Bishopston Net consists of a number of Pentium IV 3Ghz PCs, all running the best and most stable operating system available today: FreeBSD ( Version 6.2. )

The name comes from the village of Bishopston, a village on the Gower Peninsula, near Swansea, South Wales, UK.

Updated: 21:24 Mon, Oct 21 2024. (Last checked: 181 mins ago [FAILED!]) The billionaire behind Trump's 'unhackable' phone is on a mission to fight Tesla's FSD - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 19:30:13 GMT) Dan O'Dowd tells El Reg about the OS secrets and ongoing clash with Musk Interview This month, presidential hopeful Donald Trump got a tool in his arsenal, some allegedly "unhackable" communications kit, and The Register has talked to the man behind the operating system, who also ran for the US Senate on a campaign to get self-driving Teslas off the road and is on something of a crusade about the matter.… China ramps up semiconductor patents amid US export restrictions - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 18:30:09 GMT) AI innovation and geopolitical tensions push Middle Kingdom filings up 42% China's semiconductor industry is speeding up in response to US export controls, according to research by a specialist in intellectual property.… Musk's $1M election lottery raises serious legal concerns, says Pennsylvania governor - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:30:08 GMT) C'mon, do you really think ol' Elon’s handing out all that cash, day after day? Elon Musk's plan to give $1 million each day to a random registered "swing state" voter who has signed his election petition could merit a look for election law violations, Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro said over the weekend. … SiFive launches early access for Premier P550 RISC-V developer board - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 16:23:07 GMT) Broader December release promises Ubuntu support and enhanced features Prominent RISC-V protagonist SiFive has announced early access to its anticipated development board, built around the firm's P550 core design, with a broader release scheduled for December.… Gary Marcus proposes generative AI boycott to push for regulation, tame Silicon Valley - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:28:10 GMT) 'I am deeply concerned about how creative work is essentially being stolen at scale' Interview Gary Marcus, professor emeritus at New York University and serial entrepreneur, is the author of several books, the latest of which takes the tech industry to task for irresponsibly developing generative AI and putting democracy at risk.… ASML faces turbulence amid stock drop, customer delays - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 14:26:15 GMT) Samsung halts fab orders, deliveries slow, China restrictions continue – but company expects Beijing sales bounce Analysis ASML, the sole provider of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines, is navigating market and geopolitical challenges that are hammering its business operations.… macOS HM Surf vuln might already be under exploit by major malware family - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:32:08 GMT) Like keeping your camera and microphone private? Patch up In revealing details about a vulnerability that threatens the privacy of Apple fans, Microsoft urges all macOS users to update their systems.… Big browsers are about to throw a wrench in your ad-free paradise - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 12:29:13 GMT) Mozilla and Google complicate life for users of uBlock Origin and uBlock Lite Both uBlock Origin and its smaller sibling, uBlock Origin Lite, are experiencing problems thanks to browser vendors that really ought to know better.… Developer pockets $2M in savings from going cloud-free - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 11:36:11 GMT) 37signals CTO claims cost of new hardware was 'entirely recouped' as contracts expired after AWS exit The web software biz that decided to exit the cloud after racking up a huge bill says it has saved almost $2 million in its first "clean year" after making the switch to on-prem, and has already recouped the costs of the extra hardware it needed.… SCC, one of Europe's largest resellers, orders staff back to their desks for three days a week - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 10:29:14 GMT) CEO tells The Reg customers are facing same challenges, not ruling out full-time RTO Exclusive SCC, one of Europe's largest resellers, is ordering staff to return to the office for three days a work from the start of next month, and terminating its flexible hours trial.… UK authority struggles to RISE with SAP, throws another £9M at project - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:30:12 GMT) Gloucestershire continues with legacy system as SaaS replacement delayed by more than a year A South West England authority continues to suffer control weaknesses in its ERP system after the council delayed the project by more than a year and more than doubled the expected costs.