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How to give Windows Hello the finger and login as someone on their stolen laptop Not that we're encouraging anyone to defeat this fingerprint authentication

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India's $20B Smart Cities Mission isn't, and has hardly scratched the surface after eight years

Many projects really about basic services, or don't integrate well. Charge ahead and extend it anyway, think tank recommends

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Accelerating Software Development with Generative AI: An IT Leader's Guide Whitepaper

4 Keys to Building a Culture of Innovation Whitepaper

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Tesla, Musk likely aware of Autopilot deficiencies behind Florida fatality, says judge

Decision means family of man killed in 2019 cross-traffic collision can take carmaker to trial

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Cisco whips up modded switch to secure Ukraine grid against Russian cyberattacks

GPS-jamming tactics were doing much more than simply scrambling missile guidance systems

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HP chief throws about AI fairy dust in hopes of reviving slumbering PC giant

What is double of 15% sales shrinkage?

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Robocar tech biz sues Nvidia, claims stolen code shared in Teams meeting blunder

Two companies both online when slide was viewed at presentation

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Arm's tiny Cortex-M52 packs AI punch for small devices

Helium tech to end up on $1-$2 SoCs claimed to bring big performance gains for ML workloads

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Nvidia revenue explodes, led by datacenter products and … InfiniBand?

A certain Big Red Communist country looms as a dampener – but not a big one

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Lenovo sues Asus for patent infringement, seeks US ZenBook ban

Why can't we be FRANDS?

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US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans' phone records – 'usually' without a warrant

At least get a court order before mining Hemisphere Project data, says Senator

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Why Containers are the Total Package Whitepaper

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How to give Windows Hello the finger and login as someone on their stolen laptop

Not that we're encouraging anyone to defeat this fingerprint authentication

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US nuke reactor lab hit by 'gay furry hackers' demanding cat-human mutants

Staff records swiped, leaked by gang who probably read one too many comics, sorry, graphic novels

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US cybercops take on 'pig butchering' org, return $9M in scammed crypto

Crims drain wallets of marks after letting them in on 'awesome crypto scheme secret'

Microsoft's bug bounty turns 10. Are these kinds of rewards making code more secure?

Katie Moussouris, who pioneered Redmond's program, says folks are focusing on the wrong thing

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UK's cookie crumble: Data watchdog serves up tougher recipe for consent banners

30 days to get compliant with tracking rules or face enforcement action

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US watchdog gives itself power to demand documents in AI probes

And offers $25,000 prize to stop voice deepfakes from catching on

Author hopes to throw the book at OpenAI, Microsoft with copyright class action

Stop us if you've heard this one before

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OpenAI's CEO merry-go-round tosses out voice feature for ChatGPT

Unsurprisingly, the app doesn't know what's going on at the company either

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No more staff budget for UK civil service, but worry not – here's an incubator for AI

Today's story was brought to you by the words politician and silly

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Palantir bags £330M NHS data bonanza despite privacy fears

Award follows £1 deal during pandemic and £60 million in non-competitive contracts

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Fake views for the win: Text-to-image models learn more efficiently with made-up data

Future neural nets will probably use a mix of AI-generated and real info

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Sam Altman set to rejoin OpenAI as CEO – seemingly with Microsoft's blessing

New board includes former Salesforce boss and Treasury Secretary

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China's regulator paused VMware purchase probe before desired close date

Competitors predict price gouging as employees await news

Baidu joins Tencent in downplaying impact of US chip bans on AI ambitions

Stockpiled silicon, improving efficiency, and looking for alternative suppliers – while maybe taking a dig at Microsoft and OpenAI

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Veteran wingman wants $1.75M from Boeing over emotional turbulence

Cites alleged ageist headwinds

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Half a kilo of cosmic nuclear fuel reignites NASA's deep space dreams

There ain't no party like a Pu-238 party

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