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Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off

CEO claims 'illegal boycott' was attack on Musk's version of free speech

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All y'all love AI, right? Get ready for Gemini in Nest cameras, Google Assistant

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AMD hopes to unlock MI300’s full potential with fresh code

Devs invited to ROCm out with FP8 precision, quantize to their heart's delight

Verisign under fire for increasing .com prices each and every year it can

Registry happy to chat about caps, just don't consider it a commitment to actually do anything

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Backblaze sees drive failure rates tick up, asks if AI can help

Puts drive models into focus to assess how often they fall over in their lifetime

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EVs continue to grow but private buyers are steering clear, say motor trade figures

Hybrids snap at heels of battery-only vehicles in UK, but petrol is still king... for now

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Dell makes new round of layoffs while it looks to unlock modern AI

HR apparently overwhelmed by attempt to sack 12.5K people in one day

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Samsung labor union orders members back to work and a 'tactical transition' to ongoing action

Actions haven't stopped Chaebol from commencing mass production of new mobile memory

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CrowdStrike hires outside security outfits to review troubled Falcon code

And reveals the small mistake that bricked 8.5M Windows boxes

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Google splats device-hijacking exploited-in-the-wild Android kernel bug among others

And Qualcomm addresses 'permanent denial of service' flaw in its stuff

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Sonic Automotive says ransomware-linked CDK software outage cost it $30M

Misery loves company – all of its competitors were also negatively impacted

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Bad apps bypass Windows security alerts for six years using newly unveiled trick

Windows SmartScreen and Smart App Control both have weaknesses of which to be wary

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Users call on Microsoft to update Outlook's friendly name feature

That one weird thing in Outlook that gives phishers and scammers an in to an inbox

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Billion-dollar bust as international op shutters Cryptonator wallet

Chap named 'Roman Boss' accused of being just that at a cryptocash laundering outfit

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MDM vendor Mobile Guardian attacked, leading to remote wiping of 13,000 devices

Singapore Ministry of Education orders software removed after string of snafus

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Illinois relaxes biometric privacy law so snafus won't cost businesses billions

Some scowl, some smile, as fines no longer apply every time your mugshot or fingerprint is shared

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NFL to begin using face scanning tech across all of its stadiums

Smile for the camera to get in, or buy a beer without lining up

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WordStar 7, the last ever DOS version, is re-released for free

The preferred tool of Arthur C Clarke, Anne Rice and George R R Martin

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Chrome Web Store warns end is nigh for uBlock Origin

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SAP Core AI bugs allowed access to internal network servers, say researchers

Wiz infoseccers able to promote themselves from humble customer to full-blown admin

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That’s what Google calls its massively parallel data copy service operating on dozens of clusters

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Nvidia's subscription software empire is taking shape

$4,500 per GPU per year adds up pretty quick – even faster when you pay by the hour

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Japan stops measuring train crowding by ease of newspaper readership

The smartphone strikes again! And so might the Reg Standards Bureau, with your help

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Thursday, August 1, 2024

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Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs C for Linux debate [Fri Sep 20 2024]

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