… The Astronaut wore Prada – and a blast from Michael Bloomberg - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 08:31:06 GMT) Stylish Artemis spacesuit design revealed last week should never fly, billionaire argues Private sector space outfit Axion and Italian fashion house Prada last week revealed the space suit that will be used on the Artemis III mission.… Linux admin asked savvy scientist for IT help and the boffin blew it - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:24:06 GMT) In science, every day is about testing hypotheses. Such as: 'You did what to the network?' Who, Me? Welcome, gentle reader, to another exciting week at the coalface of tech and therefore the anticipation of five joyous productive days ahead and a fresh edition of Who, Me? – The Register's reader-contributed tales of tech gone awry.… Microsoft's Arm-based Cobalt 100 CPU now live and powering Azure VMs - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 06:34:11 GMT) For general-purpose and memory-optimized workloads Microsoft's Cobalt 100 Arm CPUs have reached general availability in its Azure cloud, creating another non-x86 option for running VMs in the Redmondian cloud.… Tesla, Intel, deny they're the foreign company China just accused of making maps that threaten national security - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 05:33:11 GMT) As TSMC defends itself against report it may have helped Huawei Tesla has denied it was involved in illegal-map making activities in China after Beijing asserted an unnamed foreign firm working on a smart car project had done so – and even stolen state secrets – through a collaboration with a local business.… Chinese chipmaker Loongson now just three to five years off the pace on the desktop - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 03:35:07 GMT) Claims forthcoming chip catches up to Alder Lake and Xen 2 Chinese chip designer Loongson last week teased products that it claimed will deliver the same performance that Intel and AMD achieved around five years ago.… Internet Archive exposed again – this time through Zendesk - (pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2024 01:29:07 GMT) Org turns its woes into a fundraising opportunity Despite the Internet Archive's assurances it's back on its feet after a recent infosec incident, the org still appears to be in trouble after parties unknown claimed to hold access tokens to its Zendesk implementation and to have used them to send a mass email blast.… AI 'bubble' will burst 99 percent of players, says Baidu CEO - (pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 23:45:06 GMT) Plus: Australian bank glitch empties accounts; China online slang crackdown; Toshiba teams with Airbus; and more Asia In Brief Baidu CEO Robin Li has proclaimed that hallucinations produced by large language models are no longer a problem, and predicted a massive wipeout of AI startups when the "bubble" bursts.… WinAmp's woes will pass, but its wonders will be here forever - (pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:30:08 GMT) Not as clumsy or random as a streamer, an elegant player for a more civilized age Opinion Yup, I called that one wrong. Twenty years ago. I bid farewell to WinAmp, the PC music player of choice. It had been made redundant by Windows Media Player getting better, WinAmp's owners getting bored, and the iPod blowing the doors off everything.… Open source LLM tool primed to sniff out Python zero-days - (pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 09:00:08 GMT) The static analyzer uses Claude AI to identify vulns and suggest exploit code Researchers with Seattle-based Protect AI plan to release a free, open source tool that can find zero-day vulnerabilities in Python codebases with the help of Anthropic's Claude AI model.… California cops cuff suspect in deadly drone-assisted drug deal - (pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:38:06 GMT) ‘Crany’ also captured with three 'ghost guns' A California man has been charged with using a DJI drone to distribute drugs, which resulted in a fatal overdose.… Europa Clipper heads to Jupiter: Can its icy moon support life? - (pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2024 05:38:13 GMT) But first stop is Mars for a speed boost, then back to Earth for the final push The Europa Clipper has unfurled its solar panels and is on its way to Jupiter, but it's taking a circuitous route by way of Mars.… Jetpack fixes 8-year-old flaw affecting millions of WordPress sites - (pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 22:30:07 GMT) Also, new EU cyber reporting rules are live, exploiters hit the gas pedal, free PDNS for UK schools, and more In Brief - Updated A critical security update for the near-ubiquitous WordPress plugin Jetpack was released last week. Site administrators should ensure the latest version is installed to keep their sites secure. … Tesla FSD faces yet another probe after fatal low-visibility crash - (pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:37:21 GMT) Musk’s camera-only approach may not be a great idea after all? Tesla is facing yet another government investigation into the safety of its full self driving (FSD) software after a series of accidents in low-visibility conditions. … X to allow third parties to train their AI models with social media users' data - (pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:26:11 GMT) Another raft of reasons to ponder your social media presence Elon Musk's social media mouthpiece X (formerly known as Twitter) has updated its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to direct disputes to a federal court in Texas and allow third parties to train AIs on user posts.