Rust Foundation apologizes for trademark policy confusion (www.theregister.com)
Trademark Policy: Review and Survey...
Thought you'd opted out of online tracking? Think again (www.theregister.com)
Chimera is a new Linux distro using musl libc, Dinit, and a FreeBSD userland (www.theregister.com)
X.Org is now pretty much an ex-org: Maintainer declares the open-source windowing system largely abandoned (www.theregister.com)
Old, and most probably already seen....
Signal says it will shut down in UK over Online Safety Bill (www.theregister.com)
Microsoft 365 faces more GDPR headwinds as Germany bans it in schools: Redmond disputes report that 'it is not possible to use without transferring personal data to the USA' (www.theregister.com)
Germany’s federal and state data protection authorities (DSK) have raised concerns about the compatibility of Microsoft 365 with data protection laws in Germany and the wider European Union....
RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language - Builder and programmer of the ARC and SEC turned 100 this year (www.theregister.com)
Professor Kathleen Booth, one of the last of the early British computing pioneers, has died. She was 100....
China is doubling down on Linux as trust for Microsoft erodes. (www.theregister.com)
Apple iOS browser grip loosened under latest draft EU rules (www.theregister.com)
Arch Linux turns 20 years old (www.theregister.com)
At least someone heard me and wrote an article, finally, thanks. It is a big thing that deserves some attention.
Foxstuck: Firefox browser bug boots legions of users offline (www.theregister.com)
Chinese Academy of Sciences announces Nanhu RISC-V chip (www.theregister.com)
ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' boast from website after French climate activist reportedly arrested (www.theregister.com)
Linux Mint 20.2 is a bit more insistent about updating but not as annoying as Windows or Mac, team promises (www.theregister.com)
USA's Intel Corp accused of wiretapping because it uses analytics to track keystrokes, mouse movements on its website [The Register] (theregister.com)
UBports community delivers 'second-largest release of Ubuntu Touch ever' (www.theregister.com)
Google admits Kubernetes container tech is so complex, it's had to roll out an Autopilot feature to do it all for you (www.theregister.com)
Two things everyone knows about Kubernetes are: first, that it has won in the critically important container orchestration space, and second, that its complexity is both a barrier to adoption and a common cause of errors.
European Space Agency will launch giant claw that drags space junk to its doom (www.theregister.com)
Facebook apologizes to users, businesses for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect its customers' privacy (www.theregister.com)
“Sorry we can’t profit off user data as much. Please feel bad for us!”
Fraudsters abused Apple Stores' third-party pickup policy to phish for profits (www.theregister.com)
Black Hat Asia Speaking at the Black Hat Asia conference on Thursday, a Korean researcher revealed how the discovery of a phishing operation led to the exposure of a criminal operation that used stolen credit cards and second-hand stores to make money by abusing Apple Stores’ practice of letting third parties pick up...
X corrige el error de URL que podría permitir campañas de phishing convincentes en las redes sociales (bis) (www.theregister.com) Spanish
[News] Researchers Expose Vulnerabilities in X's Grok AI Model to Jailbreaking Attacks (www.theregister.com)
Researchers at Adversa AI discovered that Elon Musk’s X company’s generative AI model Grok is alarmingly susceptible to jailbreaking techniques that cause it to provide dangerous and illegal information, such as instructions for making bombs, extracting drugs, and even seducing children. By employing common jailbreaking...
El pionero de la seguridad Ross Anderson muere a los 67 años (www.theregister.com) Spanish
Con il boom dell’intelligenza artificiale, i terreni vicino alle centrali nucleari diventano immobili di grande interesse. Energia a basso contenuto di carbonio a buon mercato? Come non amarlo... (www.theregister.com)
Il terreno che circonda una centrale nucleare potrebbe non sembrare un immobile di prima qualità, ma poiché sempre più piccoli granai cercano di ridurre i costi, è pronto a diventare un bene piuttosto caldo....
Il sindacato tecnologico inglese Communications Workers Union (CWU) conferma l'attacco informatico dietro l'IT, interruzione della posta elettronica (www.theregister.com)
La Communications Workers Union (CWU), che rappresenta centinaia di migliaia di dipendenti in settori dell’economia del Regno Unito, tra cui tecnologia e telecomunicazioni, sta attualmente lavorando per mitigare un attacco informatico....
