Silent Patch Tuesday mitigation ends ability to hide malicious commands in .lnk files Microsoft has quietly closed off a critical Windows shortcut file bug long abused by espionage and cybercrime networks.…
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Lees meerOpenAI and Microsoft yank their chatbots, telling millions of users to head elsewhere The European Commission has opened an antitrust probe into Meta after WhatsApp rewrote its rules to block rival AI chatbots including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsof…
Lees meerTechnical problems on video calls can cause uncanniness, which influences real-world decisions If you didn't get your dream job, you might be able to blame your internet provider. Technical glitches on video calls in healthcare, job interviews, and …
Lees meer$200M deal brings Claude into data cloud, yet its touted ‘90%+’ accuracy needs human oversight Anthropic and Snowflake announced a deal that will allow the deployment of AI agents capable of complex, multi-step analysis inside Snowflake's governed d…
Lees meerMajor OEMs are plotting double-digit hikes as DRAM and NAND shortages bite Exclusive Server and PC prices are climbing sharply as hardware manufacturers grapple with soaring memory component costs, multiple supply chain sources have told The Regist…
Lees meerNvidia is along for the ride with chips to offer, naturally Palantir has always been a company marked by ambition, and it's embarking on what might be its most ambitious project yet with Chain Reaction, a new multi-industry, AI-powered software suit…
Lees meerAutonomous AI triages DevOps issues and pushes code to repositories, while checking security Re:Invent Amazon is all-in on agentic AI when it comes to software development, and it sincerely hopes you are too, based on Tuesday's AWS re:Invent keynot…
Lees meerAwarded a £239M contract, outsourcer apologizes for any inconvenience to 1.5M members Updated Pension scheme members are facing a string of errors and malfunctions as they try to log into and retrieve account details from the UK's civil service por…
Lees meerSilent Patch Tuesday mitigation ends ability to hide malicious commands in .lnk files Microsoft has quietly closed off a critical Windows shortcut file bug long abused by espionage and cybercrime networks.…
Lees meerLetting AI firms train on copyrighted data will end up helping China, conservative groups argue A group of conservatives allied with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement, including former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, has asked the Justice Depart…
Lees meerGartner found only 20% of customer service leaders have cut human agents because of AI The world’s smallest digital violin is playing for AI chatbots, which are having a hard time elbowing out their human counterparts for jobs in customer service, a…
Lees meerIt's time to ask your bit barn provider how they'll keep the lights on, and what their plans mean for prices Availability of energy will determine the prices charged by datacenter operators, who won’t be viable unless they generate some of their own…
Lees meerCloudflare data shows 29.7 Tbps record-breaker landed amid 87% surge in network-layer attacks The internet has spent the past three months ducking for cover as the Aisuru botnet hurled record-shattering DDoS barrages from an army of up to 4 million …
Lees meerJust ignore all the ways the peripherals biz uses AI itself Logitech's CEO says that AI-powered devices are a solution looking for a problem, despite being a strong proponent of AI and her firm pushing out exactly the kind of thing she's talking abo…
Lees meerMicrosoft warns Start menu, Explorer, and other XAML apps can crash or vanish on managed devices Microsoft has admitted that it might have broken Windows components including the Start menu and Explorer in the latest round of updates.…
Lees meer3 GW is roughly three quarters of the country's peak demand, says Foxglove New datacenters planned in Scotland would collectively require 75 percent as much energy as the entire country currently consumes, according to tech campaign group Foxglove.…
Lees meerRussian vehicles will depart soon, but Baikonur launchpad damage clouds future arrivals Updated NASA confirmed this week that for the first time, all eight of the International Space Station's docking ports are currently occupied – four by Russian …
Lees meerIt’s time to ask your bit barn provider how they’ll keep the lights on, and what their plans mean for prices Availability of energy will determine the prices charged by datacenter operators, who won’t be viable unless they generate some of their own…
Lees meerOne dev thinks this will become their second-highest cost, fears they’ll have to pass it on Exclusive SaaS-y accounting outfit Xero has advised developers who integrate their products with its services that they’ll soon have to pay for the privileg…
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