… AWS boss: Don't want to come back to the office? Go work somewhere else - (pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:29:07 GMT) It's our way or the highway AWS CEO Matt Garman has reportedly told workers that if they don't like the company's five-day-a-week return-to-office policy, they can look for work elsewhere.… Spectre flaws continue to haunt Intel and AMD as researchers find fresh attack method - (pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 14:01:15 GMT) The indirect branch predictor barrier is less of a barrier than hoped Six years after the Spectre transient execution processor design flaws were disclosed, efforts to patch the problem continue to fall short.… Tech giants set to pay through the nose for nuclear power that's still years away - (pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 13:00:11 GMT) Google, Amazon, Microsoft dive into costly deals that aren't generating anything yet Nuclear power contracts signed by hyperscalers show they're desperate for reliable "clean and green" energy sources to feed their ever-expanding datacenter footprints, however, investment bank Jefferies warns that these tech giants are likely to end up paying over the odds to get it.… Alleged Bitcoin crook faces 5 years after SEC's X account pwned - (pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:30:09 GMT) SIM swappers strike again, warping cryptocurrency prices An Alabama man faces five years in prison for allegedly attempting to manipulate the price of Bitcoin by pwning the US Securities and Exchange Commission's X account earlier this year.… Richard Branson to take balloon ride to edge of space - (pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:00:08 GMT) No Zero-G shenanigans, but a fully stocked bar and spectacular views Richard Branson is taking to the skies again, this time hitching a ride to the top of the Earth's atmosphere in a Space Perspective balloon.… ESET denies it was compromised as Israeli orgs targeted with 'ESET-branded' wipers - (pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:00:15 GMT) Says 'limited' incident isolated to 'partner company' ESET denies being compromised after an infosec researcher highlighted a wiper campaign that appeared to victims as if it was launched using the Slovak security shop's infrastructure.… Someone's finally taking on £10M Hull City Council ERP deal to replace Oracle - (pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 09:34:14 GMT) Step forward Workday after mega long procurement to support system that went live 22 years ago More than two and a half years after it began talking to vendors, a city council in northern England has awarded a contract to Workday for £10.7 million ($14 million) to create a finance and HR system that will replace the ageing Oracle ERP installation.… HashiCorp unveils 'Terraform 2.0' while tiptoeing around Big Blue elephant in the room - (pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 08:30:08 GMT) HashiConf shindig oddly reluctant to mention impending IBM acquisition HashiCorp's annual HashiConf shindig wrapped up in Boston with a Big Blue elephant in the room and a hissed instruction: "Don't mention IBM!"… Yes, your network is down – you annoyed us so much we crashed it - (pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 07:29:08 GMT) If you bluff your way out of unpaid bills, there's a chance someone could call you on it On Call By the end of a working week, it can be tempting to just blow up whatever tech you've toiled for days to tame. Which is why each Friday The Register offers a (hopefully) cathartic instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column in which you share your tetchiest tech support tales.… Server-maker Wiwynn expands $61M lawsuit against X - (pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 06:30:11 GMT) Finds two more reasons Musk should have known he was on the hook for datacenter kit Taiwanese contract manufacturer Wiwynn has added two more counts to its complaint against Elon Musk's social network X, alleging hasn't paid for hardware it had contracted to buy.… Intel hits back at China's accusations it bakes in NSA backdoors - (pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 05:32:13 GMT) Chipzilla says it obeys the law wherever it is, which is nice Intel has responded to Chinese claims that its chips include security backdoors at the direction of America's NSA.… Biz hired, and fired, a fake North Korean IT worker – then the ransom demands began - (pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 04:28:12 GMT) 'My webcam isn't working today' is the new 'The dog ate my network' It's a pattern cropping up more and more frequently: a company fills an IT contractor post, not realizing it's mistakenly hired a North Korean operative. The phony worker almost immediately begins exfiltrating sensitive data, before being fired for poor performance. Then the six-figure ransom demands – accompanied by proof of the stolen files – start appearing.