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While you holidayed, Microsoft brought Copilot to mobile devices, again
First Look While many readers enjoyed holiday downtime, Microsoft was busy bringing its Copilot AI to Android and iOS.…
Huawei bets its 2024 on datacenter infrastructure
Huawei chair Hu Houkun has prepared the Chinese tech giant for 2024 by suggesting its datacenter offerings are the key to success in the new year.…
A ship carrying 800 tonnes of Li-Ion batteries caught fire. What could possibly go wrong?
The US Coast Guard has advised that a ship carrying around 800 tonnes of Lithium-Ion batteries – some of which caught fire – is out of danger after its crew handled the situation admirably.…
People power made payroll support in putrid places prodigiously perilous
On Call: Dirt File All good things must end, even the holidays - and with them On Call’s Dirt File, a special festive edition of our reader-contributed tech support trauma tales dedicated to the filthiest places techies have been asked to toil.…
How do you teach a robot dog new tricks? Throw it a string of hex, a crayon, and a canvas
Boston Dynamics' "Spot" robot dog has been deployed as a tour guide, a police officer, and a warehouse worker. At the National Gallery Of Victoria's Triennial in Melbourne, Australia, it's now doing duty as an artist.…
Scientists mull Solar Radiation Management – a potential climate-change stop-gap
In-depth At the American Geophysical Union annual meeting (AGU23) in San Francisco the other week, the 25,000-plus science folks in attendance pretty much all agreed on one unequivocal fact: the Earth is warming and it's warming quickly. Discussions centered not on "if" — that's been settled — but on how to best measure that rise, how to best model it, and what best to do about it.…
NAT, ATM, decentralized search – and other outrageous opinions from the 1990s
Systems Approach The end of the year is often a time for people in tech to make predictions, but rather than making our own, today we’ll look back on some of the bold predictions of the past – specifically the inaugural Outrageous Opinion session held at SIGCOMM in 1995.…
Is it time for 6G already? Traffic analysis says yep
If you think 5G networks have failed to live up to their promise, you're not alone. But the tech is still early on in implementation, although some in the mobile industry are already looking to what might come next.…
CEO arranged his own cybersecurity, with predictable results
On Call It’s the last Friday of 2023, but because the need for tech support never goes away neither does On Call, The Register’s Friday column in which readers share their tales of being asked to fix the unfeasible, in circumstances that are often indefensible.…
Amazon already has a colossal ads business and will extend it to Prime Video in January
Analysis Amazon.com has emailed US-based subscribers to its Prime Video service to advise them that ads will start to appear in their streams as of January 29th – unless they pay more.…
Irony alert: Lawsuit alleging Chrome’s Incognito Mode isn’t will settle on unknown terms
The lawsuit brought against Google by netizens upset Incognito Mode in Chrome did not fully anonymize their activities looks set to settle before going to trial.…
Nvidia slowed RTX 4090 GPU by 11 percent, to make it 100 percent legal for export to China
Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4090 GPU is back on sale in China – in a less capable configuration version designed to comply with US restrictions on exports into the Middle Kingdom.…
NASA Juno probe to open 'firehose of data' during close flyby of Jupiter moon
NASA's Juno mission is to close out 2023 with a low pass over Io, one of Jupiter's many moons.…
A tale of 2 casino ransomware attacks: One paid out, one did not
Feature The same cybercrime crew broke into two high-profile Las Vegas casino networks over the summer, infected both with ransomware, and stole data belonging to tens of thousands of customers from the mega-resort chains.…
Kaspersky reveals previously unknown hardware 'feature' used in iPhone attacks
Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has exposed a previously unknown 'feature' in Apple iPhones that allows attackers to bypass hardware-based memory protection.…
Broadcom to end VMware’s channel program, move partners to its own invite-only offering
Broadcom has told VMware partners the virtualization champion’s channel program will end in early 2024.…