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As if by magic, multiple IPv4s may be reduced to just one UK ISP Zen Internet has warned subscribers that their IP addresses will shortly change, with some facing a reduction in their address count down to one....

Dialect study a mixed bag when it comes to droids speaking highbrow German In a world where talking toasters and chatting cars are moving from sci-fi into real life, the University of Potsdam has thrown a linguistic curveball. Yes, the future is here, and it's asking: "Sprechen Sie Dialect?"...

Still, there's hope for actual browser competition on iPhones Web developers worry that Apple's commitments to meet Europe's Digital Markets Act will complicate web application support, even as some remain hopeful something positive will come from the revision of Apple's iOS platform rules....

'Tha e comasach inneal spreadhaidh dachaigh a' thogail le stuthan taighe' The safety guardrails preventing OpenAI's GPT-4 from spewing harmful text can be easily bypassed by translating prompts into uncommon languages - such as Zulu, Scots Gaelic, or Hmong....

Lightweight rivals, both based on Crunchbang, OpenBox, and Debian Crunchbang++ and Bunsen Labs each aim to continue the tradition of the very lightweight Crunchbang Linux, although both distros have thickened around the waist a bit over the years....

Don't have to deal with sanctions if you build it yourself China has given itself a goal to become a world-leading source of AI infrastructure by 2027, the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced in a policy document released on Monday....

Made-in-China social network allegedly made lowball licensing offer and abused its platform power Multinational music giant Universal Music Group - home to Taylor Swift, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Bilie Eilish and plenty of other prominent musicians - has accused made-in-China social network TikTok of abusing its market power using tactics including promoting music created by AI....

Infrastructure Delivery Engineering team to help build datacenters, data team to create new services Amid widespread tech layoffs, Oracle is hiring for two new teams to help it build more cloud facilities, and services....

Q4 results reveal AI is the answer to - or the reason for - everything: a cloud profit, wobbly ads, boosting subscriptions Google's parent company, Alphabet, has revealed it banked $3.0 billion by extending the working life of its hardware....

Chip biz aims to sell $3.5 billion worth of its Instinct GPUs and APUs in 2024 alone AMD is depending on its newly launched MI300 accelerators and continued AI demand to offset an otherwise challenging start to 2024....

No longer willing to be a friend with benefits - perhaps thanks to Big B killing OEM licenses? Updated Dell has terminated its distribution deal for VMware products....

$423K luxury motor makes the Spirit of Ecstasy want to fly away Mere months after launch, Rolls-Royce's Spectre EV is being recalled due to a faulty ground connection cable that could make the vehicle very hot stuff....

More human than human, eh? Computer scientists have found that misinformation generated by large language models (LLMs) is more difficult to detect than artisanal false claims hand-crafted by humans....

AI and the chips that power it are at the center of the equation Artificial intelligence and the chips that fuel its evolution have given rise to a new arms race between the US and China....

What goes together better than Redmond and respecting people's preferences? Everything, really Updated Windows users, take notice: Microsoft's Edge browser is said to be actively importing open Chrome tabs and slurping other data from Google's browser without permission and even if the "feature" that makes that happen is disabled....

Invaders inveigle infrastructure The US Justice Department and FBI may have scored a win over Chinese state-sponsored snoops trying to break into American critical infrastructure....

Multiple publicly available exploits have since been published for the critical flaw The number of public-facing installs of Jenkins servers vulnerable to a recently disclosed critical vulnerability is in the tens of thousands....

Limited-time offer may reduce cost of migration by up to 50% SAP is rolling out an incentive package to encourage users to adopt its cloud transformation programs, RISE with SAP and GROW with SAP....

It's all in the software The European Space Agency (ESA) has celebrated the Galileo satellite navigation system meeting civil aviation standards governing flight phases from take-off to landing and explained how the feat was done....

Vendor gets tangled in its own web of undisclosed vulnerabilities Juniper Networks has disclosed separate vulnerabilities it was previously accused of concealing, and apologized to customers for the error in communication....

Bing hasn't much benefited from its AI infusion but Google's rivals sense an opening Feature Ask Google's Bard chatbot about the future of search and you'll get a summary of trends that suggest there's more to search than finding keywords in an index of documents....

Bankers appointed, but CEO insists nothing will change while he's in charge The Raspberry Pi company is again preparing the ground for an initial public offering (IPO), appointing bankers Peel Hunt and Jefferies ahead of a planned listing on the London Stock Exchange....

Remember making Windows and DOS talk to a network? You could go back to the future with this assignment If you were thinking about forcing an AI to write a job ad for an administrator of an obsolete operating system, it looks like somebody has beaten you to it with a vacancy for a Windows 3.11 techie....

Lords warn Home Secretary there is nothing to regulate wider trawl of large populations A UK committee in its upper house has written to Home Secretary James Cleverly to warn of the lack of legal basis for the use of live facial recognition by police....

You can get Ceefax via a Pi, but behold it in its most exotic of habitats Got an old BBC computer in the loft, a spare Raspberry Pi gathering dust in a drawer, and a yearning to return to the days when Teletext was a neat thing?...

