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Telcos scolded for unwanted erection of utility poles in race to wire up Britain 2024-09-16 at 13:31 By Dan Robinson Telecoms minister pleads with operators to work together The UK issue of multiplying telegraph poles is arising again, with telecoms minister Chris Bryant meeting operators over sharing their infrastructure and consulting residents before installation.… This […]

RISE with SAP sinking year on year 2024-09-16 at 12:31 By Lindsay Clark Gartner: ERP giant’s flagship cloud-and-upgrade package falls as a ratio of total sales with support deadline looming The latest figures from Gartner indicate SAP is struggling to convince users of the value of its RISE with SAP package, launched to accelerate users’

China’s quantum* crypto tech may be unhackable, but it’s hardly a secret 2024-09-16 at 11:46 By Rupert Goodwins * Quite Unlikely A New Technology’s Useful, Man Opinion  We have a new call to arms in the 21st century battlefront between the West and China. The Middle Kingdom is building an uncrackable national infrastructure based on

Apple Drops Spyware Case Against NSO Group, Citing Risk of Threat Intelligence Exposure 2024-09-16 at 11:16 By Apple has filed a motion to “voluntarily” dismiss its lawsuit against commercial spyware vendor NSO Group, citing a shifting risk landscape that could lead to exposure of critical “threat intelligence” information. The development was first reported by The

250 million-plus unused IPv4 addresses should be left alone, argues network boffin 2024-09-16 at 09:46 By Simon Sharwood Tests show it’s just too hard to put the unused 240/4 block to work The 240/4 block of IPv4 addresses – the six percent of the available IPv4 space that is currently not available for public use

Indian central bank fines HP’s financial services arm 2024-09-16 at 09:02 By Laura Dobberstein Alleges its governance was MIA and its KYC SNAFU The Reserve Bank of India has fined HP Financial Services the equivalent of $12,400 for not complying with regulations – some related to Know Your Customer (KYC) measures – and failing to

Cybercriminals Exploit HTTP Headers for Credential Theft via Large-Scale Phishing Attacks 2024-09-16 at 08:31 By Cybersecurity researchers have warned of ongoing phishing campaigns that abuse refresh entries in HTTP headers to deliver spoofed email login pages that are designed to harvest users’ credentials. “Unlike other phishing webpage distribution behavior through HTML content, these attacks use

China wants red flags on all AI-generated content posted online 2024-09-16 at 07:31 By Simon Sharwood Visible and audible warnings, plus metadata, with absence of info considered suspicious China’s internet regulator on Saturday proposed a strict regime that will, if adopted, require digital platforms to label content created by artificial intelligence.… This article is an

Counteracting heightened security risks for travelers, remote workers 2024-09-16 at 07:16 By While remote connectivity offers employees flexibility and convenience, it also opens potential avenues for breaches. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Plunging printer sales see Japan’s Ricoh plan 2,000 redundancies 2024-09-16 at 04:16 By Laura Dobberstein Plus: Superapps in trouble across Asia; Indonesia connectivity doubles; Alibaba turns 25; and more! ASIA IN BRIEF  Japanese imaging device manufacturer Ricoh last week announced plans to cut 2,000.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Thank you, Reg Readers: On Call has turned 500! 2024-09-15 at 21:16 By Simon Sharwood Started on a whim, almost a decade later it’s a fixture – and a marvelous demonstration of your wit and wisdom A short while back, The Register published the 500th installment of On-Call, the reader-contributed column in which you share

Homing pigeon missiles, dead trout swimming, butt breathing honored with Ig Nobel Prize 2024-09-14 at 13:47 By Richard Currie Mad science award ceremony returns to MIT after four years online With less than a month to go before the Nobel Prizes are handed out for the most worthy scientific discoveries of the preceding year, it

Begun, the open source AI wars have 2024-09-14 at 12:46 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols This is going to be ugly. Really ugly Opinion  The Open Source Initiative (OSI) and its allies are getting closer to a definition of open source AI. If all goes well, Stefano Maffulli, the OSI’s executive director, expects to announce the

Meta back at it, harvesting Britons’ public Facebook, Insta feeds for AI training 2024-09-14 at 10:31 By Iain Thomson I wanna know 🎵 What you’re feeling 🎵 Tell me what’s on your mind Meta is going to resume scraping the personal public feeds of British Facebook and Instagram users for training AI after reaching an

Ivanti Warns of Active Exploitation of Newly Patched Cloud Appliance Vulnerability 2024-09-14 at 07:47 By Ivanti has revealed that a newly patched security flaw in its Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-8190 (CVSS score: 7.2), which allows remote code execution under certain

Apple AirPods Pro 2 can be sold as hearing aids, says FDA 2024-09-14 at 02:17 By Iain Thomson You gotta admit, that speaks volumes for Cupertino America’s drug watchdog this week gave Apple permission to market its new AirPods as over-the-counter hearing aids, disrupting an industry where traditional devices have often cost thousands of dollars.…