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Viennese virtualization veteran releases Proxmox VE 9 and Backup Server 4

Mon, 2025-08-11 15:09
Making a bit of a FOSS with Virtual Environment update

Viennese virtualization veteran Proxmox has updated its hypervisor and its storage offering to new, Debian 13 versions.…

Categories: Linux fréttir

Hanging up: AOL to pull the plug on its dial-up service after 36 years

Mon, 2025-08-11 14:09
A symphony of screeching come to an end! Parent Yahoo! confirms!

From the department of "Want to feel old?" comes news that AOL is finally pulling the plug on dial-up Internet access.…

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'Suddenly deprecating old models' users depended on a 'mistake,' admits OpenAI's Altman

Mon, 2025-08-11 13:30
Tech biz tweaks GPT-5, brings back 4 and others as options after customer backlash

OpenAI has brought back GPT-4o after a weekend of user protests - mostly about removal of model choice - following the rollout of GPT-5.…

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Intel chief Lip-Bu Tan to visit White House after Trump calls for him to step down

Mon, 2025-08-11 13:00
Amid hints by president he may announce 100% tariffs on imported chips, semiconductors

Intel boss Lip-Bu Tan reportedly has an appointment at the White House today, just days after President Donald Trump called for his resignation. The move comes as Intel's former CEO Craig Barrett weighs in on the troubled chipmaker's future.…

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Deepfake detectors are slowly coming of age, at a time of dire need

Mon, 2025-08-11 12:30
By video, picture, and voice – the fakers are coming for your money

DEF CON While AI was on everyone's lips in Las Vegas this week at the trio of security conferences in Sin City – BSides, Black Hat, AND DEF CON – there were a lot of people using the F-word too: fraud.…

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Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell has taken his final orbit

Mon, 2025-08-11 12:00
Veteran of four spaceflights dies at 97

Obit Jim Lovell, the former US astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission, has died at the age of 97.…

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UK retail giant M&S restores Click & Collect months after cyber attack, some services still down

Mon, 2025-08-11 11:15
Many core offerings now back in action, says retailer

British retailer Marks and Spencer updated its website today, confirming its Click & Collect service is once again available to customers.…

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Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your 'garbage' RISC-V patches are 'making the world worse'

Mon, 2025-08-11 10:45
Well, at least he didn't drop the F-bomb

Linux head honcho Linus Torvalds has put a kernel developer "on notice" for waiting until the eleventh hour to supply a patch set for Linux on RISC-V systems which "makes the world actively a worse place to live" – in a scathing missive harkening back to his invective-laden tirades of old.…

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Snotty astronauts should skip spacewalks, suggests study

Mon, 2025-08-11 10:18
Pressure difference between the space station, space suits increases congestion, say boffins

In space, no one can hear you sneeze – but that hasn't stopped a team of boffins researching exactly what happens when an astronaut gets a case of the sniffles, and why. The key takeaway, should you find yourself on board a space station and in need of a tissue: maybe skip the spacewalk.…

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The UK’s cartographer maps mission to help people and business

Mon, 2025-08-11 09:44
AR games mingle with underground assets in the data plan for 200-year-old Ordnance Survey

Feature Britain's Ordnance Survey (OS), founded in 1791, is interloping in the digital age. Minecraft, AR gaming, and EV charger locations have all become part of its portfolio, alongside the paper-based maps beloved by the nation's legion of cagoule-clad outdoor types.…

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Your CV is not fit for the 21st century – time to get it up to scratch

Mon, 2025-08-11 09:00
And yes, that means (retch) catering to AI searchers

The job market is queasy and since you're reading this, you need to upgrade your CV. It's going to require some work to game the poorly trained AIs now doing so much of the heavy lifting. I know you don't want to, but it's best to think of this as dealing with a buggy lump of undocumented code, because frankly that's what is between you and your next job.…

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AI coding tools crash on launch, could reboot better in future

Mon, 2025-08-11 08:15
Grace Hopper and GitHub have more in common than capital letters

Opinion Here are two snapshots of AI in coding in mid 2025. The CEO of GitHub, coding’s universal termite mound, says that AI is going to do all the coding and that’s a good thing. Meanwhile, real life AI coding tools make coders less productive while spreading the hallucination that they’re more so.…

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Pay attention, class: Today you’ll learn the wrong way to turn things off

Mon, 2025-08-11 07:32
Instructor ended up teaching a lesson in how to get away with mistakes

Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me? It’s The Register’s Monday column in which we celebrate your SNAFUS and rejoice in your recoveries.…

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China says its lunar lander passed Luna-landing and take-off tests

Mon, 2025-08-11 06:29
Current plan calls for Taikonaut touchdown around 2030

China’s Manned Space Engineering Network says the country’s first crewed lunar lander last week completed a comprehensive landing and takeoff verification test, bringing it closer to landing on Luna - and leaving it again afterwards.…

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Google fixing Gemini so it doesn't channel paranoid androids quite so often

Mon, 2025-08-11 05:31
Brain the size of a planet and probably trained on Sci-Fi that’s full of anxious and depressed robots

Google is aware that its Gemini AI chatbot can sometimes castigate itself harshly for failing to solve a problem and plans to fix it.…

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Nvidia and AMD reportedly chipping in to Washington’s coffers with 15 percent fee for China sales

Mon, 2025-08-11 03:15
Trump administration’s licenses come with an IOU

Nvidia and AMD will reportedly be allowed to resume sales in China if they cough a license fee amounting to 15 percent of sales.…

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India’s services giant TCS lays off over 10,000 for reasons including AI, hikes wages for survivors

Mon, 2025-08-11 00:59
PLUS: Huawei open sources its CUDA equivalent; China boosts brain-computer interfaces; Scientists to visit penguins Trump taxed; And more!

Asia In Brief Indian services giant Tata Consultancy Services will shed over 10,000 staff but will give pay rises to most of those who remain.…

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Trend Micro offers weak workaround for already-exploited critical vuln in management console

Sun, 2025-08-10 22:39
PLUS: Crypto mixer founders plead guilty; Another French telco hacked; Meta fights WhatsApp scams; And more!

Infosec In Brief A critical vulnerability in the on-prem version of Trend Micro's Apex One endpoint security platform is under active exploitation, the company admitted last week, and there's no patch available.…

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DEF CON hackers plug security holes in US water systems amid tsunami of threats

Sun, 2025-08-10 11:59
Five pilot deployments are just a drop in the bucket, so it's time to turbo scale

def con A DEF CON hacker walks into a small-town water facility…no, this is not the setup for a joke or a (super-geeky) odd-couple rom-com. It's a true story that happened at five utilities across four states.…

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How OpenAI used a new data type to cut inference costs by 75%

Sun, 2025-08-10 09:31
Decision to use MXFP4 makes models smaller, faster, and more importantly, cheaper for everyone involved

Analysis Whether or not OpenAI's new open weights models are any good is still up for debate, but their use of a relatively new data type called MXFP4 is arguably more important, especially if it catches on among OpenAI's rivals.…

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