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BOFH - : Don't sell The Boss a firewall. Sell him The Dream - Episode 23 - Have I got an opportunity for you! BOFH - 13 Dec 2024 - | 35

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Google thinks the grid can't support AI, so it's spending on solar for future datacenters -- Deal with Intersect Power will see gigawatts of compute capacity come online

3 hours ago

Google Gemini 2.0 Flash comes out with real-time conversation, image analysis -- Chocolate Factory's latest multimodal model aims to power more trusted AI agents

1 day ago

American cops are using AI to draft police reports, and the ACLU isn't happy - Comment - Do we really need to explain why this is a problem?

1 hour ago

Microsoft hijacks keyboard shortcut to bring Copilot to your attention -- AI assistant goes native – sort of – for Windows Insiders

1 day ago

Doing business in US? Don't wait for state ruling on AI to act, warns former Senate chief of staff - Workday policy expert suggests NIST framework will save you trouble later - AI + ML - 13 Dec 2024 - |

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Ingenuity helicopter's flying days cut short by featureless Martian terrain -- Landing hard at an angle not great for the old rotor blades -- Science

2 hours ago

Android beefs up Bluetooth tag stalker protections -- Wider ecosystem still has work to do, though -- Personal Tech

4 hours ago

Intel execs discuss the possibility of spinning off foundry -- 'Does it ever fully separate? I think that's an open question for another day,' interim co-CEO says -- Systems

4 hours ago

systemd begrudgingly drops a safety net while a challenger appears, GNU Shepherd 1.0 -- Holidays come early for distro builders with two init systems to choose from -- OSes

7 hours ago

2024 according to Cloudflare: Global traffic up, Google still king, US churning out bots -- Same old same old really -- Off-Prem

8 hours ago

Astroscale orbital janitor gets within 15 meters of space junk -- Couldn't reach out and touch it, but still happy as this attempt was out of mission scope -- Science

16 hours ago

North Korea's fake IT worker scam hauled in at least $88 million over six years -- DoJ thinks it's found the folks that ran it, and some of the 'IT warriors' sent out to fleece employers -- Cyber-crime

16 hours ago

Cyber protection made intuitive and affordable - How Cynet delivered 100 percent Protection and 100 percent Detection Visibility in 2024 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation - Partner Content

4 hours ago

Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI - FYI - Python security developer-in-residence decries use of bots that 'cannot understand code'

1 day ago

Cruise shutdown blastzone increases – Microsoft takes $800M charge -- General Motors pulling the plug on autonomous taxi biz hits Redmond in the wallet -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Google thinks the grid can't support AI, so it's spending on solar for future datacenters -- Deal with Intersect Power will see gigawatts of compute capacity come online -- Off-Prem

1 day ago

Lights out for 18 more DDoS booters in pre-Christmas Operation PowerOFF push -- Holiday cheer comes in the form of three arrests and 27 shuttered domains -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

How Long Before Broadcom Makes More AI Compute Engines Than Nvidia?

13 hours ago

GenAI Races Ahead, But Enterprises Are Still At The Starting Line

1 day ago

From Big Data To Better Healthcare: How Storage Drives AI In Medicine

1 day ago

Nvidia, AMD, And Intel Help Stuff The Coffers At Ayar Labs

1 day ago

With Gelsinger gone, to fab or not to fab is the $7B question - Analysis - Whoever takes over has some tough decisions to make

1 day ago

Huge developer survey shows which AI assistants are most adopted – and trend towards coding with VR headsets

8 hours ago

SQLite re-implemented in Rust to achieve asynchronous I/O and other changes

1 day ago

Cloudflare reports Go as top language for API clients, AWS dominant for public web

2 days ago

React 19 is stable, team directs devs towards frameworks – especially Next.js

3 days ago

Citrix goes shopping in Europe and returns with gifts for security-conscious customers - Acquires two companies that help those on the nice list keep naughty list types at bay - Virtualization - 12 Dec 2024 - |

1 day ago

China preps another rocket that Beijing hopes will become its workhorse -- Long March-8A improves payload by forty percent and comes just a month after Long March 12 debut -- Science

1 day ago

Epic coughs up the dirty V-Bucks: Fortnite's 'dark pattern' refunds hit accounts -- Did you get your loot box? -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Apple reportedly building AI server processor with help from Broadcom -- Something called 'Baltra' expected to make its debut in 2026, perhaps with tech both already use -- Systems

