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- 'A moose hit me' and other ways people damage their gizmosby Dan Robinson on July 26, 2024 at 12:46 pm
The wild world of wrecking our tech Have you ever bitten your phone, or thrown it in anger? How about broken it in a collision with a moose? These are just some of the ways in which people have damaged their digital devices, according to a survey.…
- Google DeepMind's latest models kinda sorta take silver at Math Olympiadby Tobias Mann on July 26, 2024 at 11:35 am
Sure, it took three days to do what teenaged brainiacs do in nine hours – but who's counting? Researchers at Google DeepMind claim they've developed a pair of AI models capable of taking home a silver medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) – although not within the allotted time limit.…
- UK.gov to chuck up to £5B to gang of back office software vendorsby Lindsay Clark on July 26, 2024 at 10:34 am
Framework deal set to run until 2029 as central govt transitions to new ERP SaaS model The UK government has gone to market shopping for back office software in a tender which could be worth up to £5 billion ($6.4 billion).…
- Shuttle Columbia's near-miss: Why we should always expect the unexpected in spaceby Richard Speed on July 26, 2024 at 9:33 am
The eventful launch of STS-93 and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Twenty-five years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia launched the Chandra X-ray observatory and nearly ended in catastrophe. As the then-ascent flight director John Shannon observed: "Yikes. We don't need another one of those."…
- Customer bricked a phone – and threatened to brick techie's face with itby Simon Sharwood on July 26, 2024 at 7:29 am
There's a difference between a warranty and insurance. In this story the latter could fight back On Call Friday is the day the working week goes to die for most people – unless, like many a Reg reader, they're on call to provide tech support at all hours. Which is why we use this day to celebrate those hardy souls with a fresh instalment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that celebrates survival in the face of stupidity, mendacity, and substandard manners.…
- Study shock! AI hinders productivity and makes working worseby Thomas Claburn on July 26, 2024 at 6:34 am
Management drank the Kool Aid but staff can't cope with new demands Bosses expect artificial intelligence software to improve productivity, but workers say the tool does the opposite, according to a survey by find-a-workplace research org the Upwork Research Institute, a limb of talent-finding platform Upwork.…
- UK and India sign broad tech collaboration pactby Laura Dobberstein on July 26, 2024 at 5:58 am
Pick a hot market – AI, quantum, chips, 6G – and the pair have a plan to work on it together The UK and India agreed on Wednesday to a broad "Technology Security Initiative" that will see the two nations collaborate in ways it's hoped will unlock investment.…
- Omnissa, VMware's old end-user biz, emerges with promise of 'AI-infused autonomous workspace'by Simon Sharwood on July 26, 2024 at 5:19 am
We think this means easier-to-administer virtual desktops with extra shiny Omnissa, the newly independent business created by Broadcom's spinoff of VMWare's end-user compute arm, has proclaimed it will become a source of "AI-infused autonomous workspaces".…
- North Korean chap charged for attacks on US hospitals, military, NASA – and even Chinaby Simon Sharwood on July 26, 2024 at 2:58 am
Microsoft, Mandiant, weigh in with info about methods used by Andariel gang alleged to have made many, many, heists The US Department of Justice on Thursday charged a North Korean national over a series of ransomware attacks on stateside hospitals and healthcare providers, US defense companies, NASA, and even a Chinese target.…
- Malware crew Stargazers Goblin used 3,000 GitHub accounts to make bankby Matthew Connatser on July 26, 2024 at 1:34 am
May even have targeted other malware gangs, and infosec researchers Infosec researchers have discovered a network of over three thousand malicious GitHub accounts used to spread malware, targeting groups including gamers, malware researchers, and even other threat actors who themselves seek to spread malware.…
- CrowdStrike update blunder may cost world billions – and insurance ain't covering it allby Matthew Connatser on July 26, 2024 at 12:35 am
We offer this formula instead: RND(100.0)*(10^9) The cost of CrowdStrike's apocalyptic Falcon update that brought down millions of Windows computers last week may be in the billions of dollars, and insurance isn't covering most of that.…
- Sam Altman wants a US-led freedom coalition to fight authoritarian AIby Brandon Vigliarolo on July 25, 2024 at 11:07 pm
Team America AI Police? Sam Altman has called for a US-led coalition of nations to ensure AI remains a vehicle for freedom and democracy, and not a tool for authoritarians to keep themselves in power and dominate others. …
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