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Monday November 11, 2024. 12:31 PM
Talking to the distro's self-appointed benevolent dictator for life about 20 years of Ubuntu Ubuntu Summit 2024 Canonical founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth spoke to The Reg FOSS desk at Ubuntu Summit 2024 in The Hague about the Linux distribution's success, its missteps, his ...
Tech companies, not users, to be punished for violations of social media time-out The Australian government has confirmed it will create legislation that bans access to social media for people under the age of 16.…
What's the difference between a broken update system and a malware injection engine? Opinion A seemingly simple, single mistake in metadata that auto-trashes a critical, major component in the Windows ecosystem sounds bad. And it is, in so many ways.…
Those old operating systems had awesome power – you had to be careful wielding it who, me? Good morning and welcome, once again, to Who, Me? in which Register readers share tales of tech support moments they might prefer to forget. But forgetting is not a way to learn from ...
Also: Crypto hacks will continue; CoD hacker gets thousands banned, and more Infosec in brief One of the suspected masterminds behind the widespread Snowflake breach has been arrested in Canada – but the saga isn't over, eh. …
Plus: A premium minimum wage for Malaysian datacenter workers; N Koreans maybe discover spicy content; S Korea fines Meta for data misuse, and more Asia In Brief Taiwanese silicon wafer provider GlobalWafers said last week it expects its award from the CHIPS and Science Act...
Sunday November 10, 2024. 05:01 PM
Got a modern Nvidia or AMD graphics card? Custom Llamas are only a few commands and a little data prep away Hands on Large language models (LLMs) are remarkably effective at generating text and regurgitating information, but they're ultimately limited by the corpus of data...
Saturday November 9, 2024. 10:30 AM
Dwindling power and problematic communications, but the spacecraft just keeps on going 'We're definitely going to make the 50th anniversary,' says Professor Garry Hunt, one of the scientists responsible for NASA's Voyager mission, as Voyager 1 recovers from an unexpected...
Now that's a brew-haha Struggling chip giant Intel has rescinded a cost-cutting plan to abolish free coffee and tea for its staff.…
Friday November 8, 2024. 11:58 PM
The new normal Updated The feud between Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and rival web hosting firm WP Engine has led Automattic to create a website that lists WordPress customers who have moved their site hosting away from WP Engine and those who haven't.…
Raw Story and AltNet allowed to amend complaint A US judge has thrown out a case against ChatGPT developer OpenAI which alleged it unlawfully removed copyright management information (CMI) when building training sets for its chatbots.…
Move to suspend 7 nm and smaller processes follows US pressure Semiconductor giant TSMC is expected to stop supplying chips made with 7 nm or smaller processes to customers in China that are developing AI processors or GPUs. The move is reportedly to ensure it remains...
And separately, alleged ex-military traitor also arrested in Frankfurt The US is moving forward with its prosecution of a man who is accused of illegally shipping semiconductors to sanctioned businesses in Russia after he pleaded guilty to the multi-million-dollar scheme.…
Does anyone want to tell Linus Torvalds? No? I didn't think so Opinion I must be a glutton for punishment. Not only was my first programming language IBM 360 Assembler, my second language was C. Programming anything in them wasn't easy. Programming safely in either is much...
Affected business calls situation 'mindbogglingly dangerous' as sysadmins reminded to check backup and restore strategies Microsoft remains silent over Windows Server 2025 turning up in the guise of a security update earlier this week, much to the chagrin of affected...
We all know by now that monsters never die, right? Two high-profile criminal gangs, Scattered Spider and BlackCat/ALPHV, seemed to disappear into the darkness like their namesakes following a series of splashy digital heists last year, after which there were arrests and...
Printed around 4,000 pages of tech before leaving for a job at Huawei A Chinese national was sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined ₩20 million ($14,400) for allegedly stealing semiconductor manufacturing technology from SK hynix, according to a South Korean court...
Government-appointed commissioners say Birmingham severely lacked Oracle skills during disastrous implementation UK government-appointed commissioners have labeled Birmingham City Council's Oracle Fusion rollout as 'the poorest ERP deployment' they have seen.…
'It helps Euro organizations to avoid lock-in and design the cloud strategy they want' European cloud consortium CISPE has unveiled a framework to help members and their customers automate compliance with the EU Data Act's obligations around data portability and switching.…
UK data regulator says some devs and providers are operating without a 'lawful basis' The UK's data protection watchdog finds that AI recruitment technologies can filter candidates according to protected characteristics including race, gender, and sexual orientation.…
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