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National Public Data tells officials 'only' 1.3M people affected by intrusion

maandag 19 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Investigators previously said the number was much, much higher The data broker at the center of what may become one of the more significant breaches of the year is telling officials that just 1.3 million people were affected.…

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Virginia's datacenters guzzle water like there's no tomorrow, says FOI-based report

maandag 19 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

AI's thirst for power is only making things worse Concerns over the environmental impact of datacenters in the US state of Virginia are being raised again amid claims their water consumption has stepped up by almost two-thirds since 2019, and AI cou…

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Virgina's datacenters guzzle water like there's no tomorrow, says FOI-based report

maandag 19 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

AI's thirst for power is only making things worse Concerns over the environmental impact of datacenters in the US state of Virginia are being raised again amid claims their water consumption has stepped up by almost two-thirds since 2019, and AI cou…

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ESA's Juice probe dances with Earth and Moon before shooting off to Jupiter

maandag 19 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Gravity assist flybys planned for tonight and tomorrow The European Space Agency's Juice probe is to thread the needle this week with a first for a space mission – swings around the Moon and Earth that will result in the spacecraft coming approximat…

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CockroachDB scuttles away from open source Core offering

maandag 19 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Distributed database biz doesn't like bigger customers using the free version of its software CockroachDB, the distributed transactional system with a mostly PostgreSQL compatible front end, plans to retire its free open source "Core" product in fav…

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B2B ISP Fastnet staggers back to feet after VMware incident

maandag 19 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Company continues to investigate root cause Brighton-based ISP and hosting provider Fastnet has emerged from a trying week which involved battling VMware/Broadcom tech issues that have downed a number of its customers' websites.…

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Sorry, Moxie. Blaming Agile for software stagnation puts the wrong villain in the wrong play

maandag 19 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Innovation dead for twenty years? Tell that to 2004 Opinion  Want a good time on stage, but you’re not a performance artist? Surprisingly easy. Fill a hall with an audience of your peers, tell them the world’s gone to hell in a handcart, then that t…

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From windfarms to Amazon Prime, UK plans to long range test six drone services

maandag 19 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

BVLOS operations to modernize airspace The UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has approved six new trials to test the use of drones in deliveries, inspections and emergency services, including one from e-commerce megabiz Amazon.…

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Developer tried to dress for success, but ended up attired for an expensive outage

maandag 19 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Debugging software on the waterfront is a strangely dangerous task Who, Me?  Welcome once more, dear reader, to Who, Me? in which Reg readers like your good self attempt to soften the blow of the working week with tales of techie misadventure.…

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Japan's Astroscale wins contract for space junk harvesting robotic arm

maandag 19 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

The plan is to do away with an H-IIA rocket upper stage – and prove it's possible Japanese space debris cleaning outfit Astroscale revealed on Monday that it will enter a ¥12,000 million ($81.4 million) five-year contract with the Japan Aerospace Ex…

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Japan's Astroscale gets contract for space junk harvesting robotic arm

maandag 19 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

$81 million to retrieve H-IIA rocket – and prove it's possible Japanese space debris cleaning outfit Astroscale revealed on Monday that it will enter a ¥12 billion ($81.4 million) five-year contract with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to rem…

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Chinese chip equipment maker AMEC sues Pentagon for entity list removal

maandag 19 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Plus: China's richest man used to work for Google; Singtel profit jumps; most APAC governments don't have AI governance policies, and more ASIA IN BRIEF  Chinese semiconductor equipment manufacturer Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMMEC) is ch…

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RansomHub-linked EDR-killing malware spotted in the wild

maandag 19 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Also: Your external-facing NetSuite sites need a review; five popular malware varieties for Q2, and more in brief  Malware that kills endpoint detection and response (EDR) software has been spotted on the scene and, given it's deploying RansomHub, i…

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Who needs GitHub Copilot when you can roll your own AI code assistant at home

zondag 18 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Here's how to get started with the open source tool Continue Hands-on  Code assistants have gained considerable attention as an early use case for generative AI – especially following the launch of Microsoft's GitHub Copilot. But, if you don't relis…

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Stargazing with the Beaverlab Finder TW2

zondag 18 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Good for beginners, but a few missing features will annoy Hands On  Purveyor of optics Beaverlab has unveiled its an inexpensive telescope for wannabe star-gazers: the Finder TW2.…

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Game not over: Epic brings Fortnite back to iOS in Europe, using its own app store

zaterdag 17 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

But the cost of battling Apple and Google? A hefty $1B lost in revenue Epic Games, booted from Apple's walled garden four years ago for crimes against App Store policy, has built its own digital store for customers in Europe.…

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Stargazing with the Beaverlab Finder TW2

zaterdag 17 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Good for beginners, but a few missing features will annoy Purveyor of optics Beaverlab has unveiled its an inexpensive telescope for wannabe star-gazers: the Finder TW2.…

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Game not over: Epic brings Fortnite back to iOS in Europe, using its own app store

zaterdag 17 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

But the cost of battling Apple and Google? A hefty $1B lost in revenue Epic Games, booted from Apple's walled garden four years ago for crimes against App Store policy, has built its own digital store for customers in Europe.…

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AI stole my job and my work, and the boss didn't know – or care

zaterdag 17 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Everyone knows automation will happen, which is why everyone needs proof of human involvement Column  Earlier this year I got fired and replaced by a robot. And the managers who made the decision didn't tell me – or anyone else affected by the chang…

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DoD spins up supercomputer to accelerate biothreat defense

vrijdag 16 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Officials claim it'll be able to develop defensive solutions in 'days, if not hours' The Pentagon's newest toy isn't a fancy warfighting machine – it's a combined supercomputer and rapid response laboratory (RRL) dedicated to beefing up the US's bio…

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California trims AI safety bill amid fears of tech exodus

vrijdag 16 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

And as Anthropic boss reckons there's 'a good chance ... we'll be able to get models that are better than most humans at most things' Legislation to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) software in California has been revised in response to industr…

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