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250 million-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released – but the internet isn’t built to use them [Mon Feb 12 2024]

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250 million-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released – but the internet isn’t built to use them

A new chapter in the long saga of the 240/4 block is being written. If you want more and cheaper IPv4, maybe you should help

 

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India weighs 18 bids to build subsidized local chip factories

PLUS: Rideshare mega-merger mooted; France raids Huawei; Mongolia plans first satellite

Cloudflare joins the 'we found ways to run our kit for longer' club

Finds modest savings, but isn't modest about ability to land big customers or sell AI

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Sam Altman's chip ambitions may be loonier than feared

$7 trillion will buy you a helluva lotta fabs or every chip biz of consequence

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Search chatbots? Pah, this startup's trying on Yahoo's old outfit of web directories

AI is here to stay though conversations won't necessarily replace queries

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Amazon overcharges shoppers with Buy Box algorithm, fresh lawsuit claims

Bazaar of Bezos buries bargains, allegedly

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Nvidia wants a piece of the custom silicon pie, reportedly forms unit to peddle IP

Don't want a GPU? How about some intellectual property or design help?

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AMD bagged more market share in server, desktop, mobile at end of 2023

Plus: x86 processor shipments up for the first time in 2 years

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CableMod recalls angled GPU power adapters to prevent fiery surprises

Keep your graphics cards safe, people

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250 million-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released – but the internet isn’t built to use them

A new chapter in the long saga of the 240/4 block is being written. If you want more and cheaper IPv4, maybe you should help

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AI PC hype bubble swells, but software support lags marketing

Resistance is futile, upgrades are inevitable and so is hardware margin inflation

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Curious tale of broken VPNs, the Year 2038, and certs that expired 100 years ago

It’s not NTP. There’s no way it’s NTP. It was NTP

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Billions lost to fraud and error during UK's pandemic spending spree

Watchdog orders a rethink in time for the next emergency

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How did China get so good at chips and AI? Congressional investigation blames American venture capitalists

Capitalism made communism stronger

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Meet VexTrio, a network of 70K hijacked websites crooks use to sling malware, fraud

Some useful indicators of compromise right here

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Ivanti discloses fifth vulnerability, doesn't credit researchers who found it

Software company's claim of there being no active exploits also being questioned

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Fortinet's week to forget: Critical vulns, disclosure screw-ups, and that toothbrush DDoS attack claim

An orchestra of fails for the security vendor

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India to make its digital currency programmable

Reserve Bank also wants a national 2FA framework

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Crime gang targeted jobseekers across Asia, looted two million email addresses

That listing for a gig that looked too good to be true may have been carrying SQL injection code

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Uncle Sam sweetens the pot with $15M bounty on Hive ransomware gang members

Honor among thieves about to be put to the test

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ANZ Bank test drives GitHub Copilot – and finds AI does give a helping hand

Expert Python programmers saw the most benefit

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US regulators crack down on AI playing doctor in healthcare

Code might get things wrong for patients but we must think of the corporate profits

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Making sense of Microsoft's 'confusing' Copilot functionality carnival

Designer updates, and AI assistants everywhere

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Mozilla CEO quits, pushes pivot to data privacy champion... but what about Firefox?

Could it have more to do with browser's ever-increasing irrelevance?

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Microsoft's Notepad goes from simple text editor to Copilot conspirator

No guarantee it'll come to Windows proper, but testers can give it a poke

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Closure of Windows 10 upgrade path still catching users by surprise

That Windows 7 license is little more than a digital paperweight now

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Please install that patch – but don't you dare actually run it

This is a fine approach if you want great uptime stats. Security? Not so much

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Mitchell Baker logs off for good as CEO of Firefox maker Mozilla

HTTP 301 Moved Permanently

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Offbeat

50 years ago, the all-rookie, final Skylab crew returned to Earth

Around The World in 84 days

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California proposes government cloud cluster to sift out nasty AI models

Big Tech's home turf set for law to ward against 'unsafe behavior'

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BOFH: Hearken! The Shiny Button software speaks of Strategic Realignment

It'll wink and blink, but not make you think

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Joint European Torus experiments end on a 69 megajoules high

Meanwhile ITER's not slated to start deuterium-tritium ops until 2035

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NASA finally launches PACE Earth science satellite

'New era of ocean science' hoped to follow debut of billion-dollar plankton-spotter

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