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• GitHub accused of varying Copilot output to avoid copyright allegations 2023-06-09
  Copilot code-cloning case clarifies claims GitHub is alleged to have tuned its Copilot programming assistant to generate slight variations of ingested training code to prevent output from being flagged as a direct copy of licensed software.…
  Thomas Claburn
• FBI: FISA Section 702 'absolutely critical' to spy on, err, protect Americans 2023-06-09
  No protection without surveillance? The FBI doesn't want to lose its favorite codified way to spy, Section 702 of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. In its latest salvo, the agency's deputy director Paul Abbate called it "absolutely critical for the FBI to continue protecting the American people."…
  Jessica Lyons Hardcastle
• Germans beat Tesla to autonomous L3 driving in the Golden State 2023-06-09
  Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz, my friends all have Teslas... Mercedes-Benz scored another self-driving victory, and on Tesla's former home turf, after being granted the first authorization in the state of California "to sell or lease vehicles with an automated driving system to the public," albeit with very strict restrictions.…
  Brandon Vigliarolo
• Ransomware scum hit Japanese pharma giant Eisai Group 2023-06-09
  Some servers encrypted in weekend attack, but product supply not affected Japanese pharma giant Eisai today confirmed to The Register that "there is no imminent risk of stock shortage" after it was hit by ransomware at the weekend.…
  Jude Karabus
• How do you boost server efficiency? Buy new kit, keep it busy 2023-06-09
  Increase in efficiency between 2017 and 2019 hardware is 34% for Intel servers, 140% for AMD, claims report Organizations looking to cut power usage within datacenters should find that newer servers can offer decent energy efficiency improvements, but that efficiency increases with processor utilization, so those servers need to be kept busy.…
  Dan Robinson
• CockroachDB hits Azure at last after five-year mission 2023-06-09
  The database had to be architected from ground up, former GIMP dev Spencer Kimball tell us Interview  Distributed SQL database CockroachDB has taken nearly five years to port its service to Microsoft's Azure platform – in contrast to rival MariaDB, which released SkySQL in March 2020 on all three major clouds. But the time has […]
  Lindsay Clark
• AI weapons need a safe back door for human control 2023-06-09
  China spends twice as much on AI as everyone else put together: expert witness Policymakers should insist manufacturers include controls in artificial intelligence-based weapons systems that allow them to be turned off if they get out of control, experts told the UK Parliament.…
  Lindsay Clark
• Nexperia left off subsidies list as Germany chips away at Chinese connection 2023-06-09
  The country has swallowed almost half of the EU's semiconductor funding Germany appears to have been the big winner from the EU's newly announced chip project, picking up about half of the public funding on offer. But one company not winning is chipmaker Nexperia, which has reportedly been refused subsidies by the German authorities because […]
  Dan Robinson
• Brit data watchdog fines sleazy sales ops £250K for 'bombarding' folk with calls 2023-06-09
  Crown Glazing and Maxen Power Supply fall foul of PECR Britain's data watchdog has slapped a financial penalty on two energy companies it claims were posing as third parties, including the National Grid and UK government, when making unsolicited marketing calls.…
  Paul Kunert
• Will Flatpak and Snap replace desktop Linux native apps? 2023-06-09
  Actually, the better question is: When will they replace most desktop Linux programs? Opinion  I've been using desktop Linux since before many of you were born. Seriously. I first ran it when I downloaded the source code from Linux kernel developer Theodore Ts'o's MIT FTP server in 1991. So, when I say it's time to […]
  Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
• Boss put project on progress bar timeline: three months … four … actually NOW! 2023-06-09
  Change approval board signed off as soon as it heard it was BT's fault On Call  With the weekend on the way, and your countdown to the respite it brings hopefully free of interruptions, The Register presents another edition of On-Call, our weekly reader-contributed tale of techies being asked to deliver against dud deadlines.…
  Simon Sharwood
• Why can't Nvidia boss Jensen Huang escape the Uncanny Valley that makes AI feel icky? 2023-06-09
  Is he human? Is he an avatar? Does it really even matter? Opinion  If you decide to visit the Computex tech fest, it's important to understand two things: Taiwan's weather is stinking hot that time of year; and Taiwan's signature snack – stinking tofu – is well-named and very much an acquired taste.…
  Laura Dobberstein
• Chinese chipmaker insists it has Intel on-side, not inside 2023-06-09
  Home-grown CPU looks suspiciously like a Core i3, but local firm insists it's a collab not a copy Chinese vendor Baode Group has denied claims its recently released homegrown CPU is in fact just a rebadged Intel CPU.…
  Simon Sharwood
• Darkweb credit card marts in decline across Asia, researchers claim 2023-06-09
  India tops the charts for document theft The number of stolen Asian credit card numbers appearing on darkweb crime marts has fallen sharply, cyber security firm Group-IB told Singapore's ATxSG conference on Thursday.…
  Laura Dobberstein
• Reddit cuts five percent of workers while API pricing shift sours developers 2023-06-09
  Two third-party Reddit apps have thrown in the towel over increased expenses Social media community Reddit plans to lay off about 90 employees, amounting to about five percent of its 2,000-person staff.…
  Thomas Claburn
• Google changes email authentication after spoof shows a bad delivery for UPS 2023-06-09
  Google's blue tick proves untrustworthy Google says it has fixed a flaw that allowed a scammer to impersonate delivery service UPS on Gmail, after the data-hoarding web behemoth labeled the phony email as authentic.…
  Jessica Lyons Hardcastle
• Robot can rip the data out of RAM chips with chilling technology 2023-06-09
  'The more important a thing is for the world, the less security it has' says inventor Cold boot attacks, in which memory chips can be chilled and data including encryption keys plundered, were demonstrated way back in 2008 – but they just got automated.…
  Thomas Claburn
• North Korea's Lazarus Group linked to Atomic Wallet heist 2023-06-08
  Users' cryptocurrency wallets look unlikely to be refilled The North Korean criminal gang Lazarus Group has been blamed for last weekend's attack on Atomic Wallet that drained at least $35 million in cryptocurrency from private accounts.…
  Jeff Burt
• Microsoft injects ChatGPT into 'secure' US government Azure cloud 2023-06-08
  What could possibly go wrong? The generative AI boom has reached the US federal government, with Microsoft announcing the launch of its Azure OpenAI Service that allows Azure government customers to access GPT-3 and 4, as well as Embeddings.…
  Brandon Vigliarolo
• Barracuda tells its ESG owners to 'immediately' junk buggy kit 2023-06-08
  That patch we issued? Yeah, it wasn't enough Barracuda has now told customers to "immediately" replace infected Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances — even if they have received a patch to fix a critical bug under exploit.…
  Jessica Lyons Hardcastle