January 2024

Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery unit, designs bigger bird to deliver pasta, faster 2024-01-18 at 05:17 By Katyanna Quach Aerial delivery kit doubles payloads Alphabet’s drone delivery biz, Wing, has unveiled a drone capable of carrying up to five pounds (2.26 kg) of payload, almost doubling the capacity of its existing fleet.… This article is an […]

Study: Thousands of businesses just love handing over your info to Facebook 2024-01-18 at 05:17 By Iain Thomson Mmm, Zuck up that data The startlingly extent to which websites and brokers hand over details of people’s habits to Facebook was revealed Wednesday.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Insurance website’s buggy API leaked Office 365 password and a giant email trove 2024-01-18 at 04:03 By Thomas Claburn Pen-tester accessed more than 650,000 sensitive messages, and still can, at Indian outfit using Toyota SaaS Toyota Tsusho Insurance Broker India (TTIBI), an Indo-Japanese joint insurance venture, operated a misconfigured server that exposed more than 650,000

Apple, AMD, Qualcomm GPU security hole lets miscreants snoop on AI training and chats 2024-01-18 at 01:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle So much for isolation A design flaw in GPU drivers made by Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and likely Imagination can be exploited by miscreants on a shared system to snoop on fellow users.… This article

Facial recognition tech has outpaced US laws – and don’t expect the Feds to catch up 2024-01-18 at 00:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Let’s be realistic: If the EU can’t regulate it well, America definitely won’t comment  If anything could compel the US government to regulate facial-recognition technology, a report sponsored by federal law enforcement urging

IBM ends inventor rewards program, cancels points for patents 2024-01-17 at 22:17 By Thomas Claburn Big Blue staffers aren’t pleased to lose out on potential bonuses Exclusive  IBM has canceled a program that rewarded inventors at Big Blue for patents or publications, leaving some angry that they are missing out on potential bonuses.… This article

Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse 2024-01-17 at 20:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo ‘Search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam,’ says study No, it’s not just you – search engine results really are getting worse as the internet is flooded with low-effort garbage from SEO

Chip wars could lead to oversupply as China increases domestic capacity 2024-01-17 at 20:02 By Dan Robinson Middle Kingdom can make market moves too… as potential global price battles loom China’s chip manufacturing capacity is expected to more than double within the next 5 to 7 years, according to TrendForce, and this could lead to

Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet 2024-01-17 at 19:01 By Richard Speed Caltech looks back on the highs and lows of the SSPD-1 project A year after the launch of the Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD-1), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is revealing the highs

NVMe consortium polishes its specs to support computational storage 2024-01-17 at 18:18 By Dan Robinson Tech to shift storage to compute has so far failed to catch on in a big way The NVM Express consortium has updated its specifications by adding a Computational Storage Feature, creating a standardized way for applications to talk to

Could immutability be a Leap too far for openSUSE users? 2024-01-17 at 17:47 By Liam Proven Update on Linux distro’s next major version heralds big changes ahead The future of openSUSE is firming up, but possibly not in the direction that existing users of the distro will enjoy.… This article is an excerpt from The

What’s worse than paying an extortion bot that auto-pwned your database? 2024-01-17 at 17:17 By Connor Jones Paying one that lied to you and only saved the first 20 rows of each table Publicly exposed PostgreSQL and MySQL databases with weak passwords are being autonomously wiped out by a malicious extortion bot – one that