May 2024

Google goes shopping for Indian e-commerce dominance … at Walmart 2024-05-27 at 08:46 By Laura Dobberstein Invests $350 million in Flipkart Google has invested in Walmart’s Indian e-commerce operation Flipkart, which holds almost half of the market for e-commerce on the subcontinent.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to […]

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Tape is so dead, 152.9 exabytes worth of LTO media shipped last year 2024-05-27 at 07:46 By Simon Sharwood Blame AI. No, seriously. Tape – as a digital storage medium – has been considered dead for your correspondent’s entire 29-year career. But that didn’t stop manufacturers behind the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) standard shipping 152.9* exabytes

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Applications open for 2024 Elliot A. Boxerbaum Award 2024-05-27 at 07:16 By Applications are now open for the 2024 Elliot A. Boxerbaum Award for the Security Design Project of the Year. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Bored students can now enjoy Sonic 2 on TI-84 Plus CE calculators, thanks to port 2024-05-26 at 13:01 By Matthew Connatser Blast (processing) from the past Retro interview  Just a few weeks ago, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was ported to the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Experts Find Flaw in Replicate AI Service Exposing Customers’ Models and Data 2024-05-25 at 13:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical security flaw in an artificial intelligence (AI)-as-a-service provider Replicate that could have allowed threat actors to gain access to proprietary AI models and sensitive information. “Exploitation of this vulnerability would have allowed unauthorized access to

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Was there no one at Microsoft who looked at Recall and said: This really, really sucks 2024-05-25 at 12:35 By Iain Thomson Our vultures weigh in on the week that was more ‘what we Built’ than ‘what you can Build’ Kettle  Microsoft held its annual Build developer conference this week with that bizarre Copilot+ PC

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Man behind deepfake Biden robocall indicted on felony charges, faces $6M fine 2024-05-25 at 02:32 By Jessica Lyons FCC wants to hit this political genius with first-of-a-kind punishment The political consultant who admitted paying $150 to create a deepfake anti-Biden robocall has been indicted on charges of felony voter suppression and misdemeanor impersonation of a

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Best Buy and Geek Squad were most impersonated orgs by scammers in 2023 2024-05-25 at 01:32 By Matthew Connatser But criminals posing as Microsoft workers scored the most ill-gotten gains The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shared data on the most impersonated companies in 2023, which include Best Buy, Amazon, and PayPal in the top

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Nvidia faces local competition for its ‘China special’ GPUs 2024-05-25 at 00:46 By Dan Robinson Which rival would be so bold as to snatch its business Huawei? Nvidia has cut the price of special GPUs it makes for the Chinese market in the face of local competition from Huawei.… This article is an excerpt from

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Suspected supply chain attack backdoors courtroom recording software 2024-05-24 at 23:46 By Connor Jones An open and shut case, but the perps remain at large – whoever they are Justice is served… or should that be saved now that audio-visual software deployed in more than 10,000 courtrooms is once again secure after researchers uncovered evidence

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4 more years! Intelsat, Northrop Grumman extend satellite servicing contract 2024-05-24 at 22:46 By Richard Speed Mission Extension Vehicle to fuel up helpless but functional sats Northrop Grumman has signed a four-year contract renewal with Intelsat to continue providing on-orbit extension services for satellites.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Ubuntu 24.04 upgrades available – to Mantic users 2024-05-24 at 21:52 By Liam Proven Enjoy some Noble Numbat novelty now – but excluding GNOME 46.1 It comes a bit later than usual, but if you are running Ubuntu 23.10 “Mantic Minotaur,” you should start seeing prompts to upgrade to the new release.… This article is

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Elon Musk says he doesn’t want 100% tariff on China-made electric vehicles 2024-05-24 at 20:31 By Matthew Connatser Tesla CEO would have preferred no tariffs, even though they’re beneficial to his company Tesla supremo Elon Musk is criticizing the import tax that the Biden administration has levied against Chinese electric vehicles, saying Tesla doesn’t need

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