Same old whinging: We can't change the world if you ask us to do it openly Venture capitalist Y Combinator and more than 140 AI startups have signed an open letter in opposition to a hot-button AI safety bill making its way through the California le…
Lees meerSteve Teixeira sues Firefox maker alleging disability discrimination, retaliation Mozilla Corporation was sued this month in the US, along with three of its executives, for alleged disability discrimination and retaliation against Chief Product Offi…
Lees meerTit for tat spat could be avoided China and the European Commission are to launch consultations on the European Union anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles (EVs).…
Lees meerVariant of Lockbit 3.0 said to be weapon of choice for attack The Indonesian government has admitted its national datacenter was hit by ransomware criminals, disrupting some of the country's services.…
Lees meerMore customers self-reporting to SEC as disruption carries into second week The number of US companies filing Form 8-Ks with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and referencing embattled car dealership software biz CDK is mounting.…
Lees meerOtero family sues Uncle Sam for $80K+ to make everything right A Florida homeowner has sued NASA for more than $80,000 in compensation after debris from the International Space Station smashed a hole in his roof.…
Lees meerAlmaLinux and upstream kernel support for Raspberry Pi 5, plus a forthcoming high-performance Arm64 Tuxedo laptop Encouraging noises are coming from multiple directions around Linux support for both current and next-generation Arm64 kit.…
Lees meerYanks get food poisoning far more often than Brits. Is American IT just as sickening? Opinion When two stories from opposite ends of the IT universe boil down to the same thing, sound the klaxons. At the uber-fashionable AI end of tech, Meta has gr…
Lees meerAll depends on how you count it – Chocolate Factory claims 1% fail rate Google this week offered reassurance that its vetting of Chrome extensions catches most malicious code, even as it acknowledged that "as with any software, extensions can also i…
Lees meerOtero family asks space agency for $80K to make everything right Space debris that originated from NASA hit a Florida homeowner's house, the family claims, after filing a formal claim asking the space feds to pay $80k+ to "make them whole".…
Lees meeriFixit hands out provisional 8 out of 10 for hardware designed with repairs in mind Microsoft has received a thumbs-up from iFixit, with a provisional 8 out of 10 for repairability on its latest Surface Pro and Laptop devices.…
Lees meerAlmaLinux and upstream kernel support for Raspberry Pi 5, plus a forthcoming high-performance Arm64 Tuxedo laptop Encouraging noises are coming from multiple directions around Linux support for both current and next-generation Arm64 kit.…
Lees meerIn Rust, we trust. But in gen-AI to not hallucinate? Eh, that's another story Hands on Large language models (LLMs) are generally associated with chatbots such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, but they're by no means limited to Q&A-style interactio…
Lees meeriFixit hands out provisional 8 out of 10 for hardware designed with repairs in mind Microsoft has received a thumbs-up from iFixit, with a provisional 8 out of 10 for repairability on its latest Surface Pro and Laptop devices.…
Lees meerA busy few days for security teams There were data breaches galore in the US last week with various major incidents reported to state attorneys general, some in good time, some not.…
Lees meerTit for tat spat could be avoided China and the European Commission are to launch consultations on the European Union anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles (EVs).…
Lees meerAlmaLinux and upstream kernel support for Raspberry Pi 5, plus a forthcoming high-performance Arm64 Tuxedo laptop Encouraging noises are coming from multiple directions around Linux support for both current and next-generation Arm64 kit.…
Lees meerSeems like as good a time as any to upgrade older hardware There are early indications of active attacks targeting end-of-life Zyxel NAS boxes just a few weeks after details of three critical vulnerabilities were made public.…
Lees meerIf it's Boeing, it isn't going joke gets a bit real for 'nauts Boeing's Starliner will remain docked at the International Space Station (ISS) for a while longer as engineers analyze data from the vehicle's propulsion system.…
Lees meerPlus: Commission launches new probe into iPhone maker's efforts to work with new laws The European Commission has published preliminary findings that accuse Apple of breaching the Digital Markets Act (DMA) by preventing developers from telling custo…
Lees meerHave you heard the one about the techie who forgot what was on the clipboard? Who, me? Brace yourselves, gentle readers, for it is once again Monday, and the work week has commenced. Thankfully, The Reg is here with another dose of Who, Me? in whic…
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