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Lukewarm reception for Microsoft's Copilot Pro amid performance, cost grumbles

dinsdag 23 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Pricey AI assistant met with enthusiasm and indifference Just over a week after Microsoft unveiled Copilot Pro and rolled the service out to more customers, users are complaining about performance, and the platform is being met with a shrug by admin…

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Users now keep cellphones for 40+ months and it's hurting the secondhand market

dinsdag 23 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Refresh rates stretched as consumers see no need to upgrade... or open wallets Used and refurbished smartphones sales continue to expand by near-double digits but that rate is slowing as elongated refresh cycles for brand new handsets means fewer se…

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Robocaller spoofing Joe Biden is telling people not to vote in New Hampshire

dinsdag 23 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Meanwhile, OpenAI is hiring an 'elections program manager' for $190,000+ Robo-calls featuring the faked voice of US president Joe Biden's are advising voters not to participate in the state of New Hampshire's Tuesday presidential Primary Election, t…

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France fines Amazon €32M for watching staff so much they'd have to 'justify each break'

dinsdag 23 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

French watchdog says non to excessive monitoring of workers as retail giant plans appeal The French privacy watchdog, National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL), has fined Amazon France Logistique €32 million ($34.8 million) over a system…

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UK water giant admits attackers broke into system as gang holds it to ransom

dinsdag 23 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Comes mere months after Western intelligence agencies warned of attacks on water providers Southern Water confirmed this morning that criminals broke into its IT systems, making off with a "limited amount of data."…

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Legacy tech shoots down Ministry of Defence's supply chain improvements

dinsdag 23 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

How to manage 740 million items of behalf of the Armed Forces? The UK Ministry of Defence's efforts to better manage its £11.8 billion ($15 billion) of inventory hinges, in no small part, on a sweeping digital transformation program that involves mo…

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DPD chatbot blasts courier company, swears, and dabbles in awful poetry

dinsdag 23 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

So this is the AI revolution We know that "AI" is all the rage for now, but the recent experience of a DPD customer suggests that just because you can replace customer support with a chatbot doesn't mean you should.…

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White goods giant fires legal threats to unplug open source plugin

dinsdag 23 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

'Substantial increase in AWS calls' triggers takedown notice A plugin and library to permit the control of Haier, Candy, and Hoover appliances recently received takedown requests from Haier Europe's Security and Governance department.…

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AI PC hype seems to be making PCs better – in hardware terms, at least

dinsdag 23 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

16GB of RAM should be enough for anyone that wants to run models locally. GPUs, NPUs and more kit will be needed, too Comment  What is an AI PC? What is its killer app? Both are open questions , although we do know that running AI models locally – n…

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Meta accused of enrolling undecided EU users in ad-sponsored platform

dinsdag 23 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Choice between seeing pitches or paying on Facebook and Instagram might break the law Meta has been accused of automatically enrolling Europe-based users of its Facebook social network into the ad supported version of the service if they've not yet …

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AWS Marketplace adds sales of third-party services

dinsdag 23 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Cloud-ready software and implementation from your preferred consultants, on one bill Amazon Web Services has made a bid for even more of the cloud business by allowing third-party services to be sold on its Marketplace.…

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Japan recovers moon lander data, puts craft to sleep due to solar panels' bad attitude

dinsdag 23 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

JAXA plans to reveal whether mission nailed its self-selected landing site later this week Data from Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon has been downloaded, and the machine switched off – with just 12 percent of battery capacity remaini…

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China names members of a second tech supergroup to define the metaverse

dinsdag 23 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Goggle-eyed Beijing wants technical and identity standards China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released a list last Friday of 60 experts from academia, government and business selected by Beijing to define standards for th…

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Australia imposes cyber sanctions on Russian it says ransomwared health insurer

dinsdag 23 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

'Aleksandr Ermakov' isn't allowed down under after being linked to ten-million-record leak Australia's government has used the "significant cyber incidents" sanctions regime it introduced in 2021 for the first time, against a Russian named Aleksandr…

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Law designed to stop AI bias in hiring decisions is so ineffective it's slowing similar initiatives

dinsdag 23 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

New York’s LL144 rated too broad, but researchers hope others can learn from that mistake A study into the effectiveness of a New York City law targeting bias in AI hiring algorithms has found the legislation is largely ineffective.…

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Robocaller spoofing Joe Biden is telling people not to vote in New Hampshire

dinsdag 23 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Meanwhile, OpenAI is hiring an 'elections program manager' for $190,000+ Robo-calls featuring the faked voice of US president Joe Biden's are advising voters not to participate in the state of New Hampshire's Tuesday presidential Primary Election, t…

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Atlassian Confluence Server RCE attacks underway from 600+ IPs

maandag 22 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

If you're still running a vulnerable instance then 'assume a breach' More than 600 IP addresses are launching thousands of exploit attempts against CVE-2023-22527 – a critical bug in out–of-date versions of Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Serve…

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Boffins eyeball computer vision costs, find humans are cheaper for oversight chores

maandag 22 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

AI can only automate parts of some jobs, and the kit required is too pricey Human labor can accomplish some jobs more cheaply than computer vision systems, according to a study led by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.…

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Boffins eyeball computer vision costs, find humans are cheaper for oversight chores

maandag 22 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

AI can only automate parts of some jobs, and the kit required is too pricey Human labor can accomplish some jobs more cheaply than computer vision systems, according to a study led by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.…

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Wanna run Windows on an M-series Mac? Fine, buy a license, but no baremetal

maandag 22 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Or, you could just rent an expensive Windows VM in the cloud — just a thought, says Redmond You can now officially run Windows 11 on an M-series Mac. Well, at least as a virtual machine anyway since Microsoft hasn't seen fit to allow Mac users to ru…

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Slug slimes aerospace biz AerCap with ransomware, brags about 1TB theft

maandag 22 januari 2024 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Loanbase admits massive loss of customer data to thieves, too AerCap, the world's largest aircraft leasing company, has reported a ransomware infection that occurred earlier this month, but claims it hasn't yet suffered any financial losses yet and …

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