The FBI thought they shut this all down in 2023, but the duck quacked again Uncle Sam on Thursday unsealed criminal charges and a civil forfeiture case against a Russian national accused of leading the cybercrime ring behind Qakbot, notorious malwar…
Lees meerOpen the pod bay door Anthropic on Thursday announced the availability of Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, the latest iteration of its Claude family of machine learning models.…
Lees meerIntrusions began weeks before Trimble patched the Cityworks hole A suspected Chinese crew has been exploiting a now-patched remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Trimble Cityworks to break into US local government networks and target utility managemen…
Lees meerAnd it gets even harder when you try to estimate CO2 emissions A single person with a serious AI habit may chew through enough electricity each day to keep a microwave running for more than three hours. And the actual toll may even be worse, as so m…
Lees meerData sovereignty fears fuel pitch to hyperscalers Investment biz Bain Capital is getting further into the datacenter sector with the launch of an operation serving hyperscalers in Europe, potentially positioning itself to benefit from customer uneas…
Lees meerWhen 'AI-powered' means 'mostly humans and bad decisions' Comment The collapse of Builder.ai has cast fresh light on AI coding practices, despite the software company blaming its fall from grace on poor historical decision-making.…
Lees meerCase in Germany could derail Zuck's plans, noyb tells El Reg fight isn't over The Irish Data Protection Commission has cleared the way for Meta to begin slurping up the data of European citizens for training AI next week, ongoing legal challenges no…
Lees meerVendor's AI-infused pitch at Sapphire marred by backlash over support costs News that SAP users face a 30-50 percent premium to get some cloud products – including core ERP – to industry-standard service levels threatens to overshadow the German ven…
Lees meerAT&T, Verizon, T-Mo failed to alert lawmakers about surveillance, senator says Updated AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile US failed to set up systems to notify lawmakers when government snoops came calling for their phone records - a contractual obligatio…
Lees meer4-year trial is second major initiative this year that clamps down on 'illegal immigrants' Foreigners in Moscow will now be subject to a new experimental law that affords the state enhanced tracking mechanisms via a smartphone app.…
Lees meerChat app blocks Windows' screenshot-happy feature from peeking at private convos Chat app biz Signal is unhappy with the current version of Microsoft Recall and has invoked some Digital Rights Management (DRM) functionality in Windows to stop the to…
Lees meerA media-ready remix with KDE, codecs, and clutter from its BeOS-flavored past Neptune is a moderately tweaked Debian remix with KDE Plasma 5, a few alternative app choices, and a longer history than we anticipated.…
Lees meerClaude passed 80% of tasks assigned in a recent study Freelance coders take solace: while AI models can perform a lot of the real-world coding tasks that companies contract out, they do so less effectively than a human.…
Lees meerBarriers stack up: Datacenter capacity, egress fees, platform skills, variety of cloud services. It won't happen, say analysts European organizations wanting to break free of American cloud operators may find their hopes dashed, according to industr…
Lees meerParents and teachers have personal info, ID documents leaked online, but exam season mostly unaffected Scotland's West Lothian Council has confirmed that data was stolen from its education network after the Interlock ransomware group claimed respons…
Lees meerAnd other ways to get that Amiga feeling on a budget The FOSS recreation of AmigaOS is making progress. A new edition runs entirely from a USB key, so you can temporarily turn your PC into an Amiga – without any tricky installation process.…
Lees meerParents and teachers have personal info, ID documents leaked online, but exam season mostly unaffected Scotland's West Lothian Council has confirmed that data was stolen from its education network after the Interlock ransomware group claimed respons…
Lees meerReport slates end of perpetual licenses, death of monthly pay-as-you-go model, and 'punitive' changes by Broadcom Broadcom has upped VMware licensing costs by between eight to 15 times since it took over the organization, and a lack of alternatives …
Lees meerNames spies, web hosts, GPS jammers, fishing (not phishing) biz The European Union has sanctioned Russia-linked entities it says jammed GPS signals, sabotaged undersea cables, and ran a web hosting business that aided "information manipulation inter…
Lees meerDon’t panic! It's related to an earthly bug, eats gelatin, not astronauts, and may have adapted to life in space Chinse scientists have found a previously unknown species of microbe on the nation’s Tiangong space station, and it may have evolved cha…
Lees meerCable Labs predicts two percent packet loss and 10ms latency in some buildings unless more spectrum freed Rapid growth in Wi-Fi use means the 6 GHZ band’s carrying capacity may soon be exhausted, according to CableLabs, the nonprofit networking thin…
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