Новости за 08.03.2024

'Luminous phenomena' on the cards, but half a ton of debris could survive

Still "no evidence" of any compromised customer-facing systems, we're told

Preview's promise ends in digital dust

Microsoft has abruptly pulled a feature from OneDrive that allows users to upload files to the cloud storage service directly from a URL.…

Watch this webinar to find out how Google's Gemini can help you work more efficiently

US spy-tech firm at center of UK health data systems applies its technology to altogether different ends

Remaining services are expected to return in the coming weeks after $22M ALPHV ransom

Workforce aging, systems still mission-critical ... plus Big Blue looking out for its bread and butter

Classified docs, readable passwords, and thousands of personal information nabbed in Xplain breach

Court of Justice of the European Union says consent identifers are personal info, subject to GDPR

A secret message or just random characters on a license plate?

Microsoft veteran Dave Plummer has shared a photo of the Corvette bought by Zip folder support work in Windows and reminded us that, 30 years later, some of the code is probably still running in the operating system.…

AI, Pangu Models, automation pervade across Huawei’s cloud database, infrastructure, services

And soon learned he had won the argument

On Call  Welcome once more, dear reader, to On Call – The Register's Friday trawl through a mailbag containing stories of your tech support tales.…

The Register speaks to the folks behind the AI Incident Database

Interview  False images of Donald Trump supported by made-up Black voters, middle-schoolers creating pornographic deepfakes of their female classmates, and Google's Gemini chatbot failing to generate pictures of White people accurately.…

Redmond hasn't budged on deals that make its wares cheaper on Azure, and regulators are circling

Networking silicon surges, Carbon Black to be kept in the fold

Broadcom has told investors its strategy of forcing VMware customers to buy only big bundles of software will see revenue increase by "double-digit percentage sequentially, quarter over quarter, through the rest of the fiscal year."…

Who knew that unzipping a font archive could unleash a malicious file

Online graphic design platform Canva went looking for security problems in fonts, and found three – in "strange places."…

Puts $1.2 billion on the table for AI skills and local LLMs, tells private enterprise it expects help

CISA announces more help, and calls on app makers to step up

The US government and some of the largest open source foundations and package repositories have announced a series of initiatives intended to improve software supply-chain security, while also repeating calls for developers to increase support for such efforts.…

iPhone giant's $2B fine shows the bloc is serious about regulation

Experts say Apple has made itself a target for regulators as the EU introduces stringent new rules under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) which just went into effect.…

Safety watchdog bemoans lack of cooperation with probe

Boeing has come in for criticism from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) over documentation detailing who was responsible for failures in the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 door plug attachment.…

'We refuse to operate as customer service representatives'

A group of 41 US state attorneys general, tired of serving as a customer complaint clearinghouse for Facebook and Instagram users, have sent a letter to Meta asking it to figure out how to reduce a "dramatic and persistent spike" in account takeovers.…

They can't have Intel building military chips out in the open now can they?