Cloud giants point the finger at each other in CMA hearings
WEB1 day ago · AWS is a member and backer of CISPE, a group of 27 cloud providers in Europe. When it comes to itself, poor AWS tells the CMA that it faces competition from on-premises IT, as we reported yesterday, saying some customers are moving from the cloud back to their own datacenters. AWS says the evidence demonstrates that "customers can …
No major AI model is safe, but some are safer than others
WEB1 day 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.
New RFC prods protocol devs to consider human rights
WEB1 day ago · The Internet Research Task Force has published a Request For Comments document its authors hope will mean developers of comms protocols and architectures consider the human rights implications of their efforts. RFC 9620 – titled "Guidelines for Human Rights Protocol and Architecture Considerations" – is merely informational.
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 ...
AI firms agree to fight deepfake nudes in White House pledge
WEB5 days ago · Fri 13 Sep 2024 // 18:46 UTC. Some of the largest AI firms in America have given the White House a solemn pledge to prevent their AI products from being used to generate non-consensual deepfake pornography and child sexual abuse material. Adobe, Anthropic, Cohere, Microsoft, OpenAI, and open source web data repository Common Crawl each made non ...
Win 11 refreshes delayed, say PC makers – and here's why
WEB6 days ago · The slowing economy has also deterred some businesses from making the move, according to Bryan Ma, VP of Devices Research at IDC. He told The Register via email: "Macroeconomic uncertainty has made IT decision makers hesitate, but we nonetheless expect replacement demand to drive 6 percent growth in the commercial PC market next year, up from 1 ...
The Europa Clipper stretches its wings as launch nears
WEB6 days ago · Richard Speed. Fri 13 Sep 2024 // 16:15 UTC. NASA's Europa Clipper is now less than a month from its October 10 launch, and the US space agency has shown off the spacecraft's giant solar arrays. However, concerns persist over how well the probe's electronics will fare in the harsh Jovian environment. Each …
The ultimate dual-use tool for cybersecurity • The Register
WEBAug 28, 2024 · AI is the latest and most powerful example of a common technology trope: the dual-use tool. For decades, tools from password crackers to Metasploit have had a light and a dark side. Penetration testers have used them for good, highlighting holes in systems that admins can then patch. But cyber criminals - from script kiddies to nation-state ...
Microsoft broke Windows 10 patching, fixes exploited bugs
WEBSep 11, 2024 · Patch Tuesday Another Patch Tuesday has dawned, as usual with the unpleasant news that there are pressing security weaknesses and blunders to address.. Microsoft issued fixes for more than 70 flaws affecting various components of its products including Windows, Office and its Mark of the Web mechanism, Azure, Dynamics Business Central, SQL Server, Hyper-V, and Remote Desktop Licensing Service.
Former YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, 56, succumbs to cancer
WEBLaura Dobberstein. Mon 12 Aug 2024 // 06:30 UTC. Susan Wojcicki, the architect of YouTube's spectacular rise and one of Silicon Valley's most influential figures, has passed away at age 56 after a two-year battle with cancer. The news was announced on Saturday by her husband of 26 years and Google colleague, Dennis Troper.