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Expert panel finds 'a lack of awareness of safety-related metrics at all levels,' and more, at plane maker "Inadequate," "confusing," "disconnect," and "lack of awareness" aren't words passengers would like to hear associated with aviation safety, but according to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that's exactly what the situation is like at Boeing....

Lawsuit alleges it misled investors with claims new AI products were 'facilitating greater platformization' and more Updated Palo Alto Networks (PAN) is facing a proposed class action lawsuit that alleges investors were deceived about the traction of its platform tactics and hurt by an unexpectedly low billings forecast that crashed the share price....

But beware - Gparted Live hasn't been updated yet There's a new bugfix release of Gparted, a FOSS replacement for PowerQuest's wonderful Partition Magic....

Charlie and the AI factory flop compared to 'meth lab' In the most flagrant case of false advertising since The NeverEnding Story, cops were called to a Wonka-themed "Willy's Chocolate Experience" in Glasgow, Scotland, because promotional material was made entirely from AI-generated slop....

Trevor Milton bought it for cash and stock options, and he wants the cash back Try not to weep into your morning coffee, but convicted fraudster Trevor Milton might lose a ranch that a fresh filing claims he bought after lying to its owner "about Nikola's business" to persuade the man to sell to him....

Stock awards front loaded, get five years in one go Broadcom's boss Hock Tan more than doubled his total compensation package in fiscal 2023, which will no doubt be well received by the thousands of small VMware customers and cloud providers he's upset....

Czech billionaire buyer walks away from ailing Tech Foundations division Troubled tech giant Atos confirmed today that negotiations with the prospective buyer of its legacy IT operation have ended prematurely, coming after the recent cancellation of its rights issue to raise cash....

Train-wreck public sector project was forecast to save 'bankrupt' council money Europe's largest local authority has allocated 5.3 million ($6.7 million) in next year's budget to pay for manual workarounds deemed necessary after its effort to transition from SAP to Oracle ended in an expensive disaster....

New versions of both Overstreet's baby and OpenZFS will hit the street soon New versions of the two leading next-generations filesystems are coming: both OpenZFS 2.2.3, and some time afterwards, an improved bcachefs....

Motor-mouth CEO Alex Karp claims Palantir stopped 'innumerable' terror attacks in Europe The CEO of controversial data-mining firm Palantir has claimed that the company's technology has prevented terrorist attacks in Europe, thereby implicitly saving the continent from the return of fascism....

Biden readies executive order targeting China, Russia, and pals US President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order today that aims to prevent the sale or transfer of Americans' sensitive personal information and government-related data to adversarial countries including China and Russia....

Report points out the difficulties of getting such a system right Using waste heat from datacenters for district heating makes sense from an environmental standpoint, yet there are implementation challenges and potential pitfalls introduced with any government regulations covering it....

Cash-for-Azure-access deal went through just as latest LLM landed The European Commission is investigating Microsoft's 15 million ($16.3 million) investment in French startup Mistral, which came just after the latter released a large language model to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT....

Jensen Huang's automotive engineering team has now pinched two top Middle Kingdom talents Nvidia has picked up the former head of Baidu's L2+ Autonomous Driving System, Luo Qi, to head the engineering team of its own automotive business unit....

Ad giant that owns over 80 percent of search traffic yells at cloud monopoly Google has again stoked fears that rival Microsoft is using anticompetitive business practices and licenses to establish a cloud monopoly, and is calling on regulators to take action....

Seminal game runs on everything, so why not pay 2,199 to run it on a tiny screen? Swedish garden appliance maker Husqvarna has ported Doom to one of its robotic lawn mowers....

Non-techies told to master firmware upgrades and firewall rules. For the infosec hardheads: have some IOCs Authorities from eleven nations have delivered a sequel to the January takedown of a botnet run by Russia on compromised Ubiquiti Edge OS routers - in the form of a warning that Russia may try again, so owners of the devices should take precautions....

Si2 Microsystems was tapped for silicon photonics expertise, but has Russian ties that worry Washington and Brussels The European Union has imposed sanctions against Indian microelectronics maker Si2 Microsystems late last week for allegedly providing Russia with goods and technology that support the country's illegal invasion of Ukraine....

Super lab claims 'deceptive prompts' that it happily processed - and may have tracked - weren't fair, so case should be dismissed OpenAI has accused The New York Times Company of paying someone to "hack" ChatGPT to generate verbatim paragraphs from articles in its newspaper. By hack, presumably the biz means: Logged in as normal and asked it annoying questions....

Washington sees potential emergency as miners power up to chase new BTC high A Texas judge has granted a temporary restraining order that prevents the US federal government surveying domestic cryptocurrency miners about their energy consumption....

Cruise is parked, Waymo is in trouble, Tesla's never quite nailed auto-autos so is China in the no-driver's seat? After nearly a decade of work, two indictments, the departure of a senior exec, and unknown levels of expenditure, Apple has reportedly decided to cancel its not-so-secret self-driving car effort, Project Titan....

People still make the final decision, but recent raids in Iraq and Syria had help The US Department of Defense has deployed machine learning algorithms to identify targets in over 85 air strikes on targets in Iraq and Syria this year....

Game over for 900 staff as PlayStation London office and more shuttered Sony's gaming wing has become the latest technology org to announce broad layoffs, including the complete closure of the London office of PlayStation Studios amid other headcount reductions....

