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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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CockroachDB tempts legacy databases to crawl into the cloud age 2024-01-29 at 20:05 By Lindsay Clark Distributed system makes a grab for Oracle, Db2 features CockroachDB has released its 23.2 iteration containing new features designed to tempt mainframe and other legacy database users to shift workloads to its distributed cloud-based system.… This article is an

X hiring 100 content cops in bid to tame Wild West of online safety 2024-01-29 at 19:17 By Richard Currie Maybe those Twitter cuts ran too deep, huh? Not long after it emerged that X, formerly Twitter, cut 1 in 3 Trust and Safety employees after Elon Musk’s takeover in October 2022, the social media

OSHA cites electric car battery company for workplace hazards 2024-01-29 at 19:01 By The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited a global electric vehicle battery manufacturer for health and safety hazards.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Japan’s lander wakes up, takes blurry snap of Moon 2024-01-29 at 18:22 By Richard Speed Winter Night is coming Japan’s Moon lander has woken up on the lunar surface and begun transmitting data back to controllers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA.)… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Amazon calls off $1.7 billion iRobot buy, blames regulators 2024-01-29 at 17:46 By Richard Speed Retailer steps back from Roomba-maker and 350 staff will have to step back from a job Amazon’s $1.7 billion bid to buy iRobot is off, and while Jeff Bezos’s business faces a termination fee, almost a third of vacuum maker’s

DEA nabs $150M from dark web drug lord based… in Coventry 2024-01-29 at 17:01 By Connor Jones Plus: Dodgy ex-US official also sentenced for software and database theft in big day for the courts A dark web drug kingpin has handed more than $150 million in cryptocurrency to US authorities and pleaded guilty to selling

Microsoft confirms Windows Server 2025 is on the way 2024-01-29 at 16:10 By Richard Speed Plus: It kills off WordPad once and for all Microsoft is unleashing build 26040 of Windows Server and has revealed the official branding for the product: Windows Server 2025.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source