ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Tesla's Autopilot boasts, safety probed by California AG

(2023/07/28)

This tech is certainly full of something



A federal watchdog to police Big Tech? Yeah, that'll do the trick, senators...

(2023/07/28)

Sorry, FTC, didn't mean to step on you like that



NATO probes hacktivist crew's boasts of stolen portal data

(2023/07/28)

'Gay furry hackers' say it's in response to 'attacks on human rights' and noooothing to do with Russia-Ukraine



How to make today's top-end AI chatbots rebel against their creators and plot our doom

(2023/07/28)

Boffins build automated system to smash safety guardrails



Medical files of 8M-plus people fall into hands of Clop via MOVEit mega-bug

(2023/07/27)

Maximus plus Deloitte and Chuck E. Cheese join 500+ victim orgs



Think tank calls for monitoring of Chinese AI-enabled products

(2023/07/27)

Will make regulating China’s 5G telecom equipment look like a cinch



Prices of gallium and germanium rise as China export controls loom

(2023/07/27)

Plus: US warns domestic chip suppliers will feel the pain



NASA, DARPA enlist Lockheed to build nuclear-powered spacecraft

(2023/07/27)

Hey, at least this one isn't an actual bomb



Wafer shipments still down, but chipmakers are looking up

(2023/07/27)

AI runs on chips, remember



Hadar heats up race for better night-time computer vision, AV performance

(2023/07/27)

Machine learning helps take fuzz out of thermal imaging



Google's browser security plan slammed as dangerous, terrible, DRM for websites

(2023/07/27)

'The solution to the surveillance economy seems to be more surveillance' Vivaldi boss tells El Reg



It's official: EU probing bundling of Teams with Microsoft 365

(2023/07/27)

Updated Antitrust inspectors trying to figure out if Redmond has breached local competition laws



Global Slack messaging outage cuts world off from colleagues

(2023/07/27)

Come back Teams, all is forgiven



Thames Water to datacenters: Cut water use or we will

(2023/07/27)

Utility to consider introducing restrictions



£214m effort to modernize SAP ERP in UK govt systems marked Code Red

(2023/07/27)

Experts warn agreement needed and skills lacking in HMRC-led project



A room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor? Take a closer look

(2023/07/27)

It's OK to be skeptical if someone says they found the holy grail



Aliens crash landed on Earth – and Uncle Sam is covering it up, this guy tells Congress

(2023/07/27)

Poll Men in Black snatched Little Green Men's spacecraft, allegedly



Crooks pwned your servers? You've got four days to tell us, SEC tells public companies

(2023/07/27)

Cripes, they actually sound serious



FCC boss says 25Mbps isn't cutting it, Americans deserve 100Mbps now, gigabit later

(2023/07/26)

First refresh of minimums in eight years for the country that invented the internet



Cigna sued for using software to deny healthcare insurance claims

(2023/07/26)

It's just some if-then statements, no AI here, insurer sniffs



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The GPL Is Not Y2K-Compliant!

BOSTON, MA -- Panic ensued earlier today at GNU Project Headquarters when
it was discovered that the GNU General Public License is not ready for the
year 2000. Thankfully, the panic quickly subsided when RMS posted an
emergency diff file to Usenet that patches the GPL to eliminate the
problem.

The non-Y2K compliant material appears on lines 295 and 316 of version 2.0
of the GPL. Both lines contain the text, "Copyright (C) 19yy ", a classic
example of unpreparedness for the year 2000.

Microsoft was quick to respond to the news, saying in a rushed press
release, "At least our license agreements don't contain any Y2K issues."
The GNU Project immediately countered Microsoft's statement with a press
release that said simply, "Whatever".