2024

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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Microsoft signals expansion of APAC datacenter fleet with ‘land acquisition’ hire 2024-01-30 at 03:47 By Laura Dobberstein Hiring for regional and global execs to help it find new spots for bit barns, and make sure they get built right Microsoft has signaled significant expansion of its datacenter footprint in the Asia Pacific region.… This article

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Microsoft’s vision for the future of work is you trusting Redmond to get AI right 2024-01-30 at 02:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo You’re free to choose your own adventure, from options that involve Copilot and OpenAI Comment  If the future of work is a choice and “not a predetermined destiny” – as Microsoft puts it in

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Oracle quietly extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037 2024-01-30 at 02:03 By Simon Sharwood Legacy OS and app holdouts get three more years of paid support, also on versions 10.0 and 11.3 Oracle has quietly extended paid support and upgrades for Solaris 11.4 to 2037 – three years past its previous deadline – and did

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SolarWinds slams SEC lawsuit against it as ‘unprecedented’ victim blaming 2024-01-29 at 23:01 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle 18,000 customers, including the Pentagon and Microsoft, may have other thoughts SolarWinds – whose network monitoring software was backdoored by Russian spies so that the biz’s customers could be spied upon – has accused America’s financial watchdog of

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Biden-⁠Harris announce key AI actions following landmark executive order 2024-01-29 at 22:35 By Following an executive order aimed to manage the risk of artificial intelligence (AI), the Biden-Harris administration recently announced key AI actions. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Things are going to get weird as the nanometer era draws to a close 2024-01-29 at 22:02 By Tobias Mann Angstrom age is right around the corner – for state-of-the-art chips, anyway Comment  With 3nm production reaching maturity and 2nm on the way, TSMC is reportedly laying the groundwork for the next logical step, a

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There was a 151% increase in government vulnerability submissions 2024-01-29 at 21:51 By According to a recent report, government industries saw a 151% increase in vulnerability submissions in 2023, making it the fastest growing sector. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Japanese government finally bids sayonara to the 3.5″ floppy disk 2024-01-29 at 21:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Businesses can at long last submit digital docs to government agencies Japan is saying sayonara to the floppy disk, which until now was a required medium for submitting some 1,900 official documents to the government.… This article is an

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