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Dating apps kiss'n'tell all sorts of sensitive personal info -
Privacy Not Included label slapped on 22 of 25 top lonely-hearts corners
Interview Dating apps ask people to disclose all kinds of personal information in the hope of them finding love, or at least a hook-up.…
(Sat, 04 May 2024 18:00:13 GMT)Microsoft doesn't want cops using Azure AI for facial recognition -
Facial recognition based on body cam footage? Absolutely not ... in our cloud, says Microsoft
An update to Microsoft's Azure Open AI Service code of conduct makes it clear who Redmond doesn't want using its hottest new tech: Cops.…
(Sat, 04 May 2024 12:30:14 GMT)What do we make of Apple's plan B for a down quarter – that $110B buyback of shares? -
Plus: What our vultures thought of the US v Google trial that's wrapping up
Kettle Apple had a moderately glum first three months of the year, though the iGiant found a way to keep the most important people happy. Yes, we mean Wall St.…
(Sat, 04 May 2024 09:32:12 GMT)Oracle's database family gets trendy AI makeover -
Say goodbye to 23c and hello to 23ai
Oracle has celebrated the general availability of its latest database upgrade by renaming it.…
(Sat, 04 May 2024 00:33:11 GMT)Relax, Google's drop in search market share in April was just an illusion -
Decline shown in data from StatCounter attributed to 'anomaly'
Google's share of web searches appeared to suffer an unusually large drop in April, according to StatCounter. But the metrics biz now says that's incorrect.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 23:30:12 GMT)RHEL stays fresh with 9.4 while CentOS 7 gets a Rocky retirement plan -
Meanwhile, Alma Linux gets into supercomputers
Good news for users of RHEL versions old and new – and for the freebie CentOS Linux 7, which is approaching its end of life next month.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 22:31:10 GMT)Kaspersky hits back at claims its AI helped Russia develop military drone systems -
Ready, set, sanctions?
AI built by Russian infosec firm Kaspersky was used in Russian drones for its war on Ukraine, volunteer intelligence gatherers claim.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 21:30:05 GMT)AI Catholic 'priest' defrocked after recommending Gatorade baptism -
Devotees were speaking to an entity who didn't exist – imagine that
An attempt by a Catholic advocacy group to spread the word of God using an AI model has backfired, and chat bot – Father Justin – has been pulled down and reworked.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 20:30:15 GMT)BASICally still alive: Classic language celebrates 60 years with new code and old quirks -
Visual Small BASIC, Chloe System, and QB64 Phoenix all updated
May Day 2024 was the 60th anniversary of the BASIC programming language, and multiple FOSS BASIC-related projects released new versions in celebration.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 19:30:14 GMT)AWS promotes itself as alternative to its own VMware service -
Why? Maybe because it looks likely VMw Cloud on Amazon is changing
Amazon Web Services is doing something rather odd – promoting itself as a migration target for users of its own VMware Cloud on AWS service.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 18:30:08 GMT)It may take decade to shore up software supply chain security, says infosec CEO -
Sure, we're waking to the risk, but we gotta get outta bed, warns Endor Labs founder Varun Badhwar
interview The more cybersecurity news you read, the more often you seem to see a familiar phrase: Software supply chain (SSC) vulnerabilities. Varun Badhwar, founder and CEO at security firm Endor Labs, doesn't believe that's by coincidence. …
(Fri, 03 May 2024 17:30:15 GMT)Apple confirms iPadOS will fall under its Alternative Business Terms in the EU -
Cupertino drops the Core Technology Fee for hobbyist developers with no revenue
Apple is reluctantly bowing to the European Commission's demands that it align iPadOS with the changes planned for iOS. It has also grudgingly added two conditions in which the Core Technology Fee will not apply.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 16:36:07 GMT)China 'the most competitive market in the world' for the iPhone says Tim Cook -
Put another way, iPhone sales were down 8%
Apple CEO Tim Cook called China "the most competitive market in the world" on the back of a somewhat poor quarter for the iPhone.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 15:36:14 GMT)Windows users left to fend for themselves after BitLocker patch bungle -
Need a bigger partition for the update? You'll be manually resizing it then
Microsoft has decided that there will be no automatic resolution for a problem with some Windows 10 devices as they attempted to install a BitLocker security vulnerability patch.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 14:30:07 GMT)Irish government hands Intel millions to offset energy price hikes -
Euro facility reportedly qualified under Ukraine Enterprise Crisis Scheme
Intel was awarded €30 million ($32.2 million) by Ireland last year as part of a state aid package for companies affected by energy price increases.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 13:30:12 GMT)Clock is ticking for NASA to fix bucket of issues before next Artemis mission -
Heat shield that looks like the surface of the Moon plus fiberglass doors on the launch platform on the list
A report from the NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG) provides new insight into the heat shield and power problems that bedeviled its Orion capsule in the uncrewed Artemis I mission and delayed the agency's first crewed mission to the Moon in more than half a century.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 12:30:11 GMT)Cloud Big Three take lion's share as market expands 21% -
Q1 2024 sees strongest growth since Q3 2022
The global cloud market showed strong growth for the first quarter of this year, with the big three providers continuing to consolidate their stranglehold over this vital area of IT services.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 11:34:11 GMT)Some scientists can't stop using AI to write research papers -
