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Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports

woensdag 7 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Lead dev likens flood to 'effectively being DDoSed' Curl project founder Daniel Stenberg is fed up with of the deluge of AI-generated "slop" bug reports and recently introduced a checkbox to screen low-effort submissions that are draining maintainer…

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Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu

woensdag 7 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Plus it is solving the 'I can't find the settings' problem with AI. That's what you wanted, right? Microsoft has confirmed what some Windows Insiders are already noticing – the Windows 11 Start Menu is getting a revamp and a panel for Phone Link.…

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NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs

woensdag 7 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

It's not rocket science, it's budgeting NASA's people analytics group has swapped its Neo4j graph database for Memgraph due to costs.…

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Microsoft burnishes green cred by paying Swedes to burn biomass and bury CO2

woensdag 7 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Schemes like this are just a license to pollute for tech giants, or so critics say Updated  Microsoft has expanded its deal with Stockholm Exergi to buy 500,000 tonnes of permanent carbon removal annually over ten years. Critics argue such deals giv…

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Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports

woensdag 7 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Lead dev likens flood to 'effectively being DDoSed' Curl project founder Daniel Stenberg is fed up with of the deluge of AI-generated "slop" bug reports and recently introduced a checkbox to screen low-effort submissions that are draining maintainer…

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Microsoft moved the goalposts once. Will Windows 12 bring another shift?

woensdag 7 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Windows 11's hardware requirements: Sales ploy or security play? Comment  Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has weighed in on the increasingly heated discussion regarding the impending end of Windows 10. Are Windows 11's hardware requirements …

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Linux kernel to drop 486 and early 586 support

woensdag 7 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Get in the bin: For the first time since 2012, some older CPU generations are being chopped Kernel 6.15 is taking shape and it looks like it will eliminate support for Intel's 486 chip and its contemporaries.…

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Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists

woensdag 7 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Leave it to the Borg? Scribe David D. Levine slams 'use of planet-destroying plagiarism machines' Fans and writers of science fiction are not necessarily enthusiastic about artificial intelligence - especially when it's used to vet panelists for a m…

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Citrix finds new use for virtualization: Avoiding PC price hikes caused by tariffs

woensdag 7 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Seeing as the company’s CEO is big at DOGE, this is delicious World War Fee  Citrix has found a new use for virtualization: Avoiding tariffs.…

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New Zealand kind-of moves to ban social media for under-16s, require age checks for new accounts

woensdag 7 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Prime Minister bemoans bullying, addiction, and inappropriate content – but isn’t planning a rapid vote New Zealand’s government has signaled its support for a bill to ban social media for children under 16, but without explicitly making it a govern…

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Trump's trade war with China to cost AMD $1.5B in lost rev

woensdag 7 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

But a multi-billion dollar contract with Oracle for a pile of Instincts and Epycs should take the edge off AMD expects the Trump administration's newly implemented export controls on GPUs and AI accelerator sales to China to take a $1.5 billion byte…

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Super spyware maker NSO must pay Meta $168M in WhatsApp court battle

woensdag 7 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Don't f&#k with Zuck A California jury has awarded Meta more than $167 million in damages from Israeli surveillanceware slinger NSO Group, after the latter exploited a flaw in WhatsApp to allow its government customers to spy on supposedly secure co…

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Trump's wind farm funding freeze is so much hot air, say states as they blow sueball to Washington

woensdag 7 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

We'd be shocked, just shocked, if Big Tech's renewable energy ambitions aren't known in the White House The Attorneys General of 17 states and Washington, DC have sued the Trump administration over an executive order halting all federal approvals fo…

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Omnissa, VMware’s old end-user outfit, moves to manage servers and … Apple Watches?

dinsdag 6 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

And declares hypervisor independence after being tied to vSphere Omnissa, the former VMware end-user compute business spun out last year as an independent company, is moving beyond its traditional territory of managing endpoint devices and into serv…

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Super spyware maker NSO must pay Meta $168M in WhatsApp snoop drama

dinsdag 6 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Don't f&#k with Zuck A California jury has awarded Meta more than $167 million in damages from Israeli surveillanceware slinger NSO Group, after the latter exploited a flaw in WhatsApp to allow its government customers to spy on supposedly secure co…

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Developer sues Apple to claw back commission payments

dinsdag 6 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Just days after judge held Cupertino in contempt over Epic antitrust injunction A developer of mobile sports apps has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Apple, seeking to recover commissions iBiz allegedly collected in violation of a fede…

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Feeling dumb? Let Google's latest AI invention simplify that wordy writing for you

dinsdag 6 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Zog brain hurt. Zog want Google help make read easier Exasperated by the prolix verbiage and gratuitously convoluted phraseology that so often permeates technical treatises, philosophical discourses, or the meandering expositions of journalists affl…

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Brain-inspired neuromorphic computer SpiNNaker overheated when coolers lost their chill

dinsdag 6 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Too much hot air brings down Manchester Uni based neural network project Exclusive  The brain-inspired SpiNNaker machine at Manchester University in England suffered an overheating incident over the Easter weekend that will send a chill down the spi…

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FYI: Most AI spending driven by FOMO, not ROI, CEOs tell IBM, LOL

dinsdag 6 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Just 1 in 4 bets paying off so far Only a quarter of AI initiatives have delivered the expected return on investment, according to an IBM survey of 2,000 CEOs.…

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Computacenter IT guy let girlfriend into Deutsche Bank server rooms, says fired whistleblower

dinsdag 6 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

What was the plan, showing her his big iron? A now-former manager at Computacenter claims he was unfairly fired after alerting management that a colleague was repeatedly giving his girlfriend unauthorized access to Deutsche Bank's server rooms.…

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Pentagon declares war on 'outdated' software buying, opens fire on open source

dinsdag 6 mei 2025 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

(If only that would keep folks off unsanctioned chat app side quests) The US Department of Defense (DoD) is overhauling its "outdated" software procurement systems, and insists it's putting security at the forefront of decision-making processes.…

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