Controling prostheses? Elon imagines an app for that Elon Musk's brain-computer interface implant company Neuralink has begun its first human clinical trial.…
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Lees meerLegacy OS and app holdouts get three more years of paid support, also on versions 10.0 and 11.3 Oracle has quietly extended paid support and upgrades for Solaris 11.4 to 2037 – three years past its previous deadline – and did the same for earlier ve…
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Lees meerBreach filings show Reddit post led to the discovery rather than any sophisticated cyber defenses Biotech and DNA-collection biz 23andMe, the one that blamed its own customers for the October mega-breach, just admitted it failed to detect any malici…
Lees meer18,000 customers, including the Pentagon and Microsoft, may have other thoughts SolarWinds – whose network monitoring software was backdoored by Russian spies so that the biz's customers could be spied upon – has accused America's financial watchdog…
Lees meerThe plan is to keep the world at bay by never recording it in the DNS root – like many already do with a subdomain for an intranet The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has proposed creating a new top-level domain (TLD) and…
Lees meerBusinesses can at long last submit digital docs to government agencies Japan is saying sayonara to the floppy disk, which until now was a required medium for submitting some 1,900 official documents to the government.…
Lees meerKernel 6.8-rc2 debuts after very robust discussion about 'inodes' Linus Torvalds has dished up one of his most strongly worded Linux kernel mailing list posts in years, lashing a contributor from Google for his suggestions regarding filesystems.…
Lees meerClever techie thought of everything – except someone else's stupidity Who, Me? Why hello, dear reader – fancy seeing you here again on a Monday – the slot we The Register reserves for a fresh installment of Who, Me? in which Register readers share …
Lees meerHonestly, it sounds like a fun time The FBI plans to use Amazon's controversial Rekognition cloud service "to extract information and insights from lawfully acquired images and videos," according to US Justice Department documents.…
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Lees meerWinter Night is coming Japan's Moon lander has woken up on the lunar surface and begun transmitting data back to controllers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA.)…
Lees meerIt takes more than open source, it takes open standards and consensus Opinion Today, thanks to Android and ChromeOS, Linux is an important end-user operating system. But, before Linux, there were important Unix desktops, although most of them never…
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Lees meerPlus: Dodgy ex-US official also sentenced for software and database theft in big day for the courts A dark web drug kingpin has handed more than $150 million in cryptocurrency to US authorities and pleaded guilty to selling hundreds of kilograms of …
Lees meerPlus: It kills off WordPad once and for all Microsoft is unleashing build 26040 of Windows Server and has revealed the official branding for the product: Windows Server 2025.…
Lees meerWe've been working on the solution for 70 years. It's there if we want it Opinion Datacenter power is a shocking business. The latest report from the International Energy Agency makes some hair-raising predictions, such as Irish datacenter electric…
Lees meerYou're wrong to think that jammin' was a thing of the past Europe's aviation safety body is working with the airline industry to counter a danger posed by interference with GPS signals - now seen as a growing threat to the safety of air travel.…
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