This one weird trick works every time, most of the time Investigators at Indiana's Purdue University have devised a way to interrogate large language models (LLMs) in a way that that breaks their etiquette training – almost all the time.…
Lees meerRedmond reassures AFL-CIO workers they won't be pushed out by technology Microsoft is partnering with the largest US union group – representing 60 unions and more than 12 million workers – to explore how AI will impact labor, and help shape policies…
Lees meerMore awards imminent agency says British arms dealer BAE Systems will be among the first beneficiaries of the $53 billion US Chips and Science Act.…
Lees meerElon's biz claims 1st Amendment rights It may have taken more than a year, but Tesla has finally responded to the California Department of Motor Vehicles allegations that it misrepresented Autopilot's capabilities, arguing that it's free to do so un…
Lees meerAlphV lays claims to the intrusion Norton Healthcare, which runs eight hospitals and more than 30 clinics in Kentucky and Indiana, has admitted crooks may have stolen 2.5 million people's most sensitive data during a ransomware attack in May.…
Lees meerElon's biz claims 1st Amendment rights It may have taken more than a year, but Tesla has finally responded to the California Department of Motor Vehicles allegations that it misrepresented Autopilot's capabilities, arguing that it's free to do so un…
Lees meerAlphV lays claims to the intrusion Norton Healthcare, which runs eight hospitals and more than 30 clinics in Kentucky and Indiana, has admitted crooks may have stolen 2.5 million people's most sensitive data during a ransomware attack in May.…
Lees meerElsewhere, BAE Systems bags first CHIPS Act funding Upstate New York is set for a $10 billion semiconductor research facility to work on next-generation chip manufacturing, with IBM and Micron part of the scheme.…
Lees meerLatest offensive cyber group to switch to atypical programming for payloads Research into Lazarus Group's attacks using Log4Shell has revealed novel malware strains written in an atypical programming language.…
Lees meerWhy would FTC call that antitrust, it asks in dismissal request Amazon is asking a judge to dismiss the antitrust case filed against it by the Federal Trade Commission and 17 states, arguing the case fails to allege any anticompetitive conduct or ha…
Lees meerHey Bing, how can I invest billions in a company but not break antitrust laws? Microsoft's OpenAI headaches might not be going away following reports that now the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is considering an investigation into the Windows gia…
Lees meerLack of awareness still blamed for patching apathy despite it being among most infamous bugs of all time Two years after the Log4Shell vulnerability in the open source Java-based Log4j logging utility was disclosed, circa one in four applications ar…
Lees meerSays it was probably hacked, which isn't good news either A trio of Polish security researchers claim to have found that trains built by Newag SA contain software that sabotages them if the hardware is serviced by competitors.…
Lees meerChip giant claims demo tech could 'significantly' improve device density Intel is looking to new options for its future chips including 3D stacking of transistors to enable greater density, extending backside power, and use of gallium nitride for gr…
Lees meerOfcom opens consultation on resilience requirements... power backup for mobile networks, anyone? Britain's comms regulator is asking telecoms providers for updated guidance on how resilient their networks are, given modern society’s increasing relia…
Lees meerAlso: 'well-known Bay Area tech' firm's laptops stolen and check out some critical vulns Security in brief The saga of 23andMe's mega data breach has reached something of a conclusion, with the company saying its probe has determined millions of le…
Lees meerKeeping the lights on with an enterprise product while staying true to your roots Interview Monitoring biz VictoriaMetrics is relatively unusual in its field. It is yet to accept external investment, preferring instead to try to grow organically ra…
Lees meerVast battery life, zippy performance, and rich speakers make an impressive package Desktop Tourism When I speak to laptop-makers about their wares, they often admit that the benchmark in their field is the MacBook Air. Ever since its 2008 debut, Ap…
Lees meerBetter than a Pi? It’s an open and shut case Opinion Space junk grabs headlines. There's a lot of space hardware alive and dead – 9,064 objects at the time of writing according to the Orbiting Now tracker – and cleaning it up at end of life is the …
Lees meerVast battery life, zippy performance, and rich speakers make an impressive package Desktop Tourism When I speak to laptop-makers about their wares, they often admit that the benchmark in their field is the MacBook Air. Ever since its 2008 debut, Ap…
Lees meerNice ridiculously redundant drive you've got there – what a pity if something …happened to it Who, Me? Heavens to Betsy, dear reader, are you back again? It feels like only a week since we last met in the corner of The Register we call Who, Me? to …
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