IT depts struggle with skills shortages despite Big Tech layoffs (2023/03/22) You'd think there'd be more techies on the market, but many cuts were in business areas
GitHub Copilot learns new tricks, adopts this year's model (2023/03/22) Armed with GPT-4, Microsoft's AI 'pair programmer' can tag pull requests, parrot documentation, talk about code
Boffins develop AI model for designing proteins to make synthetic blood plasma (2023/03/22) And it's not the only hybrid synthetic biomaterial scientists are targeting
German political parties accused of microtargeting voters on Facebook (2023/03/22) Country's super strong data rights under magnifying glass after half a dozen complaints filed
Marvell Technology to open redundancy chute in face of industry slowdown (2023/03/22) Releasing 4% of workforce
SpaceX tries to de-orbit Amazon's request for a satellite broadband shortcut (2023/03/22) Stop the presses: Billionaires think sharing is a great idea, until a rival billionaire wants to share
Are you ready to go all-in, head-first, on a laptop? ASUS's Zenbook Pro 16X asks for that commitment (2023/03/22) Desktop Tourism 'Creator' machine is lovely, but seems unsuited to life on the periphery
Indian state turns off internet for 27 million, for four days, to stymie one man (2023/03/22) Digital rights org criticizes use of fill-in-the-blank template used to quell separatist protests
Unknown actors deploy malware to steal data in occupied regions of Ukraine (2023/03/22) If this is Kyiv's work, Russia can Crimea river
US details CHIPS Act rules that give China and South Korea some comfort (2023/03/22) Allows a little expansion of output from existing Middle Kingdom facilities
India's absurd infosec reporting rules get just 15 followers (2023/03/22) CERT-In was told its six-hour notification requirement was a bad idea – now it knows just how bad
Xi, Putin declare intent to rule the world of AI, infosec (2023/03/22) 'Technological sovereignty is the key to sustainability' states Russian despot
BreachForums shuts down ... but the RaidForums cybercrime universe will likely spawn a trilogy (2023/03/22) Admins decide reviving crime-mart is dangerous, hint at new chapter
Nvidia CEO promises sustainability salvation in the cult of accelerated computing (2023/03/22) GTC Not quite as dramatic as AMD's Lisa Su and her visions of nuclear-powered supercomputers
Google reminds everyone it too can launch a ChatGPT-like chatbot … waiting list (2023/03/21) Meanwhile, Bing can now output images, Adobe touts shiny art platform Firefly
No reliable way to detect AI-generated text, boffins sigh (2023/03/21) This article was not written by a computer, not that you could tell for sure either way
You just gonna take that AWS? Let Microsoft school your users on cloud security? (2023/03/21) And Google Cloud is next
Software-controlled food tech: 3D printed pipe-dream, or fatal stack instability? (2023/03/21) My goodness that's moist
NASA's space nuclear power program is a hot mess (2023/03/21) 13 years of research at $40m/year only produced 2 cancelled projects, says oversight arm