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Lees meerMicrosoft retiring the calendar board view a few short years That didn't take long. Relatively speaking, anyway. Microsoft has drained the Moca cup for Outlook.…
Lees meerSome of this kit is ending up in Russia Uncle Sam issued a stern warning about the threat posed by Iran's development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — and reminded American companies to "be vigilant" in not supplying components needed to build t…
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Lees meerWin32k and Visual Studio falws are under attack Two flaws in Microsoft software are under attack on systems that haven't been patched by admins.…
Lees meerCopilot code-cloning case clarifies claims GitHub is alleged to have tuned its Copilot programming assistant to generate slight variations of ingested training code to prevent output from being flagged as a direct copy of licensed software.…
Lees meerNo protection without surveillance? The FBI doesn't want to lose its favorite codified way to spy, Section 702 of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. In its latest salvo, the agency's deputy director Paul Abbate called it "absolutely criti…
Lees meerOh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz, my friends all have Teslas... Mercedes-Benz scored another self-driving victory, and on Tesla's former home turf, after being granted the first authorization in the state of California "to sell or lease veh…
Lees meerSome servers encrypted in weekend attack, but product supply not affected Japanese pharma giant Eisai today confirmed to The Register that "there is no imminent risk of stock shortage" after it was hit by ransomware at the weekend.…
Lees meerIncrease in efficiency between 2017 and 2019 hardware is 34% for Intel servers, 140% for AMD, claims report Organizations looking to cut power usage within datacenters should find that newer servers can offer decent energy efficiency improvements, b…
Lees meerCrown Glazing and Maxen Power Supply fall foul of PECR Britain's data watchdog has slapped a financial penalty on two energy companies it claims were posing as third parties, including the National Grid and UK government, when making unsolicited mar…
Lees meerThe database had to be architected from ground up, former GIMP dev Spencer Kimball tell us Interview Distributed SQL database CockroachDB has taken nearly five years to port its service to Microsoft's Azure platform – in contrast to rival MariaDB, …
Lees meerChina spends twice as much on AI as everyone else put together: expert witness Policymakers should insist manufacturers include controls in artificial intelligence-based weapons systems that allow them to be turned off if they get out of control, ex…
Lees meerThe country has swallowed almost half of the EU's semiconductor funding Germany appears to have been the big winner from the EU's newly announced chip project, picking up about half of the public funding on offer. But one company not winning is chip…
Lees meerCrown Glazing and Maxen Power Supply fall foul of PECR Britain's data watchdog has slapped a financial penalty on two energy companies it claims were posing as third parties, including the National Grid and UK government, when making unsolicited mar…
Lees meerActually, the better question is: When will they replace most desktop Linux programs? Opinion I've been using desktop Linux since before many of you were born. Seriously. I first ran it when I downloaded the source code from Linux kernel developer …
Lees meerChange approval board signed off as soon as it heard it was BT's fault On Call With the weekend on the way, and your countdown to the respite it brings hopefully free of interruptions, The Register presents another edition of On-Call, our weekly re…
Lees meerProbably the first defamation suit involving an AI, but will it stick? ChatGPT maker OpenAI is facing a defamation suit from a man seeking damages over statements it delivered to a journalist. The suit says the AI platform falsely claimed he'd been …
Lees meerIs he human? Is he an avatar? Does it really even matter? Opinion If you decide to visit the Computex tech fest, it's important to understand two things: Taiwan's weather is stinking hot that time of year; and Taiwan's signature snack – stinking to…
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