If you read about 'meticulous commendable intricacy' there's a chance a boffin had help
Linguistic and statistical analyses of scientific articles suggest that generative AI may have been used to write an increasing amount of scientific literature.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 10:28:12 GMT)Atlassian outsources office drudgery to GenAI agents -
Rovo will write to-do lists, create graphics, become virtual colleagues to whom you offload scutwork
Atlassian is the latest vendor to have a crack at addressing the perennial problem of enterprises scattering data across multiple applications and then finding it's impossible to understand what's happening and why.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 09:32:11 GMT)UK inertia on LLMs and copyright is 'de facto endorsement' -
Lords committee slams government response to complaints from creators
A committee of UK legislators has slammed the government for its response to alleged copyright theft as a "de facto endorsement" of the way tech companies build large language models.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 08:30:15 GMT)I can fix this PC, boss, but I’ll need to play games for hours to do it -
Loyal Wingman has fond memories of memory register exceptions
On Call The working week is no game, which is why The Register eases readers into the weekend with a fresh instalment of On Call – our weekly reader-contribute tales recalling the lighter side of tech support.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 07:27:10 GMT)Boffins suggest astronauts should build a Wall of Death on the Moon -
Relax! It's for low-gravity exercise
Astronauts living on the Moon will need to maintain a strict exercise regimen to avoid physical deterioration due to the low gravity, and one proposed solution will have them bouncing off the walls to do so.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 06:28:05 GMT)Europol op shutters 12 scam call centers and cuffs 21 suspected fraudsters -
Cops prevented crims from bilking victims out of more than €10m - but couldn't stop crime against art
A Europol-led operation dubbed “Pandora” has shut down a dozen phone scam centers, and arrested 21 suspects. The cops reckon the action prevented criminals from bilking victims out of more than €10 million (£8.6 million, $11 million).…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 05:34:11 GMT)Indonesia sneakily buys spyware, claims Amnesty International -
A 'murky' web sees many purchases run through Singapore in a way that hides potential users
Indonesia has acquired spyware and surveillance technologies through a "murky network" that extends into Israel, Greece, Singapore and Malaysia for equipment sourcing, according to Amnesty International.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 04:33:08 GMT)Apple sales slip, but investors offered bite of $110B stock buyback -
Mac sales rose, iPads predicted to soar, and AI is riding to the rescue
Apple has announced the biggest stock buyback in US history: a $110 billion plan to slurp shareholders' scrip.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 02:59:06 GMT)Chinese government website security is often worryingly bad, say Chinese researchers -
Bad configurations, insecure versions of jQuery, and crummy cookies are some of myriad problems
Exclusive Five Chinese researchers examined the configurations of nearly 14,000 government websites across the country and found worrying lapses that could lead to malicious attacks, according to a not-yet-peer-reviewed study released last week.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 02:34:08 GMT)Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holes -
I guess the brains down in Africa gonna take some time to do the things they never should have had
Starlink’s self-imposed end of April deadline to crack down on roaming users who abuse the service has come and gone without appearing to have worked.…
(Fri, 03 May 2024 00:57:11 GMT)Microsoft, Google do a victory lap around passkeys -
Windows giant extends passwordless tech to everyone else
Microsoft today said it will now let us common folk — not just commercial subscribers — sign into their Microsoft accounts and apps using passkeys with their face, fingerprint, or device PIN.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 23:03:07 GMT)Prof asks court to protect his Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension from Facebook's ire -
You've got to fight for your right to personalize
A professor has asked the US courts to confirm he has the right to release a browser extension to help people disengage with Facebook by automatically changing certain settings.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 22:44:48 GMT)Florida man gets 6 years behind bars for flogging fake Cisco kit to US military -
Operation busted after dodgy devices ended up at Air Force
Miami resident Onur Aksoy has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison for running a multi-million-dollar operation selling fake Cisco equipment that ended up in the US military.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 20:58:13 GMT)Patch up – 4 critical bugs in ArubaOS lead to remote code execution -
Ten vulnerabilities in total for admins to apply
Network admins are being urged to patch a bundle of critical vulnerabilities in ArubaOS that lead to remote code execution as a privileged user.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 20:30:58 GMT)Dozens of vulnerabilities fixed in Xiaomi, Google Android flavors … slowly -
Oversecure details bugs spotted and stamped since private disclosure
Oversecured, a business that scans mobile apps for security issues, says it has identified more than two dozen vulnerabilities over the past few years affecting Android apps from smartphone maker Xiaomi and Google's Android Open Source Project (AOSP).…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 20:00:06 GMT)Huawei's hidden hand in optics research contest shocks scholars -
US universities awarded money from a corp they had severed ties with
Updated Huawei sponsored an optics technology research competition run by the Optica Foundation, and donated at least a million dollars to the organization.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 18:45:09 GMT)NASA plasma propulsion project promises Mars in a flash -
