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For the IT professional who has to take work home The Long Term Service Channel (LTSC) version of Microsoft Office 2024 is being joined by a version aimed at consumers and small businesses that want to avoid paying subscription fees.…
The Register's Thomas Claburn reports: Buck Shlegeris, CEO at Redwood Research, a nonprofit that explores the risks posed by AI, recently learned an amusing but hard lesson in automation when he asked his LLM-powered agent to open a secure connection from his laptop to his...
Neo-Nazis are joining SimpleX Chat, a relatively unknown app that received funding from Jack Dorsey and promises users there is no way for it or law enforcement to track their identity.
New vaccines could help stem the spread of respiratory syncytial virus, but there are already huge inequities in access and uptake.
Ice cream is deceptively simple, but that sweet burst of flavor and soft melt on the tongue is a finicky, frozen science of water, fat, and air delicately held together.
Self-proclaimed Swiss Army knife of embedded Linux moves slow and fixes things in latest release Busybox is tiny, unobtrusive, and runs quite a lot of routers and other key bits of the internet – somewhat like Linux itself used to be.…
TL;DR: Forget bulky AirTags — KeySmart® SmartCard for $34.97 (reg. $39) is slim, wireless-charging, and waterproof, making it a more convenient way to track your wallet. Your phone’s smart, your watch is smart — so why not your wallet? The KeySmart SmartCard is more...
TL;DR: Get the ultra-compact Nanophone for $99.97 through October 27 — tiny, powerful, and packed with everything you need. Ever wish your phone felt a little more like a gadget out of a spy movie? The Nanophone has you covered. This miniaturized smartphone is discreet,...
Why yes, I will help you again – for a price On Call The exchange of labor for currency can be a grim business, which is why The Register ends each working week with a new instalment of On Call – the reader contributed column in which you tell cathartic tales of Working...
Researchers have discovered that a popular food dye used in Cheetos 'alters the optical qualities of skin, allowing light to pass through (Source paywalled; alternative source),' according to the Wall Street Journal. Larger doses of the dye used on humans could make...
'You can build this in a few days – even as a very naïve developer' A pair of inventive Harvard undergraduates have created what they believe could be one of the most intrusive devices ever built – a wake-up call, they tell The Register, for the world to take privacy...
The retail apps have exploded in China and internationally thanks to bargain-basement pricing. But a potential import crackdown from the US and other countries could slow the momentum.
Bundles free government apps to help digital diplomacy – and maybe find some new customers Google Cloud will help India to spread its Digital Public Infrastructure – the suite of government apps it offers to help other nations – through the development of a 'DPI in a...
Argument that it didn't inherit Twitter's legal obligations did not hit the spot Australia's Federal Court has rejected Elon Musk's assertion that X/Twitter does not need to comply with local requirements to provide information about how it detects, removes and prevents the...
Gangs hit 5% of all Adobe Commerce, Magento-powered stores, Sansec says Updated Ray-Ban, National Geographic, Whirlpool, and Segway are among thousands of brands whose web stores were reportedly compromised by criminals exploiting the CosmicSting flaw in hope of stealing...
The one-and-done nature of 23andMe is 'indicative of a core business problem with the once high-flying biotech company that is now teetering on the brink of collapse,' reports NPR. As 23andMe struggles for survival, many of its 15 million customers are left wondering what...
California utilities couldn't deliver for hyperscalers' favorite hardware slinger It's not just datacenters running AI that need their own energy sources. Taiwanese hardware manufacturer to the clouds Quanta has revealed the purchase of three sets of fuel cell microgrid...
fjo3 shares a report from the BBC: They can walk, hover and the males can even sing love songs to woo mates -- all this with a brain that's tinier than a pinhead. Now for the first time scientists researching the brain of a fly have identified the position, shape and...
OpenAI has introduced 'canvas,' a new interface for ChatGPT that provides a separate workspace for writing and coding projects. 'Canvas is rolling out in beta to ChatGPT Plus and Teams users on Thursday, and Enterprise and Edu users next week,' reports TechCrunch. 'Once...
Datacenters coming online in the next 15 months will need to supply at least some of their own power Updated As the saying goes, everything is bigger in Texas, but as datacenter footprints explode amid the AI boom, regulators fear even the Lone Star state's utilities won't...
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