'Primary focus' is 'welfare of our staff as we resolve any errors,' says UK council after rollout of 30M SAP replacement Exclusive After schools in Surrey went live on a new 30 million HR, payroll and finance system, the responsible county council is being forced to prioritize support calls for problems that are delaying staff pay....

Miss hardware QWERTY? Warm up your soldering iron and 3D printer Hardware hacker's non-trivial project to weld a Blackberry keyboard to an Android fondleslab is being updated with an off-the-shelf PCB....

Questionable institutional change and myriad IT issues pervade the governance landscape The farewell report written by the UK's biometrics and surveillance commissioner highlights a litany of failings in the Home Office's approach to governing the technology....

It's not just you - things really are getting worse Opinion An apocryphal tale regarding the late, great footballer George Best being interviewed by a reporter just after getting suspended from Manchester United offers an apt description of today's tech industry right now....

Fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake ... time to fake it off Fake sexually explicit AI-generated viral images of pop royalty Taylor Swift have struck a nerve, leading fans, Microsoft's boss, and even the White House to call for immediate action to tackle deepfakes....

Controling prostheses? Elon imagines an app for that Elon Musk's brain-computer interface implant company Neuralink has begun its first human clinical trial....

SKAMPI was made in China, driven by Docker, located in South Africa, and aimed at the stars Reg In Space One of the radio telescope designs to be used by the Square Kilometre Array has achieved first light....

Hiring for regional and global execs to help it find new spots for bit barns, and make sure they get built right Microsoft has signaled significant expansion of its datacenter footprint in the Asia Pacific region....

You're free to choose your own adventure, from options that involve Copilot and OpenAI Comment If the future of work is a choice and "not a predetermined destiny" - as Microsoft puts it in a recent report - it would be nice to know why Redmond is so intent on shoving its version of that future down our throats....

Legacy OS and app holdouts get three more years of paid support, also on versions 10.0 and 11.3 Oracle has quietly extended paid support and upgrades for Solaris 11.4 to 2037 - three years past its previous deadline - and did the same for earlier versions of the OS last year....

18,000 customers, including the Pentagon and Microsoft, may have other thoughts SolarWinds - whose network monitoring software was backdoored by Russian spies so that the biz's customers could be spied upon - has accused America's financial watchdog of seeking to "revictimise the victim" after the agency sued it over the 2020 attack....

Angstrom age is right around the corner - for state-of-the-art chips, anyway Comment With 3nm production reaching maturity and 2nm on the way, TSMC is reportedly laying the groundwork for the next logical step, a 1nm fab....

Businesses can at long last submit digital docs to government agencies Japan is saying sayonara to the floppy disk, which until now was a required medium for submitting some 1,900 official documents to the government....

Distributed system makes a grab for Oracle, Db2 features CockroachDB has released its 23.2 iteration containing new features designed to tempt mainframe and other legacy database users to shift workloads to its distributed cloud-based system....

Maybe those Twitter cuts ran too deep, huh? Not long after it emerged that X, formerly Twitter, cut 1 in 3 Trust and Safety employees after Elon Musk's takeover in October 2022, the social media platform now claims it's ready to hire 100 full-time content moderators at a new office in Austin, Texas....

Winter Night is coming Japan's Moon lander has woken up on the lunar surface and begun transmitting data back to controllers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA.)...

Retailer steps back from Roomba-maker and 350 staff will have to step back from a job Amazon's $1.7 billion bid to buy iRobot is off, and while Jeff Bezos's business faces a termination fee, almost a third of the vacuum cleaner maker's staff face termination of an altogether different nature....

Plus: Dodgy ex-US official also sentenced for software and database theft in big day for the courts A dark web drug kingpin has handed more than $150 million in cryptocurrency to US authorities and pleaded guilty to selling hundreds of kilograms of drugs over the internet....

Plus: It kills off WordPad once and for all Microsoft is unleashing build 26040 of Windows Server and has revealed the official branding for the product: Windows Server 2025....

You're wrong to think that jammin' was a thing of the past Europe's aviation safety body is working with the airline industry to counter a danger posed by interference with GPS signals - now seen as a growing threat to the safety of air travel....

40 years on, it's still widely misunderstood Apple launched the original 128 kB Macintosh around 40 years ago, and in so doing changed the computer industry, in ways that a lot of people still don't fully understand....

Plus: George Carlin's family suing creators who used AI to rip off his comedy, and more AI in brief The US Department of Justice and Securities Exchange Commission are both launching investigations into the Cruise accident that hit a woman and dragged her for six meters (20 feet) under the wheels of its driverless car....

If a new browser arrives on an OS nobody cares about, did it arrive at all? It was a while coming, but Google has finally made a Windows on ARM-native version of Chrome....

Trio of spacecraft to capture ripples in spacetime The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed off on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission to detect gravitational waves from space....

We've been working on the solution for 70 years. It's there if we want it Opinion Datacenter power is a shocking business. The latest report from the International Energy Agency makes some hair-raising predictions, such as Irish datacenter electricity usage making up a third of that country's total juice budget by 2026....