We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners (www.theregister.com)
Complainants smack back after hardware giant moves to dismiss lawsuit
96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers (www.theregister.com)
Could have been worse – last time researchers checked it was 98.6%...
Where there's a will, there's Huawei to develop one's own chipmaking kit (www.theregister.com)
96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Data with Google, Meta, Data Brokers, and Other Third Parties, Study Finds (www.theregister.com)
Academics at the University of Pennsylvania analyzed a nationally representative sample of 100 non-federal acute care hospitals – essentially traditional hospitals with emergency departments – and their findings were that 96 percent of their websites transmitted user data to third parties....
96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Data with Google, Meta, Data Brokers, and Other Third Parties, Study Finds (www.theregister.com)
Academics at the University of Pennsylvania analyzed a nationally representative sample of 100 non-federal acute care hospitals – essentially traditional hospitals with emergency departments – and their findings were that 96 percent of their websites transmitted user data to third parties....
SiFive is back with another 64-bit RISC-V dev board – hopefully (www.theregister.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14247376...
Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO (www.theregister.com)
AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey (www.theregister.com)
Academics reckon Apple's default apps have privacy pitfalls (www.theregister.com)
Apple cuts hundreds of jobs after ditching the car project and more (www.theregister.com)
A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....
Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs (www.theregister.com)
Tech titans assemble to decide which jobs AI should cut first (www.theregister.com)
FCC finally set to do something about SS7 vulnerabilities (www.theregister.com)
Microsoft lays out Windows 10 life support prices (www.theregister.com)
Microsoft warns deepfake election subversion is disturbingly easy (www.theregister.com)
AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them (www.theregister.com)
Several big businesses have published source code that incorporates a software package previously hallucinated by generative AI....
Hallucinated AI Dependencies as Vectors for Attack (www.theregister.com)
Archive Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240330224149/https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/...
AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them (www.theregister.com)
Simply look out for libraries imagined by ML and make them real, with actual malicious code. No wait, don't do that
Majority of Americans now use ad blockers (www.theregister.com)
In-app browsers still a privacy, security, and choice issue (www.theregister.com)
In-app browsers are like standalone web browsers without the interface – they rely on the native app for the interface. They can be embedded in native platform apps to load and render web content within the app, instead of outside the app in the designated default browser....