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: 20:32 Sun, Dec 03 2023. (fresh!) 'Return to Office' declared dead - (pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2023 15:57:11 GMT) Remote work is here to stay despite in-person mandates, this economist says Efforts to convince remote workers to return to corporate offices appear to have stalled, based on data from the government, academia, and private-sector organizations.… Law secretly drafted by ChatGPT makes it onto the books - (pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2023 17:24:08 GMT) 'Unfortunately or fortunately, this is going to be a trend' The council of Porto Alegre, a city in southern Brazil, has approved legislation drafted by ChatGPT. … Elon is the bakery owner swearing in the street about Yelp critics canceling him - (pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2023 12:42:07 GMT) First he was speed-running moderation, now internet advertising. Welcome to the party, pal Kettle By now Elon Musk should be used to high-risk maneuvers. If it's not SpaceX landing reusable rockets or docking manned capsules in orbit, it's Teslas hitting the road under AI control.… UK competition watchdog wins appeal – investigation into Apple will go on - (pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2023 11:01:12 GMT) iPhone maker tried to legally kill mobile browser, gaming probe by CMA The UK Court of Appeal has upheld the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA's) decision to launch a probe into mobile browsers and cloud gaming, quashing an appeal by Apple to kill the process.… From Joaquin Phoenix to Rowan Atkinson, we enjoyed your Musk movie casting calls - (pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2023 09:33:08 GMT) Although since it's the height of ridiculousness why not just Will Farrell? Although Musk: The Movie remains on the drawing board, we were delighted by the reader response to our question of who should play the part of the great man himself.… No new top boss at NSA until it answers questions about buying up location, browsing data - (pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2023 01:21:13 GMT) Senator Ron Wyden puts his foot down – for as long as he can Is the NSA buying up Americans' location and browsing data? Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is tired of asking and has now moved to block the confirmation of a new NSA director until he gets answers.… Scores of US credit unions offline after ransomware infects backend cloud outfit - (pubDate>Sat, 02 Dec 2023 00:01:25 GMT) Supply chain attacks: The gift that keeps on giving A ransomware infection at a cloud IT provider has disrupted services for 60 or so credit unions across the US, all of which were relying on the attacked vendor. … Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 22:26:08 GMT) We're canceling our subscriptions, say librarians citing co-founder's views The Duke University Libraries have decided to stop using 37Signal's Basecamp project management software after almost a decade due to public statements from the supplier's co-founder and chief technology officer.… Senate bill aims to stop Uncle Sam using facial recognition at airports - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 22:00:14 GMT) Legislation would eliminate TSA permission to use the tech, require database purge in 90 days The US Transportation Security Administration's plans to expand its use of facial recognition tech, already in use at several American airports, may be over before it begins if a newly introduced Senate bill becomes law.… Apple slaps patch on WebKit holes in iPhones and Macs amid fears of active attacks - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:31:07 GMT) Two CVEs can be abused to steal sensitive info or execute code Apple has issued emergency fixes to plug security flaws in iPhones, iPads, and Macs that may already be under attack.… HPE says impact of AI on enterprise not 'overstated.' It must be hoping so - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:03:12 GMT) Company counting on widespread business adoption to counter server declines HPE Discover EMEA Now that every big tech maker is jockeying for a bite of the AI revenue pie, HPE is pitching to remain relevant by adopting what CEO supremo Antonio Neri calls an "AI native" strategy.… UEFI flaws allow bootkits to pwn potentially hundreds of devices using images - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 20:12:06 GMT) Exploits bypass most secure boot solutions from the biggest chip vendors Hundreds of consumer and enterprise devices are potentially vulnerable to bootkit exploits through unsecured BIOS image parsers.… Electric vehicles earn shocking report card for reliability - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 19:02:11 GMT) Legacy auto makers struggle with new tech, and upstarts suffer teething problems with first cars Consumer Reports' latest car reliability survey suggests electric vehicles (EVs) are causing owners more problems than their hybrid or conventional counterparts.… Boehringer Ingelheim swaps lab coats for AI algorithms in search for new drugs - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 18:00:14 GMT) Mixing IBM's foundation models and proprietary data to discover novel antibodies Boehringer Ingelheim is the latest pharma company to turn to AI in the hunt for new treatments and therapies.… HPE to start pumping AI capabilities into Greenlake under Project Ethan - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:04:07 GMT) OpsRamp now natively available through IT-as-a-service platform HPE Discover EMEA HPE chief technology officer Fidelma Russo showed off an upcoming platform, codenamed Project Ethan, at the company's Discover event in Barcelona this week.… Google submits complaints about Microsoft licensing to UK competition regulator - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 16:34:09 GMT) Now Microsoft has regulator breathing down its neck in three regions Google is asking Britain's competition watchdog to make a ruling over its allegations Microsoft abused cloud software licensing in an anticompetitive way, months after taking claims of its rival's monopolistic behavior to the Federal Trade Commission.… US readies prison cell for another Russian Trickbot developer - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 15:08:12 GMT) Hunt continues for the other elusive high-ranking members Another member of the Trickbot malware crew now faces a lengthy prison sentence amid US law enforcement's ongoing search for its leading members.