1 day ago

US companies struggle with AI success due to data quality issues

1 hour ago

Virtuozzo leadership revamp targets VMware switchers

3 hours ago

WEKA replaces president, chief financial and revenue officers as it doubles down on late stage, pre-IPO growth

13 hours ago

Storage news roundup – December 13 2024

13 hours ago

Taming the multi-vault beast - GitGuardian takes on enterprise secrets sprawl - Partner Content

10 hours ago

Intel turmoil prompts S&P Global to downgrade chipmaker's credit rating -- Finance house finds x86 giant's lack of strategy disturbing -- Systems

1 day ago

Facebook, Threads, WhatsApp, Instagram stumble on and offline in global outage - Updated - What's an influencer to do? Personal Tech - 11 Dec 2024 - | 29

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Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation admits to hole in security -- Belly-busting biz says it's been hit by cowardly custards -- Security

2 days ago

China gorging on silicon before Uncle Sam slams the door -- Chip imports up more than 14% this year in anticipation of fresh restrictions -- Systems

2 days ago

Good news! You'll soon be able to send faxes again with Windows 11 24H2 -- Microsoft squashes eSCL bug -- OSes

2 days ago

Google Gemini 2.0 Flash comes out with real-time conversation, image analysis -- Chocolate Factory's latest multimodal model aims to power more trusted AI agents -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Microsoft hijacks keyboard shortcut to bring Copilot to your attention -- AI assistant goes native – sort of – for Windows Insiders -- AI + ML

2 days ago

Cruise robotaxis parked forever, as GM decides it can't compete and wants to cut costs - Pictures - The Register stumbles upon the place self-driving cabs appear to be rusting away into history - AI + ML - 11 Dec 2024 - | 60

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Three more vulns spotted in Ivanti CSA, all critical, one 10/10 -- Patch up, everyone – that admin portal is mighty attractive to your friendly cyberattacker -- Patches

2 days ago

Protect your clouds - Get best practice advice on how to safeguard your cloud infrastructure from SANS - Sponsored Post

7 days ago

A decade on from maiden flight, NASA's Orion is still waiting for its Moon moment -- Hopefully it won't be another 10 years before the capsule is troubled by a crew -- Science

2 days ago

Linux 6.12 is the new long term supported kernel -- Mid-November release will be maintained for 'several years' -- OSes

2 days ago

Blue Origin's New Glenn will launch any day now – but it better hurry up -- 2025 looming large as Blue Ring pathfinder prepped for liftoff -- Science

2 days ago

Doctor Who theme added to national sound archive to honor innovation, longevity -- Australia's archive, that is – it was an Aussie who wrote it -- Offbeat

2 days ago

US names Chinese national it alleges was behind 2020 attack on Sophos firewalls -- Also sanctions his employer – an outfit called Sichuan Silence linked to Ragnarok ransomware

1 day ago

Indian police demand Starlink identify alleged drug smugglers - Elon Musk's satellite internet service asked to explain who used its service to navigate to remote islands

1 hour ago

Judge hands WP Engine a win in legal fight with Automattic - Updated - Mullenweg and co ordered to restore WP Engine's access to wordpress.org and stop touching WordPress installations

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US Commerce Dept coughs up $6.1B Christmas present for Micron -- Funding to support development of memory vendor's $125B fab expansion in New York and Idaho

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Tesla sued over alleged Autopilot fail in yet another fatal accident -- With two legal wins and one secret settlement on the books, the odds are in the automaker's favor

1 day ago

Microsoft holds last Patch Tuesday of the year with 72 gifts for admins - Patch Tuesday - Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, patching was done with the click of a mouse

8 hours ago

A rethink of parental leave policy -- IT workers and programmers set to benefit as Sandvik implements HR reboot

3 days ago

Fortify your data -- How cyber resilient storage hardware can defeat ransomware

14 days ago

Where do European SMEs start when it comes to conquering the world? -- The answer is in Denmark

17 days ago

Why AI builds best on private clouds -- AI projects under pressure to show real value in the tightest of timeframes might be worth keeping on-premises

1 month ago

US military grounds entire Osprey tiltrotor fleet over safety concerns -- Boeing-Bell V-22 can't outfly its checkered past, it seems -- Public Sector

2 days ago

Oracle gets Big Red reality check after financials fail to impress -- Strong year ends with a dip, but Ellison signs Meta deal to boost AI cred -- Databases

