November 2023

NTT and NEC use vibrating optic fibres to figure out if there’s snow on the road 14/11/2023 at 07:02 By Simon Sharwood Japan’s short of workers and limiting overtime, so it needs stuff like this – and remote-controlled excavators Japanese tech giant NTT has shown off some tech tricks it hopes will help alleviate the

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Passive SSH server private key compromise is real … for some vulnerable gear 14/11/2023 at 05:47 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle OpenSSL, LibreSSL, OpenSSH users, don’t worry – you can sit this one out An academic study has shown how it’s possible for someone to snoop on certain devices’ SSH connections and, with a bit of

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Google sues scammers peddling fake malware-riddled Bard chatbot download 14/11/2023 at 04:02 By Katyanna Quach Plus: Chocolate Factory launches second lawsuit against false DMCA takedowns Google has sued three scammers for offering a fake download of its Bard AI chatbot that contained malware capable of stealing credentials for small business’ social media accounts.… This article

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Intel drops the deets on UK’s Dawn AI supercomputer 14/11/2023 at 02:32 By Tobias Mann Phase one packs 512 Xeons, 1,024 Ponte Vecchio GPUs. Phase two: 10x that SC23  As the SC23 conference in Denver, USA, kicks off in earnest, Intel is spilling the tea on the two-phase Dawn supercomputer it’s building for the UK

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When it comes to personal data, we’re on a highway to hell 14/11/2023 at 01:32 By Iain Thomson Register journos tackle cars harvesting info, Meta and YouTube being taken to task over privacy, and more Kettle  Far gone are the days when a car was a dumb machine you turned on and drove from A

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Your online store down? Can’t get to your fave web shop? Maybe blame Shopify 14/11/2023 at 00:32 By Chris Williams Biz races to fix broken systems Shopify, which powers a whole load of online stores, is suffering an outage at the moment, preventing shoppers from using affected merchants.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Strike over? US actors may return to work with top-tier ‘progressive AI protections’ 14/11/2023 at 00:17 By Katyanna Quach Producers will need OK from performers, will pay them to create digi-personas SAG-AFTRA, the union representing actors and media professionals, is set to end its near-four-month strike after reaching a tentative deal with TV and film

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Aurora dawns late: Half-baked Entry secures second in supercomputer stakes 13/11/2023 at 23:32 By Tobias Mann Half the machine, quadruple the anticipation for all-Intel super SC23  After years of delays, Argonne National Laboratory’s all-Intel “Aurora” supercomputer has finally graced the Top500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers — just not where many had hoped

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