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Israel and Italy have cheapest mobile data out of 237 countries 28/09/2023 at 12:48 By Dan Robinson Some in globe pay just $0.02 per GB, others rinsed for $43.75 The cost of mobile data varies wildly around the world, ranging from an average $0.02 per gigabyte in Israel, to a whopping $43.75 in Zimbabwe, with […]

The only way is WebKit: Vivaldi’s browser arrives on iOS 28/09/2023 at 11:33 By Richard Speed Render unto Apple what is Apple’s The Vivaldi browser is finally making its way to iOS devices, although Apple’s WebKit continues to lurk behind the scenes.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

After failing at privacy, again, Google is working to keep Bard chats out of Search 28/09/2023 at 10:47 By Thomas Claburn The URLs needed to share chat histories have been indexed. Of course Google’s Bard chatbot is currently being re-educated to better understand privacy.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Micron revenue halved in FY23 as China ban bites 28/09/2023 at 09:47 By Laura Dobberstein Reason for the ban still a mystery – but most have their guesses Memory maker Micron Technology’s revenue nearly feel by almost half year-on-year, partly thanks to the effect of China’s unpexplained bans on some of its products.… This article

Raspberry Pi 5 revealed, and it should satisfy your need for speed 28/09/2023 at 09:02 By Richard Speed No longer super-cheap, but boasts better graphics and swifter storage The Raspberry Pi 5 arrives in October with both a leap in performance and an incremental price rise. But will you be able to get your hands

Indonesia, TikTok’s best market, bans social commerce 28/09/2023 at 08:47 By Simon Sharwood Made-In-China social network’s attempts to merge sales and socials stalled in the market all web giants covet Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most-populous nation, has decided to ban social commerce – the practice of embedding e-commerce facilities in social media platforms.… This article is

China’s national security minister rates fake news among most pressing cyber threats 28/09/2023 at 07:02 By Simon Sharwood He’s also worried about alliances that freeze out Chinese tech Chinese minister for national security Chen Yixin has penned an article rating the digital risks his country faces and rated network security incidents as the most realistic

Update Chrome Now: Google Releases Patch for Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability 28/09/2023 at 07:01 By Google on Wednesday rolled out fixes to address a new actively exploited zero-day in the Chrome browser. Tracked as CVE-2023-5217, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as a heap-based buffer overflow in the VP8 compression format in libvpx, a free software video codec library from Google

Record-breaking astronaut Frank Rubio finally home after over a year in orbit 28/09/2023 at 05:34 By Katyanna Quach Rubio spent 371 days on the ISS, the longest any American has been aloft NASA astronaut Dr. Frank Rubio has returned home after a 371-day stint aboard the International Space Station, setting a new record for the

OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT’s internet browsing privileges 28/09/2023 at 04:03 By Tobias Mann If the chatbot doesn’t know what you need, it’ll ‘Bing It!’ for paying customers ChatGPT can now scan the internet and provide users with up-to-date responses to their queries, OpenAI revealed Wednesday.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Volkswagen stuck in neutral after ‘IT disruption’ 28/09/2023 at 03:04 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Factories and offices are going nowhere, fast Some of Volkswagen’s operations have screeched to a halt after some sort of cyber incident, according to German media reports.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Unions claim win as Hollywood studios agree generative AI isn’t an author 28/09/2023 at 02:02 By Katyanna Quach The pen is (slightly) mightier than the algorithm The Writers Guild of America has ended its 148-day strike after reaching an agreement with Hollywood’s TV and film studios to increase pay and regulate the use of generative

Routers have been rooted by Chinese spies, US and Japan warn 27/09/2023 at 23:33 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle BlackTech crew looking to steal sensitive data traffic Chinese government spies may be hiding in your Cisco routers and using that access to steal intellectual property and other sensitive data, according to officials in the US and

Perseverance rover sets a Martian speed record with software controls 27/09/2023 at 22:03 By Brandon Vigliarolo 347.7 meters in a day – humans could probably do better NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has set a speed record by traversing a massive boulder field in a third the time it would have taken its predecessor Curiosity.… This

Ubuntu and Fedora clash in beta race, but who wears GNOME better? 27/09/2023 at 21:17 By Liam Proven Big two corporate-backed free distros are nearly ready for their close-ups Both Fedora Workstation 39 and Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 are now in beta, preparing for release next month. We looked at their official GNOME-based flavors to see

The alternative to stopping climate change is untested carbon capture tech 27/09/2023 at 20:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo We could do most of what we need to prevent 1.5°C warming now; reversing it will be nigh impossible The technology the world needs to reach net zero carbon emissions and limit global warming to 1.5°C is increasingly

NYC rights groups say no to grocery store spycams and snooping landlords 27/09/2023 at 19:47 By Jude Karabus Letter to City Council supports measures to ban biometric tech from public spaces “New Yorkers should not be forced to accept biometric surveillance as part of simple activities like buying groceries or taking their kids to a

Meta spends $181M to get out of lease at vacant London offices 27/09/2023 at 19:02 By Paul Kunert Biz signed 20-year term in 2021 before COVID-19 caused the WFH revolution followed by redundancies Meta is paying £149 million ($181 million) to release itself earlier than planned from a lease on an eight-story office block in

Red Cross-Themed Phishing Attacks Distributing DangerAds and AtlasAgent Backdoors 27/09/2023 at 19:01 By A new threat actor known as AtlasCross has been observed leveraging Red Cross-themed phishing lures to deliver two previously undocumented backdoors named DangerAds and AtlasAgent. NSFOCUS Security Labs described the adversary as having a “high technical level and cautious attack attitude,” adding that “the phishing attack

CERN experiment proves gravity pulls antimatter the way Einstein predicted 27/09/2023 at 18:17 By Lindsay Clark Why there is not a lot more of it is yet to be explained though In sci-fi, antimatter is the opposite of all the matter around us. Does that mean it should fall up? Not at all, scientists at