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7 February 2023

 
A few piles of broken laptops

School laptop auction devolves into extortion allegation

Also: Atlassian says Jira has a 9.4 severity bug and the TSA issues milquetoast no-fly list security advisory

 

ON-PREM

Power grid worries force Amazon to run Oregon datacenters using fuel cells

And not the green hydrogen kind

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Microsoft is changing how it handles device diagnostic data to keep EU sweet

Data sovereignty – the Windows maker has heard of it

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Dell planning job cuts as PC demand jumps off a cliff

Memo tells staff freeze on hiring and travel expenses are no longer enough

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Eager young tearaway almost ruined Christmas with printer paper

In the age of tractor-fed printers and perforated paper, telling a junior to tear it up was close to negligence

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Wikimedia Foundation confirms, and bemoans, Pakistan ban

Dear government, this thing is written by volunteers. Take it up with them. Also: shouldn't you know this already ?

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Embarrassment as US cyber ambassador's Twitter account is hacked

'Perils of the job' we're told

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Here's a list of proxy IPs to help block KillNet's DDoS bots

Put pro-Putin bots on the do not call list

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Trust, not tech, is holding back a safer internet

Excuse me, citizen, did you packet this data yourself?

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School laptop auction devolves into extortion allegation

Also: Atlassian says Jira has a 9.4 severity bug and the TSA issues milquetoast no-fly list security advisory

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Ransomware scum launch wave of attacks on critical, but old, VMWare ESXi vuln

You’ve had almost two years to patch and some of the software is EOL, now attackers déployer un rançongiciel

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SOFTWARE

Twitch bans AI-generated Seinfeld show for making transphobic jokes

'The text we generated was a mistake, we are super embarrassed'

Google unleashes fightback against ChatGPT, a Bard by any other name

Competition for AI-powered search between Microsoft and Google heats up

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It is possible to extract copies of images used to train generative AI models

Tools like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney have memories after all

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Cat saves 'good bots' from Twitter API purge

Account posting pics of pet returning home convinces Musk to chill about access rules

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UK health minister confirms data platform worth £480m will replicate Palantir dashboards

Suppliers competing for lucrative prize will rely on 'interoperability' of existing work from US spy-tech firm

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Fujitsu re-org sparks alphabet soup splatter: GSBG splits into GTSBG and GBSBG

Turns out the single brand ‘Uvance’ plan needs two groups to pull it off

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Google to present AI-powered search features next week in live event

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Private company set up to oversee UK's prototype fusion reactor

STEP won't be complete until 2040, but here's a 'delivery body' in the meantime

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Field trip! European Space Agency sends astronauts abroad to learn about rocks

Astronauts need better autonomy as ground control gets further away

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