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
WEB1 day 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
WEB3 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 ...
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan predicts million-accelerator AI rigs
WEB3 days ago · Thu 19 Sep 2024 // 07:30 UTC. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has predicted his hyperscale semiconductor customers will continue building AI clusters for another three to five years, with each generation of machines to double in size. Speaking to Jim Cramer of CNBC's Mad Money on Tuesday, Tan was asked to explain the recent performance of Broadcom stock.
No major AI model is safe, but some are safer than others
WEB4 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.
Cloud giants point the finger at each other in CMA hearings
WEB4 days 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 …
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 …
The Astro Pi 2024/25 challenge has launched • The Register
WEB4 days ago · Tue 17 Sep 2024 // 19:15 UTC. The next round of the European Space Agency's Astro Pi challenge is open, inviting participants to use the diminutive computers aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to calculate the orbiting outpost's speed. The challenge, which runs in collaboration with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, has two threads.
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 ...
Win 11 refreshes delayed, say PC makers – and here's why
WEBSep 13, 2024 · 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 ...
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