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Google gamed into advertising a malicious version of Authenticator

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Plus: CISA's AI hire; and claimed Canuck SIM swappers busted Infosec in brief  Scammers have been using Google's own ad system to fool people into downloading a borked copy of the Chocolate Factory's Authenticator software.…

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Nvidia reportedly delays Blackwell GPUs until 2025 over packaging issues

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Backdrop of multi-billion dollar orders to support AI services, but unlikely to hurt NVDA long term Nvidia is understood to be delaying shipments of its Blackwell GPUs until the first quarter of 2025, and it appears the problems may be due to the co…

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CrowdStrike unhappy about Delta's 'litigation threat,' claims airline refused 'free on-site help'

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Vendor plans to aggressively defend its case before listing catalog of shortcomings at the airline CrowdStrike says it is "highly disappointed" and rejects the claims made by Delta and its lawyers that the vendor exhibited gross negligence in the ev…

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India migrates 25,000 small lenders to ERP in just five months

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Plus: Food poisoning hits ByteDance Singapore; Indonesia bans DuckDuckGo; and more ASIA IN BRIEF  India's government has successfully migrated 25,904 Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) to a unified ERP system in just five months, as part o…

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CrowdStrike unhappy about Delta's 'litigation threat,' claims airline refused 'free on-site help'

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Vendor plans to aggressively defend its case before listing catalog of shortcomings at the airline CrowdStrike says it is "highly disappointed" and rejects the claims made by Delta and its lawyers that the vendor exhibited gross negligence in the ev…

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Second patient receives the Neuralink implant

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Almost half the electrodes are working... for now According to company boss Elon Musk, its Neuralink implant is now at work in a second patient, and this time, almost half of the device's electrodes are working.…

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Punkt MC02: As private, and pricey, as a Swiss bank account

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

A de-Googled Android phone with extra security – and a subscription Punkt adds a fondleslab to its lineup of minimalist tech kit, with a very unusual build of Android – and a hefty pricetag.…

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UK axes plans for Edinburgh-based exascale computer

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Shortsighted or a chance to refocus? Tech sector is not happy The UK's £1.3 billion ($1.66 billion) plan for AI and tech investment that included an £800 million ($1 billion) exascale supercomputer at Edinburgh University has gone up in smoke.…

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Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

The technology remains highly controversial despite widespread rollout Responding to the riots across England over the past week, Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he's backing a wider rollout of facial recognition technology to track and prevent "th…

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The cybersecurity QA trifecta of fail that may burn down the world

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Malware is often described as biology. It should be the other way around Opinion  In Neal Stephenson's 1992 novel Snow Crash, he invents malware that can leap species from silicon to the human brain. That's a great metaphor for so much of our online…

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DoJ launches probes as AI antitrust storm clouds gather round Nvidia

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

US regulator reportedly not happy about Run:ai buy... nor industry dominance Updated  The US Department of Justice has started an investigation into Nvidia's acquisition of Run:ai, a startup offering orchestration tools for AI workloads.…

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Hello? Emergency services? I'd like to report a wrong number

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

911 is no joke Who, Me?  Greetings, gentle readerfolk, and welcome to Who Me? the section of The Reg in which we soften the crushing blow of the working week’s return with tales of technical transgression.…

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Tencent Cloud's home-grown traffic-tamer halves WAN latency

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

MegaTE can arrange things so each endpoint gets just the network it needs Sigcomm 2024  Chinese web giant Tencent has revealed “MegaTE”, a traffic engineering (TE) system it uses on its own cloud and which it claims outperforms rivals by tailoring n…

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Tencent Cloud's home-grown traffic-tamer halves latency

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

MegaTE can arrange things so each endpoint gets just the network it needs Sigcomm 2024  Chinese web giant Tencent has revealed MegaTE – a traffic engineering system it uses on its own cloud and which it claims outperforms rivals by tailoring network…

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China starts testing national cyber-ID before consultation on the idea closes

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Eighty-one apps signed up to pilot facial recognition and real name ID system Chinese app developers have signed up to beta test a national cyberspace ID system that will use facial recognition technology and the real names of users, according to Ch…

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India migrates 25,000 small lenders to ERP in just five months

maandag 5 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Plus: Food poisoning hits ByteDance Singapore; Indonesia bans DuckDuckGo; and more ASIA IN BRIEF  India's government has successfully migrated 25,904 Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) to a unified ERP system in just five months, as part o…

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IBM Canada can't duck channel exec's systematic age discrimination claim

zondag 4 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

'They actually replaced me with a younger employee' Three years ago, Bruce Maule, worldwide president of channel marketing at IBM, was informed by bosses that his position was being eliminated.…

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Lights, camera, AI! Real-time deepfakes coming to DEF CON

zondag 4 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Red teamer finds they're easy to make, which is welcome to produce fodder for detection bots DEF CON  Visitors to the AI Village at this year's DEF CON hacker conference will have the chance to star in their own deepfake video simply by standing in …

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IBM Canada can't duck channel exec's systematic age discrimination claim

zondag 4 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

'They actually replaced me with a younger employee' Three years ago, Bruce Maule, worldwide president of channel marketing at IBM, was informed by bosses that his position was being eliminated.…

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Bugging out: 53 years since humans first drove a battery-powered car on the Moon

zaterdag 3 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

And you thought you had range anxiety Feature  Electric vehicles have generated plenty of discussion over the last decade or so. However, it was 53 years ago this week that one of the battery-powered machines first carried humans around the Moon.…

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DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course

zaterdag 3 augustus 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Who wants to make a TRACTOR pull request? To accelerate the transition to memory safe programming languages, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is driving the development of TRACTOR, a programmatic code conversion vehicle.…

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