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: 19:10 Wed, Jan 22 2025. (Last checked: 46 mins ago) Microsoft throws more cash at its carbon guilt by replanting Brazilian rainforest - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 19:00:14 GMT) Meanwhile, datacenter emissions continue to soar Microsoft is forking out for even more carbon credits to offset spiralling AI-fuelled carbon dioxide emissions from its datacenters.… Samsung Galaxy S25 is so smart it wears Crocs, resists quantum decryption - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:10:27 GMT) This year's model adds lots of AI, improved management, and support for biz buyers First fondle Samsung has announced the Galaxy S25, the latest version of its flagship smartphone range, and, as you'd expect, made new AI features the hero.… NASA spacewalkers to swab the ISS for microbial life - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:02:12 GMT) Learning how to deal with the microorganisms hitching a ride with humans Two NASA astronauts are set to venture outside the International Space Station (ISS) in search of signs of life.… Microsoft issues out-of-band fix for Windows Server 2022 NUMA glitch - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 16:17:07 GMT) Update addresses boot failures on multi-node systems Microsoft is releasing an out-of-band patch to deal with a problem that prevented some Windows Server 2022 machines from booting.… Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts walks free as Trump pardons dark web kingpin - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 15:30:11 GMT) Ross Ulbricht's family are now appealing for donations to support his reintegration into society Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is now a free man after US President Donald Trump made good on his promise to issue a federal pardon upon taking office.… Better power management, security, and scheduling in Linux kernel 6.13 - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:45:07 GMT) But no changes to bcachefs Linux kernel 6.13 is here, but don't get too excited. It's not a biggie and, given the timing, probably won't appear in many familiar distros.… Analysts say real datacenter emissions are a dirty secret - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:00:07 GMT) Amazon doesn't break out figures, but then again neither do Microsoft nor Google As more businesses shift an ever greater number of workloads to the cloud, hyperscalers aren't doing enough to help CIOs or tech buyers, who are already under legislative pressure, to be more transparent about their own corporation's carbon footprint regarding compute services.… Infosec was literally the last item in Trump's policy plan, yet major changes are likely on his watch - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:15:11 GMT) Everyone agrees defense matters. How to do it is up for debate Feature The Trump administration came to office this week without a detailed information security policy, but analysis of cabinet nominees’ public remarks and expert comments suggest it will make significant changes in the field.… UK tax collector's phone service 'deliberately' bad to push users online, say MPs - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:50:26 GMT) Cut off nearly 44k peeps who had been waiting 70 minutes for advice on unavoidable chore The UK tax collector must "take responsibility for its own failings to offer sufficiently effective digital services to customers," according to a committee of MPs which accused HMRC of "deliberately" poor phone service to push callers online.… Former Amazon exec appointed as chair of UK's competition watchdog - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:12:58 GMT) Interim appointment after former head booted out for not being 'sufficiently focused on growth' The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has a new chair after the sudden departure of the previous incumbent.… Business value from GenAI remains elusive despite IT spending boom - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 10:15:13 GMT) The nascent tech enters Hype Cycle’s downward slope, says Gartner Tech analysts have forecast 9.8 percent year-over-year growth in worldwide IT spending in 2025, reaching $5.61 trillion and driven by continuing AI investments, despite “moonshot” projects seeing a high failure rate.… Ransomware scum make it personal for <i>Reg</i> readers by impersonating tech support - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:29:14 GMT) That invitation to a Teams call on which IT promises to mop up a spamstorm may not be what it seems Two ransomware campaigns are abusing Microsoft Teams to infect organizations and steal data, and the crooks may have ties to Black Basta and FIN7, according to Sophos.… China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 08:29:07 GMT) 1,066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement plasma operation and all that China’s Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has claimed a new world record for maintaining a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation, a feat needed to create a fusion reactor that in theory will produce vast amounts of energy at little cost.… Google DeepMind CEO says 2025's the year we start popping pills AI helped invent - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 07:28:06 GMT) Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis thinks human trials will happen soon Clinical trials of the first drugs designed with the help of artificial intelligence could commence this year, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis suggested Tuesday.… Apple Intelligence turned on by default in upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3 - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 06:32:10 GMT) Plus: Google stuffs Gemini into Workspace, with a hidden off switch? Ready or not, generative AI assistants and productivity aids are getting harder to avoid with a growing number of software vendors enabling them by default.… OpenAI to blow through $500B on AI infrastructure for itself with help from pals - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 02:37:05 GMT) SoftBank, Oracle, MGX form Stargate Project with ChatGPT maker, intend to outspend Microsoft this year OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, and investment firm MGX on Tuesday announced plans to spend $500 billion on AI infrastructure in America over the next four years, to be used by the ChatGPT super-lab.