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Burnout epidemic proves there's too much Rust on the gears of open source

Mon, 2024-01-22 15:30
Spotting and tackling a widespread problem is a challenge

Open source burnout has reared its head once again, this time in relation to the Rust project. However, the issue is not new, nor are the solutions.…

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Ivanti and Juniper Networks accused of bending the rules with CVE assignments

Mon, 2024-01-22 15:00
Critics claim now-fixed vulnerabilities weren't disclosed, flag up grouping of multiple flaws under one CVE

Critics are accusing major tech companies of not sticking to the rules when it comes to registering vulnerabilities with the appropriate authorities.…

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White goods giant fires legal threats to unplug open source plugin

Mon, 2024-01-22 14:30
'Substantial increase in AWS calls' triggers takedown notice

A plugin and library to permit the control of Haier, Candy, and Hoover appliances recently received takedown requests from Haier Europe's Security and Governance department.…

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Subway's data torpedoed by LockBit, ransomware gang claims

Mon, 2024-01-22 14:00
Fast food chain could face a footlong recovery process if allegations are true

The LockBit ransomware gang is claiming an attack on submarine sandwich slinger Subway, alleging it has made off with a platter of data.…

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Politicos demand full list of Fujitsu's public sector contract wins in wake of Post Office scandal

Mon, 2024-01-22 13:15
Committee wants to know which were awarded without competition and more

British MPs have written to the country's Treasury to demand details of all public sector contracts with Fujitsu as the Japanese tech supplier struggles in the wake of the Horizon Post Office Scandal.…

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Tesco techies and Azure jockeys hit the floor during weekend of outages

Mon, 2024-01-22 12:30
Every little helps. Especially testing and talking to customers

It was a tricky weekend for techies – not only did Microsoft's Azure Resource Manager fall over across the globe on January 21, 2024, local UK retailing giant Tesco also suffered an outage, cancelling multiple customer deliveries and orders due to "technical difficulties."…

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Mystery German chip fab sips on Gradiant's ultrapure water

Mon, 2024-01-22 11:45
Most advanced semiconductor facility in Europe is being subsidized by Chips Act funding

Water treatment company Gradiant has won a contract to build a plant providing ultrapure water for a chip fabrication facility being constructed in Germany by an unnamed "large semiconductor manufacturer."…

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ICO fines spam slinging financial services biz

Mon, 2024-01-22 11:00
It's all very well offering 'Free Debt Help,' but recipients were unwilling, says watchdog...

A financial services company that illegally dispatched tens of thousands of spam messages promising to help the recipients magically wipe away their debts is itself now a debtor to the UK’s data regulator.…

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Google building datacenter campus on the outskirts of London

Mon, 2024-01-22 10:15
Waltham Cross bit barn part of Alphabet's plans for 'future capacity needs'

Google has commenced construction of a $1 billion datacenter complex on the outskirts of London it says is needed to provide a reliable service to Google Cloud customers and users of Google in the UK.…

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The Post Office systems scandal demands a critical response

Mon, 2024-01-22 09:30
Never let a good crisis go to waste

Opinion Nine hundred people have had their lives blighted, even destroyed. One of the world's oldest independent judicial systems has been perverted as a publicly owned company – the Post Office – used prosecutorial powers against employees. At the heart of it all is a brutal corporate cover-up of a broken IT system.…

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Veeam researching support for VMware alternative Proxmox as backup buyers fret about Broadcom

Mon, 2024-01-22 08:30
Product to protect Oracle virtualization is already on the backup vendor’s roadmap

Exclusive Backup software vendor Veeam is doing early research on VMware alternative Proxmox, potentially with a view to creating a product to protect data created using the tool.…

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Poor communication led to complete lack of communication

Mon, 2024-01-22 07:31
Didn't you fix that? Me? I thought you fixed that!

Who, Me? Greetings and salutations, mighty reader, and welcome once again to Who, Me? in which Register readers like you share tales of the times your effort to deliver tech support went awry.…

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Huawei prepares to split from Android on consumer devices with HarmonyOS Next

Mon, 2024-01-22 06:28
Touts custom kernel that creams Linux, coming soon for devs and later for punters

Huawei last week detailed a major release of its HarmonyOS that will see the Chinese giant break with the Linux ecosystem.…

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Energy breakthrough needed to build AGI, says OpenAI boss Altman

Mon, 2024-01-22 05:33
ALSO: Google's geometry reasoning breakthrough; Amazon debuts experimental shopping AI

AI In brief OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes that a breakthrough in energy production is required to advance increasingly capable and power-hungry AI models.…

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NASA lost contact with Mars helicopter Ingenuity, then managed to find it again

Mon, 2024-01-22 04:30
ESA makes its own discovery: the most water ever found on Mars

NASA regained contact with its Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, on Saturday two days after after it lost communication as the vehicle descended from its most recent flight.…

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BreachForums admin 'Pompourin' sentenced to 20 years of supervised release

Mon, 2024-01-22 02:29
ALSO: Another UEFI flaw found; Kaspersky discovers iOS log files actually work; and a few critical vulnerabilities

in brief Conor Brian Fitzpatrick – aka "Pompourin," a former administrator of notorious leak site BreachForums – has been sentenced to 20 years of supervised release.…

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Tencent, Meta, alliance reportedly strains over differing VR visions

Mon, 2024-01-22 00:01
PLUS: Singapore union tackles Google, Alibaba, layoffs; Thai digital cash plan stalls; AI to consume bulk of APAC IT budgets

Asia In Brief The alliance struck by Tencent and Meta to bring the latter's Quest VR hardware to China is reportedly faltering.…

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Amazon plots massive cloud expansion in Japan with $15B investment

Sun, 2024-01-21 20:46
Land of the rising profit?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to invest 2.3 trillion yen ($15.5 billion) to extend its cloud empire in Japan.…

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How artists can poison their pics with deadly Nightshade to deter AI scrapers

Sat, 2024-01-20 10:05
Models will need to swallow a lot of it, mind you

University of Chicago boffins this week released Nightshade 1.0, a tool built to punish unscrupulous makers of machine learning models who train their systems on data without getting permission first.…

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Zuckerberg wants to build artificial general intelligence with 350K Nvidia H100 GPUs

Sat, 2024-01-20 01:58
Maybe the AGI can finish that Metaverse, haha – oh wait, they're serious

Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg is redirecting Meta-wide efforts to build artificial general intelligence and wants to secure a whopping 350,000 or more Nvidia H100 GPUs by the end of the year to make that happen.…

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