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Stratolaunch takes ready-to-fly hypersonic craft skyward, but still no launch

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Scheduled summer Mach 5 flight deadline came and went Stratolaunch has taken its Talon-A reusable hypersonic aircraft into the sky fully fueled and ready to launch, but the long-delayed test flight isn't happening yet. …

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US senator claims Google and Apple reveal push notification data to foreign govs

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Cupertino promises to reveal its data deliveries, ending silence on the matter Government agencies in unspecified countries have compelled Apple and Google to hand over push notification data without telling anyone, thanks to US government regulatio…

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Veteran editors Notepad++ and Geany hit milestone versions

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

There are still good, modern, graphical text editors that are not Electron-based One of the best FOSS text editors for Windows, Notepad++, is turning 20, while cross platform Geany just hit version 2.0 as it turns 18 years old.…

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Apple and some Linux distros are open to Bluetooth attack

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Issue has been around since at least 2012 A years-old Bluetooth authentication bypass vulnerability allows miscreants to connect to Apple, Android and Linux devices and inject keystrokes to run arbitrary commands, according to a software engineer at…

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Google launches Gemini AI systems, claims it's beating OpenAI and others - mostly

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Gemini accepts text, images, audio, and video and comes in three flavors Google has unveiled Gemini, its most powerful class of transformer-based models yet, which are capable of processing text, images, audio, and video. …

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Nvidia sees Huawei, Intel in rear mirror as it grapples with China ban

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Commerce Sec threatens redesigned AI-capable chips will be curtailed 'the very next day' Nvidia chief Jensen Huang reckons Huawei and Intel are potential challengers for the GPU-maker's crown in the AI accelerator space, and says it is working out a…

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Google unveils TPU v5p pods to accelerate AI training

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Need a lot of compute? How does 8,960 TPUs sound? Google revealed a performance-optimized version of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) called the v5p designed to reduce the time commitment associated with training large language models.…

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Here's how fast a spacecraft should fly to successfully detect amino acids erupting from Enceladus

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Does the Saturnian moon contain the chemical building blocks for alien life? Future spacecraft flying close to Enceladus may be able to detect amino acids, an essential class of organic compounds for life on Earth, in the explosive plumes erupting f…

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Here's how fast a spacecraft should fly to successfully detect amino acids erupting from Enceladus

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Does the Saturnian moon contain the chemical building blocks for alien life? Future spacecraft flying close to Enceladus may be able to detect amino acids, an essential class of organic compounds for life on Earth, in the explosive plumes erupting f…

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Red Hat greases migration to RHEL for CentOS 7 holdouts

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Insights tool aims to simplify conversion process, but it'll probably cost you Red Hat has suggested that if customers are worried about the impending end of life for CentOS 7, they might wish to migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) via its In…

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A year on, CISA realizes debunked vuln actually a dud and removes it from must-patch list

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Apparently no one thought to check if this D-Link router 'issue' was actually exploitable A security vulnerability previously added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerability catalog (KEV), which was recognized by CVE Numbering Authorities (CNA), and i…

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EU running in circles trying to get AI Act out the door

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Bloc risks missing out on first-to-legislate status if timetable slips The European Commission is entering 11th-hour negotiations to hammer out legislation governing the development and use of AI in time to retain its position as first mover on AI r…

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Brit bendy chip firm Pragmatic scores funding to boost production

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Semiconductor bods get cash injection after threatening to quit UK over lack of government support UK-based chipmaker Pragmatic Semiconductor has netted £182 million ($229 million) in finance to expand production, after threatening to quit the count…

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'Wobbly spacetime' is latest stab at unifying physics

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Grudge match between quantum mechanics and general relativity attracts new effort to find harmony Since the early 20th century, physicists have struggled to marry theories governing the very big with those for the very small.…

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Veteran editors Notepad++ and Geany hit milestone versions

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

There are still good, modern, graphical text editors that are not Electron-based One of the best FOSS text editors for Windows, Notepad++, is turning 20, while cross platform Geany just hit version 2.0 as it turns 18 years old.…

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Europe signs off on up to €1.2B in state aid for homegrown cloud project

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Vendor to speak unto vendor with first results expected in 2027 The European Commission is to provide up to €1.2 billion in public funding for the IPCEI Cloud project and expects a further €1.4 billion from the private sector. Both pots of money are…

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And the winner of the horrible Microsoft Paint sweater is ...

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Sure, we'll send you to the Moon. But a return will cost you Competition  We have a winner. After much discussion, tears, tantrums, and tea, Microsoft's knitted monstrosity is going to a reader who has clearly had a bad experience buying from overse…

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Digital memories are disappearing and not even AI or Google can help

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Technology allows us to keep more of our stuff than previously possible – but what use is it if we can't find it? Column  I have too many artefacts detailing my digital history, which is stored on too many TRS-80 cassettes that hold sometimes-able-t…

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Getty's image-scraping sueball against Stability AI will go to trial in the UK

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Computer-generated image maker fails to quash case on its claimed home turf Getty's lawsuit against Stability AI, claiming the startup "unlawfully copied and processed millions of images protected by copyright" from its photo archive, will go to tri…

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Atlassian security advisory reveals four fresh critical flaws – in mail with dead links

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Bitbucket, Confluence and Jira all in danger, again. Sigh Atlassian has emailed its customers to warn of four critical vulnerabilities, but the message had flaws of its own – the links it contained weren't live for all readers at the time of despatc…

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Microsoft issues deadline for end of Windows 10 support – it's pay to play for security

woensdag 6 december 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Limited options will be available into 2028, for an undisclosed price Microsoft on Tuesday warned that full security support for Windows 10 will end on October 14, 2025, but offered a lifeline for customers unable or unwilling to upgrade two years h…

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