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Lees meerIf this were a US scandal, we'd cal it 'Gategate' Malaysia's automated border control equipment – known as e-gates or automates – glitched out over the weekend, leaving travelers crossing the very busy border between Johor Bahru and Singapore requir…
Lees meerStarlink satellites might annoy astronomers, but at least they're easy to spot Space debris tracking specialist Neuraspace added another optical telescope to extend satellite tracking over the Southern Hemisphere.…
Lees meerMeanwhile, Sauron secures funding. Really Two tech businesses that were independently named after objects from The Lord of the Rings have formed a partnership – or should that be a fellowship?…
Lees meerMany users unhappy with current state of search, want to know why this got priority Reddit's internal search engine is often criticized as one of the site's weakest features but the platform claims AI integration will make it "faster, smarter, and m…
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Lees meer'It's a double-edged sword,' security researchers tell The Reg Feature Chinese tech company employees and government workers are siphoning off user data and selling it online - and even high-ranking Chinese Communist Party officials and FBI-wanted …
Lees meerShinyHunters-linked heist thought to have been ongoing since March Exclusive A massive online heist targeting AWS customers during which digital crooks abused misconfigurations in public websites and stole source code, thousands of credentials, and…
Lees meerMore Windows Insiders get to see if the snapshotter is fixed Microsoft is widening the rollout of the Recall Preview to include Dev Channel Windows Insiders running AMD and Intel-based Copilot+ PCs.…
Lees meerShinyHunters-linked heist thought to have been ongoing since March Exclusive A massive online heist targeting AWS customers during which digital crooks abused misconfigurations in public websites and stole source code, thousands of credentials, and…
Lees meerIs the industry ready to be tested if the unidentified deadly pathogen spreads beyond rural Kwango Province? A mystery disease with a fatality rate higher than COVID-19 has broken out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and while the glob…
Lees meerBeijing cites GPU giant's Mellanox merger conditions from four years ago Updated Nvidia has been slapped with an antitrust probe by China's state regulator, likely a response to US export restrictions as part of the ongoing chip wars between the tw…
Lees meerShinyHunters-linked heist thought to have been ongoing since March Exclusive A massive online heist targeting AWS customers during which digital crooks abused misconfigurations in public websites and stole source code, thousands of credentials, and…
Lees meerMeanwhile, 365 Enterprise users have a date for new Outlook rollout Microsoft has admitted that an issue in Windows 11 24H2 could stop Outlook from starting. It has also been confirmed that Microsoft 365 Enterprise users will switch to the new Outlo…
Lees meerBeijing cites GPU giant's Mellanox merger conditions from four years ago Nvidia has been slapped with an antitrust probe by China's state regulator, likely a response to US export restrictions as part of the ongoing chip wars between the two countri…
Lees meerPat Gelsinger has unexpectedly quit. Gore dump follows Opinion In the dystopian world of Blade Runner, the killing of rogue superhuman replicants wasn't called that. Rather, they were "retired." Pat Gelsinger is far more human than many of the curr…
Lees meerA couple of bugs lead to a potentially bad time OpenWrt users should upgrade their images to the same version to protect themselves from a possible supply chain attack reported to the open source Wi-Fi router project last week.…
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