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: 08:55 Thu, Apr 03 2025. (Last checked: 38 mins ago) On the issue of AI copyright, Blair Institute favors tech bros over Cool Britannia - (pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 07:34:05 GMT) Think tank report backs data mining for machine learning, leaving artists and rights holders behind Opinion Former UK prime minister Tony Blair became famous for standing shoulder to shoulder with allies, even though the fallout from the Iraq war forever sullied his reputation. Nonetheless, the institute that bears his name makes it clear who it stands with when it comes to using copyrighted material to fuel the expansion of machine learning into every human domain.… Customer info allegedly stolen from Royal Mail, Samsung via compromised supplier - (pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 06:27:14 GMT) Stamp it out: Infostealer malware at German outfit may be culprit Britain's Royal Mail is investigating after a crew calling itself GHNA claimed it has put 144GB of the delivery giant’s data up for sale, perhaps after acquiring it with the same stolen credentials it used to crack Samsung Germany.… OpenStack delivers ‘Epoxy’ release, which it hopes will unglue more VMware customers - (pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 05:30:08 GMT) The BBC and Blizzard Entertainment have chipped in with contributions The Open InfraFoundation has delivered a new version of OpenStack named “Epoxy” and thinks it’s an even better option for those seeking a VMware alternative.… OpenAI wants to bend copyright rules. Study suggests it isn’t waiting for permission - (pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 02:57:13 GMT) GPT-4o likely trained on O’Reilly books without permission, figures appear to show Tech textbook tycoon Tim O'Reilly claims OpenAI mined his publishing house's copyright-protected tomes for training data and fed it all into its top-tier GPT-4o model without permission.… Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden - (pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 01:14:55 GMT) Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune Web-scraping bots have become an unsupportable burden for the Wikimedia community due to their insatiable appetite for online content to train AI models.… Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:09:03 GMT) Tech slugged with higher duties, broad base 10% hike, semiconductors avoid retaliatory levies for now US President Donald Trump has imposed a base ten percent tariff on all imports into America, and higher levies on goods from major producers of digital tech, such as China, South Korea, and Taiwan.… Raw Deel: Corporate spy admits role in espionage at HR software biz Rippling - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:56:22 GMT) Double-oh-sh... The name's not Bond. It's O'Brien - Keith O'Brien, now-former global payroll compliance manager at the Dublin, Ireland office of HR software-as-a-service maker Rippling.… Pennsylvania’s once top coal power plant eyed for revival as 4.5GW gas-fired AI campus - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:17:20 GMT) Seven gas turbines planned to juice datacenter demand by 2027 Developers on Wednesday announced plans to bring up to 4.5 gigawatts of natural gas-fired power online by 2027 at the site of what was once Pennsylvania's largest coal plant, as part of a proposed datacenter campus running AI and high-performance computing workloads.… Crimelords at Hunters International tell lackeys ransomware too 'risky' - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:09:49 GMT) Bosses say theft now the name of the game with a shift in tactics, apparent branding Big-game ransomware crew Hunters International says its criminal undertaking has become "unpromising, low-converting, and extremely risky," and it is mulling shifting tactics amid an apparent rebrand.… Raspberry Pi not affected by Trump tariffs yet while China-tied rivals feel the heat - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:49:02 GMT) CEO hails 'transformative year' as IPO puts 'puter maker on the big board Updated Raspberry Pi hasn't felt the sting of US tariffs yet, and having its boards built outside China might give it an edge over rivals, analysts reckon.… Oracle's masterclass in breach comms: Deny, deflect, repeat - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:54:11 GMT) Fallout shows how what you say must be central to disaster planning Opinion Oracle is being accused of poor incident comms as it reels from two reported data security mishaps over the past fortnight, amid a reluctance to publicly acknowledge all of the events as well as allegedly deleting evidence from the web.… Data doesn't lie, but Microsoft's new Power BI prices might make you cry - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 14:36:50 GMT) Hike is no joke and users are not laughing Microsoft's Power BI price rises have arrived, with some tiers increasing by up to 40 percent.… Qualcomm set to move in on UK chip IP biz Alphawave - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:32:15 GMT) Has until month end to make an offer for semiconductor design and licensing shop Qualcomm has confirmed its interest in buying high-speed connectivity module designer Alphawave Semi, a move that could see yet another major British tech operation swallowed up by a foreign business.… For healthcare orgs, disaster recovery means making sure docs can save lives during ransomware infection - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 11:36:11 GMT) Organizational, technological resilience combined defeat the disease that is cybercrime When IT disasters strike, it can become a matter of life and death for healthcare organizations – and criminals know it.… Oracle faces Texas-sized lawsuit over alleged cloud snafu and radio silence - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 10:54:19 GMT) Victims expect to spend considerable time and money over privacy incident, lawyers argue Specialist class action lawyers have launched proceedings against Oracle in Texas over two alleged data breaches.… One of the last of Bletchley Park's quiet heroes, Betty Webb, dies at 101 - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 09:36:49 GMT) Tip-lipped for 30 years before becoming an 'unrivaled advocate' for the site Obit Betty Webb MBE, one of the team who worked at the code-breaking Bletchley Park facility in England during the Second World War, has died at the age of 101.