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by Lindsay Clark on (#6X877)
Labour health secretary's vision for one record to rule 'em all, for each patient, set to come to market The state health service for England has asked tech suppliers to submit ideas to help it build an online service for a single health record, as promised by the country's Health Minister last year....
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by Richard Speed on (#6X85K)
Claims policy change is really just a way to squeeze out competition Exclusive European software vendor Nextcloud has accused Google of deliberately crippling its Android Files application, which it says has more than 800,000 users....
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by Jessica Lyons on (#6X85M)
'MarbledDust' gang has honed the skills it uses to assist Ankara Turkish spies exploited a zero-day bug in a messaging app to collect info on the Kurdish army in Iraq, according to Microsoft, which says the attacks began more than a year ago....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6X83Y)
CEO Sam Altman has no master plan but imagines custom models built on everything you've ever said or read OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his company doesn't have a master plan but does hope to develop a product that's akin to a subscription operating system, but for AI, and models that ingest every experience you have in your life...
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6X82W)
Linux 6.15 is coming along nicely too, unless autocorrect messes things up Linux kernel project boss Linus Torvalds has re-joined the ranks of full-size mechanical keyboard aficionados....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6X821)
Chinese and Australian boffins ask what else could be slowing down seismic waves as they pass through the Red Planet? Mars may still be home to oceanic quantities of liquid water, according to a recent paper published by the National Science Review....
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by Thomas Claburn on (#6X80X)
Rise of the machines postponed ... for now Robots in Amazon's fulfillment warehouse can pick and stow products well enough that the e-tail giant is happy to begin beta testing, but not well enough to leave human workers behind....
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#6X7ZF)
One problem down, x - 1 problems go There are plenty of reasons why fusion energy has yet to become reality, but according to a group of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and their collaborators, we may be one modeling breakthrough closer....
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by Iain Thomson on (#6X7XP)
Support for the underlying OS is another story Microsoft has pledged to support and issue security fixes for M365 apps on Windows 10 into late 2028. That's well past a cut-off point of October 14 this year, when Redmond's support for Windows 10 officially ends unless you buy an extended support package....
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by Thomas Claburn on (#6X7V9)
All those return to office mandates make a lot more sense now Companies with higher levels of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic saw more of their employees launch startups, economists have found. They argue this entrepreneurial spillover is a factor policymakers and firms should weigh when shaping remote work policies....
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by Iain Thomson on (#6X7RM)
Cripes, we were only joking when we called Elon's social network the new state media The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced Monday that going forward, only urgent alerts tied to emerging threats or major cyber activity will appear on its website. Routine updates, guidance, and other notifications will instead be shared via email, RSS, and X....
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by Liam Proven on (#6X7RN)
Community fork picks up where TrueNAS CORE left off TrueNAS is alive and well, but iXsystems has shifted its focus to the Linux-based SCALE edition. For the FreeBSD faithful left clinging to CORE, a new contender is limbering up: zVault....
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by Connor Jones on (#6X7P4)
Intruders claim they stole GlobalX's flight records and manifests GlobalX, a charter airline used for deportations by the US government, has admitted someone broke into its network infrastructure....
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by Richard Currie on (#6X7P5)
So alchemists had the right idea - they just lacked a 27 km particle accelerator The dream of every medieval alchemist - turning lead into gold - has finally come true thanks to some impractical physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider....
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#6X7GZ)
IT projects may remain in limbo due to deal being far from final, but markets are up, so Trump'll declare a win world war fee The impending disaster of trade-freezing tariffs on Chinese imports to the US has been averted, but like a Chinese cargo ship anchored off the coast of California, it's not gone entirely....
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by Richard Speed on (#6X7H0)
Canary fans told it hurts functionality to the point that it makes 'using your PC to do even basic things difficult' The Windows team has come up with a bug so bad that Microsoft has had to postpone some Insider builds until the issue is dealt with....
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by Lindsay Clark on (#6X7EB)
Musicians, artists, writers, actors urge government to protect copyright More than 400 of the UK's leading media and arts professionals have written to the prime minister to back an amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill, which promises to offer the nation's creative industries transparency over copyrighted works ingested by AI models....
