Новости за 11.03.2024

TA-1 test ticks off all the primary objectives, but hypersonic flight will have to wait

Claims allegedly pirated content from Books3 dataset trawled by its models

It fell through a timewarp from an alternate and very different computing universe

Plus: Pilots on Lion Air’s Batik fall asleep and miss Jakarta

Alaska Airlines is reportedly cooperating on a US Department of Justice (DoJ) criminal investigation into Boeing regarding an incident which saw an aircraft plug blow out of a 737 MAX 9 mid-flight in January.…

Water? Like from the toilet?

Fancy a cold one? Would it change your mind if that frothy, frosty beer was brewed using treated wastewater?…

Hear hw utilising AI/ML tools on Google Cloud can help drive innovation

CEO defends decision in difficult tech market

Distributed database vender PlanetScale has made work-force lay-offs and ended its free-tier services in an effort to achieve sustainable profitability.…

Time to start spamming those reposts: Top users are getting early access to 1.76 million shares

Those using African American vernacular more likely to be sentenced to death, if LLMs were asked to decide

Five months in and the mammoth post-ransomware recovery has barely begun

Commission has until December 9, 2024, to put its house in order

The European Commission has been reprimanded for infringing data protection regulations when using Microsoft 365.…

Damage to DNA, mutations, uncontrolled cell division and malignancy. Is space tourism worth the risk?

And does it count as consent?

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has opened a consultation on "consent or pay" business models. We're sure readers of The Register will have a fair few things to say.…

Good news, everyone! The world's favorite daemon, systemd, is coming to phones.

Terms and conditions apply. Lawyers need not

Opinion  It's a good rule of nostril that if your litigation department is a source of revenue, your business model stinks. The law is there to discourage delinquent behavior when all else fails, not to amplify power for profit. If there's a better, fairer way to stop naughtiness, you should try that first.…

Older and wiser colleagues couldn’t see the funny side

Who, Me?  Aaah … Monday! That wonderful week-opening day that brings with it so many possibilities. Including, as Register readers know all too well, the chance to make errors that must then be discreetly buried – the subject of our Who, Me?, our weekly reader-contributed tale of career-threatening bullets you’ve managed to dodge.…

But for now, smaller customers have been cut off from on-demand training content

Bejing allows easier access to AliPay and Tencent's Weixin, and higher spending limits too

PLUS: NSA shares cloud security tips; Infosec training for Jordanian women; Critical vulnerabilities

PLUS: Microsoft bars prompts to make Copilot less violent and NSFW

AI in brief  OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has returned the company's board and will serve alongside three new members.…

For now, have Linux 6.8, which Linus Torvalds could find no reason to delay

PLUS: Chinese tops Steam’s language charts; HPE opens Saudi server factory; Indian government apps have flaws