North Korea shows off surveillance satellite it claims it can launch (2023/05/17) To counter the 'US imperialists and the South Korean puppet villains'
Australia asks Twitter how it will mod content without staff, gets ghosted (2023/05/17) Now the minister responsible has threatened regulation
Ransomware-as-a-service groups rain money on their affiliates (2023/05/17) Qilin gang crims can earn up to 85 percent of extortion cash, or jail
Top AI execs tell US Senate: Please, please pour that regulation down on us (2023/05/17) Devs should need a license to build powerful models, OpenAI CEO adds
Feds offer $10m reward for info on alleged Russian ransomware crim (2023/05/17) Infecting cops' computers is one way to put a target on your back
Modest Apple talks up these 'incredible' advances in iOS (2023/05/17) It's 2023 so of course it involves machine learning
Microsoft tries a deeper dive into Azure Firewall traffic (2023/05/17) If the flow slows, you need to know why
US Dept of Transport security breach exposes info on a quarter-million people (2023/05/16) Not the first time Uncle Sam has had the wheels come off its IT systems
It's time for IT teams, vendors to prioritize efficiency; here's where they should start (2023/05/16) Hint: Greener gear is only the half of it
OpenAI's Sam Altman rattles tin for crypto startup that will support bot-replaced workers (2023/05/16) Idea is to scan irises to disburse universal basic income just for being human
Tesla batteries went from fully charged to fully disabled after botched patch, lawsuit claims (2023/05/16) Electric automaker has twice settled similar suits before they made it to trial
Google sued over 'interception' of abortion data on Planned Parenthood website (2023/05/16) Plaintiff claims they didn't consent to analytics tracking
Supernova peekaboo could provide clues to our universe's age (2023/05/16) Gravitational lensing technique offers hope in cracking cosmological conundrum
Qlik's got Talend as visualization vendors merge (2023/05/16) Private equity investor Thoma Bravo's portfolio swells
EU monopoly cops probe complaints about Microsoft Azure (2023/05/16) Over in the US, FTC panel on cloud homes in on restrictive software licensing
Telco giant Vodafone to cut 11,000 staff as part of its turnaround plan (2023/05/16) Company 'more complex' than it needs to be, thousands set to lose jobs
Offshore wind power redesign key to adoption, says Irish firm (2023/05/16) Add balance and a bit of articulation and you can shave off steel and money
Large language models' surprise emergent behavior written off as 'a mirage' (2023/05/16) Analysis Forget those huge hyped-up systems, that smaller one might be right for you. And here's why
Who loves programming robots? Who wishes it was easier? Here comes Flowstate (2023/05/16) Google X-born upstart pushes graphical approach to industrial control
MariaDB CEO: People who want things free also want to have very nice vacations (2023/05/16) Former MySQL fork launches attack on hyperscaler database services with support for multiple front ends