Новости за 15.01.2024

Billionaire suggests a payload would have solved the problem. And we have a suggestion for who that payload could be

Yet more support for the argument to adopt memory-safe languages

More than 11,500 Juniper Networks devices are exposed to a new remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, and infosec researchers are pressing admins to urgently apply the patches.…

Doing science and still alive ... but not for long

Astrobotic has confirmed that the doomed Peregrine Lunar Lander's mission will end on Thursday, January 18 with the spacecraft burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.…

The bug with a perfect 10 severity score has been ripe for exploitation since May

Web giant retorts that researchers simply used its publicly available APIs

Also, iOS spyware abused Apple's own ECC, breach victim says it can't figure out what hackers took, and some critical vulns

The future's bright. The future's retro

Interview  Inspired at least in part by Pi creator Eben Upton's dalliances with the home computers of the 1980s, the Raspberry Pi casts a long shadow over the retro computing world.…

How StorPool’s practical approach can meet the dynamics of 2024’s burgeoning data storage demands

If AWS, Microsoft, Google were anywhere close to capacity, their revenues would be way higher

Experiment is limited to the Insider Dev Channel. For now

Microsoft is experimenting with having Copilot open automatically upon Windows startup.…

Applications across chemistry, energy, and medicine await human-free acceleration

Meanwhile pending case from Cisco accuses Dexon of selling counterfeit kit

New versions and ports of the Plasma desktop ahoy

The KDE dev team has spent many nights working on the first release candidate of the new Qt 6-based release, during which time a tiny, intrepid band of coders was able to bring the current stable release to OpenBSD.…

If you think Sinclair’s hardware was odd, you haven’t met the people

Opinion  Following an unlikely series of events involving British Telecom, Prince Philip and a VTX-5000 modem, your teenage protagonist found himself at a drunken dinner party in 1984's West London. Across the table, excitingly, sat my boyhood hero Sir Clive Sinclair, and he seemed genuinely interested in what I had to say about the Sinclair QL, which was not thriving.…

Check out the top 12 must see Rubrik product demos of 2023 for tips on how to foil attacks in 2024

It's not like Gandhi ever saw his kids, says Narayana Murthy

Indian billionaire and Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has doubled down on his comments that India’s youth should voluntarily work 70-hour weeks.…

Who's going to complain about free labor?

Who, Me?  As the year gets into gear, so does Who, Me?, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column in which we share your stories of getting away with tech shortcuts that should really have led to long career detours.…

It's certainly not a layoff, net-taming biz insists

Updated  Cloudflare has defended its HR practices after a former employee posted a nine-minute video of a phone call during which she was fired, asked for an explanation for being let go, and was told those who made the call were unaware of the reasons for her dismissal.…

Roads are icy and drivers are dangerous. There will be no Starbucks run.

Infosec academic suggests Beijing's warning that iThing owners aren't anonymous deserves attention outside the great firewall too

PLUS: It's difficult to make a bad LLM turn good; ELVIS Act seeks AI voice clone ban

PLUS: Microsoft taps 700 million new customers in China; AI comes to Korean DMZ; India’s semiconductor sector surges