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Friday June 27, 2025. 09:29 AM
When police come to investigate tech support, make sure you have your story straight On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that celebrates the frolicsome fun that readers have experienced when asked to deliver tech support.…
The UK government has rejected the 25 billion ($34.39 billion) pound Morocco-UK Power Project, citing a preference for domestic renewable initiatives that offer greater economic and strategic benefits. The project aimed to supply solar and wind energy from the Sahara to...
But like cloud computing and digital transformation, this may be a buzzword they can't ignore forever HPE Discover 2025 HPE envisions a future where customer systems are filled with its agentic AI products, but reactions from the HPE Discover show floor in Las Vegas this...
Brazil debuts, Japan bounces back, and tiny Tuvalu soars on Elon's broadband birds Eight more nations have passed at least 50 percent IPv6 deployment, according to the Internet Society (ISOC).…
The six largest UK accounting firms do not formally monitor how automated tools and AI impact the quality of their audits, the regulator has found, even as the technology becomes embedded across the sector. From a report: The Financial Reporting Council on Thursday published ...
Regulator acknowledges that won’t stop video nasties, but welcomes extra ‘friction’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Neuroscience News Science Magazine: Surgeons have performed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the U.S., using advanced robotic tools to avoid opening the chest. Using a surgical robot, lead surgeon Dr. Kenneth Liao and his...
Printers and scanners are increasingly becoming ways for cyber crooks to deliver phishing attacks, thanks to a flaw in the Microsoft 365 Direct Send feature. The Varonis forensics team has uncovered an exploit which allows internal devices such as printers to send emails...
There may be trouble in the industry’s biggest AI alliance, with a contract dispute about AGI threatening to topple the partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft. The dispute, according to a report from The Information, involves a line in their contract that allows for the...
Authors are having a hard time protecting their works from the maws of the LLM makers Updated Californian courts have not been kind to authors this week, with a second ruling going against an unlucky 13 who sought redress for use of their content in training AI models.…
Rust 1.88 has been released, featuring support for writing naked functions, as well as backing for Boolean literals. The update of the popular fast and safe programming language was announced June 26 by the Rust Release Team. Current Rust users can get Rust 1.88 by running...
Apple's Swift programming language is expanding official support to Android through a new 'Android Working Group' which will improve compatibility, integration, and tooling. 'As it stands today, Android apps are generally coded in Kotlin, but Apple is looking to provide its...
Comcast is introducing new simplified, contract-free broadband plans that eliminate its unpopular 1.2TB data cap for residential customers. 'The company began enforcing a data cap in 2008, when it set that limit at 250GB,' notes PCMag. 'Four years later, it raised that to...
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Gursewak Sokhi has announced the release of Oracle Linux 10, a major new update of the company's enterprise-class Linux distribution built from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: 'Oracle Linux 10...
Facing mounting competition from autonomous taxi services like Waymo, Uber is in early talks to help fund Travis Kalanick's potential acquisition of Pony.ai's U.S. subsidiary (source paywalled; alternative source). If completed, the deal would reunite Kalanick with Uber (now ...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google's AI search features are killing traffic to publishers, so now the company is proposing a possible solution. On Thursday, the tech giant officially launched Offerwall, a new tool that allows publishers to generate...
Edward “Big Balls” Coristine’s placement at the SSA comes after a White House official told WIRED on Tuesday that the 19-year-old had resigned from his position in government.
Thursday June 26, 2025. 11:40 PM
Michael Larabel writes via Phoronix: The upcoming Blender 5.0 3D modeling software application is introducing High Dynamic Range (HDR) display support on Linux when making use of Wayland -- no X11 support for HDR -- and Vulkan graphics accelerator. HDR support for Blender...
A group of authors has sued Microsoft for allegedly training an artificial intelligence model using their copyrighted works without permission. The case, filed in New York on June 24, alleges the tech giant unfairly used their books to train Megatron-LM, a transformer-based...
New research shows that as conversations with Claude, Anthropic’s AI chatbot, progress, users’ expressed sentiment “becomes more positive,” and they often walk away feeling emotionally lighter. The finding comes from Anthropic’s study on how users are turning to...
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