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Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200

vrijdag 14 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Union prez Fran Drescher thinks Hollywood’s digital desires have no style or flair Hollywood's top labor union for media professionals has alleged that studios want to pay extras around $200 for the rights to use their likenesses in AI – forever – f…

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Bizarre backup taught techie to dumb things down for the boss

vrijdag 14 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Response to taking out the trash rubbished a reputation On Call  Welcome once more to On Call, the weekly column in which Reg readers dump their foulest stories of execrable tech support incidents from which they emerged smelling like roses.…

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Ex-Twitter employees owed half a billion in severance, says lawsuit

vrijdag 14 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

There are only 1,300 souls left from 7,500 before Musk, complaint claims Former Twitter employee Courtney McMillian has filed a complaint claiming the company owes $500 million in severance pay to the thousands of people that were chopped from its o…

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Broadcom asserts VMware's strategy isn't working and it basically needs rescuing

vrijdag 14 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Redacted document filed with UK regulator states customers aren't buying Virtzilla's poorly-executed vision Broadcom has argued that VMware will fail to execute its multicloud strategy – and hyperscale clouds therefore won't face strong competition …

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Inspur warns of profit plunge as sanctions bite

vrijdag 14 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Cites 'tight supply' of certain silicon – the sort of stuff that makes servers interesting Chinese server-maker to the stars, Inspur, has warned investors that it will soon reveal an ugly set of numbers.…

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Inspur warns of profit plunge as sanctions bite

vrijdag 14 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Cites 'tight supply' of certain silicon - the sort of stuff that makes servers interesting Chinese server-maker to the stars, Inspur, has warned investors that it will soon reveal an ugly set of numbers.…

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Samsung’s midrange A54 is lovely, but users won't feel seen

vrijdag 14 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Mostly indistinguishable from a premium handset, but the moments it misses may leave you miffed FIRST LOOK  A confession: I have learned that the iPhone 13's facial recognition facility can successfully identify me while I brush my teeth.…

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China sets AI rules that protect IP, people, the planet, and The Party

vrijdag 14 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Brainboxes will need a license, but their makers may get to share digital public goods Chinese authorities published the nation's rules governing generative AI on Thursday, including protections that aren't in place elsewhere in the world.…

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Akamai lofts cloud services over Chicago, Washington DC, Paris

donderdag 13 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

'Premium' instances, bigger buckets available too Content-delivery-network-turned-cloud-player Akamai has flipped the switch on three bit barns in the US and France. The biz has also launched "premium" instances targeting commercial workloads and im…

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Feds want to see what ChatGPT's content is made of

donderdag 13 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

That bot ain't ruining people's reputation or trampling their privacy, right? Right? America's Federal Trade Commission has started looking into whether OpenAI's ChatGPT is breaking consumer protection laws by causing reputational or privacy damage.…

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Celsius feels the heat: Ex-CEO arrested, watchdogs line up to sue bankrupt crypto biz

donderdag 13 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Exec faces fraud charges, one regulator wants $5 billion fine Alex Mashinsky, the now-former CEO of collapsed cryptocurrency concern Celsius, today faces charges of fraud as prosecutors and watchdogs pile in.…

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Elon Musk launches his own xAI biz 'to understand reality'

donderdag 13 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Hyperbole, scant information, ambition: Yep, it's an EM venture Elon Musk is founding of his own AI company with some lofty ambitions. According to the billionaire, his xAI venture is being formed "to understand reality." …

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Microsoft admits unauthorized access to Exchange Online, blames Chinese gang

donderdag 13 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Storm-0558 had access to customer accounts and mail – maybe even for senior US officials US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and other State and Commerce Department officials were reportedly among the victims of a China-based group's attack on Micro…

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Feds want to see what ChatGPT's content is made of

donderdag 13 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

That bot ain't ruining people's reputation or trampling their privacy, right? Right? America's Federal Trade Commission has started looking into whether OpenAI's ChatGPT is breaking consumer protection laws by causing reputational or privacy damage.…

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Celsius feels the heat: Ex-CEO arrested, watchdogs line up to sue bankrupt crypto biz

donderdag 13 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Exec faces fraud charges, one regulator wants $5 billion fine Alex Mashinsky, the now-former CEO of collapsed cryptocurrency concern Celsius, today faces charges of fraud as prosecutors and watchdogs pile in.…

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Indian developer fired 90 percent of tech support team, outsourced the job to AI

donderdag 13 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Improved service massively and slashed costs. Gulp Here's a story from the Department of Massive and Terrifying Irony: a startup Indian software developer struggled to afford its customer support team, so outsourced it – to an AI chatbot that was ap…

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LG to offer subscriptions for appliances and televisions

donderdag 13 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Subscription fatigue is a thing and regulators are circling, but Korean giant reckons you're ready to cough up after buying hardware LG Electronics has outlined its ambition to grow revenue from $51 billion company to $78 billion over the next six a…

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Chipotle welcomes you to the age of robot guacamole

donderdag 13 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Avocado prep time could be cut in half, but it still won't change the price Unhappy with the speed at which human workers prep avocados, Chipotle has introduced a robot to get the guacamole going.…

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Adobe's $20B Figma deal hit by in-depth probe in the UK

donderdag 13 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Software could be 'an emerging competitive threat' to luxury design SaaS maker, notes regulator Updated  The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided to launch a full-blown probe of Adobe's takeover of web-first collaboration and sof…

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Microsoft admits unauthorized access to Exchange Online, blames Chinese gang

donderdag 13 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Storm-0558 had access to customer accounts and mail – maybe even for senior US officials US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and other State and Commerce Department officials were reportedly among the victims of a China-based group's attack on Micro…

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Adobe's $20B Figma deal hit by in-depth probe in the UK

donderdag 13 juli 2023 inThe Register Headlines (Tech News)

Software could be 'an emerging competitive threat' to luxury design SaaS maker, notes regulator Updated  The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided to launch a full-blown probe of Adobe's takeover of web-first collaboration and sof…

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