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?