Plus: Changing call center workers' voices, why we need to do more to get women in ML, and more In brief A record label this week dropped an AI rapper after the biz was slammed for profiting from the virtual artist, said to be modeled on Black ster…
Lees meerWhy choose one when you can use them all? Hot Chips Over the past two years, AMD has steadily expanded its computing portfolio. This included the addition of FPGAs and smartNICs through the acquisition of Xilinx in 2020 and Pensando earlier this ye…
Lees meerAlso, Charming Kittens from Iran scrape email inboxes, France could fine Google again, and more In brief A survey of cybersecurity decision makers found 77 percent think the world is now in a perpetual state of cyberwarfare.…
Lees meerOnline shops sharing data about you with others qualifies as a sale in AG's book – and that means rules apply Sephora has agreed to cough up $1.2 million to settle claims it broke California's privacy law.…
Lees meerOn the bright side, top devs are getting hardware security keys The Python Package Index, better known among developers as PyPI, has issued a warning about a phishing attack targeting developers who use the service.…
Lees meerIf it ever gets built, that is US memory vendor Micron is seeking tax incentives to build a new semiconductor fab outside Austin, Texas, according to documents filed with the state.…
Lees meerThis same tech could someday help us discover strange, new – and habitable – worlds NASA is reporting another James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first as the orbital observatory has found clear evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exop…
Lees meerThe memorial 'Enterprise Flight' later this year will include ashes from other Star Trek alum too Late actress Nichelle Nichols, who for 25 years portrayed the USS Enterprise's communications officer Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, is set to be memorialized…
Lees meerAttack's tentacles spread wider DoorDash has confirmed that "a small percentage" of its customers' data and employees' information, including names, email and delivery addresses, phone numbers, and order and partial credit card details, were reveale…
Lees meerChip giant aims to adapt existing processor architectures to close off vulnerabilities in memory access Hot Chips Arm used the Hot Chips conference to talk about its experimental Morello Program and how it implements the CHERI architecture, designe…
Lees meerCompanies claim that 'no modifications are required to the cellphone everyone has in their pocket today' T-Mobile and SpaceX have announced plans to use satellites in low Earth orbit to provide cellphone coverage in remote locations across the US an…
Lees meerEarly reports Amazon planned to announce a buy offer for the game studio make share price zigzag Electronic Arts stock has been volatile this morning on rumors that Amazon was preparing to put in an offer to buy the company that were quickly deemed …
Lees meerAlso: Smiling, eye tracking, and general 'social presence' baked into Project Cambria Facebook limited the visibility of the New York Post's story about Hunter Biden's laptop on the social media platform while it was being fact-checked after receivi…
Lees meerResting place of Novell – and one-time home to SUSE – finds new life in the Great White North Canadian software biz OpenText has bought UK tech stalwart Micro Focus in a deal worth around $6 billion.…
Lees meerWouldn't it be nice to have the features you want, rather than accept whatever's bundled by suppliers Systems Approach Edge routers have been an essential part of the internet for decades, connecting access networks – enterprise LANs, mobile and br…
Lees meerThe diagnosis? Ignorance is bliss, but educating users is hell On Call If it's Friday – and we have no reason to believe it is not – then it must be time for another instalment of On-Call, The Register's weekly tale of techies who rise above the tr…
Lees meerAnd not the fake ones that just try to change their minds Google search results and Maps will clearly label healthcare clinics that provide abortion services, reducing the chances that women in crisis will be misdirected to "clinics" that don't in f…
Lees meerNavigation tool still on the road ... for now Google is shutting down its Waze carpooling service apparently due to poor demand from workers commuting into the office – although road traffic has bounced back to levels from the start of the COVID-19 …
Lees meerThis, this is what we mean by a sophisticated cyberattack Criminals behind the cyberattacks on Twilio and Cloudflare earlier this month had cast a much wider net in their phishing expedition, targeting as many as 135 organizations — primarily IT, so…
Lees meerYour passwords are still safe, biz says Internal source code and documents have been stolen from LastPass by a cyber-thief.…
Lees meerMove over, GitLab, this purge begins in October Heroku, Saleforce's platform-as-a-service biz, on Thursday said it will discontinue its free container and database offerings, and will purge inactive accounts because of ongoing abuse.…
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