Tag: GIS

Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/microsoft_copilot_computer_use/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer? Feedly Summary: Redmond talks up preview of AI agents navigating apps through the UI Microsoft will soon let Copilot agents drive computers through the GUI just like humans – by clicking buttons, selecting menus, and even completing forms on…

The Register: CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home

Apr 16, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/cve_program_funding_save/ Source: The Register Title: CVE program gets last-minute funding from CISA – and maybe a new home Feedly Summary: Feds extend vulnerability nerve-center contract at 11th hour In an 11th-hour reprieve, the US government last night agreed to continue funding the globally used Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program.… AI Summary and…

The Register: Apple: Since you care about yOuR pRiVaCy, we’ll train our AI on made-up emails

Apr 16, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/apple_ai_training_privacy/ Source: The Register Title: Apple: Since you care about yOuR pRiVaCy, we’ll train our AI on made-up emails Feedly Summary: It’s LLMs all the way down Apple, having starved its AI models of data by respecting customer privacy, plans to improve its chatbot suggestions by using made-up emails.… AI Summary and Description:…

The Register: Meta to feed Europe’s public posts into AI brains again

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/meta_resume_ai_training_eu_user_posts/ Source: The Register Title: Meta to feed Europe’s public posts into AI brains again Feedly Summary: Who said this opt-out approach is OK with GDPR, was it Llama 4, hmm? Meta on Monday said it plans to start training its AI models using public posts and comments shared by adults in the…

The Register: 4chan, the ‘internet’s litter box,’ appears to have been pillaged by rival forum

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/4chan_breached/ Source: The Register Title: 4chan, the ‘internet’s litter box,’ appears to have been pillaged by rival forum Feedly Summary: Source code, moderator info, IP addresses, more allegedly swiped and leaked Thousands of 4chan users reported outages Monday night amid rumors on social media that the edgy anonymous imageboard had been ransacked by…

The Register: Why wait to build a datacenter when you can just unpack one?

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/prefab_datacenters/ Source: The Register Title: Why wait to build a datacenter when you can just unpack one? Feedly Summary: Prefab SmartRun kit from Vertiv promises 85% faster deployment and fewer plumbing headaches With rack space at a premium amid unrelenting demand for datacenter capacity, more modular solutions are hitting the market to speed…

The Register: Chinese snoops use stealth RAT to backdoor US orgs – still active last week

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/chinese_spies_backdoored_us_orgs/ Source: The Register Title: Chinese snoops use stealth RAT to backdoor US orgs – still active last week Feedly Summary: Let the espionage and access resale campaigns begin (again) A cyberspy crew or individual with ties to China’s Ministry of State Security has infected global organizations with a remote access trojan (RAT)…

The Register: Where it Hertz: Customer data driven off in Cleo attacks

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/hertz_cleo_customer_data/ Source: The Register Title: Where it Hertz: Customer data driven off in Cleo attacks Feedly Summary: Car hire biz takes your privacy seriously, though Car hire giant Hertz has confirmed that customer information was stolen during the zero-day data raids on Cleo file transfer products last year.… AI Summary and Description: Yes…

The Register: Nvidia joins made-in-America party, hopes to flog $500B in homegrown AI supers by 2029

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