Seven additional regions across England will now have access to the controversial tech A fresh expansion of UK crimefighters' access to live facial recognition (LFR) technology is being described by officials as "an excellent opportunity for policin…
Lees meerHit the button and then go on your own voyage of printer discovery Microsoft has made the "Pull Print" feature of Universal Print generally available, which means confidential print jobs should no longer appear in unintended locations.…
Lees meerAgency asks for ideas from US industry as orbit decays NASA is seeking solutions for a way to raise the orbit of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory despite the spacecraft being marked for termination after FY2026 under the agency's budget proposal.…
Lees meerFoundation warns federated servers face biggest risk, but single-instance users can take their time Updated The maintainers of the federated secure chat protocol Matrix are warning users of a pair of "high severity protocol vulnerabilities," addres…
Lees meerBut despite the differences, all models excel at making errors and shouldn't be trusted Generative AI coding models have common strengths and weaknesses, but express those characteristics differently due to variations in coding style.…
Lees meerWindows 365 Reserve offers 10-day cloud PCs when your machine goes kaput – but you'll still need another device to access them Microsoft is so confident in the reliability and security of its Windows 11 OS that it's now offering businesses the abili…
Lees meerSeven additional regions across England will now have access to the controversial tech A fresh expansion of UK crimefighters' access to live facial recognition (LFR) technology is being described by officials as "an excellent opportunity for policin…
Lees meerFor now at least, even though government buying can improve, open source is not all it's cracked up to be Debate Not for the first time, Microsoft is in the spotlight for the UK government's money it voraciously consumes – apparently £1.9 billion a…
Lees meerShock news: billionaire techpreneur is not a fan Geek-turned-venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen has weighed in on the arguments surrounding the UK's Online Safety Act, accusing the UK government of leaking his input.…
Lees meerFoundation warns federated servers face biggest risk, but single-instance users can take their time The maintainers of the federated secure chat protocol Matrix are warning users of a pair of "high severity protocol vulnerabilities," addressed in th…
Lees meerYou guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI People are noticing Firefox gobbling extra CPU and electricity, apparently caused by an "inference engine" built into recent versions of Firefox. Don't say El Reg didn't try to warn you.…
Lees meerAn encounter with the healthcare system reveals sickening decisions about data Column We already live in a world where pretty much every public act - online or in the real world - leaves a mark in a database somewhere. But how far back does that re…
Lees meerMinnesota’s capital is the latest to feature on Interlock’s leak blog after late-July cyberattack The Interlock ransomware gang has flaunted a 43GB haul of files allegedly stolen from the city of Saint Paul, following a late-July cyberattack that fo…
Lees meerTells court 'What I did was wrong and I want to apologize for my conduct' Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has pled guilty to committing fraud when promoting the so-called "stablecoin" Terra USD and now faces time in jail.…
Lees meerFirst came the fireball, then a hole in the roof and a dent in the floor In late June media speculated that a meteor entering Earth’s atmosphere caused widespread sightings of a celestial fireball during daylight hours across the southeast USA. Scie…
Lees meerFederal Court finds Big Tech players abused their market power Australia’s Federal Court has given Epic Games another win in its global fight against the way Apple and Google run their app stores.…
Lees meerTells court 'What I did was wrong and I want to apologize for my conduct' Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has pled guilty to committing fraud when promoting the so-called "stablecoin" Terra USD and now faces time in jail.…
Lees meerNone under active exploit…yet Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday flaw-fixing festival addresses 111 problems in its products, a dozen of which are deemed critical, and one moderate-severity flaw that is listed as being publicly known.…
Lees meerCould the most popular browser change hands? AI search biz Perplexity has offered to pay about twice as much as it is worth to acquire Chrome from Google.…
Lees meerKeep calm and clear out that inbox. Also maybe lay off the GenAI With many parts of England grappling with a water shortage, the UK's National Drought Group (NDG), which includes both government and non-government agencies, has suggested citizens ca…
Lees meerAnd yes, there’s the usual credit monitoring Global staffing firm Manpower confirmed ransomware criminals broke into its Lansing, Michigan franchise's network and stole personal information belonging to 144,189 people, months after the extortionists…
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