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Raspberry Pi hands out prizes to all in the RP2350 Hacking Challenge
Raspberry Pi has given out prizes for extracting a secret value from the one-time-programmable (OTP) memory of the Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller – awarding a pile of cash to all four entrants.…
Google reports halving code migration time with AI help
Google, which peddles AI software with as much giddy enthusiasm as Microsoft, reports dogfooding its own AI concoction and leaving the lab with a pleasant taste in its mouth.…
AI datacenters putting zero emissions promises out of reach
The datacenter industry looks set for a turbulent 2025 as AI growth threatens to trump sustainability commitments and authorities are likely to see growing public hostility to new projects.…
Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog
The UK's communications regulator has published guidance for website operators aimed at preventing under-18s from accessing pornographic content online via "highly effective age assurance" techniques.…
Debian 12.9 arrives, quickly followed by MX Linux 23.5
Debian 12.9 - the latest point-release of Debian "Bookworm" - emerged at the weekend and coming hot on its heels is one of the more interesting downstreams, MX Linux 23.5.…
Blue Origin reaches orbit with New Glenn, fumbles first-stage recovery
Jeff Bezos joined the orbital elite with the launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket this morning.…
Infoseccer: Private security biz let guard down, exposed 120K+ files
A London-based private security company allegedly left more than 120,000 files available online via an unsecured server, an infoseccer told The Register.…
Apple's interoperability efforts aren't meeting spirit or letter of EU law, advocacy groups argue
Digital rights advocacy organizations contend that Apple has failed to comply with its interoperability obligations under the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA).…
UK government tech procurement lacks understanding, says watchdog
UK government plans its technology purchases with limited assessment of technical feasibility, according to a spending watchdog's analysis of the £14-billion-a-year procurement of digital services.…
India becomes just fourth country to dock satellites in orbit
India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully docked a pair of satellites, making the nation the fourth to achieve the feat.…
US adds Chinese RISC-V player that TSMC suspected of helping build Huawei GPUs to risky company register
Chinese chip designer Sophgo, a suspected supplier of AI silicon to Huawei, has been added to the USA’s “Entity List” of orgs felt to represent a national security risk and therefore prohibited from working with American companies unless a license is issued to allow such dealings.…
Parallels brings back the magic that was waiting seven minutes for Windows to boot
Desktop hypervisor specialist Parallels has released an early technology preview of code that allows virtual machines running OSes coded for the x86_64 architecture, such as Microsoft Windows, to run on Apple’s Arm-powered silicon.…
Nvidia shovels $500M into Israeli boffinry supercomputer
Nvidia is constructing a 30-megawatt research-and-development supercomputer stuffed with its latest-generation Blackwell GPUs in northern Israel at an estimated cost of half a billion dollars.…
GoDaddy slapped with wet lettuce for years of lax security and 'several major breaches'
GoDaddy has failed to protect its web-hosting platform with even basic infosec tools and practices since 2018, according to the FTC, but the internet giant won’t face any immediate consequences for its many alleged acts of omission.…
DJI loosens flight restrictions, decides to trust operators to follow FAA rules
Drone maker DJI has decided to scale back its geofencing restrictions, meaning its software won't automatically stop operators from flying into areas flagged as no-fly zones. …
FTC sues John Deere, alleging decades of monopolized repairs
America's top consumer watchdog has sued tractor maker John Deere for monopolizing tech repair services for its machinery, though whether the lawsuit will survive the pending presidential transition remains to be seen. …
China's Salt Typhoon spies spotted on US govt networks before telcos, CISA boss says
Beijing's Salt Typhoon cyberspies had been seen in US government networks before telcos discovered the same foreign intruders in their own systems, according to CISA boss Jen Easterly.…
IT job market is still shrinking but not as quickly as last year
The IT jobs market has shrunk for a second year in a row, says tech consultancy Janco Associates, but at least things weren't as bad in 2024 as they were in 2023.…
Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition
Researchers at cyber-defense contractor PeopleTec have found that facial recognition algorithms' focus on specific areas of the face opens the door to subtler surveillance avoidance strategies.…
Nvidia plots Quantum Day at GTC 2025 – for tech it called a distant dream
A week after Nvidia chief Jensen Huang demolished the market valuations of listed quantum computing brands by saying the technology is 20 years away from being useful, the GPU maker has confirmed it is hosting a quantum computing day.…