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The open source Llama 3 AI model released by Meta today is just the start, according to the company’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun. He said a new, much larger version is in the works.
Meta has unleashed its latest large language model (LLM) – named Llama 3 – and claims it will challenge much larger models from the likes of Google, Mistral, and Anthropic.…
Major updates to Debian's Advanced Packaging Tool don't come along very often, but APT 2.9 is here with a significant facelift.…
Google has fired more than two dozen employees after they staged sit-ins at the web giant's offices in protest of its cloud contract with the Israeli government. …
Video The US Air Force Test Pilot School and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) claim to have achieved a breakthrough in machine learning by demonstrating that AI software can fly a modified F-16 fighter jet in a dogfight against human pilots.…
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Space law just got a little more complicated.
Octapharma Plasma has blamed IT "network issues" for the ongoing closure of its 150-plus centers across the US. It's feared a ransomware infection may be the root cause of the medical firm's ailment.…
Crooks are exploiting month-old OpenMetadata vulnerabilities in Kubernetes environments to mine cryptocurrency using victims' resources, according to Microsoft.…
After months of secrecy, Neuralink revealed that the partner site for its brain implant study is the Barrow Neurological Institute.
Stability AI is laying off staff in its search of steadier footing following the sudden departure of its CEO late last month.…
IBM has been accused of cheating its executive assistants by denying them overtime pay and meal breaks and retaliating against them for accurately reporting their working hours.…
Feature Cops have brought down a dark-web souk that provided cyber criminals with convincing copies of trusted brands' websites for use in phishing campaigns.…
A law professor is warning a proposed reintroduction net neutrality in the US will allow cellular networks to create “fast lanes” for some applications, and that this undermines the entire net neutrality principle.…
Microsoft's Copilot obsession has continued with the AI assistant unexpectedly arriving on Windows Server 2022 this week, in a situation the software giant is calling an "incorrect install."…
Speaking at Black Hat Asia on Thursday, a Korean researcher revealed how the discovery of one phishing website led to uncovering an operation whose activities leveraged second-hand shops and included using Apple’s "someone-else pickup" method to cash in.…
One juror in former US president Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York has been excused over fears she could be identified. It could get even messier.
From The Last of Us to Succession, HBO Max is a streaming paradise of “it’s not TV” television.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched his campaign one year ago this week.
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has slapped coding boot camp BloomTech with several punishments for alleged deceptive business practices.…
Microsoft is looking to significantly expand datacenter space to service expected AI demand, tripling the rate at which it adds capacity early in its next financial year. Other hyperscalers appear to be following suit.…
Widespread 911 outages in the US appear to have mostly been resolved, but that doesn't mean the cause is clear.…
A draft law to restrict the US government's ability to procure data on citizens through data brokers will progress to the Senate after being passed in the House of Representatives.…
Speakers at a conference for Constitutional Sheriffs claimed that militias need to patrol polling stations to stop the "expected flood" of immigrant voters.
The second golden age of portable gaming is here! Mostly. These are the top gadgets for taking your video games on the go.
The car company popularized EVs. Now, facing intense competition from China, it has to figure out what to do next.
Windows 10 isn't the only Microsoft product due for the chop next year – end of support also beckons for Office 2016, 2019, and a swathe of productivity servers.…
Discover all this and more in "Secrets of the Octopus".
Rad Power Bikes’ new bikes have a renewed focus on safety, with encapsulated batteries, class switching, and now … turn signals.
Want more butterflies in your garden? Step away from the lawn mower.
A stellar chance to test ideas about the origins of cosmic rays has ended up sending scientists back to the drawing board.
An undertaker took the photo during a voyage to recover the bodies.
Modern Japanese people may have a third, unknown ancestral group.
AngryGF offers a perpetually enraged chatbot intended to teach men better communication skills. WIRED took it for a spin.
Is it for speed, part of a hunting strategy, or simply just for fun?
Welcome to the world, Antonia and Noreen.
Step aside, Titanoboa, you've got competition.
TSMC boss C C Wei says customers who want to fabricate in the chip giant's non-Taiwan facilities will need share the cost by paying more.…
Get more joy from your java. These conical-burr, flat-burr, and bladed machines let you enjoy freshly ground beans in every cup.
