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What is double of 15% sales shrinkage? HP CEO Enrique Lores is betting a sprinkle of AI dust can regenerate the flagging PC market - and with shipments still in decline across the industry, he can't afford to tease Wall Street....

Two companies both online when slide was viewed at presentation Nvidia is facing legal action in the US for theft of trade secrets from a German automotive company, which alleges its ex-employee made an epic blunder of showing something he shouldn't have when minimizing a Powerpoint slide at a joint Microsoft Teams meeting both companies were attending....

Helium tech to end up on $1-$2 SoCs claimed to bring big performance gains for ML workloads Arm is aiming to infuse AI into connected devices and other low-power hardware with an addition to its Cortex-M line-up of microcontroller core designs....

There ain't no party like a Pu-238 party NASA has celebrated a shipment of half a kilo of plutonium oxide by the US Department of Energy, the largest since US production of plutonium-238 was restarted just over a decade ago....

Crims drain wallets of marks after letting them in on 'awesome crypto scheme secret' The US has seized nearly $9 million in proceeds generated by exploiting more than 70 victims across the nation in so-called "pig butchering" scams....

Today's story was brought to you by the words politician and silly Deputy UK Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said the country's civil service would improve public services by, among other things, setting up an "Incubator for AI."...

Katie Moussouris, who pioneered Redmond's program, says folks are focusing on the wrong thing Interview Microsoft's bug bounty program celebrated its tenth birthday this year, and has paid out $63 million to security researchers in that first decade - with $60 million awarded to bug hunters in the past five years alone, according to Redmond....

30 days to get compliant with tracking rules or face enforcement action The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is getting tough on website design, insisting that opting out of cookies must be as simple as opting in....

Award follows 1 deal during pandemic and 60 million in non-competitive contracts Palantir has secured a 330 million ($412 million) contract to provide the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP), which the world's largest healthcare provider says is vital to recover from its pandemic backlog....

Future neural nets will probably use a mix of AI-generated and real info Synthetic images can help AI models learn visual representations more accurately compared to real snaps, according to computer scientists at MIT and Google. The result is neural networks that are better at making pictures from your written descriptions....

A certain Big Red Communist country looms as a dampener - but not a big one Nvidia has revealed it tripled revenue, year-over-year, for the third quarter of its financial year....

New board includes former Salesforce CEO and treasury secretary Breaking News Sam Altman seems set to return to the job as CEO of OpenAI - from which he was last week suddenly and unexpectedly ejected....

Competitors predict price gouging as employees await news China's State Administration for Market Regulation approved Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, and also revealed it suspended deliberations on the matter on September 25 and only resumed on November 17 - beyond the October 30 date Broadcom set as its target for the deal to close....

Why can't we be FRANDS? Updated Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo announced on Tuesday it had filed suit against Taiwanese manufacturer Asus for patent infringement related to software, hardware and connectivity in multiple products....

Stockpiled silicon, improving efficiency, and looking for alternative suppliers - while maybe taking a dig at Microsoft and OpenAI Chinese web giant Baidu, which emphasized AI services long before they were cool, has revealed it is largely untroubled by the United States' chip tech export bans, can do just fine with silicon that is allowed to be sold in China, and has a workaround plan for when sanctions bite....

Many projects really about basic services, or don't integrate well. Charge ahead and extend it anyway, think tank recommends In an assessment of India's eight-year-long Smart Cities Mission, think tank the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) has opined that the project can be considered "at best a drop in the ocean" and should be viewed as a "pilot project."...

At least get a court order before mining Hemisphere Project data, says Senator A senator has alleged that American law enforcement agencies snoop on US citizens and residents, seemingly without regard for the privacy provisions of the Fourth Amendment, under a secret program called the Hemisphere Project that allows police to conduct searches of trillions of phone records....

Chief quits, pays own penalty after helping crooks launder cash, aiding sanctions evaders The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange just got a little smaller, with the US Department of Justice announcing Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao have both pleaded guilty to a multitude of financial crimes. As a result Binance will fork out $10 billion to Uncle Sam in fines and settlements....

Search giant says delays not specific to any browser - just those evading advert breaks. YMMV Google has admitted its efforts to discourage the use of ad blockers on YouTube have resulted in a deliberate "suboptimal viewing" experience for some users....

Half as many hallucinations, startup claims, and it admits when it's wrong Anthropic has launched Claude 2.1, the latest version of its large language model. We're told it can process more text and generate responses that are more accurate than previous iterations, and it can interact with developer-defined APIs allowing it to be integrated with users' tech stacks....

Tune in, hear or watch our vultures wrap up this fiasco, before it goes out of date Kettle By now you've probably all seen the drama at OpenAI unfolding: CEO Sam Altman being fired by the board, attempts to woo him back, and attempts by Microsoft to hire him and his staff, who have threatened to quit....

Case filed in Texas, where anti-SLAPP provisions don't apply in federal court Elon Musk has made good on threats to take legal action against Media Matters over its reports alleging high-profile ads are being served next to antisemitic posts, filing a suit yesterday in Texas....

Ready to launch not the same as licensed to launch SpaceX supremo Elon Musk expects the next Starship to be ready to launch in three to four weeks following the monster rocket's latest failure....

