Remember the good old days when ransomware crooks vowed not to infect medical centers? Extortionists are now threatening to swat hospital patients — calling in bomb threats or other bogus reports to the police so heavily armed cops show up at victim…
Lees meerRemember the good old days when ransomware crooks vowed not to infect medical centers? Extortionists are now threatening to swat hospital patients — calling in bomb threats or other bogus reports to the police so heavily armed cops show up at victim…
Lees meerYou really think someone would do that? Go on the internet and tell lies? Predictive and generative AI systems remain vulnerable to a variety of attacks and anyone who says otherwise isn't being entirely honest, according to Apostol Vassilev, a comp…
Lees meerStockpiled TSMC silicon from 2020 shock! Did Huawei's domestic fab partners somehow develop the means to mass produce a 5nm laptop chip in spite of US sanctions designed to prevent just that? No, they most certainly did not.…
Lees meerStockpiled TSMC silicon from 2020 shock! Did Huawei's domestic fab partners somehow develop the means to mass produce a 5nm laptop chip in spite of US sanctions designed to prevent just that? No, they most certainly did not.…
Lees meerThe advent of generative AI has made the attack far more pervasive The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is promising a $25,000 reward for the best solution to combat the growing threat of AI voice cloning.…
Lees meerDrew Barbier and Brad Burgess join after restructure at former employer Chip designer MIPS has picked up two former senior staff from SiFive in a bid to boost its RISC-V development efforts.…
Lees meerPerfect timing – now BYD can rub that in Tesla's face along with stealing the global EV sales crown A hot new Tesla import has arrived in China in the form of a pair of forced software updates for nearly every car the US EV maker has sold in the Mid…
Lees meerDecades, gone in a flash: Longlived mission was almost derailed by file system whoopsie It is 20 years this week since NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars, kicking off years of exploration before ending its mission stuck in the sand.…
Lees meerSo long, and thanks for all the sanctions as PR and government relations teams decamp Chinese tech giant Huawei has reportedly stood down much of its public and government relations teams in the US and Canada, in a sign it may have given up trying t…
Lees meerRemember when Microsoft said that about FTC (and then walked it back)? SpaceX has sued America's National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), an independent federal agency responsible for protecting private sector employees' rights, just 24 hours after th…
Lees meerRemember when Microsoft said that about FTC (and then walked it back)? SpaceX has sued America's National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), an independent federal agency responsible for protecting private sector employees' rights, just 24 hours after th…
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Lees meerFitzpatrick faces potentially decades in prison later this month, so may as well get some foreign Netflix in beforehand The cybercriminal behind BreachForums was this week arrested for violating the terms of his pretrial release and will now be held…
Lees meerThrowback word processor ditched from clean installs, soon to be removed on upgrade Microsoft has begun ditching WordPad from Windows and removed the editor from the first Canary Channel build of 2024.…
Lees meerSelf-driving car biz says Q1 orders to drop 50% amid widening operating losses Mobileye shares tanked by up to 27 percent yesterday in pre-market trading after the self-driving tech biz surprised Wall Street by warning that customers are chewing ove…
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Lees meer86-DOS version 0.1-C found and archived – all nine files of it An intrepid code archaeologist has found and uploaded an early ancestor of what became MS-DOS, which later sparked the IBM PC-compatible computer industry.…
Lees meerResearch warns not to make the same mistakes as other electronic patient record systems A leading expert has warned that the value of the NHS's Federated Data Platform (FDP) will depend on usability testing if it is to improve patient safety and eff…
Lees meerBut we also have a bit to say about Dark Souls, Starfield, Foxhole, and more The RPG Greetings, traveler, and welcome back to our occasional gaming column The Register Plays Games.…
Lees meerRead the manual, they said. If only they'd said it about the right manual On Call 2024 has commenced, but in today's edition of On Call – The Register’s reader-contributed tales of tech support strife – a reader we'll Regomize as "Stuart" shared a …
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