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Lees meerDark deeds are no way to close a deal Who, Me? Happy New Year, gentle readers, and welcome once again to Who, Me? – The Reg's regular roundup of rapscallions and rascals committing tech atrocities and (sometimes) getting away with it. This week it'…
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Lees meer'Corporate governance optimization' sees founder's role reduced, but not in pursuit of a listing Ant Group, the financial services biz spun out of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, said on Saturday that its founder Jack Ma would give up control of the org…
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Lees meerNear-term vulnerability of RSA-2048 keys not so near, says quantum boffin Scott Aaronson Briefly this week, it appeared that quantum computers might finally be ready to break 2048-bit RSA encryption, but that moment has passed.…
Lees meerConnected cars. What could possible go wrong? Multiple bugs affecting millions of vehicles from almost all major car brands could allow miscreants to perform any manner of mischief — in some cases including full takeovers — by exploiting vulnerabil…
Lees meerContent analysis system scans data stored on its Creative Cloud services Adobe automatically analyzes user content stored on its Creative Cloud services to train AI algorithms unless people opt-out of the service.…
Lees meerSo that must be why the Russians might have hacked the DoE, right? In his cult classic "Ender's Game", Orson Scott Card imagined a world in which Earth's brightest, and tragically youngest, tacticians could command armies across vast distances insta…
Lees meerSlowing demand and economic pressures are a drag, but AI waits at the end of the rainbow The next two years are going to be tough on a tech industry that is seeing demand ginned up by the COVID-19 pandemic leveling off and an increasingly volatile g…
Lees meerTechnology has the potential to make life better. This isn't it. As the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show winds down, it's once again time for the Worst in Show Awards, an enumeration of ill-conceived tech products as determined by various technology a…
Lees meerChatbot might let unskilled criminals launch attacks, if the code works Cybercriminals are beginning to use OpenAI's wildly popular ChatGPT technology to quickly and easily develop code for malicious purposes.…
Lees meerCriminals hit 1,800 victims across 71 countries to the tune of $100m+ An international law enforcement effort has released a decryptor for victims of MegaCortex ransomware, widely used by cybercriminals to infect large corporations across 71 countri…
Lees meerAnalysts believe company may cut back on production like Micron and SK hynix Samsung has released earnings guidance for its fourth quarter, and the prelim figures are sobering. The Korean tech giant said it expects an operating profit of ₩4.3 trilli…
Lees meerWe buzz around new version of the other-other-other FOSS-xNix-that-isn't-Linux Dragonfly BSD 6.4 is here, with various updates and new features, including a better hypervisor, improved support for AMD GPUs, and more.…
Lees meerMaybe humans could learn a thing or two about how modern medicine can prevent the spread of disease Honeybees are fascinating. They make Winnie the Pooh's meal of choice, they perform about 80 percent of pollination worldwide, and one-third of the g…
Lees meerEnsures future security stuffups will take extra effort Amazon has taken the hint regarding security of its cloud-based Simple Storage Service (S3) and updated it so that all newly added objects are encrypted by default. The move comes after the clo…
Lees meerObjects in mirror are closer than they appear Analysis Mobileye, Intel's autonomous driving unit, offered a rather rosy outlook on the company's advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), with CEO Amnon Shashua claiming more than $17 billion in boo…
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