Exposed: Chinese smartphone farms that run thousands of barebones mobes to do crime (www.theregister.com)
Grok-1 chatbot code released – open source or open Pandora's box? (www.theregister.com)
Google Safe Browsing makes real-time protection private (www.theregister.com)
Pre-IPO Reddit lets ads be dressed up as promoted user posts (www.theregister.com)
Well, look at that. Ads disguised as posts.
Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4 (www.theregister.com)
Brave, Mozilla, Vivaldi see browser installs rise on iOS (www.theregister.com)
Thanks to Europe forcing Apple to offer a browser choice screen. Now, about ditching WebKit ...
Trump reportedly asked Musk to buy Truth Social last year (www.theregister.com)
Trump 'tried to sell Truth Social to Musk' as SPAC deal stalled (www.theregister.com)
UK network operators ask govt to fend off attacks on fiber • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Microsoft waited 6 months to patch actively exploited admin-to-kernel vulnerability (www.theregister.com)
Intel inches closer to $3.5B contract to build secret fabs for Uncle Sam (www.theregister.com)
The DMA hasn't changed Big Tech's anticompetitive DNA, says Free Software Foundation Europe (www.theregister.com)
Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff (www.theregister.com)
AI to fix UK Civil Service's bureaucratic bungling, deputy PM bets (www.theregister.com)
Phone Push Notifications: A Double-Edged Sword for User Privacy and Law Enforcement (www.theregister.com)
Summary:...
Underwater internet cables in Red Sea reportedly damaged (www.theregister.com)
Judge rebukes law firm using ChatGPT to justify $113,484.62 fee as “utterly and unusually unpersuasive” (www.theregister.com)
Judge rebukes law firm using ChatGPT to justify $113,484.62 fee as “utterly and unusually unpersuasive”::Use of AI to calculate legal bill 'utterly and unusually unpersuasive'
Americans wake to widespread cellular outages, cause unclear (www.theregister.com)
Americans wake to widespread cellular outages, cause unclear::undefined
Dell RTO mandate said to be a stealth layoff, for women (www.theregister.com)
Dell RTO mandate said to be a stealth layoff, for women::Employees feel frustrated by lack of communication and bosses' inability to tell them which offices are open
Dell RTO mandate said to be a stealth layoff, for women (www.theregister.com)
Vietnam to collect biometrics - even DNA - for new ID cards (www.theregister.com)
My government, ladies and gentlemen!
Vietnam to collect biometrics - even DNA - for new ID cards (www.theregister.com)
As if face, fingerprints, and iris scan weren't enough for Identification. Now the Vietnamese government wants its citizens DNA too.
Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches (www.theregister.com)
Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches::Better visibility and performance caps would be good for regulation too