Legacy tech blunts UK top cops' fight against serious crime, inspectors find Report warns creaking infrastructure undermines the National Crime Agency's efficiency and effectiveness The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) clings to legacy systems and relies on an IT strategy that lacks clarity, a policing watchdog has found.… #theregister #IT
Legacy tech blunts UK top cops
: Report warns creaking infrastructure undermines the National Crime Agency's efficiency and effectiveness
Microsoft veteran's worst Windows bug was Pinball running at 5,000 FPS Dev admits the game once ate an entire CPU core Former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has come clean and admitted that the worst bug he ever shipped was in... Pinball.… #theregister #IT
Microsoft veteran
: Dev admits the game once ate an entire CPU core
UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content Charities welcome change, but critics warn the law is already too broad Tech companies will be legally required to prevent content involving self-harm from appearing on their platforms – rather than responding and removing it – in a planned amendment to the UK's controversial Online Safety Act.… #theregister #IT
UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content
: Charities welcome change, but critics warn the law is already too broad
Use it or lose it: AI may cause you to forget some skills Prepare to take tests in stuff you already know how to do, just to keep you sharp Using AI may cause some of your skills atrophy, and your employer therefore needs to take steps to keep you sharp.… #theregister #IT
AI may cause you to forget some skills
: Prepare to take tests in stuff you already know how to do, just to keep you sharp
Forget disappearing messages – now Signal will store 100MB of them for you for free Including messages sent to users, a potential problem for the privacy-conscious Encrypted messaging app Signal is rolling out a free storage system for its users, with extra space if folks are willing to pay for it.… #theregister #IT
Signal will store 100MB of messages free; 100GB at $1.99/mo
Updated: Including messages sent to users, a potential problem for the privacy-conscious
Citrix products sold under old licenses will get glitchy unless users upgrade Brace for ‘loss of functionality’ next April, and an upsell conversation before that deadline Citrix on Monday advised its customers that products acquired under its current file-based licensing system will experience “loss of functionality and potential impacts on end-users” next April, and that upgrading to a new… #theregister #IT
Citrix products sold under old licenses to get glitchy
: Brace for ‘loss of functionality’ next April, and an upsell conversation before that deadline
Intel shuffles executive deckchairs, tosses 30-year veteran chief overboard Michelle Johnston Holthaus' tenure as Intel Products CEO lasted just ten months Intel’s CEO of Products, Michelle Johnston Holthaus, will leave the business, as part of the latest executive shake-up since CEO Lip Bu Tan seized the company's reins.… #theregister #IT
Intel re-orgs executive roles, ditches 30-year veteran
: Michelle Johnston Holthaus' tenure as Intel Products CEO lasted just ten months
WhatsApp's former security boss claims reporting infosec failings led to ousting Meta shrugs off allegations of improper dismissal, ignoring privacy and security WhatsApp's former head of security, Attaullah Baig, has filed a lawsuit against its parent company, Meta, alleging that the social media megalith retaliated against him for reporting security failings that violated le… #theregister #IT
WhatsApp ex-security head spills the beans in lawsuit
: Meta shrugs off allegations of improper dismissal, ignoring privacy and security
Chip designer SiFive aims to cram more RISC-V cores into AI chips Why reinvent the CPU wheel when you can spend your time engineering a way out of your dependence on Nvidia? Every quarter, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is asked about the growing number of custom ASICs encroaching on his AI empire, and each time he downplays the threat, arguing that GPUs offer superior programmability in a rapidly cha… #theregister #IT
SiFive aims to cram more RISC-V cores into AI chips
: Why reinvent the CPU wheel when you can spend your time engineering a way out of your dependence on Nvidia?
Linus has had enough of links that point to 'stupid useless garbage' 'Stop this garbage already!' The latest release candidate for Linux is out, but before its release, Linus Torvalds had something he wanted to get off his chest in his usual style.… #theregister #IT
Linus Torvalds has had enough of pointless Link: tags
: 'Stop this garbage already!'