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Friday February 28, 2025. 10:31 AM
Monopoly watchdogs forever hold their peace, unlike developers still unhappy about Terraform license switch IBM has finally completed the $6.4 billion takeover of Hashicorp days after Britain's competition regulator gave the corporate marriage its seal of approval.…
Turns out you can be too careful checking that backups worked On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that celebrates your escapes from dangerous tech support requests.…
TL;DR: Get 10TB of cloud storage for a one-time payment of $279.99 with Internxt—use code STORAGE20 at checkout to save 20% (reg. $349.99). Your phone’s full. Your laptop’s maxed out. And the last thing you want to do is commit to a subscription service like Dropbox to ...
Here's another thing AI can do: Cause conflict around whether it's compatible with the very idea of open source The Open Source Initiative's (OSI) 2025 Board of Directors election is again mired in controversy.…
Blue Origin on Thursday announced the crew for its next mission. 'The crew most notably includes popstar Katy Perry and broadcast journalist Gayle King. They will be joined by two scientists -- Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyen -- as well as Jeff Bezos' fiancee, TV personality...
Crew helped lowlifes generate X-rated celeb deepfakes using Redmond's OpenAI-powered cloud – claim Microsoft has named four of the ten people it is suing for allegedly snatching Azure cloud credentials and developing tools to bypass safety guardrails in its generative AI...
Longtime Slashdot reader mspohr shares a report from IFLScience: A video that has gone viral in the last few days shows two artificial intelligence (AI) agents having a conversation before switching to another mode of communication when they realize no human is part of the...
Researchers at George Mason University discovered a vulnerability in Apple's Find My network that allows hackers to silently track any Bluetooth device as if it were an AirTag, without the owner's knowledge. 9to5Mac reports: Although AirTag was designed to change its...
Apple announced a new feature allowing parents to share a child's age with app developers without exposing sensitive information, as lawmakers debate age-verification laws for social media and apps. Reuters reports: States, such as Utah and South Carolina, are currently...
Microsoft has released a native Copilot app for macOS, offering AI-powered text and image generation, dark mode, and a Command + Space shortcut. The Verge reports: Microsoft is launching this new Copilot Mac app in the US, UK, and Canada today, and the iPad version is also...
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” our hosts talk about three big stories from February.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company was forced to stagger the rollout of its newest model, GPT-4.5, because OpenAI is 'out of GPUs.' In a post on X, Altman said that GPT-4.5, which he described as 'giant' and...
EA has released the source code for several classic Command & Conquer games, including Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert, Renegade, and Generals & Zero Hour. 'They're being released under the GPL license, meaning folks can mix, match, and redistribute them to their hearts' content...
Budget Windows laptops still suck. Framework’s upcoming repairable and upgradeable machine could change the game.
Technicolor Group has filed for a court recovery procedure in France after failing to secure new investors, putting its VFX brands, including MPC, The Mill, Mikros Animation, and Technicolor Games, at risk of closure. Variety reports: A total shutdown of MPC and...
Thursday February 27, 2025. 11:41 PM
FYI: What NOT to search after committing a crime The US Army soldier suspected of compromising AT&T and bragging about getting his hands on President Trump's call logs allegedly tried to sell stolen information to a foreign intel agent.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Security researchers are warning that data exposed to the internet, even for a moment, can linger in online generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot long after the data is made private. Thousands of once-public GitHub ...
On this special episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we dig into the many DOGE staffers keeping two jobs at once, plus what happened when US federal workers received an email from Elon Musk over the weekend.
Meta has fired 'roughly 20' employees who leaked 'confidential information outside the company,' The Verge reported Thursday, citing the company. From the report: 'We tell employees when they join the company, and we offer periodic reminders, that it is against our policies...
Stephen and Katie Miller—he's “the prime minister,” sources say; she’s DOGE’s comms guru—liaise between the White House and Elon Musk, and are centrally involved as he tears the government apart.
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