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Friday February 7, 2025. 09:00 AM
Shabby admin invented 'transparent tape' – a terrible storage medium but a magic tool for unlocking IT budgets On Call Each week at work creates memories many are happy to forget, but some are willing to share with fellow Register readers in On Call, our Friday column that ...
Makers of content blockers, privacy add-ons say promises weren't kept Google's overhaul of Chrome's extension architecture continues to pose problems for developers of ad blockers, content filters, and privacy tools.…
Reverses life extensions for some servers it now feels aren’t useful in the inferencing age Amazon Web Services is struggling to get the high-quality servers it needs to build AI infrastructure and has retired other hardware early to make room to accelerated machines.…
OCR plugin great for extracting crypto-wallet secrets from galleries Kaspersky eggheads say they’ve spotted the first app containing hidden optical character recognition spyware in Apple’s App Store. Cunningly, the software nasty is designed to steal cryptocurrency.…
35% drop in payments across the year as your backups got better and law enforcement made a difference Ransomware extortion payments fell in 2024, according to blockchain analyst biz Chainalysis this week.…
We did Nazi see that coming Updated Marko Elez, a former SpaceX, Starlink, and X engineer who was granted deep access to a critical US Treasury payment system by the Trump-blessed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has quit that team after he was linked to a racist...
Looking forward to someone putting the new into nuclear Months after Amazon joined a half-billion-dollar funding round for next-gen modular nuclear startup X-energy, the biz has announced a supplemental Series C-1 raise - despite its fission reactor design remaining...
Thursday February 6, 2025. 11:07 PM
Fourth time’s the harm? Gravy Analytics has been sued yet again for allegedly failing to safeguard its vast stores of personal data, which are now feared stolen. And by personal data we mean information including the locations of tens of millions of smartphones,...
Lawsuit: 'Scale of intrusion into individuals' privacy is massive and unprecedented' Updated Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has had its access to US Treasury payment systems restricted - at least temporarily - following a lawsuit from advocacy groups and...
Are cybersecurity roles included? Are Elon's enforcers vetted? Inquiring minds want to know Updated Elected officials are demanding answers as to whether the Trump administration and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are hamstringing US national...
Proof of concept projects stuck in pilot phase as investors get itchy feet Many business leaders remain unconvinced that AI is worth the expense despite continued hype from an industry that has bet billions on developing the tech and desperately needs to recoup that...
For those for whom a runny white or a hard yolk is just not good un œuf Researchers have put computational fluid dynamics software to good use in devising a solution to the age-old problem of the perfect soft-boiled egg.…
20 years? More like five for real-world workloads, says q-AI lead Despite ongoing breakthroughs, quantum computing has struggled to shake the perception that it's always another ten years away from being practical. However, researchers at Google now argue the tech is...
Concerns around unfixed problems remain after system resulted in harm to some 150 patients The US Department of Veterans Affairs has restarted a project to implement Oracle electronic health records in its hospitals after the project was suspended in 2023.…
Preview arrives in Canary Channel, release planned for Windows 10 and 11 Microsoft has released its first in-box public preview of Windows MIDI Services with full support for the MIDI 2.0 standard.…
Fleets built to handle peak demand will lose money, leaving humans driving to the rescue Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is warning that it's not yet possible to commercialize autonomous vehicles due to high costs, seasonal demand fluctuations, and the need to prove 'superhuman'...
57% higher price point and app compatibility issues aren't helping There remains little love for notebooks containing AI-capable processors and even less for Microsoft's Copilot+ models, with premium pricing, software compatibility, and opaque benefits cited as the...
Lennart Poettering gave packed-out keynote talk. Jack Dorsey … didn't FOSDEM 2025 FOSDEM returned to Brussels for the first weekend in February – not without some controversial people.…
'Fetch' just got a lot more interesting You can teach a robotic dog new tricks, it seems, with mechanic canines now being deployed in tests to detect and defuse bomb threats.…
Download speeds of 41.9 Gbps and upload speeds of 20.6 Gbps achieved, claims BT division Network builder and maintainer Openreach says it has tested a 50 Gbps fiber broadband connection in the UK, as a first step towards making it commercially available at some point in the...
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