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Monday January 27, 2025. 01:00 PM
The tech exists, and vehicles on the road already have it, yet a consortium of carmakers doesn’t want to make this lifesaving equipment standard. The reason is as old as the hills—money.
Also, Subaru web portal spills user deets, Tornado Cash sanctions overturned, a Stark ransomware attack, and more Infosec in brief Using a custom-built tool, a 15-year-old hacker exploited Cloudflare's content delivery network to approximate the locations of users of apps...
“Yahoo Boy” scammers are impersonating CNN and other news organizations to create videos that pressure victims into making blackmail payments.
A glitch in Slack makes it possible to accidentally send your entire DM history with one person to other coworkers. Ask me how I know.
Oxford Circus space closed after six years Microsoft is shuttering its only UK retail store, less than six years after the doors of the Oxford Circus location were first opened to the public.…
West Sussex helplessly watches price tag go from £2.6M to 'oh my God' A UK council is set to use up to £25 million ($31 million) from the sale of capital assets such as property to fund an Oracle-based transformation project that has seen expected costs mushroom from £2.6 ...
Former freelancer cuffed a week after being dismissed by UK's top visitor attraction The British Museum was forced to temporarily close some galleries and exhibitions this weekend after a disgruntled former tech contractor went rogue and shuttered some onsite IT systems.…
The EFF has complained that in general 'smart' products for babies 'collect a ton of information about you and your baby on an ongoing basis'. (For this year's 'worst in privacy' product at CES they chose a $1,200 baby bassinet equipped with a camera, a microphone, and a...
Epic late-night road trip would have been an awesome if not for a secret change of plans Who, Me? Welcome once again to Who, Me? The Register's reader-contributed column in which you admit to the occasional failure, and we celebrate your escapes.…
TL;DR: Data storage is so much simpler when you have a 1TB Dual USB-C USB-A High-Speed Flash Drive, and it’s on sale for $69.97 (reg. $109) until February 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT. That cloud storage subscription is costing you a little more every month. You know what...
Bot manufacturers should think outside the box of humanoid form – unless those makers are Engineered Arts Interview The robotics business is booming, thanks to the hype surrounding artificial intelligence and the demonstrated capabilities of robotaxis like Waymo.…
'Looking for a quick fix for their fast-growing electricity diets, tech giants are increasingly looking to strike deals with power plant owners to plug in directly,' reports the Associated Press, 'avoiding a potentially longer and more expensive process of hooking into a...
At December's 'Microsoft Excel World Championship' in Las Vegas, 'finance professionals fluent in spreadsheets were treated like minor celebrities,' writes the New York Times, 'as they gathered to solve devilishly complex Excel puzzles in front of an audience of about 400...
'An underwater data cable between Sweden and Latvia was damaged early on Sunday,' reports the Financial Times, 'in at least the fourth episode of potential sabotage in the Baltic Sea that has caused concern in Nato about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure...'...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: Perplexity AI has presented a new proposal to TikTok's parent company that would allow the U.S. government to own up to 50% of a new entity that merges Perplexity with TikTok's U.S. business, according to a...
Since launching in 2020, the nonprofit site RestofWorld.org has been covering tech news from 100 countries. And they've just announced the winners in their 2024 international photography contest. 'From Cape Verde to Bhutan, we received 227 entries from over 45 countries...
Sunday January 26, 2025. 10:52 PM
For the first time in America, an empty self-driving car has been involved in a fatal collision. But it was 'hit from behind by a speeding car that was going about 98 miles per hour,' a local news site reports, citing comments from Waymo. ('Two other victims were taken to...
This weekend Cory Doctorow delved into 'the two factors that make services terrible: captive users, and no constraints.' If your users can't leave, and if you face no consequences for making them miserable (not solely their departure to a competitor, but also fines, criminal ...
Earlier this month a major fire erupted at a California battery plant. But several factors contributed to its rapid spread, the fire district's chief told the Los Angeles Times: A fire suppression system that is part of every battery rack at the plant failed and led to a...
El Reg digs its claws into Middle Kingdom's latest chain of thought model Hands on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek this week unveiled a family of LLMs it claims not only replicates OpenAI's o1 reasoning capabilities, but challenges the American model builder's dominance in a...
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