And that, kids, is why we don't play the Emergency Alert System tone on TV Despite being a well-known illegal sound that many film and television productions have been fined over, US media titan Fox stands accused of playing the Emergency Alert Syst…
Lees meerInsight could lead to better conflict resolution between our feline overlords Seeking insights into cat behavior, scientists turned to the internet and discovered that domesticated felines exhibit either "playful", "agonistic" or "intermediate" beha…
Lees meerDIY store didn't get 'valid consent,' says Canada's regulator Canada's Home Depot has stopped using Meta's "Offline Conversions" tool, it confirmed to a regulator dealing with a man's complaint after he discovered his visits to the home improvement …
Lees meerBoth countries have a lithography industry critical to production nodes The Netherlands and Japan may be about to introduce tougher restrictions aimed at curbing China's ability to produce advanced semiconductors, egged on by pressure from the US.…
Lees meerJoin the queue, eh? AWS, Google and Microsoft are among creditors owed money after the FTX crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy in November.…
Lees meerAs per employee model replaces old subscription, user bills could soar Oracle stands accused of "predatory" licensing tactics after making changes to the Oracle Java SE subscription model that could force businesses to pay tens of thousands of dolla…
Lees meerNothing good – the recent layoffs hit its best and brightest leaders hard Opinion Remember when Google's motto was "Don't be Evil"? I do. Even though Google dumped that phrase from its code of conduct in 2018, many of us still thought Google was a …
Lees meerEven with instructions staring them in the face, this genius couldn't get it right In last week’s edition of On-Call, The Register’s weekly column dedicated to readers’ days being damaged by demands to deflect needless disaster, we wondered if the i…
Lees meerWhat a tease A box-truck-sized asteroid has made one of the closest approaches by a near-Earth object ever recorded, brushing past our home world at a distance of a couple of thousand miles on Thursday. …
Lees meerWelcome to the real world, kids. And for the rest of us, a future at which Meta is gulp! – better at large-scale analytics Here’s one from the “welcome to the real world, kids, we have no sympathy for your plight” files: social media giant Meta’s en…
Lees meerNice people on LinkedIn want to harvest logins from politicians, boffins, and defense types The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NSCS) has warned of two similar spear-phishing campaigns, one originating from Russia, the other from Iran.…
Lees meerU OK Pat? Asking cos client sales are down, server sales are down, and your forecasts are grim Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has expressed confidence in the company's trajectory despite posting a $700 million net loss on revenues that plunged 32 percent d…
Lees meerIf you yell 'death to America' and no one watches the video, does it make a sound? Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has burned more than 50,000 spammy fake news stories and other content posted by the pro-China 'Dragonbridge' gang.…
Lees meer2022 is the first year on record that global low-carbon investments matched fossil fuel funding, says BloombergNEF The world has reached a major tipping point in the transition from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy: 2022 was the first year global i…
Lees meerCalifornia-based chipmaking kit-maker Lam hit by DRAM decline, inability to export to Middle Kingdom The Biden administration's policy of restricting Chinese chip makers from accessing vital manufacturing equipment has caused damage at home, with Ca…
Lees meerElon conflates 'popularity' on unrelated platform with successful year for EV maker Never mind the headlines. 2022 was Tesla's best year ever, Elon Musk claimed in the automaker's Q4 2022 earnings call this week.…
Lees meerThe irony, it burns On Tuesday, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) failed to open properly, disrupting and invalidating auction trading for more than 250 securities.…
Lees meerDARPA's Blake Bextine talks us through taking inventions commercial You've heard of some of the world-altering technologies that have come out of the US Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, because you might not be re…
Lees meerPinging search services in the US, China, Russia perhaps not ideal for privacy This just in: smart appliances are still not a bright idea for those who care about privacy.…
Lees meerUncle Sam doles out decryption keys to 300+ victims amid sting op The FBI said it has shut down the Hive's ransomware network, seizing control of the notorious gang's servers and websites, and thwarting the pesky criminals' ability to sting future v…
Lees meerIntriguing move – just look at the software companies it has ditched... Dell is reportedly buying cloud orchestration company Cloudify for an estimated $100 million to give its own cloud services biz a shot in the arm and appeal more to organization…
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