… Specsavers takes off the Oracle glasses, sees better ERP options - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:38:15 GMT) £5M in savings? Should've gone to third-party support International optometry company Specsavers has paused the global standardization of its Oracle ERP system and moved to third-party support, saving £5 million ($6.5 million) that can be reallocated to the business.… Speech now streaming from brains in real-time - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 07:24:13 GMT) Boosted human-computer interface promises better communication for patients who lost ability to speak Some smart cookies have implemented a brain-computer interface that can synthesize speech from thought in near real-time.… Apple belatedly patches actively exploited bugs in older OSes - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 06:13:09 GMT) Cupertino already squashed 'em in more recent releases - which this week get a fresh round of fixes Apple has delivered a big batch of OS updates, some of which belatedly patch older versions of its operating systems to address exploited-in-the-wild flaws the iGiant earlier fixed in more recent releases.… North Korea’s fake tech workers now targeting European employers - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 05:58:08 GMT) With help from UK operatives, because it’s getting tougher to run the scam in the USA North Korea’s scamming, thieving, and AI-abusing fake IT workers are increasingly targeting European employers.… Forget Signal. National Security Adviser Waltz now accused of using Gmail for work - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 01:36:09 GMT) But his emails! Sharing them with Google! Senior members of the US National Security Council, including the White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have been accused of using their personal Gmail accounts to exchange sensitive information.… Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rival - (pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:49:46 GMT) Thunderbirds are Pro: Open-source email client to get message hosting, appointment scheduling, more Thunderbird, Firefox maker Mozilla's open-source email client, is aiming to reinvent itself as a more comprehensive communications platform.… Lightmatter says it's ready to ship chip-to-chip optical highways as early as summer - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 23:57:53 GMT) AI accelerators to see the light, literally Lightmatter this week unveiled a pair of silicon photonic interconnects designed to satiate the growing demand for chip-to-chip bandwidth associated with ever-denser AI deployments.… Not even Intel's top bosses know what's on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 22:09:29 GMT) Chipzilla chief asked customers to be 'brutally honest' ... which will lead to what changes, we wonder Vision Not even Intel's top brass know what's on newly minted CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block.… To avoid disaster-recovery disasters, learn from <em>Reg</em> readers' experiences - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:33:13 GMT) Nobody’s tested the tapes this decade, thinks to back up the Recycle Bin, or takes care when using rm On Call Special How can you avoid a disaster recovery disaster?… Nvidia’s AI suite may get a whole lot pricier, thanks to Jensen’s GPU math mistake - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:36:18 GMT) Old naming convention didn't just 'screw up' the NVLink nomenclature - it left money on the table Comment At its GPU Technology Conference last month, Nvidia broke with convention by shifting its definition of what counts as a GPU.… FAA closes investigations into Blue Origin landing fail, Starship Flight 7 explosion - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:27:07 GMT) New Glenn landing scuppered by engine problems The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is closing its investigations into both the SpaceX Starship Flight 7 explosion and Blue Origin New Glenn-1 landing failure.… Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:32:08 GMT) Copilot told us that half a century is 25 years. It feels much longer Microsoft will officially hit the half-century mark on Friday as the Windows giant turns 50 years old. What do you consider the highs and lows of the company's journey to dominance?… Writing for humans? Perhaps in future we'll write specifically for AI – and be paid for it - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:29:09 GMT) 'There needs to be a better economic as well as copyright framework', Thomson Reuters CPO tells us Interview Thomson Reuters, based in Canada, recently scored a partial summary judgment against Ross Intelligence, after a US court ruled the AI outfit's use of the newswire giant's copyrighted Westlaw content didn't qualify as fair use.… Trump yanks CHIPS Act cash unless tech giants pony up more of their own dough - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:46:05 GMT) Commerce chief threatens to pull grants so firms double down on US spending More doubt is being cast over the US CHIPS Act program with the Trump administration threatening to halt payments unless companies in line to receive funding commit to substantially expand their own investments.… Google makes end-to-end encrypted Gmail easy for all – even Outlook users - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:00:13 GMT) The UK government must be thrilled Google will soon offer end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) email for all users, even those who do not use Google Workspace, and says it'll do so without imposing any undue stress on IT admins.… Delicious irony as Euro alliance pumps €1M of Microsoft's money into open source cloud federation tech - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:32:53 GMT) Fulcrum is region's latest challenge to the hyperscalers An alliance of cloud service providers in Europe is investing €1 million into the Fulcrum Project, an open source cloud federation tech that gives an alternative to local customers anxious about using US hypercalers.… UK threatens £100K-a-day fines under new cyber bill - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:37:23 GMT) Tech secretary reveals landmark legislation's full details for first time The UK's technology secretary revealed the full breadth of the government's Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill for the first time this morning, pledging £100,000 ($129,000) daily fines for failing to act against specific threats under consideration.