Mad science award ceremony returns to MIT after four years online With less than a month to go before the Nobel Prizes are handed out for the most worthy scientific discoveries of the preceding year, it would be remiss of The Register not to observe…
Lees meerThis is going to be ugly. Really ugly Opinion The Open Source Initiative (OSI) and its allies are getting closer to a definition of open source AI. If all goes well, Stefano Maffulli, the OSI's executive director, expects to announce the OSI open s…
Lees meerI wanna know 🎵 What you're feeling 🎵 Tell me what's on your mind Meta is going to resume scraping the personal public feeds of British Facebook and Instagram users for training AI after reaching an agreement with the UK's Information Commissioner's …
Lees meerYou gotta admit, that speaks volumes for Cupertino America's drug watchdog this week gave Apple permission to market its AirPods Pro 2 as over-the-counter hearing aids, disrupting an industry where traditional devices have often cost thousands of do…
Lees meerYou gotta admit, that speaks volumes for Cupertino America's drug watchdog this week gave Apple permission to market its new AirPods as over-the-counter hearing aids, disrupting an industry where traditional devices have often cost thousands of doll…
Lees meerCEO Lisa Su sets sights on being best in GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs, everything... as Intel struggles Comment Once the relative minnow of the chip industry, AMD senses blood in the water following a series of missteps by arch-rival Intel, and head honcho Li…
Lees meerWith social media age limits, anti-scam laws, privacy tweaks, and misinformation rules Elon Musk labelled 'fascist' Australia's government has spent the week reining in Big Tech.…
Lees meerThat's zloty money but is it too little, too late? Intel is scrambling to stanch the bleeding of its floundering foundry business, but in Poland at least the chipmaker's luck is looking up.…
Lees meer'Chain of thought' techniques mean latest LLM 'better' at stepping through complex challenges OpenAI on Thursday introduced o1, its latest large language model family, which it claims is capable of emulating complex reasoning.…
Lees meerThat's zloty money but is it too little, too late? Intel is scrambling to stanch the bleeding of its floundering foundry business, but in Poland at least the chipmaker's luck is looking up.…
Lees meerOh look, another voluntary, non-binding agreement to do better Some of the largest AI firms in America have given the White House a solemn pledge to prevent their AI products from being used to generate non-consensual deepfake pornography and child …
Lees meerNo love for months-long wait to fix this, either Security researchers have revealed a litany of failures in the Feeld dating app that could be abused to access all manner of private user data, including the most sensitive images not intended to be k…
Lees meer'Chain of thought' techniques mean latest LLM 'better' at stepping through complex challenges OpenAI on Thursday introduced o1, its latest large language model family, which it claims is capable of emulating complex reasoning.…
Lees meerSolar arrays are massive... but it's the transistors onlookers are really worried about NASA's Europa Clipper is now less than a month from its October 10 launch, and the US space agency has shown off the spacecraft's giant solar arrays. However, co…
Lees meerOh and about those AI computers... analysts reckon there are still no killer apps or convincing use cases Admins had better dust off their Windows migration skills if Dell and HP are right that a refresh wave of "aging" commercial PC estates is pick…
Lees meerNoSQL database slinger attempts to reassure investors, kinda Analysis It is 1996 in terms of the business adoption of AI if it were put on the dotcom era timeline, according to MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria.…
Lees meerExisting low-level access for security solutions will undergo a rework Microsoft says it's working on Windows to allow endpoint security solutions to operate effectively outside of the operating system's kernel, all with a view to preventing any fut…
Lees meerAnalysts claim it would be better for competition though Britain's competition watchdog is worried the proposed merger between Vodafone and Three UK could lead to bigger bills for customers, a view rejected by the companies who see it as a chance to…
Lees meer'Chain of thought' techniques mean latest LLM 'better' at stepping through complex challenges OpenAI on Thursday introduced o1, its latest large language model family, which it claims is capable of emulating complex reasoning.…
Lees meerOh and about those AI computers... analysts reckon there are still no killer apps or convincing use cases Admins had better dust off their Windows migration skills if Dell and HP are right that a refresh wave of "aging" commercial PC estates is pick…
Lees meerAfter Starliner stumbles, the aerospace giant eyes a new frontier - entanglement swapping in space Undeterred by the problems of its Starliner crewed space capsule, Boeing has a plan to do a bit of uncrewed science – launching a satellite upon which…
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