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Unit4 ditching on-prem in favor of SaaS come 2025 31/10/2023 at 15:02 By Lindsay Clark Clients have a little over a year to get their affairs in order Exclusive  Unit4, the enterprise software provider popular with government and medium-sized businesses, has announced it will end support of its on-prem systems on December 31, 2024.… This […]

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Microsoft’s 11-year itch: The uncelebrated anniversary of Windows 8 31/10/2023 at 14:17 By Richard Speed Lots to like under the covers, but what was on top made it truly unforgettable Microsoft is rarely shy when it comes to anniversaries. However, one milestone passed last week that the company is still perhaps trying to forget: 11

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Trojanized PyCharm Software Version Delivered via Google Search Ads 31/10/2023 at 14:02 By A new malvertising campaign has been observed capitalizing on a compromised website to promote spurious versions of PyCharm on Google search results by leveraging Dynamic Search Ads. “Unbeknownst to the site owner, one of their ads was automatically created to promote a popular program

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The UK government? On the right track with its semiconductor strategy? 31/10/2023 at 13:17 By Dan Robinson Oh, you’re not joking The UK government may be onto something with its strategy to support the domestic semiconductor industry. In a strange twist of fate, some experts are starting to say that its approach makes sense.… This

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Meta’s ad-free scheme dares you to buy your privacy back, one euro at a time 31/10/2023 at 12:33 By Richard Speed If you’re in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland From November, it will be possible to pay Meta to stop shoveling ads in your Instagram or Facebook feeds and slurping your data for marketing purposes

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To prevent ‘lost’ nukes, scientists suggest storing them in a hall of mirrors 31/10/2023 at 11:48 By Katyanna Quach Radio bouncing of mutliple reflectors is a hard-to-defeat method of monitoring a weapons cache Researchers say they have developed a method to remotely track the movement of objects in a room using mirrors and radio waves,

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Canada Bans WeChat and Kaspersky Apps On Government Devices 31/10/2023 at 11:47 By Canada on Monday announced a ban on the use of apps from Tencent and Kaspersky on government mobile devices, citing an “unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security.” “The Government of Canada is committed to keeping government information and networks secure,”

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Google formally gets to work on Android on RISC-V 31/10/2023 at 10:32 By Simon Sharwood Emulators coming in 2024, first for wearables Google has significantly advanced its efforts to have Android run on CPUs that use the RISC-V instruction set architecture.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this

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Meta Launches Paid Ad-Free Subscription in Europe to Satisfy Privacy Laws 31/10/2023 at 10:02 By Meta on Monday announced plans to offer an ad-free option to access Facebook and Instagram for users in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland to comply with “evolving” data protection regulations in the region. The ad-free

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Canada to remove China’s top messaging app WeChat from government devices 31/10/2023 at 09:47 By Simon Sharwood Kaspersky also on the way out due to ‘unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security’ The government of Canada has decided that Tencent’s WeChat app, and Kaspersky’s security suite, are too risky to run on government-issued mobile

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Australian video-streamer lets users opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting 31/10/2023 at 08:47 By Simon Sharwood All without reducing the effectiveness of data-driven targeting, dammit Australia’s SBS will allow users of its video streaming services to opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Stop what you’re doing and patch this critical Confluence flaw, warns Atlassian 31/10/2023 at 08:18 By Simon Sharwood Risk of ‘significant data loss’ for on-prem customers Atlassian has told customers they “must take immediate action” to address a newly discovered flaw in its Confluence collaboration tool.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Vietnam becomes latest nation to pitch itself as a chip biz hub 31/10/2023 at 07:17 By Laura Dobberstein 50,000-strong alt.China talent pool promised, with Google, Samsung, SpaceX, and Intel interested Vietnam will train 50,000 engineers to work in its semiconductor industry between now and 2030 ,as it seeks to embed itself further into the global

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Apple lifts the sheet on a trio of ‘scary fast’ M3 SoCs built on a 3nm process 31/10/2023 at 05:47 By Tobias Mann MacBook Pro and iMac get the new silicon, and price tags up to a terrifying $7,199 Apple has announced its M3 silicon, claimed they are the first CPUs for desktop computers built

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SolarWinds charged after SEC says biz knew IT was leaky ahead of SUNBURST attack 31/10/2023 at 03:47 By Simon Sharwood Developer and CISO slapped with suit for misleading investors SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer have been charged with fraud by America’s financial watchdog, which alleges the software maker knew its security was in a

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Help, Android 14 ate my Pixel! Bug causes endless reboots, loss of storage access 31/10/2023 at 03:02 By Thomas Claburn Fix on the way but for those trapped in boot loop hell, data recovery isn’t certain Google has confirmed that some people’s Pixel devices have lost access to local storage or become trapped in reboot

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Florida man jailed after draining $1M from victims in crypto SIM swap attacks 31/10/2023 at 02:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Not old enough to legally buy a beer, old enough for a 30-month term A 20-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to 30 months behind bars for his role in a SIM-swapping ring that stole

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Alphabet CEO testifies in Google Search trial: We pay billions to keep Apple at bay 31/10/2023 at 01:47 By Thomas Claburn As Uncle Sam releases more internal docs on Chrome strategy, MSN, more Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai testified on Monday at the US government’s Google antitrust trial – and acknowledged that, yes, default settings are

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Yeah, that oughta do the trick, Joe… Biden hopes to tackle AI safety with exec order 31/10/2023 at 01:17 By Katyanna Quach ML players must alert Uncle Sam if they’re training a foundation model, and more US President Joe Biden issued an executive order today putting in place some safeguards that may mitigate societal risks

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Voltage Park to deploy $500M worth of Nvidia H100s to milk that AI hype 31/10/2023 at 00:32 By Tobias Mann At $1.89 an hour per GPU, you too can have ML compute for the low, low price of just $68M a year AI infrastructure provider Voltage Park revealed Sunday it has acquired 24,000 Nvidia H100

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