HPE sues China's Inspur Group over server patents Middle Kingdom biz accused of IP theft and changing names to evade sanctions Systems18 Apr 2024 |
OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories While some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 5
What's up with AI lately? Let's start with soaring costs, public anger, regulations... 'Obtaining genuine consent for training data collection is especially challenging' industry sages say AI + ML15 Apr 2024 | 11
British watchdog has 'real concerns' about the staggering love-in between cloud giants and AI upstarts Billions in investment? Yeeeah, right – looks more like ensuring only select few developers thrive AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 4
Netherlands arm of KPMG fined $25M for cheating in exams Staff followed US lead and shared answers after move to online testing Legal11 Apr 2024 | 19
CHIPS Act hangover sees most US science agency budgets cut for 2024 2025 unlikely to see more money flow as Congress turns off the tap Public Sector10 Apr 2024 | 16
H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid efforts to crack down on abuse In depth It's the gold ticket favored by foreign techies – and IT giants suspected of gaming the system Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 46
US government excoriates Microsoft for 'avoidable errors' but keeps paying for its products Analysis In what other sphere does a bad supplier not feel pain for its foulups? Cyber-crime05 Apr 2024 | 21
Lawsuit claims Meta hobbled Facebook Watch to help Netflix Advertiser antitrust lawsuit says claimed deal with Netflix is anticompetitive Personal Tech02 Apr 2024 | 2
Rust developers at Google are twice as productive as C++ teams Code shines up nicely in production, says Chocolate Factory's Bergstrom Devops31 Mar 2024 | 134
Amazon fined in Europe for screwing shoppers with underhand dark patterns E-commerce titan to appeal sanction amounting to three hours of annual profit Personal Tech29 Mar 2024 | 54
Amazon finishes pumping $4B into AI darling Anthropic Adds $2.75B to the ML sweepstakes ante and is counting on Claude AI + ML27 Mar 2024 | 3
Row breaks out over true severity of two DNSSEC flaws Updated Some of us would be happy being rated 7.5 out of 10, just sayin' CSO26 Mar 2024 | 11
Labor watchdog wants SpaceX's gag clauses to disintegrate like its exploding rockets This is why Big Biz wants to dismantle America's crucial regulators Science22 Mar 2024 | 78
UN: E-waste is growing 5x faster than it can be recycled Right to Repair should be the Obligation to Repair, if we want to avoid drowning in trashed electronics Personal Tech21 Mar 2024 | 127
Microsoft decides it's done with Azure egress ransoms Cloud exit toll booth bypass built by EU regulators Off-Prem13 Mar 2024 | 14
Whizkids jimmy OpenAI, Google's closed models Infosec folk aren’t thrilled that if you poke APIs enough, you learn AI's secrets AI + ML13 Mar 2024 | 44
Biden's budget proposal boosts CISA funding to $3B Plus almost $1.5b for health-care cybersecurity Security12 Mar 2024 | 5
White House and lawmakers increase pressure on UnitedHealth to ease providers' pain US senator calls cyber attack 'inexcusable,' calls for mandatory security rules Security12 Mar 2024 | 3
AI models show racial bias based on written dialect, researchers find Those using African American vernacular more likely to be sentenced to death, if LLMs were asked to decide AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 72
You got legal trouble? Better call SauLM-7B Cooked in a math lab, here's an open source LLM that knows the law AI + ML09 Mar 2024 | 27
The DMA hasn't changed Big Tech's anticompetitive DNA, says Free Software Foundation Europe Advocacy group wants more changes, starting with Device Neutrality Public Sector07 Mar 2024 | 1
Lawsuit claims gift card fraud is the gift that keeps on giving, to Google Play Store commissions are a nice little earner, wherever they come from Cyber-crime07 Mar 2024 | 22
Governments not keen on pushing citizen-facing AI services, for obvious reasons As soon as public sector implements GenAI, someone will do their best to break it... or even flirt with it AI + ML06 Mar 2024 | 4
Google dresses up services for the EU's Digital Markets Act Apple also unpeels its offerings before Europe makes its pips squeak Public Sector06 Mar 2024 | 5
US and Europe try to tame surveillance capitalism Feature Trade watchdog argues that browsing and location data are sensitive and deserve to be defended Public Sector05 Mar 2024 | 36
Air National Guardsman Teixeira to admit he was Pentagon files leaker Updated Turns out bragging on Discord has unfortunate consequences Security01 Mar 2024 | 48
Turns out cops are super interested in subpoenaing suspects' push notifications Those little popups may reveal location, device details, IP address, and more Public Sector29 Feb 2024 | 10
White House goes to court, not Congress, to renew warrantless spy powers Choose your own FISA Section 702 adventure: End-run around lawmakers or business as usual? Public Sector29 Feb 2024 | 14
Uncle Sam tells nosy nations to keep their hands off Americans' personal data Biden readies executive order targeting China, Russia, and pals Security28 Feb 2024 | 32
