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Desktops and printers in coffee shops? Starbucks Korea tells customers to 그만 해

Wed, 2025-08-13 18:13
Early 2000s joke now serious problem for coffee shops in the Land of the Morning Calm

Take a look at the internet of decades past, and you'll find plenty of jokes about bringing a desktop computer to a coffee shop. For South Korean Starbucks stores, however, that old-time meme is anything but in the past.…

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US weather agency dangles $396M to run ops for its next space-watching fleet

Wed, 2025-08-13 17:45
Hurricane data, schmurricane data: Have you heard about that Sun burp?

The more our Earth-bound society learns to rely on electronics, the greater the risk that weather from the stars shatters our reality. That's why US government space watchers are seeking a company to help them operate the next generation of space weather satellites.…

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Latest Windows patches cause false alarm error to appear in event viewer

Wed, 2025-08-13 17:15
Redmond let dev code loose in production Windows, leading to the bug

Microsoft is having difficulty keeping development code out of the Windows event log after another message that users are advised to ignore turned up in the... event log.…

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No more fake news: Google now lets you prioritize <em>El Reg</em>, others in search results

Wed, 2025-08-13 16:44
How to pick the news sources you want to see more (and less)

hands on Even if you have your favorite sites bookmarked or type their URLs in through muscle memory, you probably still spend a lot of time looking for info on Google. Now, you can exert some control over which publishers appear in your results for news stories.…

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GPT-5 is going so well for OpenAI that there's now a 'show additional models' switch

Wed, 2025-08-13 16:30
Users want their customizations and their old models back

There has been more furious backpedalling from OpenAI following the company's ill-judged launch of GPT-5 and the removal of previous model selection.…

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Crooks can't let go: Active attacks target Office vuln patched 8 years ago

Wed, 2025-08-13 15:45
CVE-2017-11882 in discontinued Equation Editor still attracting keylogger campaigns despite software being killed off in 2018

Very few people are immune to the siren song of nostalgia, a yearning for a "better time" when this was all fields and kids respected their elders - and it looks like cyber criminals are no exception.…

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CoreWeave CFO: $25BN raised in debt and equity in 18 months

Wed, 2025-08-13 15:00
Reliant on two mega customers? Who says GPU-for-rent kingpin is a not a sustainable biz model?

Rent-a-GPU biz CoreWeave is still racking up eyewatering debts amid mounting net losses as it continues to burn cash on expanding datacenter capacity.…

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Microsoft pushes Pull print, so you don't have to dash to the printer to grab the 'Fire everyone' memo

Wed, 2025-08-13 14:15
Hit the button and then go on your own voyage of printer discovery

Microsoft has made the "Pull Print" feature of Universal Print generally available, which means confidential print jobs should no longer appear in unintended locations.…

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AI model 'personalities' shape the quality of generated code

Wed, 2025-08-13 13:30
But despite the differences, all models excel at making errors and shouldn't be trusted

Generative AI coding models have common strengths and weaknesses, but express those characteristics differently due to variations in coding style.…

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Box's AI agents set to help US government agencies

Wed, 2025-08-13 13:00
The vendor hops aboard GSA’s OneGov train, offering models from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and more

Not to be left behind in the flurry of government-wide AI purchasing deals, Box has signed a deal with the feds that'll inject some agentic AI into federal government systems. …

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MS confidence in Windows 11: Pay us to host VMs for when your desktop inevitably dies

Wed, 2025-08-13 12:15
Windows 365 Reserve offers 10-day cloud PCs when your machine goes kaput – but you'll still need another device to access them

Microsoft is so confident in the reliability and security of its Windows 11 OS that it's now offering businesses the ability to quickly dump users onto temporary VMs in its cloud when, not if, their desktops and laptops break.…

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UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new vans heading to a town near you

Wed, 2025-08-13 11:30
Seven additional regions across England will now have access to the controversial tech

A fresh expansion of UK crimefighters' access to live facial recognition (LFR) technology is being described by officials as "an excellent opportunity for policing." Privacy campaigners diagree.…

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Marc Andreessen wades into the UK's Online Safety Act furor

Wed, 2025-08-13 10:45
Shock news: billionaire techpreneur is not a fan

Geek-turned-venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen has weighed in on the arguments surrounding the UK's Online Safety Act, accusing the UK government of leaking his input.…

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Microsoft wares may be UK public sector's only viable option

Wed, 2025-08-13 10:00
For now at least, even though government buying can improve, open source is not all it's cracked up to be

Debate Not for the first time, Microsoft is in the spotlight for the UK government's money it voraciously consumes – apparently £1.9 billion a year in software licensing, and roughly £9 billion over five years. Not surprisingly, there are plenty of voices challenging whether this is good use of public money. After all, aren't there plenty of open source alternatives?…

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Secure chat darling Matrix admits pair of 'high severity' protocol flaws need painful fixes

Wed, 2025-08-13 09:15
Foundation warns federated servers face biggest risk, but single-instance users can take their time

The maintainers of the federated secure chat protocol Matrix are warning users of a pair of "high severity protocol vulnerabilities," addressed in the latest version, saying patching them requires a breaking change in servers and clients.…

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Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power

Wed, 2025-08-13 08:30
You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI

People are noticing Firefox gobbling extra CPU and electricity, apparently caused by an "inference engine" built into recent versions of Firefox. Don't say El Reg didn't try to warn you.…

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I started losing my digital privacy in 1974, aged 11

Wed, 2025-08-13 07:45
An encounter with the healthcare system reveals sickening decisions about data

Column We already live in a world where pretty much every public act - online or in the real world - leaves a mark in a database somewhere. But how far back does that record extend? I recently learned that record goes back further than I'd seriously imagined.…

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NASA mulls sending a rescue rocket to boost Swift observatory's orbit

Wed, 2025-08-13 07:00
Agency asks for ideas from US industry as orbit decays

NASA is seeking solutions for a way to raise the orbit of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory despite the spacecraft being marked for termination after FY2026 under the agency's budget proposal.…

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Ransomware crew spills Saint Paul's 43GB of secrets after city refuses to cough up cash

Wed, 2025-08-13 06:15
Minnesota’s capital is the latest to feature on Interlock’s leak blog after late-July cyberattack

The Interlock ransomware gang has flaunted a 43GB haul of files allegedly stolen from the city of Saint Paul, following a late-July cyberattack that forced the Minnesota capital to declare a state of national emergency.…

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Chap found chunks of an asteroid older than Earth in his suburban living room

Wed, 2025-08-13 05:30
First came the fireball, then a hole in the roof and a dent in the floor

In late June media speculated that a meteor entering Earth’s atmosphere caused widespread sightings of a celestial fireball during daylight hours across the southeast USA. Scientists have now confirmed space rocks caused the phenomenon, citing as evidence a meteorite they found in a resident’s living room.…

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