Avoiding AI-capable PCs will be impossible by 2027 (2024/01/08) Generative AI - huh - what is it good for? Premium priced PC sales, apparently says Canalys
AMD brings its AI engines to the desktop with Ryzen 8000G APUs, RX 7600 XT graphics cards (2024/01/08) CES The House of Zen's aging Ryzen 5000 processors get some love too
Nearly 200 Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes grounded after door plug flies off mid-flight (2024/01/08) NTSB chair pushes for 25 hours of cockpit voice and flight data recordings
British Library: Finances remain healthy as ransomware recovery continues (2024/01/08) Authors continue to lose out on owed payments as rebuild of digital services drags on
UK PM promises faster justice for Post Office Horizon victims (2024/01/08) Renewed focus follows TV drama
Watermarks on AI art a futile game of digital hide-and-seek (2024/01/08) AI in brief Plus: A virtual Elvis Presley animated using AI to perform in shows, and the most popular chatbot on Character.ai
Open source's new mission: To boldly go where no software has gone before (2024/01/08) Opinion FOSS's license to exist depends on helping users. It has to learn to think that way
Gaia-X project doesn't have a future, claims Nextcloud boss (2024/01/08) Interview How the hyperscalers derailed Europe's cloud infrastructure train
Need to plug in an EV? BT Group kicks off cabinet update pilot (2024/01/08) Old BT green boxes to be repurposed
New year, new bug – rivalry between devs led to a deep-code disaster (2024/01/08) Who, me? How badly do you want your name in the About box?
Everyone's suing AI over text and pics. But music? You ain't seen nothing yet (2024/01/08) Comment When record labels go bananas over brief samples, good luck generating tracks built from today's culture
Facebook, Instagram now mine web links you visit to fuel targeted ads (2024/01/08) Infosec in brief Also: Twitter hijackings, BEC arrest, and critical vulnerabilities
Road to Removal: A blueprint for yanking billions of tons of CO2 out of our atmosphere (2024/01/07) It'll also cost billions, but perhaps a price worth paying?
Ransomware payment ban: Wrong idea at the wrong time (2024/01/06) Opinion Won't stop the chaos, may lead to attacks with more dire consequences
Swarms of laser-flown bots visiting a planet light years away – and more NASA-funded projects revealed (2024/01/06) An electric airplane on Mars, micrograv hibernation, and plenty others
After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients (2024/01/05) Remember the good old days when ransomware crooks vowed not to infect medical centers?
NIST: If someone's trying to sell you some secure AI, it's snake oil (2024/01/05) You really think someone would do that? Go on the internet and tell lies?
Teardown finds Huawei's 5nm notebook processor was made in Taiwan, not China (2024/01/05) Stockpiled TSMC silicon from 2020 shock!
Uncle Sam will pay for your big ideas to end AI voice-cloning fraud (2024/01/05) The advent of generative AI has made the attack far more pervasive