Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking Apple last year deployed a mechanism for identifying landmarks and places of interest in images stored in the Photos application on its custo…
Lees meerSet aside the bat'leth to fix trivial problem for p'takh On Call Welcome to the year 2025, which just three days ago was in the future! Welcome, also, to a new instalment of On Call, The Register's Friday column whose ongoing mission is to take you…
Lees meerNo more back-and-forth: Rosenworcel tells Congress the issue needs legislating The prolonged fight for net neutrality in America has shifted once again, with the FCC's resurrected regulations struck down by a panel of appeals court judges today.…
Lees meerNo more back-and-forth: Rosenworcel tells Congress the issue needs legislating The prolonged fight for net neutrality in America has shifted once again, with the FCC's resurrected regulations struck down by a panel of appeals court judges today.…
Lees meerOFAC, Office of the Treasury Secretary feared hit in data-snarfing swoop Chinese spies who compromised the US Treasury Department's workstations reportedly stole data belonging to a government office responsible for sanctions against organizations a…
Lees meerNo more back-and-forth: Rosenworcel tells Congress the issue needs legislating The prolonged fight for net neutrality in America has shifted once again, with the FCC's resurrected regulations struck down by a panel of appeals court judges today.…
Lees meerEven the sound of a zip could be enough to start the recordings, according to claims Apple has filed a proposed settlement in California suggesting it will pay $95 million to settle claims that Siri recorded owners' conversations without consent and…
Lees meerConnectivity direct to unmodified mobes looms, thanks to Starlink and co Analysis This year saw the launch of the first satellite constellations designed to provide commercial services straight to unmodified smartphones, which looks set to become t…
Lees meerData pilfered as miscreants roamed affected workstations The US Department of the Treasury has admitted that miscreants were in its systems, accessing documents in what has been called a "major incident."…
Lees meerPlus, unmodified devices set to dominate direct-to-cell services Analysis This year saw the launch of the first satellite constellations designed to provide commercial services to unmodified smartphones, which looks set to become the biggest satell…
Lees meerAnalysis This year saw the launch of the first satellite constellations designed to provide commercial services to unmodified smartphones, which looks set to become the biggest satellite use case, with the US leading the way on adoption.…
Lees meerStatcounter figures show Windows 11 losing user love Microsoft's 2025 is off to a bad start amid statistics that show users are still giving Windows 11 a wide berth as Windows 10 continues to dominate the desktop operating system market.…
Lees meer40% of world's servers are 6 years +, drink 66% of DC energy, provide 7% of compute. Please refresh, says HPE Four in ten of the servers currently residing in datacenters across the globe are at least six years old. Meanwhile, not only does this 40 …
Lees meer2024's Tech Fail Roll Of Dishonor Opinion Happy new year! Tradition says that this is when we boldly look forward to what may happen in the 12 months to come. Do you really want to know that? Didn’t think so.…
Lees meer2024's Tech Fail Roll Of Dishonor Opinion Happy new year! Tradition says that this is when we boldly look forward to what may happen in the 12 months to come. Do you really want to know that? Didn’t think so.…
Lees meerCan it topple x86 and Arm, or is the gap too wide to close? Feature RISC-V has been talked up as a challenger to Arm and x86, offering an open royalty-free architecture that promises flexibility and innovation without licensing costs. But for all t…
Lees meerEighth generation of the standard is all about ultra reliability Wi-Fi 8 is coming, but it looks set to focus on greater reliability rather than on pushing the bandwidth ever higher, as the most recent updates to the venerable wireless local network…
Lees meerReport charts four scenarios from 'Sustainable AI' to 'Who Turned Out The Lights?' Policymakers need to carefully guide the future consumption of electricity by AI datacenters, according to a report that considers four potential scenarios and sugges…
Lees meerEight generation of the standard is all about ultra reliability Wi-Fi 8 is coming, but it looks set to focus on greater reliability rather than on pushing the bandwidth ever higher, as the most recent updates to the venerable wireless local network …
Lees meerThe developer of the Puffin Browser thinks so – and has a million users to show for it It's hard to get excited about feature phones with 320 x 240 resolution, but Shioupyn Shen thinks precisely such devices are about to bring millions of people to …
Lees meer2024's Tech Fail Roll Of Dishonor Opinion Happy new year! Tradition says that this is when we boldly look forward to what may happen in the 12 months to come. Do you really want to know that? Didn’t think so.…
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