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Poland bans camera-packing cars made in China cars from military bases - 19/02 1:55 pm Dell, however, is welcome to help build a local-language LLM Polands Ministry of Defence has banned Chinese cars and any others include tech to record position, images, or sound from entering protected military facilities. |
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Indian think tank finds strong hiring for the kind of jobs AI puts at risk - 19/02 9:49 am IT services companies are largely immune to AIpocalypse, although the outlook is not good for entry-level jobs Indian think tank the Council for Research on International Economic Relations has found AI is not an immediate threat to the nations IT services sector. |
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Microsoft boffins cook up archival storage using Pyrex glass they say can .. - 19/02 8:28 am It may have half the capacity of fused silica glass, but is faster and much cheaper Microsoft this week detailed new research aimed at preserving data in borosilicate glass plates for thousands of years longer than conventional media like hard drives or magnetic tape, without needing to worry about bit rot. |
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Adidas investigates third-party data breach after criminals claim they .. - 19/02 7:57 am 'Potential data protection incident' at an 'independent licensing partner,' we're told Adidas has confirmed it is investigating a third-party breach at one of its partner companies after digital thieves claimed they stole information and technical data from the German sportswear giant. |
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ShinyHunters allegedly drove off with 1.7M CarGurus records - 19/02 7:44 am Latest in a rash of grab-and-leak data incidents CarGurus allegedly suffered a data breach with 1.7 million corporate records stolen, according to a notorious cybercrime crew that posted the online vehicle marketplace on itsleak site on Wednesday. |
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As memory shortage persists, vendor price quotes are not long remembered - 19/02 6:50 am HPE and Cisco are adjusting terms and conditions If you like the price of that server, PC, or storage array, you'd better act fast. |
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Google presses play on 30-second Gemini musical slop generator - 19/02 5:24 am Who needs to express themselves through music when a bot will do it for you with nothing but a prompt? If you've ever wanted to make music but have neither the talent nor the inspiration, Google has the AI tool for you. Gemini will now generate a 30-second song for you directly from a text prompt, photo, or video. |
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Copilot spills the beans, summarizing emails it's not supposed to read - 19/02 3:32 am Data Loss Prevention? Yeah, about that... The bot couldn't keep its prying eyes away. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat has been summarizing emails labeled confidential even when data loss prevention policies were configured to prevent it. |
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DARPA's autonomous missile-firing missile advances toward flight tests - 19/02 3:07 am Yo dawg, we heard you like missiles, so we put some missiles in your missile so you can boom while you zoom It's taken about five years, but DARPA's missile-launching missile has become the government's latest experimental X-plane and is advancing toward flight testing. |
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Fraudster hacked hotel system, paid 1 cent for luxury rooms, Spanish cops .. - 19/02 2:31 am 'First time we have detected a crime using this method,' cops say Spanish police arrested a hacker who allegedly manipulated a hotel booking website, allowing him to pay one cent for luxury hotel stays. He also raided the mini- bars and didn't settle some of those tabs, police say. |
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Linus Torvalds and friends tell The Reg how Linux solo act became a global .. - 19/02 2:13 am Ts'o, Hohndel and the man himself spill beans on how checks in the mail and GPL made it all possible If you know anything about Linux's history, you'll remember it all started with Linus Torvalds posting to the Minix Usenet group on August 25, 1991, that he was working on "a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." We know that the "hobby" operating system today is Linux, and except for PCs and Macs, it pretty much runs the world. |
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Deutsche Bahn back on track after DDoS yanks the brakes - 19/02 2:00 am National rail bookings and timetables disrupted for nearly 24 hours If you wanted to book a train trip in Germany recently, you would have been out of luck. The country's national rail company says that its services were disrupted for hours because of a cyberattack. |
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Microsoft throws spox under the bus after Parliament testimony on ICC .. - 19/02 1:50 am Apologizes for 'inaccuracy' Exclusive Microsoft has said one of its leading spokespeople gave testimony to the UK Parliament containing an "inaccuracy" with regard to its dealings with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in response to US sanctions. |
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Windows 11 finally hits right note: MIDI 2.0 support arrives - 19/02 1:36 am Musical instrument digital interface protocol leaves preview for bright lights of General Availability Microsoft has finally ushered in the era of MIDI 2.0 for Windows 11, more than a year after first teasing the functionality for Windows Insiders. |