Satellite data has helped to reveal the depths of the ephemeral lake.
NASA is sending astronauts out to fix an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station (ISS) after the instrument developed a "light leak."…
Vaquitas were issued an extinction alert by the IWC in 2023.
Is platelet-rich plasma medicine's next big thing, or has it been spun out of proportion?
Ransomware strikes at yet another US healthcare organization led to the theft of sensitive data belonging to just shy of 185,000 people.…
Researchers have compared the event to the storming of the Bastille.
A super-simple, hands-free action sports device that takes the hassle—and smartphone—out of on-the-go active chat.
The 30,000-kilometer round-trip is driven by sunrays and fornication.
There are a few clues to look out for.
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (because I'm at a luxury resort).
Memory chipmaker Micron looks set to be the next recipient of US government subsidy cash with $6.1 billion heading its way to help fund new-build semiconductor plants.…
Having a smart TV built into a computer monitor was more convenient—and enjoyable—than I expected.
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Google is again firing the redundancy cannon for the second time this year, with a restructure being pushed through and teams in the finance and real estate units of the business understood to be impacted.…
GE’s drip coffee maker is expensive, not dishwasher-safe, and makes a so-so cup of joe.
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The EU's Data Protection Board (EDPB) has told large online platforms they should not offer users a binary choice between paying for a service and consenting to their personal data being used to provide targeted advertising.…
This week, we talk about the buzzy new social media app where there’s no typing allowed.
A viral tweet spread the news that the word "avocado" stems from testicular origins. Is it true?
Influencers like Jake Paul can offer Donald Trump inroads to audiences beyond his base—and prime seats at a major spectacle.
The patients were infected during the first wave of the pandemic in Australia.
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Those who find modern smartphones too distracting from real life might be interested in the Boring Phone (no relation to the smartphone of the same name), a novelty flip phone based on HMD's Nokia 2660 Flip.…
Watch how smooth-talking scammers known as “Yahoo Boys” use widely available face-swapping tech to carry out elaborate romance scams.
All 9-year-old Cal Clifford wanted was his own pet octopus...
We have no idea what the 20-minute conversation was about.
The third generation of Nothing’s clear-plastic AirPod clones is here, and they’re some of the best wireless earbuds for Android.
“This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for.”
Twenty-two million light-years is not exactly around the corner, but by the standards of supernovae, it almost counts.
Could another Civil War be on the horizon? Although researchers don't think it is likely, they are worried it is becoming more plausible.
Farmers around the world are reigniting the less intensive agricultural practices of yesteryear—to improve soil health, raise yields, and trap carbon in the atmosphere back down in the soil.
Compared to the supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s heart this is tiny, but by other standards, it’s disturbingly big.
Roku TVs of the future may throw up targeted ads on the screen whenever you pause a video.…
Forrester Research says that although 50 models of AI PCs are already on sale today there remains "no killer app" that would make any of them an essential tool for business users.…
Fossil jaw bones point to a prehistoric sea monster the size of a blue whale.
Valkey, the value-key database pitched as an open source alternative to Redis, has acquired new backers and announced its first release candidate.…
Cisco has developed a product called Hypershield that it thinks represents a new way to do network security.…
A software glitch at Star Casino in Sydney, Australia, saw it inadvertently give away millions in cash without realizing it – for weeks.…
The European Commission on Wednesday gave TikTok 24 hours to explain the risk assessment procedures it used before launching a version of the made-in-China app that rewards users for using it in certain ways.…
One of the biggest challenges Singapore faces is the potential for a split between tech stacks developed and used by China and the West, according to the island nation's Cyber Security Administration (CSA) chief executive David Koh.…
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter concluded its mission on Tuesday, sending a final signal in its role as a companion to the Perseverance Rover.…
The fired workers included nine Google employees who were removed by police after occupying Google offices on Tuesday.