… PowerSchool theft latest: Decades of Canadian student records, data from 40-plus US states feared stolen - (pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 01:02:31 GMT) Lawsuits pile up after database accessed by miscreants Canada's largest school board has revealed that student records dating back to 1985 may have been accessed by miscreants who compromised software provider PowerSchool.… App stores unconvinced by Trump's TikTok ban pause, which may itself be on shaky legal ground - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:45:40 GMT) El Reg asked a lawyer to explain WTH is going on Analysis President Trump's executive order stalling the enforcement of the TikTok ban in the United States has created legal uncertainty for companies hosting or distributing the app. To further confuse the matter, it's not even clear that Trump's decree is within his power to issue or enforce. … Atlassian's Bitbucket Cloud went down 'hard' today - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 20:15:05 GMT) Same, Big A, same If you were unable to access Atlassian's Bitbucket Cloud today, it's because in the words of the IT giant, the service was "hard down."… Patch procrastination leaves 50,000 Fortinet firewalls vulnerable to zero-day - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:45:08 GMT) Seven days after disclosure and little action taken, data shows Fortinet customers need to get with the program and apply the latest updates as nearly 50,000 management interfaces are still vulnerable to the latest zero-day exploit.… Trump hits undo on Biden AI safety order, EV mandate, emissions standards, and more - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:30:10 GMT) Also, prepare for paused wind projects and the Gulf of America from Trump 2.0 – and that's just day 1 US President Donald Trump has wasted no time in culling Biden-era programs, including the elimination of the prior administration's executive orders on AI safety and electric vehicles, and freezing funds for EV infrastructure.… Neural interface lets paralyzed person steer virtual quadcopter, opening new doors for gaming - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:57:09 GMT) Researchers aim to tackle unmet needs for social connection and recreation Scientists in the US have developed a neural interface that enables an individual with paralysis to control a virtual quadcopter by decoding brain activity into distinct finger movements.… Words alone won't get the stars and stripes to Mars - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:32:11 GMT) So you want to go to the Red Planet. How deep are your pockets and how much time do you have? Comment "America is going to Mars," said Elon Musk at yesterday's inauguration of US President Donald Trump. America is already there, thanks to decades of robotic exploration.… Meta, X sign up to Euro Commish code of conduct on hate speech - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:45:15 GMT) Under Digital Services Act, monitors will be allowed to report abusive language and platforms should respond in 1 day Online platform companies, including X and Meta, have signed up to a new code of conduct aimed at targeting online hate speech, which the European Commission has now baked into the Digital Services Act.… Tariff uncertainty looms large over budget conscious CIOs - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:00:13 GMT) It’s a feature not a bug, and what the US electorate voted for, says analyst Updated As US president Donald Trump's inauguration passes into history, tech leaders face uncertainty as they wait to see if repeated promises of global US import tariffs are put into action.… HPE probes IntelBroker's bold data theft boasts - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 13:19:41 GMT) Incident response protocols engaged following claims of source code burglary Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is probing assertions made by prolific Big Tech intruder IntelBroker that they broke into the US corporation's systems and accessed source code, among other things.… Microsoft joins CISPE, the Euro cloud crew that tried to curb its licensing - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:32:10 GMT) From fighters to friends in six months, despite AWS voting against it Exclusive Microsoft is to become the latest member of CISPE months after negotiating a settlement with the trade association of European cloud providers over alleged anti-competitive software practices. However, not all in the group are happy with the enrollment.… UK aims to fix government IT with help from AI Humphrey - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 11:26:13 GMT) Ring a bell? Suite of tools named after Yes Minister's master of manipulation The UK government is striving to end its checkered record in managing large-scale projects with a "plan to put technology to work across public services."… Asda tech divorce from Walmart delays cut-over for 55 stores - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:33:13 GMT) Supermarket taking 'pragmatic approach' to 'Europe's largest IT transformation program' Asda has postponed the tech transition of 55 stores to its new systems as US retail giant Walmart continues to support IT at outlets it sold to the new owner in 2021.… AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 09:30:05 GMT) Now if only the councils could afford to fill them An oft-repeated myth is that potholes form through a combination of surface cracks, water, and traffic, but they're actually caused by chronic levels of underinvestment in public infrastructure.… VMware migrations will be long, expensive, risky, Gartner warns - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 07:35:07 GMT) And possibly even more so if you don’t start planning yours soon If the changes Broadcom brought to VMware have you thinking of a move to an alternative virtualization platform, expect a long, costly, and risky project – and perhaps a longer, costlier, and riskier one if you put off pondering the move.… TSMC pauses production after strong earthquake hits Taiwan - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 05:28:10 GMT) Geopolitical rumblings one day, geological rumblings the next Taiwan has experienced an earthquake significant enough that chipmaking champ TSMC has halted work at its plants.… This is how Elon's Department of Government Efficiency will work – overwriting the US Digital Service - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 03:34:39 GMT) Tycoon's auditors to probe Uncle Sam's IT with full access to unclassified data US President Donald Trump has renamed the US Digital Service the Department of Government Efficiency and given it a mission to modernize government technology.