Human Rights Watch details mass surveillance and repression Authorities in the Chinese province of Xinjiang have conducted more than 11 million searches of residents' devices, to check for the presence of 50,000 items considered indicators of dissen…
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Lees meer'But they're gonna take my thumbs' hits different in 2023 Google wants to take us further into a passwordless future by allowing personal account holders to login using passkeys rather than using passphrases and multifactor authentication (MFA).…
Lees meerWho would have thought crims would try using Facebook to fool people? Meta says it has shut down over 1,000 links related to ChatGPT that lead its users to malware, as criminals seek to profit from the current craze for generative AI.…
Lees meerVR headset maker and software dev clash over blame Drone-racing goggles from Orqa stopped working over the weekend due to what was alleged by the manufacturer to be a "ransomware time-bomb" embedded in the hardware's bootloader by a "greedy former c…
Lees meer'The get-out-of-jail-free card option has been removed' as one expert put it Merck's insurers can't use an "act of war" clause to deny the pharmaceutical giant an enormous payout to clean up its NotPetya infection, a court has ruled.…
Lees meerThis top-drawer AI tech has a major science-fiction habit Boffins at the University of California, Berkeley, have delved into the undisclosed depths of OpenAI's ChatGPT and the GPT-4 large language model at its heart, and found they're trained on te…
Lees meerMicrosoft OS stutters with Japanese and Chinese languages If some of the applications on your Windows 11 systems are having problems with features like speech recognition and handwriting when using Japanese or Chinese languages, it's likely linked t…
Lees meerWe thought you loved us, cries someone in a fab somewhere, probably Worldwide shipments of silicon wafers slid nine percent during the first quarter of 2023 versus Q1 2021, and fell 11.3 percent from Q1 2022, the SEMI's Silicon Manufacturing Group's…
Lees meerWe thought you loved us, cries someone in a fab somewhere, probably Worldwide shipments of silicon wafers slid nine percent during the first quarter of 2021 and 11.3 percent from the prior year, the SEMI's Silicon Manufacturing Group's (SMG) reporte…
Lees meerDon't hold your breath waiting for all those breakthroughs we've been promised A group of researchers from Microsoft and the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory in Zurich have offered a harsh reality check to those hyping the world altering poten…
Lees meerFlotations in the UK down 40% since 2008, might be more at play than UK's split from EU The UK's financial regulator is looking at ways to make London more attractive for companies in the wake of Arm choosing to list in New York and Herman Hauser bl…
Lees meerAnyone else still has to pay for once-free service to help social network pay its bills The paywall around Twitter's API has crumbled slightly, with the bird site U-turning for organizations providing a public service.…
Lees meerIt's not an NFT either! Albert Einstein is – to put it mildly – a bit of a ledge so science fans will be interested to note that a handwritten essay by the granddaddy of modern physics is being flogged by Boston-based RR Auction.…
Lees meerMicrosoft and boffins say don't hold your breath waiting for all those breakthroughs we've been promised A group of researchers from Microsoft and the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory in Zurich have offered a harsh reality check to those hypin…
Lees meerAlways Be Closing – deals to grab that sweet, sweet renminbi The US semiconductor industry wants to have its cake and eat it, or rather it wants to have continued access to the huge Chinese market despite Washington’s ongoing campaign to limit Beiji…
Lees meerNeither war nor bad sensors nor a nautical journey will keep this probe from building a 3D map of space It's been a decade since it was announced, but the Euclid mission to build a 3D map of the universe is finally getting close to launch with the s…
Lees meerNeither war nor bad sensors nor a nautical journey will keep this probe from building a 3D map of space It's been a decade since it was announced, but the Euclid mission to build a 3D map of the universe is finally getting close to launch with the s…
Lees meerIt's not an NFT either! Albert Einstein is – to put it mildly – a bit of a ledge so science fans will be interested to note that a handwritten essay by the granddaddy of modern physics is being flogged by Boston-based RR Auction.…
Lees meerFlotations in the UK down 40% since 2008, might be more at play than UK's split from EU The UK's financial regulator is looking at ways to make London more attractive for companies in the wake of Arm choosing to list in New York and co-founder Herma…
Lees meerBreached businesses might have to cough for your discomfort too Could EU residents receive compensation for "non-material" harm caused by illegal data use under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? We'll find out tomorrow, when the Europea…
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