Chinese surveillance camera manufacturer Zhejiang Dahua Technology, which has found itself on the USA’s entity list of banned orgs, has fully sold off its stateside subsidiary for $15 million to Taiwan's Central Motion Picture Corporation, according to the firm's annual report released on Monday.…
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise has filed a lawsuit against Inspur Group, China's largest server maker, for allegedly violating five of its server technology patents.…
Intel Labs revealed its largest neuromorphic computer on Wednesday, a 1.15 billion neuron system, which it says is roughly analogous to an owl's brain.…
Video Atlas, the humanoid robot that's been a centerpiece of Boston Dynamics' robot lineup for nearly a decade, has been retired. In its place is, well, Atlas - an all-electric version designed for commercial use. …
On Thursday the US Senate is expected to reauthorize the contentious warrantless surveillance powers conferred by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and may even strengthen them with language that, according to US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), "will force a huge range of companies and individuals to spy for the government."…
Dutch semiconductor toolmaker ASML has shipped its second-ever high numerical aperture (NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine to an undisclosed customer.…
Amazon Web Services is abandoning its fleet of Snowmobile data haulers, the trucks packed with petabytes of spinning disks designed to get large enterprises into the cloud.…
The price of everything is going up because corporations gotta corp and produce record profits year after year. That means you and I are expected to cough up more.…
It's taken less than eighteen months for human- and AI-generated media to become impossibly intermixed. Some find this utterly unconscionable, and refuse to have anything to do with any media that has any generative content within it. That ideological stance betrays a false hope: that this is a passing trend, an obsession with the latest new thing, and will pass.…
2024-04-17
Small businesses wishing they could get their hands on some of those billions of dollars in semiconductor funding being doled out as part of America's CHIPS Act are in luck, as the White House has set aside $54 million for tiny firms with big ideas.…
The NSA has released guidance to help organizations protect their AI systems and better defend the defense industry.…
NASA has finally confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission will be heading to Titan, one of Saturn's Moons, meaning the team behind the project can finalize its design and get to work building the spacecraft.…
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MGM Resorts wants the FTC to halt a probe into last year's ransomware infection of the mega casino chain – because the watchdog's boss Lina Khan was a guest at one of its hotels during the cyberattack, apparently.…
A new app called Delta that lets iPhone owners play old Nintendo games is available on the App Store. Apple removed a similar emulator Monday.
Gartner expects global IT spending to grow 8 percent in 2024 to $5.06 trillion in a revised forecast from the 6.8 percent uptick which the analyst predicted in January.…
The Russian military's notorious Sandworm crew was likely behind cyberattacks on US and European water plants that, in at least one case, caused a tank to overflow.…
Before the dear old model could even power down, Boston Dynamics unleashed a stronger new Atlas robot that can move in ways us puny humans never can.
One of Silicon Valley's most influential lobbying arms joins privacy reformers in a fight against the Biden administration-backed expansion of a major US surveillance program.
A Delaware court may have voided Elon Musk's $56 billion Tesla pay package in February, but now the board is asking shareholders to reinstate it.…
Coincidence? Yes.
Cloud seeding is often the target of conspiracy theories.
This amazing ability was discovered by accident.
Intel Labs revealed its largest neuromorphic computer on Wednesday, a 1.15 billion neuron system, which it says is roughly analogous to an owl's brain.…
OLED takes a step back as the brand embraces the brightness wars with some powerful new weapons.
It's being described as "Live Aid for corals."
Humans may have had language for millions of years.
Bzzzzz! And the drone is useless.
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Samsung has revealed its upgraded LPDDR5X memory modules, which features improved performance, capacity, and efficiency.…
Take a look at everything Atlas has accomplished in its momentous lifetime.
And the Lord looked down upon the crypto bros and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, "I will send down upon thee a flood to wash out thy crypto conference."…
The bigger RHELatives continue to diverge slightly from Red Hat, with additional drivers and newer kernel versions.…
Your next shot may be the big winner in the world of the very small.
A Boeing whistleblower has called for the embattled aircraft manufacturer's fleet of 787s to be grounded for gap checks.…
This behemoth of a laptop is ultrapowerful with great battery life, but it has some quirks and a scary price.
Increasing temperatures have been no bother for the lake’s icy covering – but that might not always be the case.
