Microsoft on a roll for terrible rebranding with Windows App
WEB1 day ago · A one-stop shop for everything Windows. The Windows App has been in preview for a while and users of the Remote Desktop client were given a heads-up that the rebrand was coming. It is designed to be a "unified experience," according to Microsoft. It'll run on Windows, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and web browsers, although the …
NIST: New smoke alarms still go off for bacon • The Register
WEB9 hours ago · Richard Speed. Sat 21 Sep 2024 // 10:35 UTC. Fryers of bacon who hope enhanced technology will stop alarms going off over the slightest whiff of smoking oil will have to wait a while longer. At least, that's according to research from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Every home should have smoke alarms.
Google successfully appeals €1.5B AdSense fine in EU
WEB2 days ago · Brandon Vigliarolo. Wed 18 Sep 2024 // 21:59 UTC. Google has some thank-you cards to send, as the European Union's General Court (GC) has nullified a €1.49 billion ($1.66 billion) fine levied against the tech giant for anti-competitive advertising behavior. Google was fined the aforementioned amount by the European Commission in 2019 for ...
The mystery of the rogue HP calculator: 12C or not 12C?
WEB11 hours ago · The HP-12C [PDF] is a remarkably long-lived financial calculator from Hewlett-Packard (HP). It first appeared in 1981 and has continued in production ever since, with just the odd tweak here and there to its hardware. A sibling, the HP-12C Platinum, was introduced in 2003, which added to the functionality but retained the gloriously late '70s ...
No major AI model is safe, but some are safer than others
WEB3 days ago · Tue 17 Sep 2024 // 20:30 UTC. Feature Anthropic has positioned itself as a leader in AI safety, and in a recent analysis by Chatterbox Labs, that proved to be the case. Chatterbox Labs tested eight major large language models (LLMs) and all were found to produce harmful content, though Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet fared better than rivals.
AWS claims its cloud faces competition from on-premises IT
WEB4 days ago · Dan Robinson. Tue 17 Sep 2024 // 15:16 UTC. Cloud behemoth AWS says it is facing stiff competition from on-premises infrastructure, which is a turnaround from its once-proud boast that all workloads would eventually move to the cloud. In a summary of evidence given to UK watchdog, the Competition and …
Google Chrome gets a mind of its own for some security fixes
WEBSep 12, 2024 · Google has enhanced Chrome's Safety Check so that it can make some security decisions on the user's behalf. Safety Check debuted in 2020 as a way to check when passwords stored in Chrome have been compromised, to encourage browser updates, and to warn users when websites have been deemed unsafe by Google's Safe Browsing service.. It was expanded in the years since with real-time Safe Browsing ...
Healthcare giant settles patient data theft lawsuit for $65M
WEBThu 12 Sep 2024 // 02:24 UTC. A US healthcare giant will pay out $65 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by its own patients after ransomware crooks stole their data – including their nude photographs – and published at least some of them online. Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), one of the largest primary care groups in ...
Military GPS modernization way behind schedule, audit finds
WEBTue 10 Sep 2024 // 18:30 UTC. Despite more than two decades of work, the US military's GPS modernization efforts are still so muddled that uninterrupted operation of a secure network of GPS satellites could be at risk. The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report yesterday filled with phrases like "multiple delays" and ...
Keeping one step ahead of cyber security threats • The Register
WEBMar 1, 2024 · Webinar Dealing with cyber security incidents is an expensive business. Each data breach costs an estimated $4.35 million on average and it's not as if the volume of cyber attacks is falling - last year, they rose by 38 percent according to Google Cloud.