… Health crusaders prep legal challenge over NHS mega contract with Palantir - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 14:02:06 GMT) Groups claim Federated Data Platform requires new legislation to go ahead Health data campaigners are preparing for a legal challenge to the £330 million ($417 million) procurement of the Federated Data Platform (FDP) by NHS England, awarded to US spy-tech firm Palantir last month.… AWS rakes in half a billion pounds from UK Home Office - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 13:01:07 GMT) Someone has to top up the Bezos rocket fund, like British taxpayers Amazon Web Services has scooped up almost half a billion pounds of UK taxpayer cash in return for public cloud Hosting Services.… Cinnamon and KDE sync version numbers in desktop sibling rivalry - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 12:15:11 GMT) Expect the former in a Linux Mint point release later this year Two of the most popular "traditional" – read Windows-like – desktops happened to land the same version number at once.… Boffins find asking ChatGPT to repeat key words can expose its training data - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 11:03:53 GMT) This one weird trick will blow the large language model's artificial mind ChatGPT can be made to regurgitate snippets of text memorized from its training data when asked to repeat a single word over and over again, according to research published by computer scientists.… Regulator says stranger entered hospital, treated a patient, took a document ... then vanished - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 10:15:14 GMT) Scottish health group to tweak security checks, access authorization to avoid a repeat NHS Fife is on the wrong end of a stern ticking off by Britain's data regulator after it made a howling privacy error that aided an as yet unknown person who had entered a hospital ward only to walk off with data on 14 patients.… Small but mighty, 9Front's 'Humanbiologics' is here for the truly curious - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 09:30:11 GMT) Programmers developing what is essentially UNIX 2.0 are still busy bunnies 9Front, the main project continuing development of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, has emitted another new version, as enigmatic but significant as ever.… Bank boss hated IT, loved the beach, was clueless about ports and politeness - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 08:30:15 GMT) At the dawn of the dialup age, making a connection could be complicated On Call As the clock ticks towards the weekend, The Register once again welcomes readers to On Call, our weekly reader-contributed tale detailing the trials and tribulations of tech support.… Interpol makes first border arrest using Biometric Hub to ID suspect - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 07:25:08 GMT) Global database of faces and fingerprints proves its worth European police have for the first time made an arrest after remotely checking Interpol's trove of biometric data to identify a suspected smuggler.… Thirty-nine weeks: That's how long you'll be waiting for an AI server from Dell - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 05:58:07 GMT) Revenue and net income down, server market flickers, PCs fail to ignite Dell has told investors that demand for AI servers has surged, but buyers will be forced to wait 39 weeks to get their hands on the hardware due to supply chain constraints.… You're so worried about AWS reliability, the cloud giant now lets you simulate major outages - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:33:11 GMT) Fake it 'til you break it, for a whole availability zone or WAN FAIL re:Invent By The Register's count, Amazon Web Services has made at least 192 product announcements in the past four days at its re:Invent conference.… Today's 'China is misbehaving online' allegations come from Google, Meta - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 02:59:05 GMT) Zuck boots propagandists, Big G finds surge of action directed at Taiwan Meta and Google have disclosed what they allege are offensive cyber ops conducted by China.… Ex-school IT admin binned student, staff accounts and trashed phone system - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 01:42:47 GMT) After getting the tintack, IRL BOFH went rogue The former IT administrator of a public high school has agreed to plead guilty to a computer abuse charge for deactivating student and staff accounts, wiping some profiles, and disabling the phone system.… Potential sat-bothering cannibal coronal mass ejection slams into Earth's atmo tonight - (pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:08:00 GMT) And where folks are likely to see a light show A so-called cannibal coronal mass ejection is set to hit Earth on December 1, creating geomagnetic storms across the skies at higher latitudes.… Watchdog claims retaliation from military after questioning cushy federal IT contracts - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 22:58:05 GMT) IT-AAC had a hand in scrutinizing JEDI, now faces probe for challenging $300M+ single-source deals Special report The CEO of an independent watchdog has challenged the award of single-source federal government IT contracts worth over $300 million to AWS, Bluestaq, and VMware.… America's ambitious Artemis III likely to miss 2025 Moon landing date, auditors sigh - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 22:28:40 GMT) 'SpaceX has made limited progress maturing the technologies needed' Artemis III, the mission intended to put American boots back on the Moon, is unlikely to meet its 2025 launch schedule, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported on Thursday. … Meta goes to war with FTC over right to profit from kids' personal data - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:38:23 GMT) Awkward hill to die on, but OK Meta has filed a lawsuit challenging the Federal Trade Commission's authority to regulate the social advertising giant.… Uh-oh, update Google Chrome – exploit already out there for one of these 6 security holes - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:45:13 GMT) Plus: 3 critical CVEs in Zyxel NAS devices Google has rolled out six Chrome security fixes including one emergency patch for a bug for which exploit code is already out there. You're encouraged to thus grab the latest updates for the browser.