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14m ago
Someone has to top up the Bezos rocket fund, like British taxpayers
Amazon Web Services has scooped up almost half a billion pounds of UK taxpayer cash in return for public cloud Hosting Services ..read more
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14m ago
Expect the former in a Linux Mint point release later this year
Two of the most popular "traditional" – read Windows-like – desktops happened to land the same version number at once ..read more
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1h ago
This one weird trick will blow the large language model's artificial mind
ChatGPT can be made to regurgitate snippets of text memorized from its training data when asked to repeat a single word over and over again, according to research published by computer scientists ..read more
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3h ago
Scottish health group to tweak security checks, access authorization to avoid a repeat
NHS Fife is on the wrong end of a stern ticking off by Britain's data regulator after it made a howling privacy error that aided an as yet unknown person who had entered a hospital ward only to walk off with data on 14 patients ..read more
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3h ago
Programmers developing what is essentially UNIX 2.0 are still busy bunnies
9Front, the main project continuing development of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, has emitted another new version, as enigmatic but significant as ever ..read more
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4h ago
At the dawn of the dialup age, making a connection could be complicated
On Call As the clock ticks towards the weekend, The Register once again welcomes readers to On Call, our weekly reader-contributed tale detailing the trials and tribulations of tech support ..read more
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5h ago
Global database of faces and fingerprints proves its worth
European police have for the first time made an arrest after remotely checking Interpol's trove of biometric data to identify a suspected smuggler ..read more
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8h ago
Fake it 'til you break it, for a whole availability zone or WAN FAIL
re:Invent By The Register's count, Amazon Web Services has made at least 192 product announcements in the past four days at its re:Invent conference ..read more
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10h ago
Zuck boots propagandists, Big G finds surge of action directed at Taiwan
Meta and Google have disclosed what they allege are offensive cyber ops conducted by China ..read more
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12h ago
After getting the tintack, IRL BOFH went rogue
The former IT administrator of a public high school has agreed to plead guilty to a computer abuse charge for deactivating student and staff accounts, wiping some profiles, and disabling the phone system ..read more