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It is possible to extract copies of images used to train generative AI models

maandag 6 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Tools like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney have memories after all Generative AI models can memorize images from their training data, possibly allowing users to extract private copyrighted data, according to research.…

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Dell planning job cuts as PC demand jumps off a cliff

maandag 6 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Memo tells staff freeze on hiring and travel expenses are no longer enough Dell is said to be planning to cut thousands of jobs, potentially as much as 5 percent of its entire workforce, in response to the falling global demand for PCs.…

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Cat saves 'good bots' from Twitter API purge

maandag 6 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Account posting pics of pet returning home convinces Musk to chill about access rules File the decision to withdraw free access to its API under "Twitter doing dumb things" because owner Elon Musk has partially walked back on it mere days later.…

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Private company set up to oversee UK's prototype fusion reactor

maandag 6 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

STEP won't be complete until 2040, but here's a 'delivery body' in the meantime The UK government has set up a delivery body tasked with building a prototype fusion energy plant to be sited at West Burton in Nottinghamshire.…

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Field trip! European Space Agency sends astronauts abroad to learn about rocks

maandag 6 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Astronauts need better autonomy as ground control gets further away While astronauts are often engineers or scientists, they usually aren’t geologists, which is why the European Space Agency (ESA) is investing in training to make sure its next missi…

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UK health minister confirms data platform worth £480m will replicate Palantir dashboards

maandag 6 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Suppliers competing for lucrative prize will rely on 'interoperability' of existing work from US spy-tech firm The UK's health service has confirmed it will require winners of the procurement for a Federated Data Platform (FDP) to migrate existing d…

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Trust, not tech, is holding back a safer internet

maandag 6 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Excuse me, citizen, did you packet this data yourself? Opinion  The tech sector is failing at cybersecurity. Global spending on the stuff is at $190 billion a year, a quarter of the US defense budget. That hasn't stemmed an estimated $7 trillion in …

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Eager young tearaway almost ruined Christmas with printer paper

maandag 6 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

In the age of tractor-fed printers and perforated paper, telling a junior to tear it up was close to negligence Who, Me?  Welcome back once again, dear reader, to the untidy corner of The Reg we call Who Me? in which readers' confessions are filed i…

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School laptop auction devolves into extortion allegation

maandag 6 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Also: Atlassian says Jira has a 9.4 severity bug and the TSA issues milquetoast no-fly list security advisory When a Texas school district sold some old laptops at auction last year, it probably didn't expect to end up in a public legal fight with a…

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Ransomware scum launch wave of attacks on critical, but old, VMWare ESXi vuln

maandag 6 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

You’ve had almost two years to patch and some of the software is EOL, now attackers déployer un rançongiciel France's Computer Emergency Response Team has issued a Bulletin D'Alerte regarding a campaign to infect VMware’s ESXI hypervisor with ransom…

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Fujitsu re-org sparks alphabet soup splatter: GSBG splits into GTSBG and GBSBG

maandag 6 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Turns out the single brand ‘Uvance’ plan needs two groups to pull it off Japanese IT services giant Fujitsu last week announced a re-org, and The Register has mostly figured out what's afoot.…

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Wikimedia Foundation confirms, and bemoans, Pakistan ban

maandag 6 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Dear government, this thing is written by volunteers. Take it up with them. Also: shouldn't you know this already ? The Wikimedia Foundation released a statement on Friday confirming that, according to internal traffic reports, Wikipedia and Wikimed…

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Google to present AI-powered search features next week in live event

maandag 6 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Plus: Cruise and Waymo's driverless cars have caused 92 reported incidents in San Francisco; China's Baidu reportedly set to launch ChatGPT rival In brief  Google has hinted it will unveil AI-powered products and features in a live event next week.…

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Australian government doxxed citizens who criticized illegal 'Robodebt' scheme

zondag 5 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

PLUS: India is the new China for Apple; Sushi licking vid scandalizes Japan; Chinese spy balloon shot down Asia In Brief  Australia's government deliberately released personal information on citizens who protested a welfare payment debt recovery sch…

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Have we learnt nothing from SolarWinds supply chain attacks? Not yet it appears

zondag 5 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

From frameworks to new federal offices it's time to get busy The hack of SolarWinds' software more than two years ago pushed the threat of software supply chain attacks to the front of security conversations, but is anything being done?.…

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Semiconductor world in for a rough ride as chip bubble bursts

zaterdag 4 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Just don't expect foundry spending to stop anytime soon Analysis  The semiconductor gold rush is all but over, and we've had our fill. Or so the past month of dismal earnings might have you believe.…

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Iran crew stole Charlie Hebdo database, says Microsoft

zaterdag 4 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Same gang pestered US voters during 2020 presidential election Microsoft believes the gang who boasted it had stolen and leaked more than 200,000 Charlie Hebdo subscribers' personal information is none other than a Tehran-backed gang.…

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Microsoft boffins contemplate equipping Excel with AI

zaterdag 4 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Go on, bring on the FLAMEs Sooner or later, everything ends up in Microsoft Excel.…

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Musk, Telsa win securities fraud battle over that 'funding secured' tweet

zaterdag 4 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

'Wisdom of the people has prevailed' SpaceX supremo beams Elon Musk and Tesla have been found not liable by a jury in a securities fraud trial in which the billionaire and his automaker were accused of misleading investors.…

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HeadCrab bots pinch 1,000+ Redis servers to mine coins

zaterdag 4 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

We devoting full time to floating under /etc A sneaky botnet dubbed HeadCrab that uses bespoke malware to mine for Monero has infected at least 1,200 Redis servers in the last 18 months.…

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Activision-Blizzard pays $35m to send SEC away, Microsoft merger still in doubt

vrijdag 3 februari 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Allegations of stifled whistleblowing and disclosure failures end with no admission of guilt, as usual Rather than face proceedings before the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay $35 million to settle charges…

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