January 2024

Techie resurrects teletext on a vintage BBC Master 2024-01-30 at 13:48 By Richard Speed You can get Ceefax via a Pi, but behold it in its most exotic of habitats Got an old BBC computer in the loft, a spare Raspberry Pi gathering dust in a drawer, and a yearning to return to the days

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Leaked email: Unit4 ERP system leaves some school staff with ‘nil pay’ 2024-01-30 at 13:17 By Lindsay Clark ‘Primary focus’ is ‘welfare of our staff as we resolve any errors,’ says UK council after rollout of £30M SAP replacement Exclusive  After schools in Surrey went live on a new £30 million HR, payroll and finance

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Top Security Posture Vulnerabilities Revealed 2024-01-30 at 13:16 By Each New Year introduces a new set of challenges and opportunities for strengthening our cybersecurity posture. It’s the nature of the field – the speed at which malicious actors carry out advanced persistent threats brings a constant, evolving battle for cyber resilience. The excitement in cybersecurity

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Italian Data Protection Watchdog Accuses ChatGPT of Privacy Violations 2024-01-30 at 13:16 By Italy’s data protection authority (DPA) has notified ChatGPT-maker OpenAI of supposedly violating privacy laws in the region. “The available evidence pointed to the existence of breaches of the provisions contained in the E.U. GDPR [General Data Protection Regulation],” the Garante per la

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Fairberry project brings a hardware keyboard to the Fairphone 2024-01-30 at 12:26 By Liam Proven Miss hardware QWERTY? Warm up your soldering iron and 3D printer Hardware hacker’s non-trivial project to weld a Blackberry keyboard to an Android fondleslab is being updated with an off-the-shelf PCB.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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UK biometrics boss bows out, bemoaning bureaucratic blunders 2024-01-30 at 11:48 By Connor Jones Questionable institutional change and myriad IT issues pervade the governance landscape The farewell report written by the UK’s biometrics and surveillance commissioner highlights a litany of failings in the Home Office’s approach to governing the technology.… This article is an excerpt

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New ZLoader Malware Variant Surfaces with 64-bit Windows Compatibility 2024-01-30 at 11:31 By Threat hunters have identified a new campaign that delivers the ZLoader malware, resurfacing nearly two years after the botnet’s infrastructure was dismantled in April 2022. A new variant of the malware is said to have been in development since September 2023, Zscaler ThreatLabz said

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Cory Doctorow has a plan to wipe away the enshittification of tech 2024-01-30 at 10:44 By Iain Thomson It’s not just you – things really are getting worse Opinion  An apocryphal tale regarding the late, great footballer George Best being interviewed by a reporter just after getting suspended from Manchester United offers an apt description

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It took Taylor Swift deepfake nudes to focus Uncle Sam, Microsoft on AI safety 2024-01-30 at 09:32 By Katyanna Quach Fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake … time to fake it off Fake sexually explicit AI-generated viral images of pop royalty Taylor Swift have struck a nerve, leading fans, Microsoft’s boss, and even the

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Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface outfit Neuralink tests its tech on a human 2024-01-30 at 08:33 By Laura Dobberstein Controling prostheses? Elon imagines an app for that Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface implant company Neuralink has begun its first human clinical trial.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Juniper Networks Releases Urgent Junos OS Updates for High-Severity Flaws 2024-01-30 at 07:31 By Juniper Networks has released out-of-band updates to address high-severity flaws in SRX Series and EX Series that could be exploited by a threat actor to take control of susceptible systems. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-21619 and CVE-2024-21620, are rooted in the J-Web component and

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Square Kilometre Array prototype ‘scope achieves first light 2024-01-30 at 07:16 By Simon Sharwood SKAMPI was made in China, driven by Docker, located in South Africa, and aimed at the stars Reg In Space  One of the radio telescope designs to be used by the Square Kilometre Array has achieved first light.… This article is

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