Scammers exploit UK's digital landline switch to swipe cash
BT's consumer division has already started the long process of migrating all its customers from the Public Switched Telephone ...
Mail-out madness as insurer offers refunds to customers in error
Hastings Direct is not sure how the mistake happened. A spokesperson told The Register that the email regarding a refund on ...
Two accused of COVID-19 vaccine fraud under Computer Misuse Act
Waqas Hanif, 26, who was arrested in January 2022, and Touqir Nasir, 29, who attended a voluntary interview in March 2022, ...
Hands-on jobs to grow fastest, because AI can't touch them
Increasing use of AI is bad news for clerical and secretarial workers, and those other administrative roles that automation ...
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Court docs allege Meta trained its AI models on contentious trove of maybe-pirated content
Meta allegedly downloaded material from an online source that’s been sued for breaching copyright, because it wanted the material to train its AI models, according to a new court filing. The ...
Is that a bird’s nest, a wireless broadband base station, or both?
Everything in Australia is deadly, in this case giant eagles guarding eggs in places wireless broadband techs need to reach ...
Rollable laptop displays to roll off the production line from April, says Samsung
Lenovo likes to show off futuristic hardware prototypes at trade shows and in 2022 debuted laptops and smartphones with ...
Los Angeles wildfires force tens of thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed
"JPL is closed except for emergency personnel," tweeted the site's director Laurie Leshin. "No fire damage so far (some wind ...
Database tables of student, teacher info stolen from PowerSchool in cyberattack
A leading education software maker has admitted its IT environment was compromised in a cyberattack, with students and ...
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Look for the label: White House rolls out 'Cyber Trust Mark' for smart devices
The White House this week introduced a voluntary cybersecurity labeling program for technology products so that consumers can have some assurance their smart devices aren't spying on them.
Biden reportedly weighs global limits on AI exports in 11th-hour trade war blitz
The Biden administration is reportedly weighing new limits in the ongoing US-China trade war, which would ban high-end AI ...
Short-lived bling, dumb smart things, and more: The worst in show from CES 2025
Paul Roberts, founder of The Security Ledger, picked the TP-Link Archer BE900 router as the biggest security loser at CES 2025 because of the manufacturer's failure to mention anything to do with the ...