Why do this? Freeing up abandoned handles is 'important' for some reason Twitter will begin purging inactive accounts, owner Elon Musk has said, but the specifics are anyone's guess.…
Lees meerPotential roles for IT pros and lawyers, European city location included Tired of working for an egomaniacal startup boss or dull enterprise biz? A new org has been proposed called the Tech Lab, where you'd investigate the worst kinds of surveillanc…
Lees meerPlus: Court-ordered domain seizures of DDoS-for-hire sites Updated Intel is investigating reports that BootGuard private keys, used to protect PCs from hidden malware, were leaked when data belonging to Micro-Star International (MSI) was stolen and…
Lees meerhCaptcha researchers find that online labor platforms need work Online labor markets like Upwork have yet to formulate meaningful policies governing the use of generative AI tools to bid for and perform posted jobs. According to machine learning fir…
Lees meerPlus: Court-ordered domain seizures of DDoS-for-hire sites Updated Intel is investigating reports that BootGuard private keys, used to protect PCs from hidden malware, were leaked when data belonging to Micro-Star International (MSI) was stolen and…
Lees meer'Silent killer' Mark bags himself top medals in tournament Alleged human and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg won a little competition over the weekend.…
Lees meerXSS marks the spot WordPress users with the Advanced Custom Fields plugin on their website should upgrade after the discovery of a vulnerability in the code that could open up sites and their visitors to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.…
Lees meerBasic InCareers app perfect candidate to be included in cost cutting Microsoft's social network for suits, LinkedIn, announced on Tuesday that its localized Chinese app is shutting down and the company is embarking on a layoff process.…
Lees meerWe chat to one of the Harvard Medical School researchers involved AI algorithms can screen for pancreatic cancer and predict whether patients will develop the disease up to three years before a human doctor can make the same diagnosis, according to …
Lees meerDelays to $1 billion replacement will see March 2024 contract deadline missed National Savings & Investment has extended its contract with French IT services and outsourcing provider Atos as the UK state-owned bank's struggle to find a replacement c…
Lees meerGo, Team Robot Opinion Non-techies have discovered AI, and they're in a tizzy. A lot of that tizzy is about how AI is going to outsmart us in some sort of Hollywood dystopia, as deeply ironic as it is deeply wrong. The nature of LLMs isn't HAL-9000…
Lees meerHere's hoping for fewer head-desk moments for devs GitHub's reworked Rust-based code search engine entered general availability on Monday, promising faster, more comprehensive explorations of software repositories.…
Lees meerRetaliation or national security? Beijing sent a message to foreign businesses this week when it launched an investigation into Shanghai-based Capvision Partners on the grounds of national security, accusing the consultancy firm of failure to preven…
Lees meerIf the goal was to make us feel sorry for these clumsy droids, mission accomplished Video Eggheads at Google's DeepMind have developed a deep learning curriculum that can teach robots how to play soccer badly – and it's wonderful to behold.…
Lees meer'How did NASA do what they did in the 60s what they cannot do now?' The former director general of Russia's space agency Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin has doubts as to whether NASA really landed astronauts on the Moon in its historic Apollo 11 mission in…
Lees meerPrefers open peering – from which it profits Cloudflare has decided to oppose the European Union’s proposed network usage fees that would see generators of internet traffic required to help telcos pay for their network builds – but not for entirely …
Lees meerOne banned tool is already working on Android-to-Android meshes that survive internet outages India's government has reportedly banned 14 messaging apps on national security grounds, including some open source services.…
Lees meerGuess this'll have to do while we wait for *checks notes* ES 2025 Microsoft last year said that it was putting off the next version of Exchange Server until the second half of 2025 so engineers could continue bulking up the security of a product tha…
Lees meerHard times for buyers of these hard drives Customer information was stolen from the IT systems of Western Digital in the March security breach we've previously reported, forcing the storage manufacturer to shut down its online store until at least n…
Lees meerShow some ID or your Facebook feed might not make it across the border Vietnam's deputy minister of information and communications has indicated the nation will require all social media accounts to be registered – even those held on platforms run ou…
Lees meerShareholders gotta get their dividends somehow, right? More layoffs may be imminent at Intel following the x86 giant's $2.8 billion Q1 loss.…
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