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by Richard Speed on (#6X7CP)
As long as those fit into a 20 x 20 x 20 grid and can be built from 8 basic bricks At last, an AI model we can really get behind: LegoGPT takes a text prompt and spits out a physically stable design....
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by Connor Jones on (#6X7CQ)
Providers argue that if end users prioritized security, they'd get it CYBERUK Intervention is required to ensure the security market holds vendors to account for shipping insecure wares - imposing costs on those whose failures lead to cyberattacks and having to draft in cleanup crews. The security market must properly incentivize security vendors to do security better....
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#6X7B9)
We need to make taking IT systems 'off the books' a problem for corporate types Opinion It's been a devastating few weeks for UK retail giants. Marks and Spencer, the Co-Op, and now uber-posh Harrods have had massive disruptions due to ransomware attacks taking systems down for prolonged periods....
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by Richard Speed on (#6X7BA)
It was acceptable in the '80s Who, Me? Sometimes, a favor done for friends years ago can come back to bite you in a very corporate way. Welcome to another cautionary tale from the files of Who, Me?...
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6X7A0)
Some see an action to benefit Elon. The White House sees an agency obsessed with DEI The head of the US Copyright Office has reportedly been fired, the day after agency concluded that builders of AI models use of copyrighted material went beyond existing doctrines of fair use....
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#6X78T)
PLUS: Celsius scammer sent to slammer; Death-by-hacking victim warns you're never safe; and more Infosec in brief Good cybersecurity habits don't appear to qualify anyone to work at DOGE, as one Musk minion seemingly fell victim to infostealer malware....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6X77W)
PLUS: Huawei's Windows-free PC appears; Robo-car rentals come to China; Europe, India, collab in space; and more Asia In Brief Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, has struck trouble at home after a user falsely claimed a retailer sold inferior jade products at enormous and unjustified markups....
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by Jessica Lyons on (#6X746)
Rapid7 threat hunter wrote a PoC. No, he's not releasing it RSAC If Rapid7's Christiaan Beek decided to change careers and become a ransomware criminal, he knows exactly how he'd innovate: CPU ransomware....
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by Iain Thomson on (#6X6K6)
The FBI also issued a list of end-of-life routers you need to replace Earlier this week, the FBI urged folks to bin aging routers vulnerable to hijacking, citing ongoing attacks linked to TheMoon malware. In a related move, the US Department of Justice unsealed indictments against four foreign nationals accused of running a long-running proxy-for-hire network that exploited outdated routers to funnel criminal traffic....
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by Richard Speed on (#6X6GK)
France's share of MOD cash is growing while the US's shrinks The UK's Ministry of Defence (MOD) is gradually shifting its spending from the US to Europe, according to research from Tussell....
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by Lindsay Clark on (#6X6FK)
MIT research team proves pop science eggsplanation wrong It might sound like common sense - and it's echoed by science communicators and even ChatGPT - but it's wrong. New research shows eggs are less likely to crack when they land on their side than on their end....
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by Tobias Mann on (#6X6AV)
AI phone home Despite stiff export controls on the legitimate sale of AI accelerators to China, stemming the flow of gray market GPUs streaming into the Middle Kingdom remains a point of concern for American lawmakers....
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by Thomas Claburn on (#6X68Z)
DEI another day: Trump priorities bite as $1B in grants vanish, layoffs loom The US government's National Science Foundation (NSF) is reportedly axing more than three dozen divisions, including its equity-in-STEM unit, while prepping staff layoffs and yanking over a billion dollars in recently awarded grants. The purge has already sparked legal action and congressional scrutiny....
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#6X66M)
Price tag unknown US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has unveiled an ambitious plan to yank American air traffic control systems out of the 1960s - and he wants Congress to fund the whole project up front so it doesn't get derailed by political wind shifts....
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by Liam Proven on (#6X66N)
And if it's your first time around, there's a whole new free book on FreePascal Lazarus 4 is the latest version of the all-FOSS but Delphi-compatible IDE for the FreePascal compiler....
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by Iain Thomson on (#6X64A)
Weapons-grade fuel for fraud Insight Partners, a mega venture capital firm with more than $90 billion in funds under management, fears network intruders got their hands on internal sensitive data about employees, portfolio companies, investors, and more....