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Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulnerabilities - 19/02 1:29 am State disputes the company's claim that its routers are made in Vietnam TP- Link is facing legal action from the state of Texas for allegedly misleading consumers with "Made in Vietnam" claims despite China-dominated manufacturing and supply chains, and for marketing its devices as secure despite reported firmware vulnerabilities exploited by Chinese state-sponsored actors. |
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6,000 execs struggle to find the AI productivity boom - 18/02 11:07 pm Survey says 80% of firms see no gains from the tech A survey of almost 6,000 corporate execs across the US, UK, Germany, and Australia found that more than 80 percent detect no discernible impact from AI on either employment or productivity. |
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Your AI-generated password isn't random, it just looks that way - 18/02 10:06 pm Seemingly complex strings are actually highly predictable, crackable within hours Generative AI tools are surprisingly poor at suggesting strong passwords, experts say. |
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Tesla drops 'Autopilot' branding in California after DMV order - 18/02 9:41 pm EV maker avoids 30-day license suspension after state ruling on self-driving claims Tesla has complied with an order by the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and stopped using the term "Autopilot" in its marketing of electric vehicles, having already modified use of "Full Self-Driving" to clarify that it requires driver supervision. |
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Cabinet Office probes digital ID minister over think tank's journalist .. - 18/02 9:17 pm Starmer orders inquiry after Labour Together commissioned dossier on reporters Josh Simons, the Cabinet Office minister responsible for the UK government's digital identity program, is being probed by the department for his actions running a Labour think tank that commissioned an investigation into journalists. |
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Godot maintainers struggle with 'draining and demoralizing' AI slop .. - 18/02 9:10 pm GitHub itself to blame for AI slop pull requests, say devs Rmi Verschelde, a maintainer of the open source Godot game engine, is the latest to complain about the impact of "AI slop PRs [pull requests]", which he says "are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for Godot maintainers." |
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Notepad++ declares hardened update process 'effectively unexploitable' - 18/02 8:43 pm Miscreants will need to find another avenue for malware shenanigans Notepad++ has continued beefing up security with a release the project's author claims makes the "update process robust and effectively unexploitable." |
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You can jailbreak an F-35 just like an iPhone, says Dutch defense chief - 18/02 8:11 pm No worries if the US doesn't want to be friends with Europe anymore Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter aircraft can be jailbroken "just like an iPhone," the Netherlands' defense secretary has claimed. |
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Windows 11 Start menu makes unscheduled stop in Saint Moritz - 18/02 8:00 pm Passenger info display takes scenic detour via desktop and pending updates Bork!Bork!Bork! The curse of bork is not limited to obsolete operating systems or obscure hardware. Today's example of railway signage disruption is something bang up to date from the Swiss town of Saint Moritz. |
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Europe's 5G Standalone stall risks falling behind US, Asia - 18/02 7:30 pm Report warns delayed rollouts could widen capability gap as new standards emerge North American and Asian markets are enjoying the benefits of a transition to 5G Standalone (SA) mobile networks, but much of Europe lags behind, risking a growing disadvantage as new capabilities roll out. |
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HackerOne 'updating' Ts&Cs after bug hunters question if they're training .. - 18/02 7:00 pm CEO lauds security researchers, insists they're not 'inputs' HackerOne has clarified its stance on GenAI after researchers fretted their submissions were being used to train its models. |
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Qualcomm set to triumph in UK smartphone patent tax case - 18/02 2:09 pm Consumer group Which? brought the case and now plans to bail after court indicated it would lose The UKs Competition Appeal Tribunal has indicated that it will find Qualcomm did not abuse its market power, leading consumer advocacy group Which? to withdraw a case it hoped would see Brits compensated for increased smartphone prices. |
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Palo Alto CEO says AI isnt great for business, yet - 18/02 12:52 am Sees little enterprise AI adoption other than coding assistants, buys Koi for what comes next If enterprises are implementing AI, theyre not showing it to Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, who on Tuesday said business adoption of the tech lags consumer take-up by at least a couple of years except for coding assistants. |
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Indian conglomerate Adani plans very slow $100 billion AI datacenter build - 18/02 10:16 am PM Modi tells citizens AI will lift them up, not take their jobs Giant Indian industrial conglomerate Adani has said it will spend up to $100 billion on AI datacenters to equip the nation with sovereign infrastructure, but will do so at slower pace than Big Tech tech companies plan to bring their own bit barns to Bharat. |
