US-China research collaborations and startup investments on the up, too AI systems are becoming increasingly larger and complex, but despite the technology's progress, they exhibit higher levels of toxic behaviors, according to the latest AI Index R…
Lees meerWork Trend Index report indicates that things are about to get a little 'messy' Microsoft's second annual Work Trend Index report is out, and it highlights a massive disconnect between leaders, managers and employees.…
Lees meerCEO tells The Reg his engineers still have sights on phones to servers SiFive is pulling in nearly $400m in funding this year between a new investment round and the proceeds of a business sale with the ambitious mission of eclipsing rival Arm – and …
Lees meerData protection watchdog imposes fine on half-trillion dollar valued Facebook firm Following a breach of data privacy European law, Facebook parent company Meta has received an $18.6m (€17m) fine — representing around 0.055 percent of its quarterly …
Lees meerSecurity vendors now have 5 working days to explain to the Competition and Markets Authority why it's wrong The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) merger inquiry into NortonLifeLock's proposed $8bn acquisition of rival antivirus provider Ava…
Lees meerA $4 microcontroller, you say? Will it run you-know-what? It is with a sense of inevitability that we can confirm somebody has managed to make Doom work on the diminutive RP2040-based Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller board.…
Lees meerDespite girls outperforming boys when they choose the subject New research by the British Computer Society (BCS) has found girls are outnumbered six to one by boys in computer science classes across the UK.…
Lees meerA bolt of lightning has caused me days of misery, because the fix requires too much proprietary tech Column I heard an electric discharge, a bit like a Jacob's ladder, immediately before a deafening crack of thunder. I'd never been so close to a li…
Lees meerTo the satisfaction of the International Atomic Energy Agency, at least If you've been wondering about the fate of Ukraine's nuclear power stations amid Russia's full-on invasion of the nation, you're not alone. Here's an update from the Internation…
Lees meerVote held after red-tape targeting proof-of-work assets removed Europe's lawmakers this week moved ahead with their proposed cryptocurrency regulations, having ditched a rule that might have banned financial services from dealing in Bitcoin and Ethe…
Lees meerIngenuity's Earth-side coding team has expanded, and so has its rover-assistance mission NASA has extended the mission of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter and given it the task of assisting the Perseverance rover, thanks to past and future software upd…
Lees meerCRM giant pleased to be named yet again on World's Most Ethical Companies list Salesforce has become a defendant in a case brought by the Republican National Committee (RNC) that seeks to prevent the release of information revealing communications w…
Lees meerGovernment agencies impersonated, fake antivirus, another wiper, backdoors As Ukraine fights for survival against invading Russian forces, here's a taste of some of the malware the nation's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) is battling.…
Lees meerApp already banned, now it's getting very close supervision China's internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), has taken unusually strong action against a social network that has long been considered a thorn in the side of the…
Lees meerPlus: Face ID can recognize you with a mask on, kinda This week Apple released software revisions for its desktop, mobile, watch, and TV operating systems, along with application updates and security patches.…
Lees meerCr8escape priv-escalation bug opens the door to cluster takeovers A vulnerability in the container runtime engine CRI-O can be exploited by a rogue user to gain root-level access on a host.…
Lees meerBad data can throw vulnerable apps and services for an infinite loop A bug in OpenSSL certificate parsing leaves systems open to denial-of-service attacks from anyone wielding an explicit curve. …
Lees meerPlanned deprecation didn't go as planned, cloud biz aims to try again at the end of March Microsoft's Azure DevOps team has undone the deprecation of outdated Transport Layer Security (TLS) that occurred at the end of January because of unspecified …
Lees meerSecurity consolidation du jour SentinelOne reached a $616.5m deal to buy identity security vendor Attivo Networks, the companies announced today.…
Lees meerRolls out first Epyc products the same week Google announces cloud infra price rise Cloud hosting provider Vultr has expanded its portfolio of cloud infrastructure with an new range of high-performance virtual machine instances, including its first …
Lees meerA state of emergency is declared as officials assess the damage and look for culprits A massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack forced Israeli officials Monday to temporarily take down several government websites and to declare a state o…
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