ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Red Hat's Mexican standoff: Job cuts? Yes, but we still need someone to boot Linux

(2023/08/15)

Time for some fresh GRUB



Can you raise $100M+ from AI investors with no product? SEC says yes

(2023/08/15)

In unrelated news, agency wants to teach folks how to spot a pyramid scheme



Saturn's mega-storms challenge planetary formation models

(2023/08/15)

Storms on Saturn last for hundreds of years, leaving long-lasting impacts and raising lots of scientific questions



Florida Man and associates indicted for conspiracy to steal data, software

(2023/08/15)

Voting machines and their info allegedly accessed without authorization by keen golfer's gofers



AIs can produce 'dangerous' content about eating disorders when prompted

(2023/08/15)

Digital safety org worries OpenAI and pals aren't doing enough



Tesla is looking for people to build '1st of its kind Data Centers'

(2023/08/15)

Meanwhile, in China, electric auto outfit emphasizes local bit barn for storage



Chinese media teases imminent exposé of seismic US spying scheme

(2023/08/15)

Again labels America a hacker empire over alleged backdoors found in earthquake monitoring kit



Author discovers fake, likely AI-generated books written under her name

(2023/08/15)

AI in brief Plus: Tome bans decided by ChatGPT, watch out who's listening to your keyboard hammering, and more



Sextortion suspects on trial after teen victim dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound

(2023/08/15)

Trio alleged to have blackmailed over 100 targets after threats of intimate image release



Internet Archive sued by record labels as battle with book publishers intensifies

(2023/08/15)

Music copyright bomb hits just as other court conflict leads to lending limits



Beware cool-looking beta crypto-apps. They may be money-stealing fakes

(2023/08/15)

Try out a hot new thing before official launch? Something smells phishy



Amazon uses AI to write reviews of people's product reviews

(2023/08/14)

From one untrusted source to another ... and another



Ford SYNC 3 infotainment vulnerable to drive-by Wi-Fi hijacking

(2023/08/14)

Don't panic, says automaker, but if you do, just turn off wireless for now



Cage match: Zuck finally realizes Elon is full of twit

(2023/08/14)

How can a billionaire in his 50s be this much of a dweeb?



Pack of GM Cruise robo-taxis freeze, snarl up Friday night traffic amid festival crowds

(2023/08/14)

Just a day after getting green light to expand autonomous ops



Get 'em while you can: Intel begins purging NUCs from inventory

(2023/08/14)

Is that a firesale we smell?



Dell fined $6.5M for 'error in pricing process' down under

(2023/08/14)

Blunder made bundled monitors more expensive than standalone purchases



IBM describes analog AI chip that might displace power-hungry GPUs

(2023/08/14)

Power-sipper still in the research stage, but findings are interesting



X-rated auction sells last vestiges of pre-Musk Twitter

(2023/08/14)

Oscars 2014 Ellen DeGeneres Selfie in oil, anyone?



Bomb threat causes mass evacuation at DEF CON hacking convention

(2023/08/14)

DEF CON Summer Camp is over and what has been done? Have aspirations shriveled in the Sun?



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