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Anthropic's latest Sonnet gets better at using computers, amid bouts of .. - 18/02 9:38 am Version 4.6 can also be 'warm, honest, prosocial, and at times funny' Anthropic has updated its Sonnet model to version 4.6 and claims the upgrade is better at coding and using computers, and also possesses improved reasoning and planning capabilities. |
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China-linked snoops have been exploiting Dell 0-day since mid-2024, using .. - 18/02 8:19 am Full scale of infections remains 'unknown' China-linked attackers exploited a maximum-severity hardcoded-credential bug in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines as a zero-day since at least mid-2024. It's all part of a long- running effort to backdoor infected machines for long-term access, according to Google's Mandiant incident response team. |
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Gemini lies to user about health info, says it wanted to make him feel .. - 18/02 6:59 am Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up Imagine using an AI to sort through your prescriptions and medical information, asking it if it saved that data for future conversations, and then watching it claim it had even if it couldn't. Joe D., a retired software quality assurance (SQA) engineer, says that Google Gemini lied to him and later admitted it was doing so to try and placate him. |
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GPU who? Meta to deploy Nvidia CPUs at large scale - 18/02 6:40 am CPU adoption is part of deeper partnership between the Social Network and Nvidia which will see millions of GPUs deployed over next few years Move over Intel and AMD Meta is among the first hyperscalers to deploy Nvidia's standalone CPUs, the two companies revealed on Tuesday. Meta has already deployed Nvidia's Grace processors in CPU-only systems at scale and is working with the GPU slinger to field its upcoming Vera CPUs beginning next year. |
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Amazon's $200 billion capex plan: How I learned to stop worrying and love .. - 18/02 6:26 am It isn't insane, and Amazon will be fine when the music stops. Other players, maybe not so much In their recent earnings call, Amazon kinda blew the doors off of industry analyst (motto: "we'll be wrong, then take it out on your stock") projections for their capex spend. |
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Infosys bows to its master, signs deal with Anthropic - 18/02 6:11 am After a selloff fueled by fears AI could upend the outsourcing model Indian IT professionals worried about 72-hour workweeks might soon face the opposite concern, as Bengaluru-based outsourcing giant Infosys has partnered with Anthropic to bring agentic AI to telecommunications companies and other regulated industries. |
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China remains embedded in US energy networks 'for the purpose of taking it .. - 18/02 5:45 am Plus 3 new goon squads targeted critical infrastructure last year Three new threat groups began targeting critical infrastructure last year, while a well- known Beijing-backed crew - Volt Typhoon - continued to compromise cellular gateways and routers, and then break into US electric, oil, and gas companies in 2025, according to Dragos' annual threat report published on Tuesday. |
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AI gets all the good stuff, including Micron's speedy 28 GB/s PCIe 6.0 SSD - 18/02 3:55 am Consumers have a long wait ahead of them before they can bring that kind of performance home It's time for a new generation of faster flash storage, but not on your laptop or desktop. Micron's first PCIe 6.0 SSDs have entered mass production and promise eye-watering transfer rates of up to 28 GB/s. However, unless you're building flash storage arrays for AI, you won't have a use for them. |
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AI bit barns grow climate emergency by turning up the gas - 18/02 2:54 am Companies talk renewables while firing up gas turbines as fast as they can Bit barns need a lot of power to operate and, as hyperscalers look for ways to generate it, they are adding more dirty energy in the form of new gas turbines. One estimate says that these new power sources could add another 44 million tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by 2030, equivalent to the annual emissions of 10 million private cars. |
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Scientists show it's possible to solve problems in your dreams by playing .. - 18/02 2:02 am Could the same method one day power sleep-time ads? It's like the movie Inception, but without Leonardo DiCaprio, unless you imagine him. Researchers used carefully timed sound cues to nudge dream content, and in some cases, boost next-morning problem solving. Could dreamtime product placement come next? |
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React survey shows TanStack gains, doubts over server components - 18/02 1:40 am Not everyone's convinced React belongs on the server as well as in the browser Devographics has published its State of React survey, with over 3,700 developers speaking out about what they love and hate in the fractured React ecosystem. |
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European Parliament bars lawmakers from using AI tools - 18/02 1:28 am Who knows where that helpful email summary is being generated? The European Parliament has reportedly turned off AI features on lawmakers' devices amid concerns about content going where it shouldn't. |
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