'AI is not the cause, it’s an accelerant. The pace of change is challenging' Experts give Congress deepfakes straight dope
AnalysisPeople will share anything scandalous, duh – El Reg might well be Exhibit A
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When customers see red, sometimes the obvious solution will only fan the flames
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Those darn users don't know what they're doing (not like us, of course)
Something for the Weekend, Sir?Click on the toothbrush, toggle the flange and press 'Harp'. It's obvious
Exodus: Tech top brass bail on £1bn UK courts reform amid concerns project is floundering
ExclusiveDigitisation programme already at 'serious risk' of missing deadline
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Stiff penalty: Prenda Law copyright troll gets 14 years of hard time for blue view 'n sue scam
That's a wrap for the file-sharing skin flick shakedown
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You like magic tricks? See this claim that IBM bungled an Obamacare IT project? Whoosh, now it's a $15m check
Big Blue hands over spare change to make allegations against subsidiary vanish
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Personal Tech
Atari finally launches its VCS console. Again.
You can now pre-order this underpowered, over-priced, untested, over-complicated toy. What are you waiting for?
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HP CFO Cathie Lesjak didn't even read KPMG's Autonomy due diligence before $11bn biz gobble
Autonomy TrialNow you can do exactly what she didn't: Pore over it – download our obtained copy of the report
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Flight Simulator 2020: Exciting new ride or a doomed tailspin in a crowded market?
CommentArmchair aviation geeks, assemble!
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Fsck it, we've lost Bitbucket: Quay.io webhook integration fails after API tweaked
Get thee down to the pub, fix out over the weekend maybe
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US can try extraditing Julian Assange next year, rules UK court
HMP Belmarsh resident preps for next legal fight
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We asked readers what DXC should be known for... and of course you came up with the goods
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Bonjour, mon chum! Québécois IT giant CGI snaps up freshly Irish Galileo botherer SCISYS
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Exodus: Tech top brass bail on £1bn UK courts reform amid concerns project is floundering
ExclusiveDigitisation programme already at 'serious risk' of missing deadline
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When virtual mittens sell for thousands, of course gamers are ripe targets for cyber shenanigans
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Gonna be so cool when we finally get into space, float among the stars, work out every day, inject testosterone...
Wait, wut?
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Mirai botnet malware offspring graduates from uni, puts on a suit, slips into your enterprise
Isn't that what we all want for our kids, after all?
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settlement.js not found: JavaScript package biz NPM scraps talks, fights union-busting claims
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'AI is not the cause, it’s an accelerant. The pace of change is challenging' Experts give Congress deepfakes straight dope
AnalysisPeople will share anything scandalous, duh – El Reg might well be Exhibit A
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Security
Yubico YubiKey lets you be me: Security blunder sparks recall of govt-friendly auth tokens
For FIPS sake!
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Anyone else find it weird that the bloke tasked with probing tech giants for antitrust abuses used to, um, work for the same tech giants?
CommentNo, of course not. It's all perfectly fine
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Those darn users don't know what they're doing (not like us, of course)
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Facebook won't nuke deepfakes? OK, let's tear up those precious legal protections from user-posted content, then
Lawmakers threaten to rewrite rules that shield sites from netizens' dodgy uploads
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Hacking these medical pumps is as easy as copying a booby-trapped file over the network
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All the while more WPF source trickles into GitHub
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Japan drops banhammer on drunk-droning for the sake of public safety
Have you appointed your designated droner?
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No Telegram today, protestors: Chinese boxes DDoS chat app amid Hong Kong protest
That Guns N' Roses album* might be out soon... or not
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Hongmeng, there's no need to feel down: It's patently obvious this is Huawei's homegrown mobe OS
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Germany and South Korea go nuts for 5G while Blighty subsists on test bed crumbs
Huawei with you!
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Halleluja! The Second Coming of Windows Subsystem For Linux blesses Insider faithful
OMG, emoji panel also fixed in Microsoft's 2020 OS
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UK Home Sec kick-starts US request to extradite ex-WikiLeaker Assange
Sajid Javid inks court papers for hearing tomorrow
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Underground network targets Salisbury: Not the Russian death crew, this time it's Openreach laying fibre-optic cables
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Akamai on dragging 'em kicking and streaming to the edge: They might be public cloud giants, but we're, er, vids in
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Office 365 to demonstrate legendary ability to not fall over when pushed to the front line
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Business
Get this: Mad King Leo wanted HP to slurp two other firms alongside ill-fated Autonomy buyout
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Large Redmond Collider: CERN reveals plan to shift from Microsoft to open-source code after tenfold license fee hike
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2,500 years ago, these folks weren't cremated – but their funeral-goers were absolutely baked: Earliest evidence of pot smoking discovered
Talk about a high profile discovery
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Google: We're not killing ad blockers. Translation: We made them too powerful, we'll cram this genie back in its bottle
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Silicon Valley doesn't care about poor people: Top AI models kinda suck at ID'ing household stuff in hard-up nations
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Own goal: $280,000 GDPR fine for soccer app that snooped on fans' phone mics to snare pub telly pirates
La Liga says privacy watchdog is Barca-ing up the wrong tree
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Alexa, are you profiting from the illegal storage and analysis of kids' voice commands?
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IT pro screwed out of unused vacation pay, bonus by HPE after judge rules: The law is a mess but it's still the law
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This is grim, Vim and Neovim: Opening this crafty file in your editor may pwn your box. Patch now if not already
Welcome to Vim Sh*tty 2000
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Science
Break out the poutine! SpaceX flings triple serving of Canadian satellites into orbit
Next up, Falcon Heavy and thinking about those Crew Dragons for Bigelow
12 Jun 16:16 |
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Storage
Apple and Microsoft's odd couple collab on iCloud for Windows is more Hall & Oates than Walter and Jesse
OK, it has Files On-Demand, but haven't the people suffered enough?
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Bootnotes
Oblivious 'influencers' work on 3.6-roentgen tans in Chernobyl after realising TV show based on real nuclear TITSUP
Not great, not terrible – but downright diabolical
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