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by Richard Speed on (#6X61Y)
NASA cancels solicitation to get a partner to launch, land, and operate the bot for free NASA has quietly scrapped a plea for third parties to take its VIPER rover to the lunar surface....
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by Tobias Mann on (#6X61Z)
Execs from AMD, Microsoft, and OpenAI tear into profit busting AI diffusion rules Execs from several top US tech companies, including Microsoft, AMD, and OpenAI, slammed the Biden administration's export rules for AI chips and said that winning the AI race against China hinges on making it easier, not harder, to use American technology....
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by Lindsay Clark on (#6X5YM)
International Java sales operation and the prospects of audits per-employee license model make the move to open source irresistible Experts are warning of an increase in Oracle Java audits - as the tech giant nears its year end - following a switch to a per-employee license model that could see costs grow by up to five times....
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by Liam Proven on (#6X5VV)
Linux giant finds Chinese environment to be perilous beneath pretty exterior SUSE has kicked the Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) out of its community-driven Linux distro, openSUSE, and the reasons it gives for doing so are revealing....
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by Thomas Claburn on (#6X5T1)
This BS ends at some point, right? Microsoft believes AI can hasten development of nuclear fusion as a practical energy source, which could in turn accelerate answers to the question of how to power AI....
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by Dan Robinson on (#6X5T2)
One concrete suggestion: Looser visa requirements The EU and nation states have already heralded schemes to attract top scientific talent seeking to escape the Republic of Trump. So where's Britain in the mix?...
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by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols on (#6X5RK)
It's going to be very, very interesting in a 'May you live in interesting times' way Opinion When Donald Trump entered the White House, I expect Google thought its worries were over. A million-dollar "donation" for the inaugural ball, some face time between Sundar Pichai and Trump, and President Joe Biden's pesky Department of Justice (DoJ) demanding Google divest itself of its Chrome web browser would all be forgotten....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6X5QE)
PC repair chap turned pet detective to diagnose the defective On Call The unconditional love of a pet is often a solace, and perhaps never more so than at the end of a busy working week. Which is when The Register competes with the animal kingdom for your affection by delivering a new edition of On Call, our Friday column in which we share your stories of scratching out a living delivering tech support....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6X5QF)
Industry pulled a fast one convincing everyone cloud is the only way' says CTO David Heinemeier Hansson Web software biz 37signals has started to migrate its data out of the cloud and onto on-prem storage - and expects to save a further $1.3 million (980,000) a year after completing its high-profile cloud repatriation project and getting off AWS once and for all....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6X5K5)
Songs, social network vids threaten national security, apparently India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued an advisory calling for media companies and online platforms to block all content originating in Pakistan....
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by Thomas Claburn on (#6X5EW)
'I'm sorry, I can't help with that' Google's latest update to its Gemini family of large language models appears to have broken the controls for configuring safety settings, breaking applications that require lowered guardrails, such as apps providing solace for sexual assault victims....
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#6X5EX)
Sole-source award raises eyebrows in rush to meet Trump's hiring mandates The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) awarded Workday a sole-source contract to overhaul its human resources systems - bypassing any formal competition - citing critical failures in its aging, fragmented HR infrastructure and binding deadlines from President Trump's executive orders on workforce restructuring....
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6X5EY)
As Broadcom flings legal nastygrams at its own punters Next Dominic Johnston is fed up with VMware....
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by Tobias Mann on (#6X5CS)
A B2B, API move this ain't, in our view Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is leaving to become CEO of Applications at OpenAI, reporting directly to Sam Altman, the AI heavyweight announced on Thursday....
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by Richard Speed on (#6X5CT)
Last big release until trixie shows up Debian bookworm is getting what could be its last hurrah as the basis for Raspberry Pi's operating system, with what's likely to be its final appearance on a release for the diminutive computers....
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#6X59T)
Another mask-off moment, although fresh research says RoI for the tech is still lacking Following considerable cuts to its enforcement workforce, the US's Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to use AI to supplement its ability to collect taxes from US citizens....
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by Liam Proven on (#6X59V)
Steven Deobald certainly talks the talk The GNOME Foundation has hired a new executive director to lead the organization, acting as GNOME's public face and leading the non-profit's fundraising efforts....
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