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Open source's new mission: To boldly go where no software has gone before
Opinion Bruce Perens is unhappy. He sees the spirit and potency of FOSS decaying into obsolescence as the big guns learn to game the system and users don't see the point.…
Gaia-X project doesn't have a future, claims Nextcloud boss
Interview Nextcloud CEO Frank Karlitschek is blunt about the future of Europe's Gaia-X project: it doesn't have one. At least, not in the way many of its founders hoped.…
Need to plug in an EV? BT Group kicks off cabinet update pilot
The BT Group has made good on its promise to repurpose street cabinets into EV charge points by kicking off a pilot to demonstrate the concept actually works.…
New year, new bug – rivalry between devs led to a deep-code disaster
Who, me? Welcome, gentle reader, and rejoice, for with the new year comes a new instalment of Who, Me? in which Reg readers recount tales of tech trouble for your edification.…
Everyone's suing AI over text and pics. But music? You ain't seen nothing yet
Comment Generative AI models are most known for knocking out text and pictures, though they're also getting some way with audio. Music is particularly tricky, arguably: as humans, we can be relatively forgiving with machine-imagined imagery and some forms of writing, but perhaps not so much with audio. People can be very picky about the sounds they like listening to.…
Facebook, Instagram now mine web links you visit to fuel targeted ads
Infosec in brief We gather everyone's still easing themselves into the New Year. Deleting screens of unread emails, putting on a brave face in meetings, and slowly getting up to speed. While you're recovering from the Christmas break, Meta has been busy introducing fresh ways to monetize your web surfing habits while dressing it up as a user experience improvement.…
Road to Removal: A blueprint for yanking billions of tons of CO2 out of our atmosphere
Let's say that you and your political leaders are committed to reducing the effects of the "greenhouse gasses" such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) that are indisputably toasting our Earth.…
Ransomware payment ban: Wrong idea at the wrong time
Opinion A general ban on ransomware payments, as was floated by some this week, sounds like a good idea. Eliminate extortion as a source of criminal income, and the attacks are undoubtedly going to drop. …
Swarms of laser-flown bots visiting a planet light years away – and more NASA-funded projects revealed
NASA is funding 13 ambitious projects that could potentially lead to space missions one day, ranging from scanning for signs of life on Mars to exploring a nearby exoplanet with thousands of swarming spacecraft.…
After crippling cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients
Extortionists are now threatening to swat hospital patients — calling in bomb threats or other bogus reports to the police so heavily armed cops show up at victims' homes — if the medical centers don't pay the crooks' ransom demands.…
NIST: If someone's trying to sell you some secure AI, it's snake oil
Predictive and generative AI systems remain vulnerable to a variety of attacks and anyone who says otherwise isn't being entirely honest, according to Apostol Vassilev, a computer scientist with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).…
Teardown finds Huawei's 5nm notebook processor was made in Taiwan, not China
Did Huawei's domestic fab partners somehow develop the means to mass produce a 5nm laptop chip in spite of US sanctions designed to prevent just that? No, they most certainly did not.…
Uncle Sam will pay for your big ideas to end AI voice-cloning fraud
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is promising a $25,000 reward for the best solution to combat the growing threat of AI voice cloning.…
Tesla's latest Autopilot safety patch hits 1.6M Chinese vehicles
A hot new Tesla import has arrived in China in the form of a pair of forced software updates for nearly every car the US EV maker has sold in the Middle Kingdom. …