AI automation, now as simple as point, click, drag, and drop Hands On For all the buzz surrounding them, AI agents are simply another form of automation that can perform tasks using the tools you've provided. Think of them as smart macros that make…
Lees meerMeta also replaces a legacy C++ media-handling security library with Rust Users of Meta's WhatsApp messenger looking to simplify the process of protecting themselves are in luck, as the company is rolling out a new feature that combines multiple sec…
Lees meerMemory boom funds $10B punt on 'solutions' outfit that's still light on details SK hynix is surfing the AI hype wave by setting up what it nebulously describes as a solutions biz to further exploit the hysteria.…
Lees meerHome Office white paper promises millions for LFR, a new Police.AI unit, and a bespoke legal framework Police in England and Wales will increase their use of live facial recognition (LFR) and artificial intelligence (AI) under wide-ranging governmen…
Lees meerIf only there were some technology to boil things down to bullet points Opinion Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has published a novella-length essay about the risk of superintelligent AI, something that doesn't yet exist.…
Lees meerGoogle researcher sits on UAC bypass for ages, only for it to become valid with new security feature Microsoft patched a bevy of bugs that allowed bypasses of Windows Administrator Protection before the feature was made available earlier this month.…
Lees meerChatbot banned – for now – after it dreamed up West Ham match that never happened West Midlands Police's acting Chief Constable has suspended use of Microsoft Copilot following a controversy that led to the early retirement of his predecessor over a…
Lees meerBut did it falter? Oracle debuts Schrödinger's cloud Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) users reported an outage late last week in its London region, yet despite complaints from Register readers, Big Red is staying quiet.…
Lees meerAnother actively abused Office bug, another emergency patch – Office 2016 and 2019 users are left with registry tweaks instead of fixes. Updated Microsoft has issued an emergency Office patch after confirming a zero-day flaw is already being used i…
Lees meer'Follow-on' agreement lasts 3 years as US techies protest vendor's ICE contract Stateside The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has directly awarded a £240.6 million contract to US technology company Palantir to continue to licence and support its data…
Lees meerAWS and Capgemini loom large in HMRC's procurement pipeline The UK's tax collector is budgeting to spend more than £2 billion on new tech deals in the next couple of years, including a contract set for AWS and another for Capgemini to be awarded wit…
Lees meerCascading backend failures kept users locked out until home time Microsoft Azure, or at least the part of it that handles the OpenAI service in the Sweden Central region, was down and out for the count yesterday, leaving users facing errors for much…
Lees meer'Follow-on' agreement lasts 3 years as US techies protest vendor's ICE contract Stateside The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has directly awarded a £240.6 million contract to US technology company Palantir to continue to licence and support its data…
Lees meerConnection secured. Not so sure about the installation Bork!Bork!Bork! Behold an ATM crying out for a man-in-the-middle attack. An obsolete Microsoft operating system cannot be blamed here. This is all about the hardware.…
Lees meerWinter storms bring Oracle datacenter down updated TikTok's new life under majority American ownership is off to a rough start, after users complained of widespread service disruptions the company blamed on a datacenter power outage.…
Lees meerMeta also replaces a legacy C++ media-handling security library with Rust Users of Meta's WhatsApp messenger looking to simplify the process of protecting themselves are in luck, as the company is rolling out a new feature that combines multiple sec…
Lees meerResearchers with the Tech Transparency Project found all sorts of apps that let users create fake non-consensual nudes of real people The mobile app emperors have no clothes. Apple and Google have made millions of dollars from AI apps that let users…
Lees meerAgency looks to understand the extent of identifying information available to its masked agents It's not enough to have its agents in streets and schools; ICE now wants to see what data online ads already collect about you. The US Immigration and Cu…
Lees meerPlus, the gang says it got in via Microsoft Entra SSO ShinyHunters says it stole several slices of data from Panera Bread, but that's just the yeast of everyone's problems. The extortionist gang also claims to have stolen data from CarMax and Edmund…
Lees meerNo salvation from the memory winter, though - plant won't start churning out chips until 2028 Flush with cash from skyrocketing memory prices, Micron continued its fab expansion this week, this time breaking ground on a $24 billion manufacturing com…
Lees meerIDC and Lenovo say enterprises are pressing ahead with pilot deployments despite mixed evidence on returns Despite a growing number of reports that AI is not benefiting many businesses, Lenovo and IDC say that firms in EMEA are pushing ahead with pi…
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