Forecast worries or AI fatigue kicking in? Redmond has an important 12 months ahead Microsoft's Q2 results failed to impress the markets yesterday, as the company's stock dropped despite some impressive numbers and the usual quantities of AI bluster…
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Lees meerThe only thing worse than a telemarketer is a robo-telemarketer The FCC wants to make AI-powered robocalls illegal and has warned of a rising wave of scams from voice-cloning technology.…
Lees meerAtlassian systen compromised via October Okta intrusion Cloudflare has just detailed how suspected government spies gained access to its internal Atlassian installation using credentials stolen via a security breach at Okta in October.…
Lees meerAmerican public is way ahead of them Chinese attackers are preparing to "wreak havoc" on American infrastructure and "cause societal chaos" in the US, infosec, and law enforcement bosses told a US House committee on Wednesday.…
Lees meerGood to know that boffins can't easily prompt their way to new careers as supervillains GPT-4 contributes "at most a mild uplift" to users who would employ the model to create bioweapons, according to a study conducted by OpenAI.…
Lees meerDisinfects Cisco and Netgear routers to thwart Chinese critters China's Volt Typhoon spies infected "hundreds" of outdated Cisco and Netgear equipment with malware so that the devices could be instructed to break into US critical infrastructure faci…
Lees meerGood to know that boffins can't easily prompt their way to new careers as biowar supervillains GPT-4 contributes "at most a mild uplift" to users who employ the model to create bioweapons, according to a study conducted by OpenAI.…
Lees meerBreaking the AI performance bottleneck is key for Middle Kingdom's ambitions ChangXin Memory Technologies, aka CXMT, could become China's first domestic producer of high-bandwidth memory modules, which are crucial to building the accelerators used i…
Lees meerSome devs just don't want anything to do with neural-network code serfs JetBrains introduced an AI assistant in December to help programmers write code. Now the biz is trying to figure out how to allow its customers to get rid of it.…
Lees meerMeta boss told in social media safety probe: 'Your product is killing people' Executives from the top social media companies faced contentious, sometimes contemptuous, questioning from the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday in a hearing titl…
Lees meerRemotely disinfects Cisco and Netgear routers to block Chinese critters China's Volt Typhoon spies infected "hundreds" of outdated Cisco and Netgear equipment with malware so that the devices could be instructed to break into US critical infrastruct…
Lees meerIt's almost like years of false assurances have made people realize payments are pointless Trusting a ransomware crew to honor a deal isn't the greatest idea, and the world seems to be waking up to that. It's claimed that number of victims who chose…
Lees meerDefenses need a rethink in face of increasing sophistication Cyber attacks using AI-generated deepfakes to bypass facial biometrics security will lead a third of organizations to doubt the adequacy of identity verification and authentication tools a…
Lees meerRouter maker claims Chinese giant refuses to license on reasonable terms Netgear is suing Huawei in California, accusing its networking kit rival of racketeering and anti-competitive behavior for refusing to license Wi-Fi patents it holds on reasona…
Lees meerSenate, House can try but won't make it past the Prez, says White House The Biden administration has expressed to congressional representatives its strong opposition to undoing the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) strict data breach report…
Lees meerWhen Redmond says unsupported, it really means it. Windows 11 fans beware Old Windows 10 hardware is struggling to open some recently updated Microsoft applications, giving anyone running Windows 11 on unsupported hardware a glimpse of their potenti…
Lees meerNo restrictions, but it could be harder to deal with American businesses The chip wars between Washington and Beijing keep grinding on with more than a dozen Chinese tech companies now being added to a list of entities claimed by the Department of D…
Lees meer'Deepest apologies to the sub-postmasters and their families' Fujitsu's CFO is the latest in the the Japanese vendor's exec ranks to apologize for the megacorp's role in the Post Office Horizon scandal, widely viewed as one of the greatest miscarria…
Lees meerWhen 'what's the value to the economy?' wasn't front of mind Interview It will soon be half a century since NASA's Voyager probes were launched on a tour of the solar system. The reason for their unprecedented longevity is unprecedented, but modern…
Lees meerAt least it's no longer an afterthought Systems Approach In 1996, Larry Peterson and I published the first edition of Computer Networks: A Systems Approach in the hope that it would become a widely adopted textbook in networking classes. Our draft …
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