3 days ago

AMD secure VM tech undone by DRAM meddling -- Boffins devise BadRAM attack to pilfer secrets from SEV-SNP encrypted memory -- Systems

3 days ago

OpenAI's Sora lets ChatGPT subscribers churn out janky text-generated videos -- Buckle up, because limbed creatures are about to get weird -- AI + ML

3 days ago

British Army zaps drones out of the sky with laser trucks -- High-energy weapon proves its mettle in testing

23 hours ago

Firefox ditches Do Not Track because nobody was listening anyway -- Few websites actually respect the option, says Mozilla

1 day ago

Apache issues patches for critical Struts 2 RCE bug -- More details released after devs allowed weeks to apply fixes

16 hours ago

American cops are using AI to draft police reports, and the ACLU isn't happy -- Comment -- Do we really need to explain why this is a problem?

1 hour ago

Broadcom says VMware is a better money-making machine than it hoped -- Chip side of the biz expects to take lion's share of hyperscalers' $60-90 billion XPU spend in 2027, helped by 3nm models coming next year

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Aliens, spy balloons, or drones? SUV-sized mystery objects spotted in US skies -- No word from the FBI about where they are hiding aliens or UFOs

15 hours ago

Backup failed, but the boss didn't slam IT – because his son was to blame -- On Call -- ISP deserves criticism too for falling over after script kiddie beefing

3 hours ago

FCC throws open 6 GHz band to unlicensed low-power gizmos -- Good news for techies pushing 'education, healthcare, and entertainment' gadgets in the US

2 hours ago

Blocking Chinese spies from intercepting calls? There ought to be a law -- Sen. Wyden blasts FCC's 'failure' amid Salt Typhoon hacks

1 day ago

Australia lays fiendish tax trap for Meta – with an expensive escape hatch -- If Zuck and other Big Tech players pay news publishers, their bills vanish

6 hours ago

Fully patched Cleo products under renewed 'zero-day-ish' mass attack - Thousands of servers targeted while customers wait for patches - Research - 10 Dec 2024 - |

3 days ago

Heart surgery device maker's security bypassed, data encrypted and stolen -- Sounds like th-aorta get this sorted quickly -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Microsoft delays final Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update to 2025 -- Quiet festive season for admins, but next year will be busy -- PaaS + IaaS

3 days ago

Why GPU-powered AI needs fast storage - Don't let I/O bottlenecks impede training your AI models - Advertorial

8 days ago

SAP says GenAI will help solve legacy migration skills shortage -- As 2027 support deadline looms, German vendor puts faith in on-trend tech to help SIs do more with less -- Databases

3 days ago

Bitfinex heist gets the Netflix treatment after 'cringey couple' sentenced -- Streamer's trademark dramatic style takes on Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

WhatsApp finally fixes View Once flaw that allowed theft of supposedly vanishing pics -- And it only took four months, tut -- Security

3 days ago

TikTok appeals to have Trump – or Supreme Court – decide its fate later -- Wants to defer shutdown order that takes effect a day before the presidential inauguration -- Legal

3 days ago

Alibaba exec trashes his own staff and customers, quickly apologizes -- 'I am carefree, I like to joke,' says guy who fines workers if they glance at phones during meetings -- Offbeat

3 days ago

South Korean web giant Naver creates its own Linux distro -- 'Navix' follows OpenELA rules, comes with ten years support, and is already used in production at scale -- OSes

3 days ago

Police arrest suspect in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, with grainy pics the only tech involved -- McDonald's worker called it in, cops swooped, found 'gun, suppressor, manifesto' -- Security

3 days ago

Neuraspace adds a second telescope to track objects in orbit -- Starlink satellites might annoy astronomers, but at least they're easy to spot -- Science

3 days ago

Shape the future of UK cyber security - Support the industry by sponsoring the UK Cyber Team Competition - Partner Content

8 days ago

Reddit rolls out AI-powered 'Answers' search feature, redditors don't rejoice -- Many users unhappy with current state of search, want to know why this got priority -- AI + ML

3 days ago

China's Salt Typhoon recorded top American officials' calls, says White House -- No word yet on who was snooped on. Any bets? -- CSO

3 days ago

Microsoft rolls out Recall for Intel, AMD-based Copilot+ PCs -- More Windows Insiders get to see if the snapshotter is fixed -- AI + ML

3 days ago