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Lees meerMinors groomed to kill and intimidate victims Nearly 200 people, including minors accused of involvement in murder plots, have been arrested over the last six months as part of Europol's Operational Taskforce (OTF) GRIMM. The operation targets what …
Lees meerUnreleased variants that Jobs killed off found – 7.6 on a G4, anyone? As well as the Mac clones, there were PC-style PowerPC machines – and a version of classic MacOS for them has just been rediscovered, enabling previously unimagined combinations.…
Lees meerNative MCP support lands in Insider Dev and Beta builds Microsoft has begun rolling out a public preview of native support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in the latest Windows 11 Insider builds, edging its much-touted “agentic OS” vision close…
Lees meerIntelligence Center features aim to unify management across on-prem, cloud, and containerized estates IBM has topped an autumn flurry of Db2 updates with new features for its Intelligence Center console, promising to let users manage deployments of …
Lees meerAnalysts reckon only a handful of manufacturers will push ahead as the rest hit the brakes Only five percent of carmakers will sustain heavy AI investments by the end of the decade as most fail to meet amibitous goals.…
Lees meerPLUS: New kind of DDOS from the Americas; Predator still hunting spyware targets; NIST issues IoT advice; And more! Infosec in Brief The Apache Foundation last week warned of a 10.0-rated flaw in its Tika toolkit.…
Lees meerBig Blue’s latest mega-buy hands it a real-time data-streaming powerhouse built on Kafka IBM has cracked open its wallet again, agreeing to shell out $11 billion for Confluent in a bid to glue together the data sprawl underpinning the next wave of e…
Lees meerWarning that over-reserved capacity is blocking new connections Datacenters are preventing other energy users from connecting to the grid by reserving far more power than they need, according to a new Uptime Institute report shared with The Register…
Lees meerBig Blue’s latest mega-buy hands it a real-time data-streaming powerhouse built on Kafka IBM has cracked open its wallet again, agreeing to shell out $11 billion for Confluent in a bid to glue together the data sprawl underpinning the next wave of e…
Lees meerRegulator disappointed as soon-to-be-scrapped algo's problems remained a secret despite consistent engagement The UK's data protection watchdog has criticized the Home Office for failing to disclose significant biases in police facial recognition te…
Lees meerBrussels accused of using Ad Composer quirk to post link disguised as a video X has terminated the European Commission's ad account after Brussels used it to post a video announcing the platform's €120 million Digital Services Act (DSA) fine – which…
Lees meerReport warns over-reserved capacity is blocking new connections Datacenters are blocking other energy users from connecting to the grid by over-reserving capacity in case they need it for future growth, according to a new report.…
Lees meerRegulator disappointed as soon-to-be-scrapped algo's problems remained a secret despite consistent engagement The UK's data protection watchdog has criticized the Home Office for failing to disclose significant biases in police facial recognition te…
Lees meerJapanese outfit aims to improve comms for aquatic drones Kyocera has demonstrated underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) technology that achieved 5.2 Gbps in lab tests, targeting video feeds and sensor data for ocean exploration and underw…
Lees meerBody confirms patient and staff details siphoned via Oracle EBS flaw as gang threatens to leak haul Barts Health NHS Trust has confirmed that patient and staff data was stolen in Clop's mass-exploitation of Oracle's E-Business Suite (EBS), and says …
Lees meerDiarmuid Early takes world title after outpacing 11 rivals Ireland's Diarmuid Early has won the Excel World Championship. Readers of a certain age may be disappointed to learn he has never used Lotus 1-2-3.…
Lees meerNina Kalinina takes a deep dive into one of the earliest PC desktops Reverse engineering VisiCorp's pioneering GUI for commodity PCs shows how little modern GUIs get from Xerox – and how much we all owe Apple.…
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