Big biz invited to like and subscribe, without fear of litigation GitHub on Tuesday made Copilot Enterprise generally available, hoping to sell corporate developers on automated coding assistance....

Canadian network box maker floats in denial The US Commerce Department has blacklisted Sandvine for selling its networking monitoring technology to Egypt, where the Feds say the gear was used to spy on political and human-rights activists....

The original was definitely getting a bit long in the tooth for modern challenges After ten years operating under the original model, and two years working to revise it, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released version 2.0 of its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)....

Controllers estimate 10-20 hours remain for Intuitive Machines lander Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lunar lander is facing another countdown. This time the question is how much longer it can continue to operate until it exhausts what remains of the battery life....

You know you want to throw out that Windows 10 fleet Intel would really like businesses to buy some new PCs, and is unveiling its latest vPro platform with an exhortation for them to refresh their fleet now in order to be "AI ready."...

You've heard of Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. How about an energetic engine failure? The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has closed its investigation into the case of another exploding SpaceX rocket with a list of corrective actions to be implemented before Starship can fly again....

Before building the Torment Nexus, consider the risks Computer scientists at the University of Maryland (UMD) have asked robot makers to do further safety research before wiring language and vision models to their hardware....

Factoring in the deposit, you'd be better off running away with it Apple is a big deal in China. Despite competition from four homegrown smartphone vendors, the iPhone comes top with a 17.3 percent market share, with Honor closely behind at 17.1 percent, according to IDC....

Was your Patch Tuesday followed by a Rollback Wednesday? You're not alone Microsoft says that February 13's security update for Windows 11 might "face installation issues."...

Sabre Technology shutters 17 datacenters, says 90% of workloads transferred Airline reservation technology biz Sabre Corporation has almost completed a mammoth migration to Google Cloud - one that would have tested the nerves of the most steely-eyed IT director....

Latest 33M awarded without competition in 11+ years contract that's now worth well over half a billion Northern Ireland's Education Authority has awarded UK tech outsourcer Capita a managed services contract extension worth 33 million ($41.8 million) without external competition....

Harmlessly entered over the North Pacific, but solar array was already bent The European Space Agency's ERS-2 satellite has re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. While no damage to property was reported, some impressive shots were taken of the spacecraft starting to buckle as it approached re-entry....

Try preliminary version of a new environment in a snap Version 0.1.0 of Miracle-wm is very incomplete still, yet shows that interesting stuff is happening on the back of Canonical's Mir display server....

CEO-to-grunt pay ratio now 300:1 as wider workforce gets 4.4% more than year earlier HPE chief Antonio Neri was awarded $20.06 million in compensation for the company's last financial year, according to a proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission....

Or so says opsec firm, which confirms 70% of all industrial org ransomware in 2023 targeted manufacturers Analysis Cybercriminals follow the money, and increasingly last year that led them to ransomware attacks against the manufacturing industry....

Fact-checkers will label AI-generated media for upcoming EU elections Meta is launching an "EU-specific Elections Operations Center" to tackle AI-generated misinformation and political advertising to prepare for upcoming parliament elections....

First integration across properties, as end user compute division readies to leave home Broadcom has delivered on its 2023 teaser of integration between VMware's SD-WAN and Symantec's Security Service Edge, by today debuting the "VMware VeloCloud SASE, Secured by Symantec" at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona....

Machine learning will make everyone a programmer, so best become an expert in something else Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes AI has advanced to the point at which it's no longer necessary to prioritize computer science and coding education for the world's youth....

Customer service data from five top telcos across Asia, Europe, and UAE will feed a carrier-centric multi-lingual chatbots A joint venture comprising carriers SoftBank, Singtel, SK Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and e& Group plans to develop a large language model (LLM) they will use to automate customer service for the telco sector....

How's that for resilient? Against almost astronomical odds, Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has reestablished communication with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)....

Scammers' tactics are tiresomely familiar: get-rich-quick schemes and data harvesting China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has warned local netizens that fake wallet apps for the nation's central bank digital currency (CBDC) are already circulating and being abused by scammers....

Yemeni rebels thought to lack the ability to damage submarine cables, but here we are Undersea data cables in the Red Sea have reportedly been damaged, months after Yemeni Houthi rebels threatened to do so....

While you wait, Android devices will start to use gen AI to do stuff like summarize group chats Google hopes to reinstate Gemini's AI image-generating abilities in the next couple of weeks as it races to fix an issue that prevented the model's text-to-image service from depicting White people....

Kremlin's spies tried out the TTPs on Microsoft, and now they're off to the races Russia's notorious Cozy Bear, the crew behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack, has expanded its targets and evolved its techniques to break into organizations' cloud environments, according to the Five Eyes governments....

Commerce secretary warns priority will go to shovel-ready projects US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo shared some hard truths about the $39 billion in CHIPS Act funding up for grabs in a speech on Monday....

State government says it's thinking of the children A law firm acting on behalf of the Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford has asked a state court to issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) denying minors access to encrypted communication in Meta's Messenger application....

Steve Kramer claims the whole thing was a ruse to regulate AI in politics A political consultant admitted to paying a magician to create a fake anti-Biden robocall urging people not to vote in a Democratic primary election....