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Monday April 8, 2024. 10:34 AM
When Disneyland opened in 1955, its car-themed attraction Autopia 'represented the future of what would become America's multilane limited-access highways,' according to Wikipedia, ' which were still being developed. President Eisenhower had yet to sign the Interstate...
We've done it once, we can do it again Opinion The Sleepwalking Into Disaster klaxon is echoing through the corridors of power. Again. This time, the corridors are British and the klaxonner is the Cabinet Office's Central Digital & Data Office.…
Learning to code can be a major boon for your career. But if you don’t have the right tools to work with, you may struggle to become successful. Kill two birds with one stone with this special deal on Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 + The 2024 Premium Learn to Code...
Every byte, and executable, counted when trying to fix Redmond's finest Who, Me? Greetings, gentle reader, and welcome once again to Who, Me? in which Reg readers like yourself try to make each Monday a little less manic by sharing tales of foible and fallibility.…
The Chinese EV giant has arrived in Europe with the Atto 3—an acceptable and good-value alternative to better-known rivals. But beyond the funky interior there’s little to get truly excited about.
Plus: Another local government hobbled by ransomware; Huge rise in infostealing malware; and critical vulns Infosec in brief Protecting your privacy online is hard. So hard, in fact, that even a top Israeli spy who managed to stay incognito for 20 years has found himself...
It's the world's most widely used vulnerability database, reports SC Magazine, offering standards-based data on CVSS severity scores, impacted software and platforms, contributing weaknesses, and links to patches and additional resources. But 'there is a growing backlog of...
Work to make the digital rupee programmable has begun India's Reserve Bank deputy governor has revealed that transaction volumes using the nation's central bank digital currency (CBDC) have trended downwards since December 2023 – and may even have been inflated by one-off...
Consortium will spend $1.65 billion on Azure, 365 – and of course some AI Cloud Software Group (CSG) and Microsoft have renewed their alliance for another eight years, this time with a $1.65 billion commitment for the Group to use Redmond's cloud, productivity tools, and...
'Varda Space Industries has closed a massive tranche of funding,' reports TechCrunch, 'just weeks after its first drug manufacturing capsule returned from orbit.' Varda has now raised $145 million to date, the article points out, and the $90 million in new Series B funding...
Because English isn't the only language Korean web giant Naver last week debuted a family of large language models named HyperCLOVA X, which it claimed perform better at cross-lingual reasoning in Asian languages than other models – and may therefore help the region to...
CNN revisits 2003's disastrous landing of the Space Shuttle Columbia tonight with two 'immersive' specials co-produced by BBC and Mindhouse Productions 'featuring exclusive interviews and revealing never-before-broadcast footage,' according to an announcement — with two more...
This week America's Department of Energy announced 'a comprehensive plan to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from buildings by 65% by 2035 and 90% by 2050.' The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) led the Blueprint's development in collaboration with the Department of Housing and ...
Plus: YouTube's fake India election ad policy; Singtel not selling Optus; Do Chinese tech stalk former workers? ASIA IN BRIEF Wipro on Friday named Srini Pallia as its leader, effective immediately, after previous boss Thierry Delaporte stepped down 'to pursue passions...
'It appears the live-service shooter Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is, once again, suffering from a hacker problem,' reports Kotaku: Instead of doing absolutely absurd amounts of damage, this time hackers have figured out how to gain access to unreleased characters...
Sunday April 7, 2024. 11:26 PM
The foundations behind Rust, Python, Apache, Eclipse, PHP, OpenSSL, and Blender announced plans to create 'common specifications for secure software development,' based on 'existing open source best practices.' From the Eclipse Foundation: This collaborative effort will be...
While some states have made data privacy gains, the US has so far been unable to implement protections at a federal level. A new bipartisan proposal called APRA could break the impasse.
'Scary moments for passengers on a Southwest flight from Denver to Houston,' tweets an ABC News transportation reporter, 'when the engine cover ripped off during flight, forcing the plane to return to Denver Sunday morning.' 'Think that big circular metal panel surrounding...
A professor at Ithaca College runs part of each student's essay through ChatGPT, 'asking the AI tool to critique and suggest how to improve the work,' reports CNN. (The professor said 'The best way to look at AI for grading is as a teaching assistant or research assistant...
On Mozilla's blog, engineer Martin Thomson explores Google's 'Privacy Sandbox' initiative (which proposes sharing a subset of private user information — but without third-party cookies). The blog post concludes that Google's Protected Audience 'protects advertisers (and...
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