January 2025

John Deere boasts driverless fleet at CES – who needs operators anyway? 2025-01-07 at 20:33 By Brandon Vigliarolo Lots of new ways to cut labor costs, no mention of repairability CES  John Deere’s vision of the future of farming, quarrying, and landscaping has emerged at CES 2025, and it’s one that includes far fewer jobs

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Turbulence at UN aviation agency as probe into potential data theft begins 2025-01-07 at 19:49 By Connor Jones Crime forum-dweller claims to have leaked 42,000 documents packed with personal info The United Nations’ aviation agency is investigating “a potential information security incident” after a cybercriminal claimed they had laid hands on 42,000 of the branch’s

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Trump announces $20B investment from Middle East billionaire to build US data centers 2025-01-07 at 19:34 By Reuters Tech companies have been racing o to set up data centers essential for powering generative artificial intelligence applications such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google Gemini, which require immense computing power. This article is an excerpt from Latest

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AI can improve on code it writes, but you have to know how to ask 2025-01-07 at 19:06 By Thomas Claburn LLMs do more for developers who already know what they’re doing Large language models (LLMs) will write better code if you ask them, though it takes some software development experience to do so effectively

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Data deregulation to AI protection: Security priorities in 2025 2025-01-07 at 19:05 By 2025 will be a pivotal year as business leaders look to protect organizational and user data from damaging cyberattacks.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon X chip targets $600 Copilot+ PCs 2025-01-07 at 18:25 By Dan Robinson Hopes to elbow out competition on Arm-based hardware CES  Qualcomm has unveiled the latest addition to its Snapdragon X Series of Arm-based chips to power Copilot+ PCs, targeting systems in the $600 range.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Apple shrugs off BBC complaint with promise to ‘further clarify’ AI content 2025-01-07 at 17:35 By Richard Speed It’s down to users to do the fact-checking themselves Apple plans to update an AI feature that produced an alarmingly incorrect summary of a BBC news story.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Researchers Uncover Major Security Flaw in Illumina iSeq 100 DNA Sequencers 2025-01-07 at 17:18 By Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered firmware security vulnerabilities in the Illumina iSeq 100 DNA sequencing instrument that, if successfully exploited, could permit attackers to brick or plant persistent malware on susceptible devices. “The Illumina iSeq 100 used a very outdated implementation

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DEF CON’s hacker-in-chief faces fortune in medical bills after paralyzing neck injury 2025-01-07 at 16:49 By Connor Jones Marc Rogers is ‘lucky to be alive’ Marc Rogers, DEF CON’s head of security, faces tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills following an accident that left him with a broken neck and temporary quadriplegia.… This

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First launch of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket slated for January 10 2025-01-07 at 16:04 By Richard Speed Bezos booster finally ready for action Blue Origin has named the date for the first launch of its New Glenn rocket – January 10.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to

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Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will end third-party fact-checking, adopt Elon Musk’s ‘Community Notes’ system on X 2025-01-07 at 15:48 By Reuters Community Notes model will allow users on Meta’s social media sites Facebook, Instagram and Threads to call out posts that may be misleading. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News

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Windows 11 24H2 can run – sort of – in 184MB 2025-01-07 at 15:18 By Richard Speed Do you really need a new PC for Microsoft’s latest and greatest? From the department of “because I can” comes news of Windows 11 24H2 running in 184MB of memory.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Mitigating CVE exploitations: Putting the ‘rapid’ into rapid response 2025-01-07 at 15:18 By There is only so much a security team can do to be proactive; they don’t operate in a bubble, and patching systems without proper testing comes with its own risks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed

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Can AWS really fix AI hallucination? We talk to head of Automated Reasoning Byron Cook 2025-01-07 at 14:51 By Tim Anderson Engineer who works on ways to prove code’s mathematically correct finds his field’s suddenly much less obscure Interview  A notable flaw of AI is its habit of “hallucinating,” making up plausible answers that have

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Farewell to the Fallen: The Cybersecurity Stars We Lost Last Year 2025-01-07 at 14:51 By It’s time once again to pay our respects to the once-famous cybersecurity solutions whose usefulness died in the past year. The cybercriminal world collectively mourns the loss of these solutions and the easy access they provide to victim organizations. These

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