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Filing NeMo: Nvidia's AI framework hit with copyright lawsuit

Mon, 2024-03-11 18:45
Claims allegedly pirated content from Books3 dataset trawled by its models

Nvidia is the latest tech giant to face allegations that it used copyrighted works to train AI models without obtaining the permission of the authors.…

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Trying out Microsoft's pre-release OS/2 2.0

Mon, 2024-03-11 18:00
It fell through a timewarp from an alternate and very different computing universe

The earliest known release of Microsoft's 32-bit version of OS/2 is now out there, and intrepid code archeologists have it running. It's a glimpse into an alternatve computing universe.…

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Justice Dept reportedly starts criminal probe into Boeing door bolt incident

Mon, 2024-03-11 17:15
Plus: Pilots on Lion Air’s Batik fall asleep and miss Jakarta

Alaska Airlines is reportedly cooperating on a US Department of Justice (DoJ) criminal investigation into Boeing regarding an incident which saw an aircraft plug blow out of a 737 MAX 9 mid-flight in January.…

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Climate change means beer made from sewer water, says North Carolina brewery

Mon, 2024-03-11 16:31
Water? Like from the toilet?

Fancy a cold one? Would it change your mind if that frothy, frosty beer was brewed using treated wastewater?…

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PlanetScale ends free tier bid, sheds staff in profitability bid

Mon, 2024-03-11 15:45
CEO defends decision in difficult tech market

Distributed database vender PlanetScale has made work-force lay-offs and ended its free-tier services in an effort to achieve sustainable profitability.…

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Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B... and it has yet to turn a profit

Mon, 2024-03-11 15:00
Time to start spamming those reposts: Top users are getting early access to 1.76 million shares

Redditors hoping to get in early on the company's upcoming IPO had better hope they have a lot of karma in reserve.…

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AI models show racial bias based on written dialect, researchers find

Mon, 2024-03-11 14:15
Those using African American vernacular more likely to be sentenced to death, if LLMs were asked to decide

AI models may consume huge amounts of energy, water, computing resources, and venture capital but they give back so much in the way of misinformation and bias.…

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British Library pushes the cloud button, says legacy IT estate cause of hefty rebuild

Mon, 2024-03-11 13:30
Five months in and the mammoth post-ransomware recovery has barely begun

The British Library says legacy IT is the overwhelming factor delaying efforts to recover from the Rhysida ransomware attack in late 2023.…

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European Commission infringed data protection law with Microsoft 365

Mon, 2024-03-11 13:00
Commission has until December 9, 2024, to put its house in order

The European Commission has been reprimanded for infringing data protection regulations when using Microsoft 365.…

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UK and US lack regulation to protect space tourists from cosmic ray dangers

Mon, 2024-03-11 12:21
Damage to DNA, mutations, uncontrolled cell division and malignancy. Is space tourism worth the risk?

International regulations governing space flight lack rules to protect space tourism passengers from the ill-effects of cosmic radiation, according to researchers.…

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How do you lot feel about Pay or say OK to ads model, asks ICO

Mon, 2024-03-11 11:16
And does it count as consent?

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has opened a consultation on "consent or pay" business models. We're sure readers of The Register will have a fair few things to say.…

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Linux for older phones postmarketOS changes its init system

Mon, 2024-03-11 10:30
Good news, everyone! The world's favorite daemon, systemd, is coming to phones.

The team behind the leading replacement OS for end-of-life smartphones are to adopt systemd – to make working with GNOME and KDE easier.…

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How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model

Mon, 2024-03-11 09:30
Terms and conditions apply. Lawyers need not

Opinion It's a good rule of nostril that if your litigation department is a source of revenue, your business model stinks. The law is there to discourage delinquent behavior when all else fails, not to amplify power for profit. If there's a better, fairer way to stop naughtiness, you should try that first.…

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Intern with superuser access 'promoted' himself to CEO

Mon, 2024-03-11 08:31
Older and wiser colleagues couldn’t see the funny side

Who, Me? Aaah … Monday! That wonderful week-opening day that brings with it so many possibilities. Including, as Register readers know all too well, the chance to make errors that must then be discreetly buried – the subject of our Who, Me?, our weekly reader-contributed tale of career-threatening bullets you’ve managed to dodge.…

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VMware by Broadcom promises more, cheaper, training, starting around May

Mon, 2024-03-11 07:32
But for now, smaller customers have been cut off from on-demand training content

Exclusive VMware by Broadcom will soon launch a new training experience that will offer “more training at a fraction of the cost they used to pay.”…

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China pushes its payment platforms towards an international presence

Mon, 2024-03-11 06:16
Bejing allows easier access to AliPay and Tencent's Weixin, and higher spending limits too

China’s main payment systems, Alipay and WeChat Pay, eased access for foreign users on Friday, a day after Beijing issued new guidelines for its payment industry.…

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Microsoft waited 6 months to patch actively exploited admin-to-kernel vulnerability

Mon, 2024-03-11 04:28
PLUS: NSA shares cloud security tips; Infosec training for Jordanian women; Critical vulnerabilities

Infosec in brief Cybersecurity researchers informed Microsoft that Notorious North Korean hackers Lazarus Group discovered the "holy grail" of rootkit vulnerabilities in Windows last year, but Redmond still took six months to patch the problem.…

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is back on the company's board, along with three new members

Mon, 2024-03-11 02:32
PLUS: Microsoft bars prompts to make Copilot less violent and NSFW

AI in brief OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has returned the company's board and will serve alongside three new members.…

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Linux 6.9 will be the first to top ten million Git objects

Mon, 2024-03-11 00:31
For now, have Linux 6.8, which Linus Torvalds could find no reason to delay

Linus Torvalds has released version 6.8 of the Linux Kernel.…

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Singtel loses $260 million tax case in Australia

Sun, 2024-03-10 23:32
PLUS: Chinese tops Steam’s language charts; HPE opens Saudi server factory; Indian government apps have flaws

Asia in brief Australia’s Federal Court last Friday dismissed Singtel’s appeal against a past ruling that it engaged in transfer pricing and therefore owes millions in tax.…

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