Open source work makes me appreciate software testing. It's not an academic exercise (2023/11/07) Systems Approach Literally...
While it waited for Broadcom, VMware set out to do to data services what it did to storage (2023/11/07) And decided Intel's GPUs are worthy of on-prem AI action
Vanishing power feeds, UPS batteries, failover fails... Cloudflare explains that two-day outage (2023/11/07) A little peek behind the control panel, analytics curtain
Woo-hoo, UK ahead of Europe in this at least – enterprise IT automation (2023/11/07) But plenty of tech folk wish management would just leave them alone
You can buy personal info of US military staff from data brokers for just 12 cents a pop (2023/11/07) Health records, financial situations, religious leanings, it's all out there, or so this study says
Beijing prepares for imminent rise of humanoid robots (2023/11/07) Mass production of C-3POs pitched for 2025
WhatsApp AI happily added guns to chat stickers of Palestinians, but not Israelis (2023/11/07) As Meta promises to stop political advertisers from using its generative ML tools
Woman jailed after RentaHitman.com assassin turned out to be – surprise – FBI (2023/11/07) 18 months in the slammer no laughing matter, but the rest... maybe
You're next, game devs. Now Microsoft to bring character, story design copilot to Xbox (2023/11/07) Video Plus: Doritos 'trials AI software' to mute noise of chip-crunching gamers
ICE faces heat after agents install thousands of personal apps, VPNs on official phones (2023/11/06) Audit: Craptastic security potentially put govt info in hands of enemies
OpenAI hits the GPT-4 Turbo button plus promises copyright shield for fans (2023/11/06) Video Neural network lab also plans to open app store with revenue sharing
Bored Ape NFT party is a real eyesore, say irritated attendees (2023/11/06) They're ugly but UV lighting blamed for human damage, not the dumb idea
Epic Games, Google head to court over epic Play Store cut (2023/11/06) Fortnite-maker largely lost against Apple, but can it beat the Chocolate Factory?
Samsung family sells $2B worth of shares to pay inheritance tax bill (2023/11/06) Nothing is certain except death and taxes
US slaps sanctions on accused fave go-to money launderer of Russia's rich (2023/11/06) And that includes ransomware crims, claims US of alleged sanctions-buster
New orientation assistant to help prevent astronauts getting lost in space (2023/11/06) Which way is up? Just feel the vibrations, man
Microsoft scratches Surface device policy – some get extensions of up to 6 years (2023/11/06) See? It's not just Chromebooks. Now how about some flexibility around Win 10?
Okta October breach affected 134 orgs, biz admits (2023/11/06) Infosec in brief Plus: CVSS 4.0 is here, this week's critical vulns, and 'incident' hit loan broker promises no late fees. Generous
Open source license challenges part 461: Element plots move to AGPLv3 (2023/11/06) Exclusive Getting contributions out of freeloaders
Musk thinks X marks the spot for Grok AI engine based on social network (2023/11/06) AI In Brief Plus: AI companies enter non-binding agreement to governmental safety tests of models, and more