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Insider builds have them now. Everyone else will have to employ other methods

Hands on  Writers rely on the humble em dash (—) and en dash (–) to add flavor and function to their sentences. But typing these characters, which are slightly longer than a hyphen, has been a challenge in Windows, up until now.…

If an employer asks you do to this, demand a trial run so you can learn the rules of this strange new world

A startup called Job Bolt has created AI avatars that conduct job interviews. The Register couldn't help but give it a try and can report that it's an unnerving experience.…

South Korean government protests as workers left up s**t creek

The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arm of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it executed its largest single-site raid to date, detaining 475 people at the Hyundai–LG battery plant under construction in Georgia.…

California, Delaware AGs blast ChatGPT shop over chatbot safeguards

The Attorneys General of California and Delaware on Friday wrote to OpenAI's board of directors, demanding that the AI company take steps to ensure its services are safe for children.…

Unavoidable AI has developers looking for alternative code hosting options

Among the software developers who use Microsoft's GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request for a way to block Copilot, the company's AI service, from generating issues and pull requests in code repositories.…

Whatever happened to that Baltra thing Tan and crew were helping Apple cook up?

Analysis  OpenAI is allegedly developing a custom AI accelerator with the help of Broadcom in an apparent bid to curb its reliance on Nvidia and drive down the cost of its GPT family of models.…

Chair Carr calls E-Rate expansions unlawful, Ted Cruz warns of online risks for kids

The US Federal Communications Commission may soon pull funding for free Wi-Fi on school buses and in libraries after Chair Brendan Carr declared two Biden-era expansions unlawful and proposed eliminating them.…

tldr; boffins did it

interview  It all started as an idea for a research paper. …

Pro tip, don't install PowerShell commands without approval

A team of data thieves has doubled down by developing its CastleRAT malware in both Python and C variants. Both versions spread by tricking users into pasting malicious commands through a technique called ClickFix, which uses fake fixes and login prompts.…

After years of foot-dragging, penalties for blocking access finally kick in

It took four presidential administrations to finally get it done, but US health care actors that block patient and provider access to electronic medical data may finally begin to face actual consequences.…

9.9-rated flaw on the loose, so patch now

A critical code-injection bug in SAP S/4HANA that allows low-privileged attackers to take over your SAP system is being actively exploited, according to security researchers.…

Because handing battlefield ID to an algorithm has never gone wrong before, right?

The US Army is preparing to deploy a new AI product that promises to automatically identify and track potential targets on the battlefield. However, humans will continue to make life and death decisions.…

It won't be fully functional for a while, though

video  Europe's first exascale supercomputer has finally lived up to expectations, despite not being fully complete, as its general-purpose compute cluster is not set to be ready before next year at the earliest.…

Big Red bloodbath not yet acknowledged by the company

Oracle on Tuesday laid off more than 100 workers in Washington State and more than 250 in California, though we're told that the database giant may be firing thousands around the world.…

Point release brings Cinnamon tweaks, shiny apps, and Ubuntu's Hardware Enablement stack

The latest point release to the current version of Linux Mint brings a newer Cinnamon (if that's your thing) and updates for all.…

Firefox 145 is dumping 32-bit Linux, though

Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, had some good news this week for users still clinging to Windows 7 – Firefox ESR 115 support is being extended until March 2026.…

White House hosts back-slapping dinner for Tim Apple and co, datacenter grid connection relief promised by US Prez

President Donald Trump has pledged to sort out the power and grid connection nightmares plaguing the US datacenter industry.…

Good for solving finance and clinical problems... and AI

Microsoft researchers in Cambridge have unveiled its latest iteration of an Analog Optical Computer (AOC) and have inevitably incorporated AI into the technology's capabilities.…

Move over LinkedIn, Altman's crew wants a piece of the action

For those worried that AI is going to disrupt their jobs, OpenAI has the solution – take its certification and use a newly announced jobs board to find a new role.…

Seven-year-old Cisco vuln that remains inexplicably unpatched is their way in

The US State Department has put a $10 million bounty on the heads of three Russians accused of being intelligence agents hacking America's critical infrastructure - primarily via old Cisco kit, it seems.…