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Monday January 20, 2025. 12:30 PM
You may have heard the news about the PowerSchool breach—hackers breaking into a software system that helps schools keep track of student data, then demanding a ransom in exchange for not leaking the information. Depending on the school and its data storage practices, the...
I don’t know about you, but working on multiple devices at once makes me feel like some kind of 90s hacker. I’m programming on my PC, answering emails on my laptop, responding to chat messages on my tablet, all while transferring files on my other PC. But while that...
Your battery might be flat, but the Wi-Fi signal is going to be great UK telecom giant BT is pulling the plug on its EV charging ambitions after falling a long way short of the 60,000 street cabinets it reckoned could be repurposed.…
'Nothing horrible or unexpected happened last week,' Linux Torvalds posted tonight on the Linux kernel mailing list, 'so I've tagged and pushed out the final 6.13 release.' Phoronix says the release has 'plenty of fine features': Linux 6.13 comes with the introduction of the ...
A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble Who, Me? Accidents will happen, and every Monday The Register celebrates them – and your escape from the consequences – in a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column that...
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'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs Sage Group plc has confirmed it temporarily suspended its Sage Copilot, an AI assistant for the UK-based business software maker's accounting tools, this month after it blurted...
While Microsoft pushes AI PC experiences, Nvidia is busy wooing developers Comment Nvidia is the uncontested champion of AI infrastructure — at least in the datacenter. In the emerging field of AI PCs, things aren't so clear cut.…
Amazon has angered its workers again 'after forcing them to return to the office five days a week,' reports the New York Post. The problem? 'Not enough desks for everyone.' (As well as 'packed parking lots' that are turning some workers away.) The Post cites interviews...
PLUS: Allstate sued for allegedly tracking drivers; Dutch DDoS; More fake jobs from Pyongyang; and more Infosec in brief Hogwarts doesn’t teach an incantation that could have saved Harry Potter publisher Scholastic from feeling the power of an online magician who made off...
PLUS: Salt Typhoon and IT worker scammers sanctioned; Alibaba Cloud’s K8s go global; Amazon acquires Indian BNPL company Asia In Brief When food delivery “superapps” started operations in Indonesia, users started putting on weight – and that’s not an entirely bad...
'Engineers have showcased a prototype electric vehicle that can drive for up to 40 miles (64 kilometers) per day using just solar power,' reports LiveScience. The production-ready 'Aptera Launch Edition' made its first appearance this month at CES 2025, and 'also offers up...
The Los Angeles Times calls it 'a guns-blazingly funny documentary about two out-of-work British actors who spent a chunk of their COVID-19 lockdown staging Shakespeare's masterpiece on the mean streets of Grand Theft Auto V.' Grand Theft Hamlet won SXSW's Jury Award for...
The same Florida Man who wanted to ban the app in the first place US president-elect Donald Trump appears to have proposed the government he will soon lead should acquire half of made-in-China social media service TikTok’s stateside operations.…
America's outgoing national security adviser has 'wide access to the world's secrets,' writes Axios, adding that the security adviser delivered a 'chilling' warning that 'The next few years will determine whether AI leads to catastrophe — and whether China or America...
Sunday January 19, 2025. 11:08 PM
The Washington Post reports: Ruptures of undersea cables that have rattled European security officials in recent months were likely the result of maritime accidents rather than Russian sabotage, according to several U.S. and European intelligence officials. The determination ...
'As large-scale solar farms crop up across the U.S.,' reports ABC News, 'the booming solar industry has found an unlikely mascot...' Sheep. In Milam County, outside Austin [Texas], SB Energy operates the fifth-largest solar project in the country, capable of generating 900...
ABC News reported that the official newspaper of China's communist party is claiming TikTok refugees on RedNote found a 'new home,' and 'openness, communication, and mutual learning are... the heartfelt desires of people from all countries.' But in fact, Wired reports,...
The S in LLM stands for Security OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler appears to be willing to initiate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on arbitrary websites, a reported vulnerability the tech giant has yet to acknowledge.…
CNN reports: TikTok appears to be coming back online just hours after President-elect Donald Trump pledged Sunday that he would sign an executive order Monday that aims to restore the banned app. Around 12 hours after first shutting itself down, U.S. users began to have...
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