasonable speed Chinese researchers’ AI prowess is again a hot topic after a startup called Monica.im last week revealed “Manus”, a service it bills as a “general agent” that might improve...
Nominated for 10 Oscars, The Brutalist (directed and produced by Brady Corbet) has an 'intriguing and controversial technical feature,' according to the Baffler, that threatens to turn movie-viewing into 'a drab appreciation of machine-managed flawlessness, and acting less...
It's just one of 6,000 apps that New Zealand thinks might be best tamed with ERP The body that runs New Zealand’s public health system uses a single Excel spreadsheet as the primary source of data to consolidate and manage its finances, which aren’t in great shape...
Red Hat product manager Pau Garcia Quiles (also long-time Slashdot reader paugq) spotted an interesting project on GitHub: Free95, a new lean, Windows-compatible operating system is available from GitHub. In its current form, it can run very basic Win32 GUI and console...
Also, phone cleaner apps are a data-sucking scam, Singapore considering the literal rod for scammers, and more Infosec in Brief Microsoft has spotted a malvertising campaign that downloaded nastyware hosted on GitHub and exposed nearly a million devices to information...
Adafruit Industries used large language model (LLM) tool Claude Code to streamline hardware development, writes managing director ptorrone. In a demo video Limor 'Ladyada' Fried compares the LLM's command-line interface to working with the build-automation tool CMake or 'a...
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