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Thought GPT-2 was powerful? OpenAI teases GPT-3. Meanwhile, Microsoft dumps human journos for robots
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Policy
Singapore to accelerate digitalisation of COVID-kicked economy
New agency will hustle small retailers onto digital payments and teach seniors how to Internet
01 Jun 02:02 |
Policy
Australia to refund $720m in ‘debts’ determined by dodgy algorithm
May well have been killer algorithm, too
01 Jun 00:32 | 4
Roundup
Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack
Plus other news from infosec land this week
31 May 09:32 | 5
Science
They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station
VideoBob and Doug are first humans launched into orbit by Elon's Muskteers
30 May 20:06 | 61
Science
Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn
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30 May 00:44 | 32
Security
Remember when Republicans said Dems hacked voting systems to rig Georgia's election? There were no hacks
'No evidence of damage to network or computers, no evidence of theft, damage, or loss of data'
29 May 23:32 | 71
Personal Tech
Twitter, Reddit and pals super unhappy US visa hopefuls have to declare their online handles to Uncle Sam
Land Of The Free to List All The Websites You Use
29 May 22:24 | 43
Storage
Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays
Probing by El Reg's Chris Mellor highlighted in class-action complaint
29 May 21:22 | 41
Webcast
The top three myths of cloud data protection – busted
SaaS is no replacement for disaster recovery as we're about to find out next month
29 May 17:00 |
Software
High-level musical chairs continue at SAP as yet another senior exec departs
Chief beancounter for cloud quits for pastures new
29 May 15:45 | 1
Personal Tech
Nokia's reboot of the 5310 is a blissfully dumb phone that will lug some mp3s about just fine
No Wi-Fi, no newsfeeds – just you, 2G, and your awful music taste
29 May 15:00 | 32
Bootnotes
Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'
'In Ihrem Budget fehlen sechs Nullen' warned MP
29 May 14:15 | 46
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HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles
'Keeping all of the best elements from the G1'... and none of the bad, please
29 May 13:30 | 7
Software
Visual Studio Code finally arrives on ARM64 Windows. No, you haven't woken up in 2017, sadly. It's still 2020
Now you can program like a native with your £899 Surface Pro X – keyboard not included
29 May 12:45 | 11
Bootnotes
VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?
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This'll make you feel old: Uni compsci favourite Pascal hits the big five-oh this year
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Security
Great news. Patch load drops 20% for the first time in 10 years. Bad news: Well, you've heard about coronavirus?
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Software bug in Bombardier airliner made planes turn the wrong way
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29 May 07:41 | 8
Business
So you really didn't touch the settings at all, huh? Well, this print-out from my secret backup says otherwise
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VMware virtually untouched by virus, impact of private Keith Urban concert for customers uncertain
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29 May 06:56 |
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VR flop Magic Leap’s ‘pivot’ spins CEO right off his throne
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It's not every day the NSA publicly warns of attacks by Kremlin hackers – so take this critical Exim flaw seriously
GRU crew actively exploit hole – but you patched it months ago, right?
29 May 06:08 | 10
Science
After 30 years of searching, astroboffins finally detect the universe's 'missing matter' – using fast radio bursts
'We couldn't find half of what should be there. It was a bit of an embarrassment'
29 May 05:05 | 88
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Dell says the hard part comes next after rapid pandemic response helped it to stable Q1 revenue
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29 May 04:01 | 3
Data Centre
China's Tencent to order ONE MILLION SERVERS as part of $70bn digital infrastructure splurge
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29 May 02:16 | 11
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NTT warns its Singapore cloud was hacked, Japanese customer data compromised
Early May attack hit 600-plus hosting and cloud customers
29 May 01:36 |
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Remember when Republicans said Dems hacked voting systems to rig Georgia's election? There were no hacks
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Trump issues toothless exec order to show donors, fans he's doing something about those Twitter twerps
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29 May 00:26 | 208
Artificial Intelligence
Clearview AI sued by ACLU for scraping billions of selfies from social media to power its facial-recog-for-cops system
Startup says it's covered by the First Ammendment, ta very much
28 May 22:56 | 17
Personal Tech
Paying Arizona: Google sued by state for location data revenues after tracking state's citizens via mobiles
Chocolate Factory insists its practices have been mischaracterized
28 May 21:50 | 7
Security
Got $50k spare? Then you can crack SHA-1 – so OpenSSH is deprecating flawed hashing algo in a 'near-future release'
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Bootnotes
Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it
Colour us shocked
28 May 20:08 | 212
Software
Linux-loving Windows 10 May 2020 Update squeaks in with days to spare before June
Scampering through spring fields, or a cautious dribble seeping under the bathroom door?
28 May 19:15 | 15
Security
Cybercrooks tend to prefer Google-branded phishing to Microsoft-flavoured lures
So says Barracuda Networks, anyway
28 May 18:59 | 2
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