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Jenkins jitters as 45,000 servers still vulnerable to RCE attacks after patch released

Tue, 2024-01-30 17:45
Multiple publicly available exploits have since been published for the critical flaw

The number of public-facing installs of Jenkins servers vulnerable to a recently disclosed critical vulnerability is in the tens of thousands.…

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SAP dangles juicy carrot to pull users on board with cloud-first vision

Tue, 2024-01-30 17:00
Limited-time offer may reduce cost of migration by up to 50%

SAP is rolling out an incentive package to encourage users to adopt its cloud transformation programs, RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP.…

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ESA salutes Galileo satellite system meeting aviation standards

Tue, 2024-01-30 16:15
It's all in the software

The European Space Agency (ESA) has celebrated the Galileo satellite navigation system meeting civil aviation standards governing flight phases from take-off to landing and explained how the feat was done.…

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Reg story prompts fresh security bulletin, review of Juniper Networks' CVE process

Tue, 2024-01-30 15:30
Vendor gets tangled in its own web of undisclosed vulnerabilities

Juniper Networks has disclosed separate vulnerabilities it was previously accused of concealing, and apologized to customers for the error in communication.…

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AI is changing search, for better or for worse

Tue, 2024-01-30 14:45
Bing hasn't much benefited from its AI infusion but Google's rivals sense an opening

Feature Ask Google's Bard chatbot about the future of search and you'll get a summary of trends that suggest there's more to search than finding keywords in an index of documents.…

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Raspberry Pi on IPO plans: 'We want to be ready when the markets are ready'

Tue, 2024-01-30 14:00
Bankers appointed, but CEO insists nothing will change while he's in charge

The Raspberry Pi company is again preparing the ground for an initial public offering (IPO), appointing bankers Peel Hunt and Jefferies ahead of a planned listing on the London Stock Exchange.…

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Windows 3.11 trundles on as job site pleads for 'driver updates' on German trains

Tue, 2024-01-30 13:15
Remember making Windows and DOS talk to a network? You could go back to the future with this assignment

If you were thinking about forcing an AI to write a job ad for an administrator of an obsolete operating system, it looks like somebody has beaten you to it with a vacancy for a Windows 3.11 techie.…

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UK lawmakers say live facial recognition lacks a legal basis

Tue, 2024-01-30 12:39
Lords warn Home Secretary there is nothing to regulate wider trawl of large populations

A UK committee in its upper house has written to Home Secretary James Cleverly to warn of the lack of legal basis for the use of live facial recognition by police.…

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Techie resurrects teletext on a vintage BBC Master

Tue, 2024-01-30 11:45
You can get Ceefax via a Pi, but behold it in its most exotic of habitats

Got an old BBC computer in the loft, a spare Raspberry Pi gathering dust in a drawer, and a yearning to return to the days when Teletext was a neat thing?…

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Leaked email: Unit4 ERP system leaves some school staff with 'nil pay'

Tue, 2024-01-30 11:00
'Primary focus' is 'welfare of our staff as we resolve any errors,' says UK council after rollout of £30M SAP replacement

Exclusive After schools in Surrey went live on a new £30 million HR, payroll and finance system, the responsible county council is being forced to prioritize support calls for problems that are delaying staff pay.…

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Fairberry project brings a hardware keyboard to the Fairphone

Tue, 2024-01-30 10:15
Miss hardware QWERTY? Warm up your soldering iron and 3D printer

Hardware hacker's non-trivial project to weld a Blackberry keyboard to an Android fondleslab is being updated with an off-the-shelf PCB.…

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UK biometrics boss bows out, bemoaning bureaucratic blunders

Tue, 2024-01-30 09:30
Questionable institutional change and myriad IT issues pervade the governance landscape

The farewell report written by the UK's biometrics and surveillance commissioner highlights a litany of failings in the Home Office's approach to governing the technology.…

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Cory Doctorow has a plan to wipe away the enshittification of tech

Tue, 2024-01-30 08:29
It's not just you – things really are getting worse

Opinion An apocryphal tale regarding the late, great footballer George Best being interviewed by a reporter just after getting suspended from Manchester United offers an apt description of today’s tech industry right now.…

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It took Taylor Swift deepfake nudes to focus Uncle Sam, Microsoft on AI safety

Tue, 2024-01-30 07:28
Fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake ... time to fake it off

Fake sexually explicit AI-generated viral images of pop royalty Taylor Swift have struck a nerve, leading fans, Microsoft's boss, and even the White House to call for immediate action to tackle deepfakes.…

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Elon Musk's brain-computer interface outfit Neuralink tests its tech on a human

Tue, 2024-01-30 06:30
Controling prostheses? Elon imagines an app for that

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface implant company Neuralink has begun its first human clinical trial.…

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Square Kilometre Array prototype 'scope achieves first light

Tue, 2024-01-30 05:01
SKAMPI was made in China, driven by Docker, located in South Africa, and aimed at the stars

Reg In Space One of the radio telescope designs to be used by the Square Kilometre Array has achieved first light.…

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Microsoft signals expansion of APAC datacenter fleet with 'land acquisition' hire

Tue, 2024-01-30 01:33
Hiring for regional and global execs to help it find new spots for bit barns, and make sure they get built right

Microsoft has signaled significant expansion of its datacenter footprint in the Asia Pacific region.…

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Microsoft's vision for the future of work is you trusting Redmond to get AI right

Tue, 2024-01-30 00:31
You're free to choose your own adventure, from options that involve Copilot and OpenAI

Comment If the future of work is a choice and "not a predetermined destiny" – as Microsoft puts it in a recent report – it would be nice to know why Redmond is so intent on shoving its version of that future down our throats.…

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Oracle quietly extends Solaris 11.4 support until 2037

Mon, 2024-01-29 23:58
Legacy OS and app holdouts get three more years of paid support, also on versions 10.0 and 11.3

Oracle has quietly extended paid support and upgrades for Solaris 11.4 to 2037 – three years past its previous deadline – and did the same for earlier versions of the OS last year.…

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SolarWinds slams SEC lawsuit against it as 'unprecedented' victim blaming

Mon, 2024-01-29 20:52
18,000 customers, including the Pentagon and Microsoft, may have other thoughts

SolarWinds – whose network monitoring software was backdoored by Russian spies so that the biz's customers could be spied upon – has accused America's financial watchdog of seeking to "revictimise the victim" after the agency sued it over the 2020 attack.…

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