Various infosec researchers have released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for the maximum-severity vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS used in GlobalProtect gateways.…
Studying the evolution of the virus, he found signs that the information entropy decreased over time.
Chipmaking kit maestro ASML generated almost half of its sales from China in calendar Q1, amid a wider downturn in orders and plunging profits.…
Apple is turning on Web Distribution for iOS apps, allowing EU users to download applications directly from developer websites.…
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Birmingham City Council has failed to enter the new financial year with auditable accounting software after a disastrous implementation of Oracle Fusion, which has seen its expected project costs mushroom from around £20 million ($26 million) to around £131 million ($163 million).…
Nike’s reputation—and sales—are both in trouble. The Paris games could be the aging brand’s chance to turn its fortunes around.
The bill sailed through a vote in the UK parliament.
You need to see these bubble-blowing mammals in action.
Logitech has launched a free software tool to help existing users of its kit with ChatGPT prompts, but those that splash out on the upcoming Signature AI Edition Mouse, get a... dedicated AI prompt button.…
Airbnb is encouraging developers to build condo towers purposefully designed to be listed for short-term rentals. Units are selling fast in Miami and coming soon to other US cities.
Rumors of Ingenuity's death have been greatly exaggerated.
Elisa Shupe was initially rebuffed when she tried to copyright a book she wrote with help from ChatGPT. Now the US Copyright Office has changed course—but there’s a catch.
AI agents, which combine large language models with automation software, can successfully exploit real world security vulnerabilities by reading security advisories, academics have claimed.…
Cyber Army of Russia Reborn, a group with ties to the Kremlin’s Sandworm unit, is crossing lines even that notorious cyberwarfare unit wouldn’t dare to.
Heavy rain has triggered flash flooding in Dubai. But those pointing the finger at cloud seeding are misguided.
FOSDEM 2024 NetBSD 10 marks a new level of maturity for this venerable open source Unix system, which somehow manages to be both modern and retro at the same time.…
This plant has spectacular, otherworldly-looking flowers.
Scientists learn the values of their discipline, but they often take for granted how the public views and understands the subject and their values.
In 2015, New Horizons sent back images of Pluto's "heart", and a gravitational mystery.
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Analysis Three years after CEO Pat Gelsinger announced Intel would create a foundry business that took on contract manufacturing gigs, Chipzilla has committed to more than $185 billion in spending across new and existing fab, packaging, and test sites.…
"This is a very different kind of city," says the lead author of the new study.
Google will eventually invest $100 billion in AI, according to DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis.…
Japan's government has considered the proposed security improvements developed by Yahoo!, found them wanting, and ordered the onetime web giant to take new measures.…
Videos show nine Google workers being removed by police from offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California, after occupying them in protest against a cloud deal with Israel’s government.
Tencent Cloud has apologized for an outage that impacted customers last week – an unusual act by a Chinese cloud – and signalled it will review some aspects of its ops in the hope of avoiding future incidents of this nature.…
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Internet-scraping outfit Spy.pet claims to have harvested more than four billion public messages made by nearly 620 million users on more than 14,000 Discord chat servers – and is selling access to this trove.…
India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, used AI to help develop the nation's 25-year development roadmap, according to comments made during a live-streamed interview with news agency ANI on Monday.…
YouTube says it will intentionally cripple the playback of its videos in third-party apps that block its ads.…
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RISC-V chip designer Rivos has raised $250 million in series-A funding to bankroll production of its first accelerator for generative AI and data analytics workloads.…
Cisco is fighting fires on a couple fronts this week after security incidents involving its Duo multi-factor authentication (MFA) service and its remote-access VPN services.…
The company HMD, known for making Nokia phones, has partnered with Heineken and Bodega on “The Boring Phone” and there will only be 5,000 of them.
2024-04-16
Analysis Researchers in China have reportedly demonstrated how a low-cost Nvidia Jetson module could theoretically be used to direct a hypersonic weapon.…
A cybercriminal gang called RansomHub claims to be selling data highly sensitive patient information stolen from Change Healthcare following a ransomware attack by another group in February.
Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has made the use of indentation in kernel config files more ambiguous – intentionally, to weed out inferior parsers.…
From Goodfellas to The Banshees of Inisherin, here are our favorite movies on the streaming service.
AI-generated and assisted code contributions are no longer allowed in the Gentoo Linux distribution.…
AMD has brought its 4 nm Hawk Point and Phoenix APUs to business users in the form of the Ryzen Pro 8040 series for laptops and Ryzen Pro 8000 series for desktops.…
Get your fix of tech, true crime, pop culture, or comedy with these audio adventures.
Google employees are staging sit-ins and protests at company offices in New York and California over “Project Nimbus,” a cloud contract with Israel's government, as the country's war with Hamas continues.
A controversial bill reauthorizing the Section 702 spy program may force whole new categories of businesses to eavesdrop on the US government's behalf, including on fellow Americans.
A simple misclick at a London law firm led to a surprise divorce for an unsuspecting couple.…
A Nebraska man will appear in court today to face charges related to allegations that he defrauded cloud service providers of more than $3.5 million in a long-running cryptojacking scheme.…
Fancy swimming from Africa to Australia in 99 days?
We knew some space rocks had dramatic stories, but this one reveals things can get more extreme than we expected.
It’s also the second major coral bleaching event in the last 10 years.
Lynxes are rare today, but they are even rarer in the archaeological record. So why was one buried with four dogs?
"This type of monument seems unprecedented and currently no comparison has been possible."
For the first time, Microsoft will apply daily restrictions to Exchange Online in an effort to staunch the flow of spam from the service.…
These are the titles that make the most of your big, burly Microsoft console.
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) says a claim against Workday should be allowed to continue, arguing the HR and finance software vendor may qualify as an employment agency because of the way its AI tool screens applicants.…
T-Mobile employees say they are being sent text messages that offer them cash to perform illegal SIM swaps for supposed criminals.…
The title character of 'Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley' scares cops and destroys park signs in the latest game adaptation of Tove Jansson’s creation.
The major lunar standstill occurs once in a generation.
NASA has confirmed that a piece of space junk that crashed through a Florida home in March was a fragment of a discarded ISS battery pallet.…
Your regular reminder that vandalism in national parks (and in general) is illegal.
Open source groups are warning the community about a wave of ongoing attacks targeting project maintainers similar to those that led to the recent attempted backdooring of a core Linux library.…
Google's plan to pay $62 million to settle allegations that it tracked people even when their Location History setting was switched off may have to be renegotiated based on several objections.…
Microsoft has confirmed a $1.5 billion investment in G42, a United Arab Emirates (UAE) AI biz.…
UnitedHealth, parent company of ransomware-besieged Change Healthcare, says the total costs of tending to the February cyberattack for the first calendar quarter of 2024 currently stands at $872 million.…
Micron is now mass producing 232-layer QLC NAND, claiming it's the first memory manufacturer to break the 200-layer mark in QLC chips.…
The DJI Avata 2 is the brilliant FPV drone we’ve been waiting for.
US private equity investor Blackstone has plans for a £10 billion ($12.45 billion) hyperscale datacenter in northern England on a site formerly owned by battery startup Britishvolt.…
This celestial spectacle was first recorded by Chinese astronomers over 2,500 years ago.
IFL
The feat suggests that distance and time might not have to be limits to transplantation.
WIRED spoke with US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg about recent grants to fix ancient roads, bridges, and other critical infrastructure before it’s too late.
Electrons are everywhere. But what if it's the same one?
The project draining the space research budget remains a priority, but is labeled too expensive and too slow.
Pyrite as a lithium source “is unheard of,” but could be big news for batteries.
Ant-vada Kedavra.
“Computer, freeze program!”
The UK's health department has awarded global consultancy KPMG an £8.5 million ($10.5 million) contract to help implement the controversial Federated Data Platform (FDP) at a local level.…
Social platforms have struggled to quickly remove deepfake porn depicting celebrities.
The untold, top-secret story of the British researchers who found the key to keeping humans alive underwater—and helped make D-Day a success.
