Tired techie 'fixed' a server, blamed Microsoft, and got away with it (2024/04/15) who, me? If you're too exhausted to think, maybe you shouldn't be doing tech support
Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more (2024/04/15) First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason
Hyundai picks Palantir to help it build automated navy ships (2024/04/15) Reconaissance vessels first, then set a course for armed drones
Salesforce apparently poised to slurp data management outfit Informatica (2024/04/15) Investors get excited about using AI to make AI easier
US House approves FISA renewal – warrantless surveillance and all (2024/04/15) Infosec in brief PLUS: Chinese chipmaker Nexperia attacked; A Microsoft-signed backdoor; CISA starts scanning your malware; and more
Australian operation of web host BlueVPS laid low by storage failure (2024/04/15) Asia In Brief PLUS: AWS expands India payment options; Alibaba co-founders unite in criticism; Korea invests in AI; and more
Why making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy (2024/04/14) Interview Industrial revolution didn't give us human mimics, so why should AI think like us, this computer scientist wonders
How to coax ChatGPT into making better predictions: Get it to tell tales from the future (2024/04/14) 'Something is stopping it, even though it clearly can do it'
AI spam is winning the battle against search engine quality (2024/04/13) interview 'Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content'
China orders its telcos to rip and replace US chips with homegrown silicon by 2027 (2024/04/13) There's no Huawei we saw that coming
75% of enterprise coders will use AI helpers by 2028. We didn't say productively (2024/04/13) Dev teams must beware inflated expectations of tech leadership, Gartner warns
Loongson CPU that performs like 2020 Core i3 makes its way to Chinese mini PCs (2024/04/13) Slow but bona fide made in China
Intel preps export-friendly lower-power Gaudi 3 AI chips for China (2024/04/13) Beijing will be thrilled by this nerfed silicon
Zero-day exploited right now in Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect gateways (2024/04/13) Out of the PAN-OS and into the firewall, a Python backdoor this way comes
Google One VPN axed for everyone but Pixel loyalists ... for now (2024/04/12) Another one bytes the dust
Apple's failure to duck UK antitrust probe could bring £785M windfall for devs (2024/04/12) That 30% app tax may turn out to be a hefty liability
Adobe will fork over cash for clips to train text-to-video AI (2024/04/12) Not touching copyrighted material with a barge pole
OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations (2024/04/12) The most secure Unix-like OS to date?
Amazon search results now less self-centered, boffin says (2024/04/12) Self-preferencing pushback in Europe and US seems to have had some effect
Microsoft breach allowed Russian spies to steal emails from US government (2024/04/12) Affected federal agencies must comb through mails, reset API keys and passwords