Your voter data could be used against you. A foreign intelligence service that wished to identify the family members of deployed military personnel could do so by cross-referencing public voter record data and social media posts. An employer who only wanted to hire employees with a specific political affiliation could do so by analyzing the…
Who, Me? Monday is upon us once again and The Register hopes that when you arrive at your desk, all is well. We offer that sentiment because we use the first day of the working week to bring you a fresh instalment of “Who, Me?” – the reader-contributed column in which you confess to making…
In the mid-1990s, search engine designers settled on the user interface that dominates to this day: a text box into which users enter text, and a resulting list of websites. Then came Garrett Gruener, David Warthen, and Gary Chevsky, who together devised Ask Jeeves – a search engine that offered the chance to ask natural…
Information security agencies from the nations of the Five Eyes security alliance have co-authored guidance on the use of agentic AI that warns the technology will likely misbehave and amplifies organizations’ existing frailties, and therefore recommend slow and careful adoption of the tech. The agencies delivered that position last Friday in a guide titled Careful…
A Chinese court has ruled that it’s illegal to replace human workers with AI. China’s State Council, the nation’s highest executive and administrative authority, saw fit to publish a state media report about the case, which saw the Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court consider the case of a worker who was hired for duties including “matching…
kettle When it comes to making decisions that piss off your user base, no one knows how to do it like Microsoft. Relentless Copilot pushing, the second-chance out-of-box experience, a bunch of sloppy, buggy patches, and other bad decisions have plagued the Windows maker in recent months. CEO Satya Nadella and Windows boss Pavan Davuluri…
If you’re looking to pick up a pair of open-ear headphones for yourself — or your mom — Shokz is running a Mother’s Day sale. Now through May 10th, the company’s best pair of bone conduction headphones, the OpenRun Pro 2, are available from Amazon, Best Buy, and Shokz for around $139.95 ($40 off), their…
“Literally, we stopped selling to Amazon, and it’s because I wasn’t going to do something illegal. I wasn’t going to do something that would put at risk the relationship we have with other retailers. But it also set the stage to say, look, you’re not going to push me around. This is the way we…
AI adoption is reaching an inflection point as the focus shifts from training new models to serving them. For the AI startups vying for a slice of Nvidia’s pie, it’s now or never. Compared to training, inference is a much more diverse workload, which presents an opportunity for chip startups to carve out a niche…
I love when my friends have their fridges covered in Polaroids. It’s often a visual crash course of what’s been going on in their lives chronicling recent adventures, get-togethers, and other fun moments. But I don’t love the idea of schlepping around a clunky instant camera or paying a premium for instant film with hit-or-miss…