System would also make it easier to transport much heavier spacecraft
Engineering research outfit Howe Industries is working with NASA to develop a new plasma-based propulsion system that might help solve the problem of moving around the solar system faster with bigger payloads.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 18:01:14 GMT)Lights about to go out on US Affordable Connectivity Program -
A partial benefit in May then subsidy gets unplugged once and for all
The end is nigh for the US Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) as funds finally run out after months of warnings.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 17:15:15 GMT)Microsoft continues multibillion-dollar cloud and AI sprinkle in Malaysia -
Satya reaches once more into his wallet
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced a $2.2 billion investment to advancecloud and AI infrastructure in Malaysia.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 16:30:07 GMT)Amazon boss receives tap on wrist for statements breaking labor laws -
Jass sass gets a pass
A US National Labor Relations Board judge has decided that public remarks made by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated federal labor laws.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 15:45:15 GMT)Billions on the line for Google as web search monopoly trial nears end -
Chocolate Factory relies on dominance for bulk of its revenues, says US
Both the US government and Google will today present their closing arguments in the search engine monopoly case from September.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 15:04:13 GMT)Federal frenzy to patch gaping GitLab account takeover hole -
Warning comes exactly a year after the vulnerability was introduced
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is forcing all federal agencies to patch a critical vulnerability in GitLab's Community and Enterprise editions, confirming it is very much under "active exploit."…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 14:15:14 GMT)SK hynix's high bandwidth memory buffet fully booked till 2025 -
Micron also riding the AI wave with 128 GB DDR5 RDIMMs
Memory chipmaker SK hynix has already sold all the high bandwidth memory (HBM) it will manufacture this year and most of its expected 2025 production, citing increased demand driven by the AI craze. Micron is also getting in on the act with availability of 128 GB DDR5 RDIMMs for servers.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 13:31:07 GMT)Vivaldi composes Split View sonata for browser on iPadOS -
Tweaks to sorting in Notes and Bookmarks, but WebKit still holds conductor's baton
Vivaldi has updated its eponymous browser on iPadOS to take advantage of Split View, although the browser engine remains WebKit-based for now.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 12:45:09 GMT)Microsoft confirms spike in NTLM authentication traffic after Windows Server patch -
Still using ancient protocol suite? April update might make you wish you weren't
Microsoft's April 2024 security update blues continue with confirmation of a "significant increase" in NTLM authentication traffic in Windows Server.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 11:45:10 GMT)NASA solar sail boom demonstrator reaches orbit -
Big things come in small packages
NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) mission has made contact with Earth and confirmed that all is well with the diminutive spacecraft.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 10:45:12 GMT)Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, literally, something else -
V5.30 arrives – with RPi Wi-Fi support
The new version of RISC OS, the original native Arm OS, runs on eight or nine Arm-based platforms, including the Raspberry Pi Zero, 1, 2, 3 and 4 – and on that last two, this release supports wireless networking.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 09:51:06 GMT)Not a Genius move: Resurrecting war hero Alan Turing as your 'chief AI officer' -
Chatbot vendor should end the campaign and apologize
Comment Genius Group has broken free of a crowded field to launch what can only be described as the most tasteless marketing campaign in tech history.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 08:46:46 GMT)Alibaba Cloud details storage tech that's doubled its VMs per host -
Using one disk as a write cache eases stresses created by manycore CPUs
Exclusive Alibaba Cloud has detailed the tech it developed to run local storage in its servers and bust bottlenecks created by new-generation manycore processors.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 07:31:06 GMT)Think tank: China's tech giants refine and define Beijing's propaganda push -
Taking down TikTok won't stop the CCP's attempt to control global narratives
Chinese tech companies that serve as important links in the world's digital supply chains are helping Beijing to execute and refine its propaganda strategy, according to an Australian think tank.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 06:57:10 GMT)REvil ransomware scum sentenced to almost 14 years inside, ordered to pay $16 million -
After extorting $700 million from thousands of victims
A Ukrainian man has been sentenced to almost 14 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $16 million in restitution for his role in infecting thousands of victims with REvil ransomware.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 06:31:12 GMT)A million Australian pubgoers wake up to find personal info listed on leak site -
Man arrested and blackmail charges expected after allegations of unpaid contractors and iffy infosec
Updated Over a million records describing Australians who visited local pubs and clubs have apparently been posted online.…
(Thu, 02 May 2024 04:01:10 GMT)Japan will use AI to find out what bears do in the woods -
Because nobody wants a big surprise
Japan's Toyama Prefecture is launching an AI bear monitoring system, following a recent string of encounters with the wildlife.…
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