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Specialist cloud operators skilled at running hot and power-hungry GPUs and other AI infrastructure are emerging, and while some of these players like CoreWeave, Lambda, or Voltage Park — have built their clusters using tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs, others are turning to AMD instead.…
Titanomachya gimenezi has been compared to a cow.
NASA still wants to proceed with its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission but needs its cost to drop – so it's seeking help from the commercial space sector.…
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Exclusive Alibaba Cloud has detailed the telemetry tool it uses to look out for glitches in customers' virtual networks, and revealed it’s reduced the number of personnel dedicated to troubleshooting by 86 percent since developing the system.…
Broadcom has blinked, and made a couple of changes to support VMware customers who don't want to move to its new software bundle subscriptions.…
On Sunday, OpenAI announced the launch of its operations in Asia, beginning with a office in Tokyo, Japan. It's OpenAI's third outpost beyond the United States, following offices in London and Dublin.…
Japanese imaging manufacturers Konica Minolta and Fujifilm have revealed talks aimed at creating a joint venture to handle printer manufacturing and R&D for both brands.…
Samsung is the latest chipmaker to benefit from CHIPS and Science Act funds, with the US Commerce Department today announcing the Korean megacorporation is getting $6.4 billion in funding to expand its Texas operations. …
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has flipped the switch on its Venado supercomputer – a machine capable of bringing ten exaFLOPS of performance to bear on AI workloads for the Department of Energy.…
2024-04-15
Some smart locks controlled by Chirp Systems' software can be remotely unlocked by strangers thanks to a critical security vulnerability.…
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has issued its seventh annual AI Index Report, which reports a thriving industry facing growing costs, regulations, and public concern.…
It’s time for another audio-first social network with a long wait list and vague moderation policies. What could go wrong?
As Americans go through their annual ceremony of tax day, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has reminded the FTC that tax software biz Intuit is making bank on "junk fees."…
Huawei's launch of its newest MateBook Pro X, which uses Intel's latest Meteor Lake CPU has invoked the ire of Republican members of Congress in the US.…
Engineers at NASA have pinpointed some corrupted memory as the cause of Voyager 1's troubles and are working on a remote fix to deal with the hardware problem.…
Apple, Google, and other companies with app store monopolies could be fined 20 or even 30 percent of their sales in Japan if updated regulations pass muster.…
Microsoft has lifted a 29-month compatibility hold that prevented some Windows 10 systems from upgrading to Windows 11 due to an issue with an Intel Smart Sound Technology driver.…
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Electric vehicles may become a new front in America's tech war with China after a US senator called for Washington DC to block Chinese-made EVs to protect domestic industries and national security.…
Customers of Delinea's Secret Server are being urged to upgrade their installations "immediately" after a researcher claimed a critical vulnerability could allow attackers to gain admin-level access.…
A new SEC filing details all the ways that Trump Media thinks Donald Trump himself could be a major risk to the company.
Streaming giant Roku is making 2FA mandatory after attackers accessed around 591,000 customer accounts earlier this year.…
The world is collectively buying more factory-fresh smartphones again, with Chinese homegrown brands propelling shipments. Meanwhile, Apple reported a near double-digit slump, and Samsung also saw declines, albeit at a slower rate.…
Misleading posts including AI-generated videos, photos, and repurposed footage from other conflicts have been viewed millions of times.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new method for 3D printing, which they claim greatly reduces the time taken to adapt machines to using different materials.…
Tesla is starting the week on a low note by laying off "more than" 10 percent of its employees just days after Cybertruck production was reportedly halted to address an issue with the accelerator pedal.…
The findings suggest that despite normally annihilating each other, the new type of particle may be a brief combination of a proton and an antiproton.
Scientists say the "Red Alert" is already on for the clouded tiger cat.
The African giant has lava that's black, strangely cool, and flows like runny motor oil.
Cloud storage provider Backblaze is adding Event Notifications to its portfolio, sending out an alert whenever data in its Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage changes.…
Opinion Twice it was tried, twice it failed. In Germany, Munich and Lower Saxony both decided to switch to open source for official IT. Both projects, to some extent or another*, returned to Microsoft. Now the state of Schleswig-Holstein is hoping for third time lucky. It's been planning the same thing for three years, and now it's pressing the button.…
Space Force finally living up to its name.
