{$lblSkipToContent|ucfirst}

Japan's digital minister surrenders salary to say sorry for data leaks

donderdag 17 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

The My Number card mess remains unsolved as trust in e-government remains muted Japan’s digital minister has doubled down on a June promise to penalize himself for the poor rollout of the country’s digital ID, My Number Card, by offering up three mo…

Lees meer

Japan's digital minister surrenders salary to say sorry for data leaks

donderdag 17 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

The My Number card mess remains unsolved as trust in e-government remains muted Japan’s digital minister has doubled down on a June promise to penalize himself for the poor rollout of the country’s digital ID, My Number Card, by offering up three mo…

Lees meer

Vietnam admits it has just ten percent of the infosec pros it needs

donderdag 17 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Which is a problem, because local orgs are leaking data and shadowy traders are cashing in Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications has admitted the nation has a vast shortfall of infosec pros.…

Lees meer

Western Digital sued over claims of data-trashing SanDisk, My Passport SSDs

donderdag 17 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Drives are anything but solid, allegedly Western Digital was sued on Tuesday on behalf of a California resident who claims the solid state drive he bought from the manufacturer was defective and that the storage slinger shipped kit that didn't live …

Lees meer

Western Digital sued over claims of data-trashing SanDisk, My Passport SSDs

donderdag 17 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

These drives are anything but solid – they wipe files without warning, guy complains Western Digital was sued on Tuesday on behalf of a California resident who claims the solid state drive he bought from the manufacturer was defective and that the s…

Lees meer

Humans stressed out by content moderation? Just use AI, says OpenAI

woensdag 16 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Tired? Drink coffee, says Starbucks. Bored? Try whiskey, says Jameson. Lazy? Why not drive, says Ford. Etc etc GPT-4 can help moderate content online more quickly and consistently than humans can, the model's maker OpenAI has argued.…

Lees meer

Red Hat redeploys one of its main desktop developers

woensdag 16 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Big Purple may be moving away from the desktop or it could be more strategic A blog post from senior Red Hat developer Bastien Nocera indicates that the IBM-owned company is further consolidating its development efforts on desktop Linux.…

Lees meer

Discord.io pulls the cord after crooks steal 760K users' info

woensdag 16 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Cleanup will involve 'complete rewrite of our website's code' Discord.io has shut down "for the foreseeable future," after crooks stole, and then put up for sale, data belonging to all 760,000 of the service's users.…

Lees meer

Musk's X caught throttling outbound links to websites he doesn't like

woensdag 16 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Elon, curing the world of imposter syndrome one decision at a time Elon Musk's X was this week caught throttling outbound links to several sites, coincidentally ones that the billionaire has complained about or feuded with in the past.…

Lees meer

Nutanix reckons you can stuff AI into a box – a box it manages, that is

woensdag 16 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

You need resources in lots of places, which is the hybrid cloud taming trick the company exists to perform Interest in AI workloads has reached the point at which major enterprise vendors are packaging it for easy consumption, with Nutanix the lates…

Lees meer

PowerShell? More like PowerHell: Microsoft won't fix flaws in package gallery ripe for supply chain attacks

woensdag 16 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Billions of downloads and no defense against typosquatting feels like a bad combination in this day and age A trio of PowerShell Gallery design flaws reported to Microsoft almost a year ago remain unfixed, leaving registry users vulnerable to typosq…

Lees meer

DARPA wants interoperability standard for Moon living

woensdag 16 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Less lunacy? LunA-10 is seeking designs for 'optimized and integrated lunar infrastructure' In DARPA's view, if we're going to live on the Moon, we need to rethink our technological paradigm. The research agency has thus launched its latest project …

Lees meer

Musk's X caught throttling outbound links to websites he doesn't like

woensdag 16 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

This is a great thing for free speech and must surely be a coincidence, right? Elon Musk's X was this week caught throttling outbound links to several sites, coincidentally ones that the billionaire has complained about or feuded with in the past.…

Lees meer

Boffins reckon Mars colony could survive with fewer than two dozen people

woensdag 16 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Taming that unforgiving dust world may be significantly less expensive than anticipated When humans head off to colonize Mars, it's not entirely clear how many people will be needed to keep everyone alive.…

Lees meer

Not call: Open source gurus urge you to dump Zoom

woensdag 16 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

In footsteps of GiveUpGitHub, campaign follows AI ToS fiasco The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) is calling on free and open source software (FOSS) contributors to stop using Zoom video conferencing in light of the app maker's AI-friendly terms-o…

Lees meer

It's not just spin – boffins give quantum computing a room-temp makeover

woensdag 16 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Another team is harnessing nature's own algorithm to solve problems faster than classical computers Practical quantum computers are still on the horizon, but scientists continue to make improvements in the underlying technology required to make such…

Lees meer

Cruise self-driving taxi gets wheels stuck in wet cement

woensdag 16 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

This is not the robotaxi future that was promised Just days after Cruise won the right to operate completely computer-controlled taxi rides in San Francisco at all hours, one of its units has got stuck in wet cement.…

Lees meer

Red Hat redeploys one of its main desktop developers

woensdag 16 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Big Purple may be moving away from the desktop or it could be more strategic A blog post from senior Red Hat developer Bastien Nocera indicates that the company is further consolidating its development efforts on desktop Linux.…

Lees meer

Bomb threat causes mass evacuation at DEF CON hacking convention

woensdag 16 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Summer Camp is over and what has been done? Have aspirations shriveled in the Sun? DEF CON  A bomb threat against Caesars Forum, the main venue for this week's DEF CON hacking convention, led to the halls being cleared on Saturday evening and the bu…

Lees meer

Downloading the Webb Scope's data starts with a 6-month scheduling scramble

woensdag 16 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Missions bid to secure comms time on Deep Space Network The remarkable images and data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope are being sent to Earth after more than six months of jockeying to secure network resources, NASA has revealed.…

Lees meer

US task force to look into how military could use generative AI

woensdag 16 augustus 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

'Hey our enemies are going to use this technology, so why shouldn't we?' The US Department of Defense has set up Task Force Lima, a new team to investigate what generative AI can do for the military, with the stated aim of protecting national securi…

Lees meer

Internet - WiFi • e-mail • Software • Hardware • Reparatie • (Geheugen - SSD) Upgrades • Advies • Netwerken • Routers • Beheer op afstand (Teamviewer) • Onderhoud (Online Backup's) • Data Recovery • OSX Server • Synology NAS • Bootcamp - Parallels - VMWare

• 20 jaar ervaring •