… Someone's tried sneaking semiconductor secrets out of South Korea's patent office - (pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 03:27:11 GMT) Government hardens up infosec to stop this - as you would when Samsung and SK hynix are massive parts of your economy South Korea announced new measures on Thursday to prevent future leaks of technology from its patent office, after noticing increasing incidence of leaks and worrying that it could hurt local companies when stolen IP goes overseas.… Healthcare Services Group discloses 'cybersecurity incident' in SEC filing - (pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 02:30:06 GMT) Laundry and dining provider still investigating cause and scope Healthcare Services Group (HSG) has disclosed "unauthorized activity within some of its systems" in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing.… Uncle Sam puts $10M bounty on Russian troll farm Rybar - (pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 01:00:10 GMT) Propaganda op focuses on anti-West narratives to meddle with elections The US has placed a $10 million bounty on Russian media network Rybar and a number of its key staffers following alleged attempts to sway the upcoming US presidential election.… Destiny Robotics settles SEC case over AI-powered human robot vaporware - (pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:30:13 GMT) Raised $141k+ crowdfunding, but now powered down The SEC has reached a deal with defunct Destiny Robotics after investors lost all their capital when the startup failed to produce the promised product.… Troubled US insurance giant hit by extortion after data leak - (pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:30:10 GMT) Globe Life claims blackmailers shared stolen into with short sellers US insurance provider Globe Life, already grappling with legal troubles, now faces a fresh headache: an extortion attempt involving stolen customer data.… FCC fines be damned, ESPN misuses emergency alert tones yet again - (pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 22:30:08 GMT) It’s the third strike, yet all they get is a slap on the wrist? Sports broadcasting network ESPN faces a proposed fine for using emergency alert service (EAS) attention sounds without authorization - again, apparently.… Qualcomm 'pausing' X-Elite Dev Kit, offering refunds - (pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 21:02:10 GMT) Five months in, only 200 units reached customers, Qualy tells El Reg Qualcomm has officially pulled the plug on its Snapdragon for Windows Dev Kits less than five months after the X-Elite powered mini-PCs were announced.… Samsung releases 24Gb GDDR7 DRAM for testing in beefy AI systems - (pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 20:30:07 GMT) Production slated for Q1 2025, barring any hiccups Samsung has finally stolen a march in the memory market with 24 Gb GDDR7 DRAM being released for validation in AI computing systems from GPU customers before production - expected early next year - kicks off.… Microsoft crafts Rust hypervisor to power Azure workloads - (pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 19:24:29 GMT) OpenVMM touts stronger security, but not ready for prime time just yet Microsoft earlier this month published code for a new hypervisor, or virtual machine monitor (VMM), written in Rust.… Infrastructure giant Schneider Electric powers up with $850M liquid cooling deal - (pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:28:08 GMT) Snags controlling stake in Motivair Corporation, rest to come by 2028 Schneider Electric is taking a controlling interest in Motivair Corporation, a specialist in liquid cooling and thermal management tech for high-performance computing (HPC) systems.… Manifest file destiny: Declare your funding needs via JSON - (pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 17:00:09 GMT) India-based stockbroker Zerodha pledges $1M a year for open source projects Zerodha, an India-based stock brokerage, has launched a fund to support open source software, to which the company attributes its existence and success.… Western Digital releases firmware fix for SSDs blighted by Windows 11 24H2 BSODs - (pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:30:09 GMT) Microsoft tells us it is investigating the issue... Phew, that's ok then Microsoft says it is looking into reports that certain Western Digital SSDs are causing trouble for users of Windows 11 24H2 on some devices.… Brazilian police claim they've cuffed serial cybercrook behind FBI and Airbus attacks - (pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:00:06 GMT) Early stage opsec failures lead to landmark arrest of suspected serial data thief Brazilian police are being cagey with the details about the arrest of a person suspected to be responsible for various high-profile data thefts.… Search the internet Search bishopston.com Search bishopston.net