La vie en rose.
They always have kraken birthday parties.
Whether you’re pushing your kid down the street or running on a trail, we have a stroller for you.
A new white paper details the long and sometimes gruelling process.
Whether you’re into esports or casual fragging, these are the greatest gaming mice we’ve tested.
Fingers crossed for good news.
Nearly two-thirds of SAP users in North America are set to migrate to its latest S/4HANA ERP platform, or have already started the process, according to a recent survey.…
The biggest, baddest Asus gaming laptop can tear through everything you can throw at it (including its battery).
Microsoft is to try out "recommendations" – ads for apps in the Microsoft Store – in the Windows 11 Start Menu, but only for a small set of US Beta Channel Windows Insiders at first.…
Learn how to use keyboard shortcuts instead of mouse clicks for common tasks in Google Docs. You might be surprised at how much time you save.
A developer named Danny Guo has shared a story of the time his cat alerted him to a DDoS attack.…
This once-busy mining town has become a near-ghost town with a ceaseless fire raging below its surface.
Humanity needs to burn less fossil fuels. But that means fewer aerosols to help cool the planet—and a potential acceleration of global warming.
The company’s new range of gaming furniture is designed to bring you closer to the action when you’re playing, and blend into your living room when you’re not.
Microsoft has stumbled through a series of major cybersecurity failures over the past few years. Experts say the US government’s reliance on its systems means the company continues to get a free pass.
Want one of the fastest-growing jobs in the US? Get used to being high.
The beta version of this year's Ubuntu LTS release is out, complete with a new, and automatable, installation program.…
It's been described as "an exciting new type of coyote in the midst of an amazing evolutionary transition."
Elon Musk’s Neuralink and others are developing devices that could provide blind people with a crude sense of sight.
After cryptocurrency prices spiked, scammers have flooded the market with fake tokens that promise investors great riches, but leave them penniless. It's working.
who, me? Welcome once again, gentle reader folk, to the comfy corner of The Register safe space we call Who, Me? wherein readers share their stories of times when they were not perhaps at the very peak of their technical brilliance.…
Microsoft has foreshadowed significant price rises for its Dynamics 365 cloudy business applications.…
South Korean industrial giant HD Hyundai's maritime arm announced on Sunday it will collaborate with controversial software developer Palantir Technologies to develop an unmanned surface vessel (USV) that can conduct reconnaissance for the world's navies.…
Supercolossal SaaS seller Salesforce is reportedly poised to acquire cloud data management outfit Informatica.…
Infosec in brief US Congress nearly killed a reauthorization of FISA Section 702 last week over concerns that it would continue to allow warrantless surveillance of Americans, but an amendment to require a warrant failed to pass.…
Asia In Brief The Australian operations of Estonian cloud and web hosting outfit BlueVPS have been struck by a multi-day outage that commenced on or about April 9 and is ongoing at the time of writing.…
interview We know Google search results are being hammered the proliferation of AI garbage, and the web giant's attempts to curb the growth of machine-generated drivel haven't helped all that much.…
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AI models become better at foretelling the future when asked to frame the prediction as a story about the past, boffins at Baylor University have found.…
2024-04-14
Interview While the likes of OpenAI and Google DeepMind chase after some fabled artificial general intelligence, not everyone thinks that's the best use of our time and energy in developing AI.…
From the stylish Evercade to the old-school Sega Genesis Mini, these machines will have you bleeping, blooping, and blasting back to the good old days.
The free application comes preinstalled on every Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Here’s how to use it to kickstart a daily journaling habit.
These wheeled carts made for schlepping groceries home from the supermarket are a city-dweller necessity. Rolser is proving they can even be sorta hip.
These WIRED-tested wearables reduce your reliance on a phone while keeping you connected.
Long-anticipated experiments that use light to mimic gravity are revealing the distribution of energies, forces, and pressures inside a subatomic particle for the first time.
Are we destined to expire after around a century, or could we theoretically live for much longer?
The Iron Dome is going to be put to the test—but it's not Israel's only line of defense.