Texas judge turns out the lights on federal survey of cryptominers' energy consumption Washington sees potential emergency as miners power up to chase new BTC high On-Prem28 Feb 2024 | 30
Nevada sues to deny kids access to Meta's Messenger encryption State government says it's thinking of the children Security26 Feb 2024 | 37
Multiple billions up for grabs as UK government launches cloud services tenders Two major procurement initiatives aim to beef up public sector tech PaaS + IaaS26 Feb 2024 | 41
Google sends Gemini AI back to engineering to adjust its White balance Comment Big Tech keeps poisoning the well without facing any consequences for its folly AI + ML23 Feb 2024 | 50
Amazon hopes to avoid labor regulation by simply abolishing national watchdogs Our right to exploit workers trumps your right to probe Public Sector22 Feb 2024 | 37
How to weaponize LLMs to auto-hijack websites We speak to professor who with colleagues tooled up OpenAI's GPT-4 and other neural nets Research17 Feb 2024 | 24
Dems are at it again, trying to break open black-box algorithms Opening up code used in criminal prosecutions for scrutiny? But where's the text-to-vid hype and doomsaying? AI + ML16 Feb 2024 | 43
UK Cabinet Office hits pause on £9M Microsoft deal Google Workspace hangout extended indefinitely SaaS15 Feb 2024 | 33
Billions lost to fraud and error during UK's pandemic spending spree Watchdog orders a rethink in time for the next emergency Public Sector09 Feb 2024 | 152
In its tantrum with Europe, Apple broke web apps in iOS 17 beta, still hasn't fixed them PWAs demoted to OWB: Operating Within Browser Software08 Feb 2024 | 60
Rust can help make software secure – but it's no cure-all Security is a process, not a product. Nor a language Security08 Feb 2024 | 36
Mozilla adds paid-for data-deletion tier to Monitor, its privacy-breach radar Firefox maker promises to lean on personal info brokers to scrub records Personal Tech06 Feb 2024 | 15
AI models just love escalating conflict to all-out nuclear war 'We have it! Let’s use it' proclaims the most warlike GPT-4-Base AI + ML06 Feb 2024 | 73
Congress told how Chinese goons plan to incite 'societal chaos' in the US American public is way ahead of them Security01 Feb 2024 | 83
'I’m sorry for everything...' Facebook's Zuck apologizes to families at Senate hearing Meta boss told in social media safety probe: 'Your product is killing people' Public Sector31 Jan 2024 | 70
It's true, LLMs are better than people – at creating convincing misinformation More human than human, eh? AI + ML30 Jan 2024 | 26
Japanese government finally bids sayonara to the 3.5" floppy disk Businesses can at long last submit digital docs to government agencies Storage29 Jan 2024 | 63
As NSA buys up Americans' browser records, Uncle Sam is asked to simply knock it off If you could just not harvest our info unlawfully and without a warrant, that would be great Public Sector26 Jan 2024 | 18
Amazon Ring sounds death knell for surveillance as a service Tough luck non-Americans, the cops can still see your footage Personal Tech25 Jan 2024 | 57
Intuit ordered to use the word 'free' less freely in its ads FTC slams TurboTax's marketing as deceptive Public Sector24 Jan 2024 | 10
Meta accused of enrolling undecided EU users in ad-sponsored platform Choice between seeing pitches or paying on Facebook and Instagram might break the law Legal23 Jan 2024 | 26
Future of America's Cyber Safety Review Board hangs in balance amid calls for rethink Politics-busting, uber-transparent incident reviews require independence, less internal conflict Security18 Jan 2024 |
NASA, Lockheed Martin reveal subtly supersonic X-59 plane Boffins say the quiet part out loud: There's no room for the sonic boom Science13 Jan 2024 | 100
Why do IT projects like the UK's scandal-hit Post Office Horizon end in disaster? Kettle Lack of skills, funding, and scrutiny – pick three Public Sector13 Jan 2024 | 113
What to make of Google backing Right-to-Repair in Oregon? 'It gives me hope' Anything to slow down the tech trash treadmill welcome at this point Personal Tech12 Jan 2024 | 7
Pennsylvanians, your government workers are now powered by ChatGPT We've heard of bored penpushers hallucinating at their desks, but this is something else AI + ML11 Jan 2024 | 9
SAP to cough up $220M to drag bribery charges into recycle bin Enterprise software giant claims it has cut ties with bad apples Public Sector10 Jan 2024 | 17
Trump-era rules reversed on treating gig workers as contractors $ gig revert HEAD && gig commit -e 'Biden was here' Personal Tech10 Jan 2024 | 78
Uncle Sam wants to make it clear that America's elections are very, very safe From whom, exactly, we wonder Public Sector10 Jan 2024 | 49
NIST: If someone's trying to sell you some secure AI, it's snake oil You really think someone would do that? Go on the internet and tell lies? AI + ML05 Jan 2024 | 20
Google to start third-party cookie cull for 30 million Chrome users One of the ad APIs that will fill the void – Protected Audience – arguably may offer better privacy anyway Personal Tech04 Jan 2024 | 46
Supreme Court supremo ponders AI-powered judges, concludes he's not out of a job yet Justice Roberts thinks ML can help in legal cases, if humans keep their hands on the tiller AI + ML02 Jan 2024 | 6