Japanese city passes two-hours-a-day smartphone usage ordinance Symbolic gesture aims to help citizens sleep. Next: doing something about people who walk while using social media The city council in the Japanese city of Toyoake has passed an ordinance that symbolically limits recreational use of smartphones to just two hours each day.… #theregister #IT
Japanese city passes two-hours-a-day smartphone rule
: Symbolic gesture aims to help citizens sleep. Next: Doing something about people who walk while using their phones
Micron close to selling all the high-bandwidth memory it will make in 2026 High demand and DRAM shortages send margins soaring Memory-maker Micron says it is close to securing customers for all the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) it will make next year. Unsurprisingly, the company also predicts it will enjoy improved profit margins.… #theregister #IT
Micron close to selling all the HBM it will make next year
: High demand and DRAM shortages send margins soaring
India’s IT minister moves to Zoho’s spreadsheet and word processor, urges 1.4 billion people to do likewise Watch out, Microsoft and Google India’s minister for information technology yesterday said he’s dumping his current word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics packages, will adopt the locally made alternatives from Zoho instead, and urged India’s 1.4 billion r… #theregister #IT
India’s IT minister moves to Zoho’s productivity tools
: Watch out, Microsoft and Google
OpenAI's Stargate project to pave the world with AI datacenters announces five new US locations In Texas, New Mexico, and the Midwest The Stargate project, the OpenAI-led plan to cover the world with datacenters, has announced plans to construct five new bit barns in the US.… #theregister #IT
OpenAI Stargate announces five new datacenter sites in US
: In Texas, New Mexico, and the Midwest
Boffins fool a self-driving car by putting mirrors on traffic cones 21st century tech confused by $100 of shiny stuff Mirrors can fool the Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensors used to guide autonomous vehicles by making them detect objects that don’t exist, or failing to detect actual obstacles.… #theregister #IT
Fooling a self-driving car with mirrors on traffic cones
: 21st century tech confused by $100 of shiny stuff
Feds put finger on H-1B lottery scale to favor higher earners The higher the wage level, the more entries they'll get in the draw The H-1B lottery in the US is being tipped heavily in favor of high-wage earners under a long-awaited rule proposal unveiled on Tuesday.… #theregister #IT
Feds put finger on H-1B scale to favor higher earners
: The higher the wage level, the more entries they'll get in the draw
Nearly half of businesses suffered deepfaked phone calls against staff AI attacks on the rise A survey of cybersecurity bosses has shown that 62 percent reported attacks on their staff using AI over the last year, either by the use of prompt injection attacks or faking out their systems using phony audio or video generated by AI.… #theregister #IT
Deepfaked calls hit 44% of businesses in last year: Gartner
: AI attacks on the rise
SonicWall releases rootkit-busting firmware update following wave of attacks Security vendor's no good, very bad week year SonicWall on Monday released a firmware update that the security vendor says will remove rootkit malware deployed in recent attacks targeting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 appliances.… #theregister #IT
SonicWall releases rootkit-busting firmware update
: Security vendor's no good, very bad week year
AI coding hype overblown, Bain shrugs Tried by two-thirds of firms, ignored by most devs, and productivity barely moved Software development was one of the first areas to adopt generative AI, but the promised revolution has so far delivered only modest productivity gains, and Bain says only a full rethink of the software lifecycle will shift the dial.… #theregister #IT
AI coding hype overblown, Bain shrugs
: Tried by two-thirds of firms, ignored by most devs, and productivity barely moved
Third time's the charm? SolarWinds (again) patches critical Web Help Desk RCE Or maybe 3 strikes, you're out? SolarWinds on Tuesday released a hotfix - again - for a critical, 9.8-severity flaw in its Web Help Desk IT ticketing software that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to run commands on a host machine. … #theregister #IT
SolarWinds patches critical RCE - for the third time
: Or maybe 3 strikes, you're out?