… Bitcoin's thirst for water is just as troubling as its energy appetite - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 20:01:10 GMT) A single transaction chugs 6.2 million times more than a credit card swipe It probably won't come as a shock to those aware of the electricity usage of the Bitcoin network, but the world's most popular cryptocurrency also uses tons of water to keep itself running.… Scribbling limits in free version of Evernote set to test users' patience - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 19:15:12 GMT) Deckchairs continue to be rearranged on the jotting platform? Evernote plans to slap restrictions on users of its free tier, and from early next month there will be a limit of 50 notes and one notebook per account.… Admin of $19M marketplace that sold social security numbers gets 8 years in jail - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:30:15 GMT) 24 million Americans thought to have had their personal data stolen and sold for pennies A Ukrainian national is facing an eight year prison sentence for running an online marketplace that sold the personal data of approximately 24 million US citizens.… Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:45:11 GMT) Hello, police? I'd like to report a murder Comment "I hope they stop. Don't advertise. If someone's going to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself. Go. Fuck. Yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is."… HP printer software turns up uninvited on Windows systems - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:00:06 GMT) No escape from bloat, even without relevant hardware attached Windows users are reporting that Hewlett Packard's HP Smart application is appearing on their systems, despite them not having any of the manufacturer's hardware attached.… Broadcom's latest Trident switch silicon packs neural net processor to terminate congestion - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 16:00:11 GMT) Chip promises better telemetry, security, and traffic engineering, vendor claims Broadcom's latest switch silicon boasts a built in neural networking engine it says can be trained to combat network congestion on the fly, at line speeds, all without compromising latency or throughput.… The AI everything show continues at AWS: Generate SQL from text, vector search, and more - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:30:11 GMT) Invisible watermarks on AI-generated images? Sure. But major tools in the stack matter most re:Invent Another day at AWS re:Invent and yet more talk of artifical intelligence dominated, with a senior executive taking to the stage to wax lyrical about the impact of vector databases on the tech and more.… Roblox investor plays hardball over 'weak' parental controls - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:45:14 GMT) Shareholder claims company should have 'warned' about issue before stock price plunge Online games platform Roblox is the subject of a proposed class action by an investor claiming the company wasn't forthcoming about alleged flaws in its parental restrictions.… Hubble science instruments still out after going down 3 times in a week - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:00:09 GMT) Oh no, errant gyro! NASA has confirmed it is working to resume science operations on the Hubble Space Telescope after an ongoing gyroscope issue put it in safe mode.… Black Basta ransomware operation nets over $100M from victims in less than two years - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 13:15:07 GMT) Assumed Conti offshoot averages 7 figures for each successful attack but may have issues with, er, 'closing deals' The Black Basta ransomware group has reportedly generated upwards of $100 million in revenue since it started operations in April 2022.… Rackspace runs short of Cloud Files storage in LON region - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:30:13 GMT) Rackspace? More like Lackspace as customers face upload and delete problems Updated Rackspace is running out of, er, space. At least as far as a portion of its Cloud Files customers served by the LON (London) region are concerned.… HPE targets enterprises with Nvidia-powered platform for tuning AI - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 11:45:05 GMT) 'We feel like enterprises are either going to become AI powered, or they're going to become obsolete' HPE Discover EMEA HPE - like many tech companies - is betting big on AI in the hope customers will splash enteprise cash on training or fine tuning models and other areas of interest, rather than risk falling behind their peers.… Six pack of sub-Neptune exoplanets hang tight around nearby star - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 11:01:13 GMT) Their resonant orbits have remained unchanged for some 4 billion years Scientists have discovered a rare six-exoplanet system orbiting a nearby bright star.… Nostalgia for XP sells out Microsoft's 2023 'Windows Ugly Sweater' - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 10:15:10 GMT) Bliss not your thing? You could win the Paint version Microsoft has once again reminded us of a time when its operating systems only drove us three-quarters around the bend, by issuing the latest Windows Ugly Sweater that features the default Bliss wallpaper of Windows XP.… SAP faces more accusations of breaching on-prem customers' trust - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:30:16 GMT) Cloud-only innovation strategy slammed as users opt for on-prem and hosted support for S/4HANA SAP again stands accused of breaching trust with customers by a second user group following the decision to introduce innovations in its preferred cloud adoption models exclusively.… We challenged you to come up with tech predictions for 2024 (wrong answers only) – here are some favorites so far - (pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 08:45:09 GMT) Plus some of our own and the ugly Microsoft sweater one of you will win. Please take it off our hands... Kettle The other day we challenged our fine Register readers to share their top technology predictions for 2024 – though with wrong answers only. The best suggestion will win an old ugly Microsoft-themed Christmas sweater.… Search the internet Search bishopston.com Search bishopston.net