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This image-recognition roulette is all fun and games... until it labels you a rape suspect, divorcee, or a racial slur
Netizens are merrily slinging selfies and other photos at an online neural network to classify them... and the results aren’t pretty.…
You can trust us to run a digital currency – we're Facebook: Exec begs Europe not to ban Libra
The Facebook exec in charge of its Libra cryptocurrency effort has sought to assure European governments that their fears are unfounded… by telling them they’re wrong and Facebook knows better.…
Not to over-hype this storage chip tech, but if I could get away with calling my first-born '3D NAND', I totally would
Comment Anyone who’s ever watched the original Star Trek series will probably remember Spock and Kirk playing three-dimensional chess – a great chance for the Enterprise’s science officer to show off his prowess with logic as he contemplated a range of complex moves.…
Scott McNealy gets touchy feely with Trump: Sun cofounder hosts hush-hush reelection fundraiser for President
The mystery host of a Silicon Valley fundraiser for President Trump today has been revealed as Scott McNealy, co-founder and former CEO of Sun Microsystems.…
US government sues ex-IT guy for breaking his NDA (Yes, we mean Edward Snowden)
The US government today sued former CIA employee and NSA sysadmin contractor Edward Snowden to deny him payment from his newly published book, Permanent Record.…
We asked for your Fitbit horror stories and, oh wow, did you deliver: Readers sync their teeth into 'junk' gizmos
Yesterday El Reg wrote about the frustrating syncing failures plaguing FitBit gadgets over the past four or so weeks.…
Seriously, this sh!t again? 24m medical records, 700m+ scan pics casually left online
Around 24 million medical patients' data is floating around on the internet, freely available for all to pore over – thanks to that good old common factor, terribly insecure servers.…
DevOps darling GitLab pockets another $268m to be valued at $2.75bn
DevOps botherer GitLab has scored another $268m of funding, bringing the value of the outfit to $2.75bn ahead of a 2020 IPO.…
Vulns out of the box: 12 in 13 small biz network devices terribly insecure by default – research
A new report has suggested that 12 out of 13 network devices, such as routers and network-attached storage appliances, are vulnerable to hacks that enable "root-privileged access without any authentication".…
Apple tells European Commission it's nutty for slapping €13bn tax bill on Irish subsidiary
Apple has appealed against the European Union's 2016 decision to impose a €13bn tax bill on the iPhone maker's Irish subsidiary.…
VMware on AWS: Low-risk option or security blanket for those who don't like change?
AWS Transformation Day It's London's turn with AWS Transformation Day, where attendees endure a cacophony of buzzwords intended to hammer home the message that Amazon's cloud is where you wanna be.…
HP printer small print says kit phones home data on whatever you print – and then some
Hewlett-Packard Inc's printers don't just slurp the contents of your wallet at a frightening rate. They also guzzle a surprising amount of data on you and whatever you're printing.…
.NET Core 3.0 thought it was all ready for release. And it would have been too, if it weren't for those pesky Visual Studio kids
Having promised there wouldn't be any more previews, Microsoft has dropped a release candidate for the upcoming .NET Core 3.0 framework.…
Brit government WLTM one Chief Digi Info Officer
UK.gov is on the lookout for a Government Chief Digital Information Officer (GCDIO) - a permanent secretary role that sets the strategic direction of travel for public sector IT in return for up to £180,000 a year.…
UK Home Office web form snafu allows you to both agree and disagree – strongly – all at once
A UK Home Office consultation on new, intrusive police powers was so incompetently written that you could both "strongly agree" and "strongly disagree" at the same time when answering its questions.…
Neural networks. Sparse data. TensorFlow. PyTorch. Text mining. Ethics – and lots more. We've got every angle of AI covered at MCubed
Event Whether you’re worried about the machines taking over, or think it can’t happen soon enough, you should get yourselves down to MCubed at the end of the month.…
NASA's lunar spy looks for hide-and-seek champ Vikram, Starliner test success, and more
Roundup Unlike SpaceX's Crew Dragon, which plops down in the ocean at the end of a mission (ideally in one piece), Boeing's CST-100 Starliner is designed to land on, er, land. As NASA and Boeing inch ever closer to its first crewed launch, rehearsals were conducted last week to practice locating a capsule, safing it and preparing for hatch opening.…
Google age discrimination case: Supervisor called me 'grandpa', engineer claims
Google has been hit by another age discrimination lawsuit, just two months after the search giant settled a previous case brought by over 200 people.…
UK.gov's smart meter cost-benefit analysis for 2019 goes big on cost, easy on the benefits
The UK government has confirmed that electricity suppliers have an extra four years to hit targets for installing smart meters.…
You look like a fungi. Got mushroom in your life to build stuff with mycelium computers?
The Unconventional Computing Laboratory in Bristol is looking for a research associate to help it create buildings with embedded fungus-created computers.…