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Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache
It’s been months since the UK government began requiring stronger age checks under the Online Safety Act, and recent research suggests those measures are falling short of keeping kids away from harmful content. In some cases, even drawing on a mustache has been reported as enough to fool age detection software.…
Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop
Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop
We've all been there: You're doing maintenance on a Weyland-Yutani hauler dragging mineral ore back toward Earth, and there’s no terminal handy to tap into the MU/TH/UR AI to check ship systems. Lucky for you, one enterprising maker has created just the machine for the job.…
Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port
Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port
Notepad++ remains a Windows-only app, at least under that name. The beloved developer-focused, open-source text editor recently was ported to macOS by a third party. However, developer Don Ho wants to be perfectly clear that, no matter how convincing the new project might look, it's not official. …
Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear
Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear
FEATURE In an unassuming three-story office building in Cupertino, California, engineers from Amazon Web Services are busy trying to make networking inconspicuous.…
Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs
Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs
When it comes to securing enterprise supply chains, now heavily infused with AI applications and agents, a software bill of materials (SBOM) no longer provides a complete inventory of all the components in the environment. Enter AI-BOMs.…
AI inference just plays by different rules
Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner
Moving to mainframe can be cheaper than sticking with VMware: Gartner
VMware users considering a new home might find it cheaper to move to an IBM mainframe than adopting Broadcom’s new licenses, according to Gartner Vice President Analyst Alessandro Galimberti.…
If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked
If the vote you rocked, your personal info can be grokked
Your voter data could be used against you. A foreign intelligence service that wished to identify the family members of deployed military personnel could do so by cross-referencing public voter record data and social media posts.…
How TeamViewer ONE transforms IT operations from firefighting to autopilot
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving
Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving
Who, Me? Monday is upon us once again and The Register hopes that when you arrive at your desk, all is well. We offer that sentiment because we use the first day of the working week to bring you a fresh instalment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you confess to making mistakes, and explain how you survived them.…
Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back
Ask.com, former home of search butler Jeeves, closes just as conversational search comes back
In the mid-1990s, search engine designers settled on the user interface that dominates to this day: a text box into which users enter text, and a resulting list of websites.…