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Tuesday December 24, 2024. 10:29 AM
Easier to let those old phones gather dust in a drawer, survey finds The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has warned that many adults don't know how to wipe their old devices, and a worrying number of young people just don't care.…
Tech vendors start saying the quiet part out loud – do enterprises really need all that headcount? Comment AI vendors are starting to say the quiet part out loud. As technology advances, it seems more about controlling costs and headcount.…
Monday December 23, 2024. 10:30 PM
Mummy, where do zero days come from? Opinion One of the charms of coding is that malice can be indistinguishable from incompetence. Last week's Who, Me? story about financial transfer test software running amok is a case in point.…
The victory may be short lived as the chip designer gears up for second round Analysis Qualcomm's push into the PC arena is safe, at least for the moment, after a jury found its mobile processor designs had not violated Arm Holdings' licenses as the British chip designer had ...
A #DOScember surprise: fits on a single floppy, but has a network-capable package manager With its recent switch to a different kernel, SvarDOS moves from being a distro of FreeDOS to greater independence.…
Analyst estimates show growing apetite for alternative infrastructure Nvidia dominated the AI arena in 2024, with shipments of its Hopper GPUs more than tripling to over two million among its 12 largest customers, according to estimates from Omdia.…
Ho-ho-holy heatshield! NASA's Parker Solar Probe is scheduled to make its closest approach yet to the Sun, approximately 3.8 million miles from the star's surface, on Christmas Eve.…
Dual Russian-Israeli national arrested in August An alleged LockBit ransomware developer is in custody in Israel and awaiting extradition to the United States.…
Inexpensive over-ear gear, but active noise cancelling won't block out the carol singers Review OneOdio has released a set of over-ear noise-cancelling headphones for an apparent bargain price of £59 ($69). However, they are also a prime example of the axiom 'you get what...
Also, Ascension notifies 5.6M victims, Krispy Kreme bandits come forward, LockBit 4.0 released, and more in brief Google has announced plans to allow its business customers to begin 'fingerprinting' users next year, and the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) isn't...
Sunday December 22, 2024. 05:22 PM
It's all made from our data, anyway, so it should be ours to use as we want Opinion Last year, I wrote a piece here on El Reg about being murdered by ChatGPT as an illustration of the potential harms through the misuse of large language models and other forms of AI.…
Saturday December 21, 2024. 04:30 PM
Lina Khan’s tenure may end, but the regulatory hurdles she helped build aren’t going anywhere Analysis When Donald Trump takes office for his second term on January 20, many expect sweeping changes across the board. But among tech players, when it comes to mergers and...
Friday December 20, 2024. 06:36 PM
'Facts can't be decided by a roll of the dice' Press freedom advocates are urging Apple to ditch an 'immature' generative AI system that incorrectly summarized a BBC news notification that incorrectly related that suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter Luigi Mangione had...
Says it's not sure what the issue is but points at admins tweaking licensing options It's not just you, there is indeed an activation problem in Microsoft 365 Office triggered by administrators making changes at the licensing level.…
Remarkably compact, remarkably cross-platform, remarkably long beta period Beta 6 of Adélie Linux is arriving, just over six years after Beta 1 – but they do say that good things come to those who wait.…
Forks at dawn.... but it's not great sign for open source Opinion I am so sick of this. I've been a happy WordPress user since it rolled out the door in 2003, and I kissed Vignette (since acquired by OpenText) goodbye. WordPress was just so much easier to use than the...
New shiny if you run Linux on an M1 or M2 The Fedora 41 version of Asahi Linux is out – the go-to Linux distro for Apple Silicon Macs.…
And there his troubles began … On Call Digital technology remains frighteningly finickity, which is why good tech support people are always in demand – and also the reason The Register never tires of telling your support stories each Friday in On Call, the column your...
Meanwhile, NASA signs off on Artemis software upgrade Chinese scientists think it's time to rewrite the Moon's history after analyzing samples returned to Earth by the Chang'e 6 mission.…
Yes, LLMs can do the heavy lifting. But good luck getting one to give evidence CANALYS FORUMS APAC Generative AI is being enthusiastically adopted in almost every field, but infosec experts are divided on whether it is truly helpful for red team raiders who test enterprise...
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