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Friday January 10, 2025. 12:26 PM
Old deadline of January 2025 being used to push victims into paying up UK consumer champion Which? warns that scammers are using the ongoing phone line digital switchover program in Britain and Northern Ireland to trick customers into handing over their payment details.…
Hastings has a mystery to solve – how did all those customers get offered refunds? UK insurer Hastings Direct had a few technical issues this week after some of its customers were told they'd receive refunds, only to have their hopes dashed by a hasty apology.…
Investigation says scheme allegedly raked in £145k and sold nearly 2,000 fake records to the unvaccinated The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has taken its case against two Luton men further by charging them over the alleged distribution of fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination...
Screenshot showed it wasn't a possible attack – unless you qualify everything Google does as a threat On Call Velkomin, Vælkomin, Hoş geldin, and welcome to Friday, and therefore to another edition of On Call – The Register's end-of-week celebration of the tech support ...
World Economic Forum finds huge demand for brainbox skills, news for how it changes your role Think tank and advocacy org the World Economic Forum has predicted strong growth in jobs that AI can’t replace, plus big demand for skills to automate those that can.…
Did Zuck’s definition of ‘free expression’ just get even broader? Meta allegedly downloaded material from an online source that’s been sued for breaching copyright, because it wanted the material to train its AI models, according to a new court filing.…
Everything in Australia is deadly, in this case giant eagles guarding eggs in places wireless broadband techs need to reach Australia’s National Broadband Network has started building bird’s nests.…
Lenovo’s already showing them off in a bonkers laptop CES Laptops with rollable displays that allow expanded screens are about to become a thing, thanks to Lenovo and Samsung.…
Thursday January 9, 2025. 10:45 PM
Beware the IoT that doesn’t get a security tag The White House this week introduced a voluntary cybersecurity labeling program for technology products so that consumers can have some assurance their smart devices aren't spying on them.…
China faces outright ban while others vie for Uncle Sam's favor updated The Biden administration is reportedly weighing new limits in the ongoing US-China trade war, which would ban high-end AI accelerators to adversary nations and impose restrictions on AI models for...
The honors are dubious, but boy, so is the tech ces The Consumer Electronics Show is back to showcase not just the cutting edge of innovation but also the worst of what's possible when modern tech collides with today's culture of capitalist excess.…
Hey administrators – buckle up. 2025 is going to be a wild ride Administrators at Microsoft shops are in for a wild 2025 as Redmond prepares to deprecate and retire more than just support for Windows 10.…
What could be the motivation for continuing to fight the case? Tesla CEO Elon Musk and a group of other top executives employed by the electric car company have launched an appeal against a series of court rulings that blocked his $56 billion pay package.…
Simply the best FOSS desktop OS there is, outside of the Windows and Unix families Haiku still hasn't quite reached that magic Version One Point Zero line in the sand, in part because its developers are setting the bar much higher than that of any other FOSS OS.…
Redmond claims tiny cuts are performance based Microsoft kicks off the new year with more job cuts, albeit fewer than one percent of employees reportedly face the ax.…
Factory resets and apply patches is the advice amid fortnight delay for other appliances The cybersecurity industry is urging those in charge of defending their orgs to take mitigation efforts 'seriously' as Ivanti battles two dangerous new vulnerabilities, one of which was...
Already inflated costs of NPU-based boxes set to jump on import tax The 'progress' of AI PCs is being 'overshadowed' by enterprises concerned about the state of the economy and US President-elect Trump's tariff threats for kit made in China, according to market watcher and...
Tricky attackers trying yet again to deceive the good guys on home territory Security researchers are once again being lured into traps by attackers, this time with fake exploits of serious Microsoft security flaws.…
Collecting regolith samples with a blast of gas NASA is sending a 'vacuum cleaner' to the Moon as a payload on next week's Blue Ghost 1 mission to land on the lunar surface.…
Ex-politician in UK claims he's been defamed – and goes to court in US for answers A former deputy mayor in the UK has subpoenaed Cloudflare in the US to discover the identity of an anonymous British political blogger.…
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