Tag: GIS
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The Register: Little LLM on the RAM: Google’s Gemma 270M hits the scene
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/little_llm_on_the_ram/ Source: The Register Title: Little LLM on the RAM: Google’s Gemma 270M hits the scene Feedly Summary: A tiny model trained on trillions of tokens, ready for specialized tasks Google has unveiled a pint-sized new addition to its “open" large language model lineup: Gemma 3 270M.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…
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The Register: Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/london_telco_colts_services_disrupted/ Source: The Register Title: Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline Feedly Summary: London-based multinational takes customer portal and Voice API platform offline as ‘protective measure’ following breach Multinational telco Colt Technology Services says a “cyber incident" is to blame for its customer portal and other services being down for a…
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The Register: Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/cobol_in_the_public_sector_feature/ Source: The Register Title: Why the UK public sector still creaks along on COBOL Feedly Summary: Government: ‘Trust us, it’ll be different this time’ Feature The UK government has gone all-in on AI. More than 50 years after Harold Wilson gave his famous “White heat of technology" speech, this is the hot…
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The Register: LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/llm_chatbots_trivial_to_weaponise/ Source: The Register Title: LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins Feedly Summary: System prompt engineering turns benign AI assistants into ‘investigator’ and ‘detective’ roles that bypass privacy guardrails A team of boffins is warning that AI chatbots built on large language models (LLM) can be tuned into malicious…
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The Register: Forget Foxconn the iPhone factory. AI’s made it a server-slinger first and foremost
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/foxconn_q2_2025/ Source: The Register Title: Forget Foxconn the iPhone factory. AI’s made it a server-slinger first and foremost Feedly Summary: Next: Modular datacenters ready to host rack-scale systems, to meet endless demand Manufacturer to the stars Foxconn is building so many AI servers that they’re now bringing in more cash than consumer electronics…
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The Register: Ransomware crews don’t care about your endpoint security – they’ve already killed it
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/edr_killers_ransomware/ Source: The Register Title: Ransomware crews don’t care about your endpoint security – they’ve already killed it Feedly Summary: Some custom malware, some legit software tools At least a dozen ransomware gangs have incorporated kernel-level EDR killers into their malware arsenal, allowing them to bypass almost every major endpoint security tool on…
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The Register: Dodgy Huawei chips nearly sunk DeepSeek’s next-gen R2 model
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/dodgy_huawei_deepseek/ Source: The Register Title: Dodgy Huawei chips nearly sunk DeepSeek’s next-gen R2 model Feedly Summary: Chinese AI model dev still plans to use homegrown silicon for inferencing Unhelpful Huawei AI chips are reportedly why Chinese model dev DeepSeek’s next-gen LLMs are taking so long.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…
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The Register: ‘MadeYouReset’ HTTP/2 flaw lets attackers DoS servers
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/madeyoureset_http2_flaw_lets_attackers/ Source: The Register Title: ‘MadeYouReset’ HTTP/2 flaw lets attackers DoS servers Feedly Summary: Researchers had to notify over 100 vendors of flaw that builds on 2023’s Rapid Reset with neat twist past usual mitigations Security researchers Gal Bar Nahum, Anat Bremler-Barr, and Yaniv Harel have published details of a “common design flaw"…