… Isar’s first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great success' - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:45:09 GMT) What counts as failure in New Space? Comment Yet another rocket exploded over the weekend and – you guessed it – its CEO called the test flight "a great success." This raises the question: what even counts as failure anymore in the world of so-called "New Space" – the VC-fueled and risk-friendly private rocket sector?… RISC OS Open plots great escape from 32-bit purgatory - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:01:14 GMT) Modern 64-bit-only chips are leaving the original Arm operating system behind A new funding effort from RISC OS Open seeks to modernize the operating system for future Arm hardware.… Asda's tech separation from Walmart nears £1B as delays mount - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:24:16 GMT) Lenders told of £175 million project top-up for 2025, four years after buyout The UK's third-largest supermarket has seen the expected costs of its tech divorce from former US owner Walmart rise to nearly £1 billion ($1.3 billion) after news broke that the project is now expected to run into calendar Q3 of year four, overshooting its original three-year timeline.… GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:51:54 GMT) Not exactly Snowden levels of skill A student at Britain's top eavesdropping government agency has pleaded guilty to taking sensitive information home on the first day of his trial.… Arm reckons it'll own 50% of the datacenter by year's end - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:35:07 GMT) Optimistic much? Arm expects to see its architecture account for half of the datacenter CPU market by the end of this year, up from 15 percent in 2024, all thanks to the AI boom.… Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 06:24:14 GMT) Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt OpenSNP, a fourteen-year-old open source repository for genetic records, will shut down and delete all its data at the end of April.… Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSoD to get you back to work ‘as fast as possible’ - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 05:30:12 GMT) How about making sure OS crashes less, stops hassling us to use Edge? That would improve productivity, too Microsoft has quietly revealed it’s redesigning the Blue Screen of Death, the notification that Windows presents after it crashes so badly a reboot is the only way out.… Intel's latest CEO Lip Bu Tan: 'You deserve better' - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 02:52:25 GMT) AMD it is, then. Or Nvidia, Arm, Qualcomm, RISC-V, MOS 6502 ... Vision Intel's newly appointed CEO Lip-Bu Tan has used his first major speech to admit the x86 goliath needs to shape up, and sketched out plans to turn things around.… Generative AI app goes dark after child-like deepfakes found in open S3 bucket - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 02:16:06 GMT) Producing this stuff is bad enough, but d'ya really have to leave all of it on the web for anyone to find? Jeremiah Fowler, an Indiana Jones of insecure systems, says he found a trove of sexually explicit AI-generated images exposed to the public internet – all of which disappeared after he tipped off the team seemingly behind the highly questionable pictures.… CISA spots spawn of Spawn malware targeting Ivanti flaw - (pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 01:09:08 GMT) Resurge an apt name for malware targeting hardware maker that has security bug after security bug Owners of Ivanti’s Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateway products have a new strain of malware to fend off, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA.… Top cybersecurity boffin, wife vanish as FBI raids homes - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 23:16:39 GMT) Indiana Uni rm -rf online profiles while agents haul boxes of evidence A tenured computer security professor at Indiana University and his university-employed wife have not been seen publicly since federal agents raided their homes late last week.… Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence scrubbed - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:30:00 GMT) 1990s incident response in 2025 Two Oracle data security breaches have been reported in the past week, and the database goliath not only remains reluctant to acknowledge the disasters publicly – it may be scrubbing the web of evidence, too.… Nvidia challenger Cerebras says it's leaped Mid-East funding hurdle on way to IPO - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:13:52 GMT) Wafer-scale AI chip startup apparently smoothed over American concerns around UAE's G42 planned stake AI chip startup Cerebras Systems says it has cleared a key hurdle ahead of its planned initial public offering (IPO), claiming it resolved concerns about its sources of funding with the US Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS).… Check Point confirms breach, but says it was 'old' data and crook made 'false' claims - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:35:09 GMT) Explanation leaves a 'lot of questions unanswered,' says infosec researcher A digital burglar is claiming to have nabbed a trove of "highly sensitive" data from Check Point - something the American-Israeli security biz claims is a huge exaggeration.… AI datacenters want to go nuclear. Too bad they needed it yesterday - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:34:10 GMT) Silicon Valley's latest energy fixation won't stop the coming power panic Analysis Atomic energy is becoming the preferred solution to address the projected bump in megawatts needed to charge AI in the future, but it simply won't come soon enough in many cases.… LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:32:11 GMT) Only the strong will survive, but analyst says cull will not be as rapid as during dotcom era Gartner says the market for large language model (LLM) providers is on the cusp of an extinction phase as it grapples with the capital-intensive costs of building products in a competitive market.… Windows 11 adds auto-recovery, kills offline setup loophole - (pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:45:10 GMT) Microsoft giveth with one hand but taketh away with the other Windows Insiders will soon get their hands on Microsoft's attempt to ward off another CrowdStrike incident, and the company is also closing a loophole for users who don't want a Microsoft account.… Search the internet Search bishopston.com Search bishopston.net