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Sneaky Python package security fixes help no one – except miscreants

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Good thing these eggheads have created a database of patches Python security fixes often happen through "silent" code commits, without an associated Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) identifier, according to a group of computer security res…

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Musk's X tries to win advertisers back with discounts

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Plus: Did Xwitter just suggest stripping people of gold checks? Don't threaten us with a good time The website formerly known as Twitter is trying to win back advertisers yet again with half-off deals on certain ads – and reportedly threats to remov…

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Netflix offers up to $900,000 for AI product manager while actors strike for protection

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

That could pay for 35 humans and their families' health insurance, says human Striking Hollywood writers and actors will be delighted to learn that Netflix, one of the powers perceived to be upending the entertainment industry, is advertising for an…

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AI mentioned 175 times during Microsoft's Q4 earnings call

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Are you sure that's an exec on the line? Also, smart move distracting folks from revenue growth slowdown, profit slide AI was mentioned 175 times during Microsoft's conference call with analysts to discuss the megacorp's Q4 financial results – it se…

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Intel adds fresh x86 and vector instructions for future chips

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Some big changes are afoot Intel has revealed two sets of extensions coming to the x86 instruction set architecture, one to boost the performance of general purpose code and the second to provide a common vector instruction set for future chips.…

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Sneaky Python package security fixes help no one – except miscreants

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Good thing these eggheads have created a database of patches Python security fixes often happen through "silent" code commits, without an associated Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) identifier, according to a group of computer security res…

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Our AI habit is making us less environmentally friendly, Google admits

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Just 6% of the water it consumed last year was replenished, report says Google's plans to go green are faltering – and its all AI's fault, the company claims.…

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TSMC thinks it's got exactly what Taiwan needs – another multibillion-dollar chip plant

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Talk about all your eggs in one China-coveting basket TSMC confirmed on Tuesday that it is investing $2.87 billion in a chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) advanced packaging fab for AI chips in northern Taiwan.…

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What does Twitter's new logo really represent?

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

It has a meaning in mathematics, and even more interested parties than you might expect Logowatch  Twitter's new logo isn't just an X, it's a very specific form of X, and not only does it have a meaning, it also has some history behind it.…

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To infinity and beyond, with a swarm of tiny computers costing under $1K each

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

BLISS this: Berkeley Low-cost Interplanetary Solar Sail project wants to head into space on the cheap Boffins believe the future of space exploration may belong to small, affordable probes sailing away under the Sun's power.…

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ESA sees satellite-based air traffic monitoring on near horizon

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

EURIALO project aims to prove flights can be tracked in real time through multilateration The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded a contract to a US company to create a technology demonstrator for a proposed aircraft monitoring system using low …

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Ambulance patient records system hauled offline for cyber-attack probe

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

UK trusts serving 12 million people affected as vendor awaits results of forensic investigation Several UK NHS ambulance organizations have been struggling to record patient data and pass it to other providers following a cyber-attack aimed at healt…

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Sneaky Python package security fixes help no one – except miscreants

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Good thing these eggheads have created a database of patches Python security fixes often happen through "silent" code commits, without an associated Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) identifier, according to a group of computer security res…

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Australian court orders Meta subsidiaries to pay $14 million over data use

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Adverts said Onavo Protect user data would be kept a secret – just didn't say from whom On Wednesday, Australia's Federal Court ordered two Meta subsidiaries to pay $14 million after an over two and a half year legal battle instigated by the country…

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Ivanti plugs critical bug – but not before it was used against Norwegian government

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Uncle Sam warns sysadmins to get patching as soon as possible A critical security flaw in Ivanti's mobile endpoint management code was exploited and used to compromise 12 Norwegian government agencies before the vendor plugged the hole.…

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NASA awards $150 million to prototype tech for humans on the Moon, and above it

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Inflatable heat shields, robot cable layers, and a furnace to burn lunar dust for minerals and oxygen NASA is distributing $150 million between 11 US organizations developing technology and infrastructure supporting long-term human exploration on th…

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Clients turn to Indian IT outsourcers for AI faster than industry can train staff

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Earnings calls from the Big Four show massive reskilling in progress India's top four IT outsourcers saw a quarter where clients were hesitant about everything except their desire to discuss AI, according to earnings reports from TCS, HCL, Infosys a…

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One problem with America's chip ambitions: Not quite enough staff

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Semi industry fears US will be short 70K engineers, technicians, computer scientists by end of decade Last week, TSMC postponed production at its under-construction Arizona chip fab until at least 2025 because it said it couldn't find enough skilled…

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OpenAI pulls AI text detector due to it being a bit crap

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

If getting stuff right is such a deal breaker, why are we still so deep into this ML hype? OpenAI has taken down its AI classifier months after it was released due to its inability to accurately determine whether a chunk of text was automatically ge…

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One problem with America's chip ambitions: Not quite enough staff

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Semi industry fears US will be short 70K engineers, technicians, computer scientists by end of decade Last week, TSMC postponed production at its under-construction Arizona chip fab until at least 2025 because it said it couldn't find enough skilled…

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Microsoft’s Dublin DC power plant gets the, er, green light

woensdag 26 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

How does more natural gas consumption contribute to Redmond's eco dream? Updated  Unable to secure a steady supply of power from Ireland's national power grid, Microsoft has elected to build its own power plant to keep its €900 million datacenter de…

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