{$lblSkipToContent|ucfirst}

UK becomes Unicorn Kingdom, where AI fairy dust earns King's ransom

woensdag 26 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Dungeon master Sunak talks up 'funky' Silicon Valley sales pitch while schools left without maths teachers Opinion  Political leaders are given to the odd flight of fancy, but yesterday UK prime minister Rishi Sunak created a whole new fantasy realm…

Lees meer

Don't get in a semiconductor 'doom spiral' – sector will be back with a bang in 2024

woensdag 26 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Next year's revenue forecast to surpass the halcyon days of 2022 The outlook for the global semiconductor sector appears worse than feared, at least for the near future, with analyst Gartner now expecting to see revenue decline by 11.2 percent for 2…

Lees meer

ChatGPT hasn't been around for long and Nvidia already wants to put a leash on it

woensdag 26 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

NeMo Guardrails stops everything that made these chatbots so much fun ChatGPT's testing phases pretty quickly revealed that the OpenAI chatbot and others like it could go off the rails – or "hallucinate" – with enough poking and prodding.…

Lees meer

UK watchdog blocks Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition

woensdag 26 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

That's not very Unicorn Kingdom of you UK regulators have dealt a serious blow to Microsoft's hopes of acquiring gaming giant Activision Blizzard, with the Competition and Markets Authority blocking the massive deal because Microsoft's proposed reme…

Lees meer

US National Cyber Director: Fending off cyber threats in space is 'urgent,' needs 'high level attention'

woensdag 26 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

More public-private collab around this issue coming soon RSA Conference  Defending space systems against cyberthreats remains "urgent and requires high-level attention," according to acting National Cyber Director Kemba Walden. And to this end, the …

Lees meer

How prompt injection attacks hijack today's top-end AI – and it's really tough to fix

woensdag 26 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

In the rush to commercialize LLMs, security got left behind Feature  Large language models that are all the rage all of a sudden have numerous security problems, and it's not clear how easily these can be fixed.…

Lees meer

Spain gets EU cash to test next gen network, and US 'scrum for 6G' already under way

woensdag 26 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

How much better do mobile networks really have to be by 2030-ish? Another European project aims to kick start 6G telecoms technology and help define the scope of this future standard, even as 5G has yet to really deliver on its promise.…

Lees meer

Oracle's examplar win over SAP for Birmingham City Council is 3 years late

woensdag 26 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

It also required £20 million in extra funds – and Larry wants to brag about this? Birmingham City Council's ERP overhaul to replace SAP with Oracle has required £20 million ($24.9 million) additional spending and is three years late, a meeting heard…

Lees meer

Google Cloud makes its first profit, 15 years after launching

woensdag 26 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Alphabet finds $1.6 billion of benefits by sweating its servers and networks for longer Google's cloud business has made a profit for the first time.…

Lees meer

Microsoft makes Windows Server 2022 licenses a little less cynical

woensdag 26 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Addresses annoyances like 20-core VMs requiring 24 licenses Microsoft has made the terms on which it licenses Windows Server 2022 a little more generous.…

Lees meer

You can cross 'Quantum computers to smash crypto' off your list of existential fears for 30 years

woensdag 26 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

RSA's Adi Shamir thinks we're safe for a generation, but more gnarly keys are still a good idea RSA Conference  Adi Shamir, the cryptographer whose surname is the "S" in "RSA", thinks folks need to stop worrying about quantum computing breaking encr…

Lees meer

Google Cloud makes its first profit, 15 years after launching

woensdag 26 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Alphabet finds $1.6 billion of benefits by sweating its servers and networks for longer Google's cloud business has made a profit for the first time.…

Lees meer

Is your AI hallucinating? Might be time to call in the red team

woensdag 26 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Plus: Bias bounties are the new bug bounties RSA Conference  Anyone with ChatGPT or AI or LLMs on their RSA Conference Bingo card is clearly winning at this year's event in San Francisco, as they all keep coming up over and over.…

Lees meer

South Korea prosecutes Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin

woensdag 26 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Alleges large scale fraud, embezzling, and maybe even bribery, before crypto collapse The Seoul Southern District Prosecutor's Office has announced its intention to go after Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin, and others, for their role in the co…

Lees meer

Chinese city of Changshu to issue salaries in digital yuan

woensdag 26 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Adoption has been slow, maybe because there are few places to use it Civil servants and other public sector workers in the eastern Chinese city of Changshu will be paid solely in digital yuan starting in May, marking the biggest push of the e-curren…

Lees meer

AMD probes reports of deep fried Ryzen 7000 chips

woensdag 26 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Botched BIOS firmware, EXPO memory profiles possible culprit Excessive processor voltages have been identified as the potential culprit of fried Ryzen 7000 and X3D CPUs and damaged motherboards.…

Lees meer

Stop OpenAI training its models on your chats by turning off history

woensdag 26 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Also: ChatGPT Business tier will be available in the next few months OpenAI, the Microsoft-bankrolled outfit behind the chatbot star of the moment, ChatGPT, launched a feature on Tuesday that allows users to restrict the company from using text gene…

Lees meer

US EV latest: GM, Hyundai compete – in battery plant announcements

dinsdag 25 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Qualifying for tax credits will only get tougher, so better plan that state-side manufacturing push now General Motors and Hyundai on Tuesday published dueling announcements of plans to build electric vehicle battery plants in the United States. …

Lees meer

First attempt by Japan's ispace biz to land on Moon ends in awkward silence

dinsdag 25 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Comms lost to Hakuto-R after apparent crash landing A private company's first attempt to land a spacecraft on the Moon ended in apparent failure on Tuesday.…

Lees meer

Apache Superset: A story of insecure default keys, thousands of vulnerable systems, few paying attention

dinsdag 25 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Two out of three public-facing app instances open to hijacking Apache Superset until earlier this year shipped with an insecure default configuration that miscreants could exploit to login and take over the data visualization application, steal data…

Lees meer

Support chap put PC into 'drying mode' and users believed it was real

dinsdag 25 april 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Who annoys auditors? It's like picking on alligators – it won't end well Who, Me?  How delightful it is, dear reader, to meet with you once again on the confessional couch we call Who, Me? upon which Reg readers unburden themselves by sharing tales …

Lees meer

Internet - WiFi • e-mail • Software • Hardware • Reparatie • (Geheugen - SSD) Upgrades • Advies • Netwerken • Routers • Beheer op afstand (Teamviewer) • Onderhoud (Online Backup's) • Data Recovery • OSX Server • Synology NAS • Bootcamp - Parallels - VMWare

• 20 jaar ervaring •