Funds intended to support carriers for more than 15 years The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has authorized more than $18 billion to be paid to carriers to expand rural broadband.…
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Lees meerSpitting in the cloud's eye Dell has teamed up with Facebook parent Meta to try to make it easier for customers to deploy the Llama 2 large language model (LLM) on premises rather than access it via the cloud.…
Lees meerInternet, phone lines, websites, and more went down on Saturday morning The British Library has confirmed to The Register that a "cyber incident" is the cause of a "major" multi-day IT outage.…
Lees meerThe sky isn't the limit when it comes to greener fuel alternatives NASA is studying contrails to determine if more environmentally friendly aircraft fuels might reduce their formation.…
Lees meer'No question' it will solve more crimes, Tory MP claims A UK minister for policing has called for forces to double their use of algorithmic-assisted facial recognition in a bid to snare more criminals.…
Lees meerClients have a little over a year to get their affairs in order Exclusive Unit4, the enterprise software provider popular with government and medium-sized businesses, has announced it will end support of its on-prem systems on December 31, 2024.…
Lees meerLots to like under the covers, but what was on top made it truly unforgettable Microsoft is rarely shy when it comes to anniversaries. However, one milestone passed last week that the company is still perhaps trying to forget: 11 years since the lau…
Lees meerIf you're in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland From November, it will be possible to pay Meta to stop shoveling ads in your Instagram or Facebook feeds and slurping your data for marketing purposes so long as you live in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland.…
Lees meerRadio bouncing off multiple reflectors is a hard-to-defeat method of monitoring a weapons cache Researchers say they have developed a method to remotely track the movement of objects in a room using mirrors and radio waves, in the hope it could one …
Lees meerOh, you're not joking The UK government may be onto something with its strategy to support the domestic semiconductor industry. In a strange twist of fate, some experts are starting to say that its approach makes sense.…
Lees meerIf you're in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland From November, it will be possible to pay Meta to stop shoveling ads in your Instagram or Facebook feeds and slurping your data for marketing purposes so long as you live in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland.…
Lees meerGen AI still in the pilot stage, despite government hopes to be world leader Despite the frothing hype around generative AI — and the UK government’s hopes it will bring economic growth — only one in ten UK tech leaders have large scale implementati…
Lees meerRadio bouncing of mutliple reflectors is a hard-to-defeat method of monitoring a weapons cache Researchers say they have developed a method to remotely track the movement of objects in a room using mirrors and radio waves, in the hope it could one d…
Lees meerEmulators coming in 2024, first for wearables Google has significantly advanced its efforts to have Android run on CPUs that use the RISC-V instruction set architecture.…
Lees meerKaspersky also on the way out due to ‘unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security' The government of Canada has decided that Tencent’s WeChat app, and Kaspersky's security suite, are too risky to run on government-issued mobile devices.…
Lees meerAll without reducing the effectiveness of data-driven targeting, dammit Australia’s SBS will allow users of its video streaming services to opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting.…
Lees meerRisk of ‘significant data loss’ for on-prem customers Atlassian has told customers they “must take immediate action” to address a newly discovered flaw in its Confluence collaboration tool.…
Lees meer50,000-strong alt.China talent pool promised, with Google, Samsung, SpaceX, and Intel interested Vietnam will train 50,000 engineers to work in its semiconductor industry between now and 2030 ,as it seeks to embed itself further into the global chip…
Lees meerMacBook Pro and iMac get the new silicon, and price tags up to a terrifying $7,199 Apple has announced its M3 silicon, claimed they are the first CPUs for desktop computers built on a three-nanometre process, and packed them into its MacBook Pro and…
Lees meerDeveloper labels action 'unfounded' after company and CISO slapped with suit for misleading investors SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer have been charged with fraud by America's financial watchdog, which alleges the software maker knew its se…
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