… China ever-so slightly softens stance on possible US TikTok sale - (pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:29:05 GMT) President Trump allows vid app to keep running for 75 days while he reviews security concerns and develops a policy Updated China appears to have softened its stance on the possible sale of TikTok’s US operations and is now perhaps open to the idea.… Improved Windows Search arrives... but only for Copilot+ PCs - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:30:14 GMT) Semantic indexing does some discreet rifling through local drawers of Insiders Windows Search is improved in the latest Dev Channel Windows Insider build, but you'll need a Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PC to use it.… Linux Mint 22.1 Xia arrives fashionably late - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:01:13 GMT) Both the Ubuntu and Debian-based editions get Cinnamon 6.4 and other goodies It's a bit later than we were expecting, but the latest Mint is here and should start to be offered as an upgrade soon.… AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 20:33:14 GMT) Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format AWS bet on the Apache Iceberg open table format (OTF) across its analytics, machine learning, and storage stack as a concerted response to demand from customers already using its popular S3 object storage.… Hackers game out infowar against China with the US Navy - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 18:54:09 GMT) Taipei invites infosec bods to come and play on its home turf Picture this: It's 2030 and China's furious with Taiwan after the island applies to the UN to be recognized as an independent state. After deciding on a full military invasion, China attempts to first cripple its rebellious neighbor's critical infrastructure.… Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:31:06 GMT) Ready or not, here I come Microsoft has begun distributing Windows 11 24H2 to user devices as the company enters the next stage of the operating system's rollout.… SpaceX and Blue Origin both face FAA mishap probes - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:45:11 GMT) Only one called exploding a rocket over the Caribbean 'entertainment' SpaceX is not the only company involved in a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) mishap inquiry. Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin has also come under scrutiny after losing its New Glenn rocket's first stage.… Trump's freshly minted meme coin passes $10B market cap - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 14:15:08 GMT) Crypto critics unhappy as BTC hits all-time high and Melania launches her own currency Donald Trump, US president again by the time many of you read this, launched his own cryptocurrency – $TRUMP – on the Solana blockchain network on Friday night. By the weekend, it had hit a market cap of nearly $15 billion, although by Sunday, that value dropped when Melania Trump launched her own meme coin.… How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 13:33:09 GMT) Clear rules and guaranteed consequences concentrate the mind wonderfully. Just ask a Russian Opinion "As obsolete as warships in the Baltic" was a great pop lyric in Prefab Sprout's 1985 gem, Faron Young. Great, but ironically obsolete itself. Sweden has just deployed multiple warships in that selfsame sea to guard against the very modern menace of underwater cable cutting.… Ransomware attack forces Brit high school to shut doors - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:03:01 GMT) Students have work to complete at home in the meantime A UK high school will have to close for at least two days, today and tomorrow, after becoming the latest public-sector victim of ransomware criminals.… BT unplugs plans to turn old cabinets into EV chargepoints - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 10:01:05 GMT) Your battery might be flat, but the Wi-Fi signal is going to be great UK telecom giant BT is pulling the plug on its EV charging ambitions after falling a long way short of the 60,000 street cabinets it reckoned could be repurposed.… Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account? - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 08:32:14 GMT) A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble Who, Me? Accidents will happen, and every Monday The Register celebrates them – and your escape from the consequences – in a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column that details the downside of working in tech.… Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 07:23:14 GMT) 'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs Sage Group plc has confirmed it temporarily suspended its Sage Copilot, an AI assistant for the UK-based business software maker's accounting tools, this month after it blurted customer information to other users.… Where does Microsoft's NPU obsession leave Nvidia's AI PC ambitions? - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 06:44:08 GMT) While Microsoft pushes AI PC experiences, Nvidia is busy wooing developers Comment Nvidia is the uncontested champion of AI infrastructure — at least in the datacenter. In the emerging field of AI PCs, things aren't so clear cut.… Datacus extractus: Harry Potter publisher breached without resorting to magic - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 05:27:06 GMT) PLUS: Allstate sued for allegedly tracking drivers; Dutch DDoS; More fake jobs from Pyongyang; and more Infosec in brief Hogwarts doesn’t teach an incantation that could have saved Harry Potter publisher Scholastic from feeling the power of an online magician who made off with millions of customer records - except perhaps the wizardry of multifactor authentication.… When food delivery apps reached Indonesia, everyone put on weight - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 03:30:09 GMT) PLUS: Salt Typhoon and IT worker scammers sanctioned; Alibaba Cloud’s K8s go global; Amazon acquires Indian BNPL company Asia In Brief When food delivery “superapps” started operations in Indonesia, users started putting on weight – and that’s not an entirely bad thing.… Donald Trump proposes US govt acquire half of TikTok, which thanks him and restores service - (pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:15:13 GMT) The same Florida Man who wanted to ban the app in the first place US president-elect Donald Trump appears to have proposed the government he will soon lead should acquire half of made-in-China social media service TikTok’s stateside operations.… Search the internet Search bishopston.com Search bishopston.net