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Hikvision, Nvidia named in contract for 'Uyghur detection'

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

GPU giant says you can't stop secondary sales, surveillance gear maker maintains innocence Updated  Video surveillance equipment maker Hikvision was paid $6 million by the Chinese government last year to provide technology that could identify member…

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White House: Losing Section 702 spy powers would be among 'worst intelligence failures of our time'

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

As expert panel suggests some tweaks to boost public's confidence in FISA The White House has weighed in on the Section 702 debate, urging lawmakers to reauthorize, "without new and operationally damaging restrictions," the controversial snooping po…

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Do Facebook's algorithms drive political polarization? Meta says no, but researchers say it's complicated

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Plus: Google DeepMind's latest visual-language model robot, and more AI in brief  Four research papers this week concluded that users' political beliefs and behavior don't seem to be all that impacted by information amplified by Facebook's algorithm…

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Twitter's giant glowing X erected 'without a permit'

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Neighbors say it's an eyesore, Musk's underlings won't let inspectors near it A giant light-up X logo appeared atop the HQ of the company formerly known as Twitter on Friday, spurring complaints from neighbors and visits from San Francisco building …

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Twitter's giant throbbing X erected 'without a permit'

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Neighbors say it's an eyesore, Musk's underlings won't let inspectors near it A huge super-bright flashing X logo appeared atop the HQ of the company formerly known as Twitter on Friday, spurring complaints from neighbors and visits from San Francis…

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Twitter's giant glowing X was put up without a permit, say SF officials

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Neighbors say it's an eyesore, but Musk's underlings won't let inspectors near it A giant light-up X logo appeared atop the HQ of the company formerly known as Twitter on Friday, spurring complaints from neighbors and visits from San Francisco build…

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Hikvision and Nvidia named in contract for Uyghur detection

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Chip giant washes its hands – but you can't stop secondary sales Updated  Chinese video surveillance equipment maker Hikvision was reportedly paid $6 million by Beijing last year to provide technology that could identify members of the nation's Uygh…

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LLMs appear to reason by analogy, a cornerstone of human thinking

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

How they do it remains a mystery, say boffins in research paper Large language models such as OpenAI's GPT-3 can display the ability to solve complex reasoning tasks which humans crack using analogies.…

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AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Perhaps that'll focus your minds on speeding up your adoption of IPv6, eh? Cloud giant AWS will start charging customers for public IPv4 addresses from next year, claiming it is forced to do this because of the increasing scarcity of these and to en…

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Hikvision and Nvidia named in contract for Uyghur detection

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Chip giant washes its hands – but you can't stop secondary sales Chinese video surveillance equipment maker Hikvision was reportedly paid $6 million by Beijing last year to provide technology that could identify members of the nation's Uyghur people…

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Arc: A radical fresh take on the web browser

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

In an industry that runs on hype, this might just live up to it Arc is a new Chromium-based web browser which shakes up the standard workflow that browsers have had ever since tabs were invented. It's good, but it will take some getting used to.…

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BT hires chartered management accountant and telco veteran as next CEO

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Got to keep up with those FTTP builds and the tens of thousands of staff that will leave BT, the former state owned telecommunications monopoly that is building Britain's fiber backbone, has confirmed current Telia Company president and CEO Allison …

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Satnav for the Moon could benefit from Fibonacci’s expertise

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Middle Ages maths to the rescue Future satellite navigation systems intended for Earth's Moon may be aided by a model of it developed with methods that go back to mathematician Fibonacci, who lived 800 years ago.…

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What would sustainable security even look like?

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Clue: Nothing like what’s on offer today Opinion  "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today," fumed Admiral David Beatty during 1916's Battle of Jutland. Fair enough: three of the Royal Navy's finest vessels had just blown up an…

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Nobody would ever work on the live server, right? Not intentionally, anyway

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Techie installing an upgrade did everything right. But the user was already wrong Who, Me?  Greetings and felicitations, dear reader-folk, and welcome to the soft landing to the working week that we at The Reg call Who, Me? in which we share tales o…

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Avaya reseller pleads guilty to role in $88m licensing scam

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Comms vendor's employee allegedly generated bogus licences and hijacked sysadmin accounts to make more A New Jersey man has plead guilty to selling pirated Avaya software licenses, allegedly generated and shopped by one of the vendor's system admini…

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NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Thankfully the probe regularly phones home to fix this sort of mess NASA revealed on Friday that its venerable Voyager 2 probe is currently incommunicado, because the space agency pointed its antenna in the wrong direction.…

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NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Thankfully the probe can phone home to fix this sort of mess NASA revealed on Friday that its venerable Voyager 2 probe is currently incommunicado, because the space agency pointed its antenna in the wrong direction.…

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'Weird numerological coincidence' found during work on Linux kernel 6.5

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

It might be the only non-boring thing about the release, which has Linus Torvalds celebrating Linus Torvalds has noticed a "weird numerological coincidence" during work on version 6.5 of the Linux kernel.…

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Indonesia blocks Musk's X.com over its X-rated past

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

ALSO: Japan's government to write docs with AI; 5G boom coming; India denies infosec issues Asia In Brief  Elon Musk's rebadged Twitter, X.com, has been blocked in Indonesia as the domain was formerly used to for websites containing content deemed u…

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US senator victim-blames Microsoft for Chinese hack

maandag 31 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

ALSO: China says US hacked it right back, BreachForums users have been pwned, and this week's critical vulns Infosec in brief  US senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) thinks it's Microsoft's fault that Chinese hackers broke into Exchange Online, and he wants th…

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