2024

GSA plows ahead with face matching tech despite its own reliability concerns 2024-10-11 at 00:01 By Brandon Vigliarolo A week after saying remote ID verification tech is unreliable, the GSA is expanding access to other agencies The US government’s General Services Administration’s (GSA) facial matching login service is now generally available to the public and […]

Microsoft admits Outlook crashes, says impact ‘mitigated’ 2024-10-10 at 23:01 By Iain Thomson Users just need to ‘refresh/restart’ their sessions Microsoft’s Outlook app is crashing for European users due to memory problems, Redmond has warned, and evidence suggests the problems are spreading to the US.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

BBC weather glitch shows 13k mph winds in London, 404℃ in Nottingham 2024-10-10 at 22:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo We’d know if it were true, and our reporters are just fine Those who rely on the BBC’s online weather forecasts to plan their day would be forgiven if they woke up this morning and thought the

AMD pumps Epyc core count to 192, clocks up to 5 GHz with Turin debut 2024-10-10 at 21:16 By Tobias Mann Just not on the same chip, of course Intel’s 128-core Granite Rapids Xeons are barely two weeks old and AMD has already fired back with a family of fifth-gen Epycs that boast double-digit IPC

AMD targets Nvidia H200 with 256GB MI325X AI chips, zippier MI355X due in H2 2025 2024-10-10 at 21:16 By Tobias Mann Less VRAM than promised, but still gobs more than Hopper AMD boosted the VRAM on its Instinct accelerators to 256 GB of HBM3e with the launch of its next-gen MI325X AI accelerators during its

AMD aims latest processors at AI whether you need it or not 2024-10-10 at 21:16 By Gavin Bonshor Ryzen AI PRO 300 series leans heavily on Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC requirements AMD has introduced its latest processors designed for business applications. The line-up includes the Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 375, Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO

The .io domain isn’t going anywhere anytime soon amid treaty 2024-10-10 at 19:46 By Thomas Claburn UK-Mauritius handshake holds but Chagos Islands shift could eventually phase out the ccTLD The .io country code top-level domain (ccTLD) will not disappear anytime soon, at least not within the next five years. Beyond that, its future is uncertain.…

SAP promises developer ‘fusion teams’ in cloud low-code environment 2024-10-10 at 18:46 By Lindsay Clark But projects must be completed in old desktop IDE TechEd  Enterprise software giant SAP is set to introduce a slew of features for developers on its platform, promising AI agents, knowledge graph, and cloud-based integration features in SAP’s low code-development

Arrow Lake splashdown: Intel pins hopes on replacement for Raptors 2024-10-10 at 18:16 By Gavin Bonshor New silicon, new architecture, and loads of new motherboards rise to support it, but will power be anchored down? Back in September 2023, Intel unveiled its newly designed Meteor Lake SoC for the mobile market, which was the first

Fore-get about privacy, golf tech biz leaves 32M data records on the fairway 2024-10-10 at 17:31 By Jessica Lyons Researcher spots 110 TB of sensitive info sitting in unprotected database Nearly 32 million records belonging to users of tech from Trackman were left exposed to the internet, sitting in a non-password protected database, for an

CISA adds fresh Ivanti vuln, critical Fortinet bug to hall of shame 2024-10-10 at 16:46 By Connor Jones Usual three-week window to address significant risks to federal agencies applies The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says vulnerabilities in Fortinet and Ivanti products are now being exploited, earning them places in its Known Exploited

OpenAI Blocks 20 Global Malicious Campaigns Using AI for Cybercrime and Disinformation 2024-10-10 at 16:32 By OpenAI on Wednesday said it has disrupted more than 20 operations and deceptive networks across the world that attempted to use its platform for malicious purposes since the start of the year. This activity encompassed debugging malware, writing articles

PC shipments stuck in neutral despite AI buzz 2024-10-10 at 16:03 By Dan Robinson Analysts can’t agree whether market is marginally up or down The PC market is not showing many signs of a rebound, despite the hype around AI PCs, with market watchers split over whether unit shipments are up or down slightly.… This

Experts Warn of Critical Unpatched Vulnerability in Linear eMerge E3 Systems 2024-10-10 at 15:46 By Cybersecurity security researchers are warning about an unpatched vulnerability in Nice Linear eMerge E3 access controller systems that could allow for the execution of arbitrary operating system (OS) commands. The flaw, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-9441, carries a CVSS score