Other big names among the RHELatives catch up with Big Purple Hat ... but the future is unclear The main players among the RHEL rebuilders have caught up... but it's possibly too soon to tell if this market is going to survive Red Hat's moves....

Compromised AWS account led to fears that user info could have been exposed to cybercriminals Sumo Logic has confirmed that no customer data was compromised as a result of the potential security breach it discovered on November 3....

Final boss legal level cleared as SAMR says yes ... Broadcom's troubled acquisition of virtualization juggernaut VMware has cleared the final regulatory hurdle and will close as soon as tomorrow after China gave the transaction the green light....

Staff afraid to raise alarm when they see negligence, discrimination and more Three quarters of software engineers reporting wrongdoing in their workplace have faced some kind of retaliation, according to a study....

Uncle Sam rolls up sleeves to onshore work and protect supply chain The US has earmarked $3 billion in funding it hopes will drive US leadership in advanced packaging technologies, seen as a key part of the future semiconductor industry....

Any govt staffers who used relocation services over past 24 years could be at risk The government of Canada has confirmed its data was accessed after two of its third-party service providers were attacked....

Teething issues show up as operating system gets a taste of the future Microsoft has begun rolling out the Windows 10 incarnation of its Copilot tool to Windows Insiders in the Release Preview Channel....

If you're doing AI but would rather not do InfiniBand, this NIC is for you Nvidia has given the world a "SuperNIC" - another device to improve network performance, just like the "SmartNIC," the "data processing unit" (DPU), and the "infrastructure processing unit" (IPU). But the GPU-maker insists its new device is more than just a superlative....

Geopolitics and operating systems are hard Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen took to YouTube over the weekend to remind us of the time the Windows vendor accidentally sank Poland....

It's doomed to sink... but the how and why is interesting Analysis No sooner than Intel IA64 support is removed from the Linux kernel, complaining about it begins... but the discussions are fascinating....

Cabinet Office clearly over Capita's breach in March that saw pension data exposed to criminals Capita has scooped up a ten-year 239 million ($298 million) contract to oversee the Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) on behalf of Britain's Cabinet Office, giving the under-fire tech services biz a needed boost....

Duo probed over alleged $2M embezzlement plot Ukraine has terminated its two top cybersecurity officials as the government probes embezzlement allegations against the two men....

It 'was losing a ton of money for the business,' CEO complains Computer science teachers around the globe have been left scrambling to find an alternative IDE for their students, after Replit announced it was shuttering its Teams for Education plan....

'Azure Boost' vastly speeds cloudy server IOPS and is coming to all new instance types Microsoft has announced a mysterious cloud hardware upgrade called "Azure Boost" that it claims will improve the performance of all future instance types in its big blue cloud....

What a coincidence! The South is just about to lauch one, too. And it probably won't be junk like the hermit kingdom's recent efforts North Korea has notified Japan that its third attempt to launch a satellite will take place between November 22 and December 1....

That, plus an outage, and cyber-mess, do for Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin The CEO of Australian telco Optus, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, has resigned after deciding it was in the best interests of her former employer....

A quick summary of the past three days of chaos. And Redmond has questions to answer Comment Microsoft is stuck in a hard place. It needs OpenAI co-founder and fired CEO Sam Altman back at the helm of the upstart, or working internally at the Azure giant....

Lab rats absorb widget after getting their dose Scientists say they've developed an implantable drug-delivery widget that harmlessly dissolves over time in the body, can be wirelessly charged, and has proven its efficacy in lab rats....

Ethics staff shifted to generative ML and infrastructure units Meta has disbanded its Responsible AI team and moved staff into other areas of Mark Zuckerberg's empire to focus on generative AI....

Real-life impact of buggy software laid bare - plus: Avast tries to profit from being caught up in attacks Quick show of hands: whose data hasn't been stolen in the mass exploitation of Progress Software's vulnerable MOVEit file transfer application? Anyone?...

All your national security are belong to us! Microsoft is pushing the AUKUS trio - Australia, the UK, and the US - to update cross-border info collaboration, and - of course - it has just the thing: the classified Azure Government Cloud....

Ad execs have reportedly urged CEO Yaccarino to step down in protest to save her reputation IBM may have led the latest advertising X-odus from Elon Musk's social media platform, but several other companies reportedly joined Big Blue over the weekend, amid calls for Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino to quit to save face....

Admits to taking phones used for 'code blue' emergencies offline and more An Atlanta tech company's former COO has pleaded guilty to a 2018 incident in which he deliberately launched online attacks on two hospitals, later citing the incidents in sales pitches....

OpenAI is nothing without its people, say staffers who signed letter The fast-moving OpenAI saga has taken a new turn with the news that more than 500 of the lab's employees have threatened to quit unless the board resigns and reinstates Sam Altman as its CEO....

Yet another attempt to create better balance for devs and users Sentry has brought yet another software license into the world - the Functional Source License - in an effort to balance user freedom and developer sustainability....

Plus: Amazon lays off hundreds of employees working on Alexa, and more AI In Brief Microsoft is updating the Bing AI chatbot service to prevent users generating fake film posters containing Disney's logo over fears of copyright infringement....

Just because it's super efficient at Linpack doesn't mean it'll be in everything SC23 Is it time for the Green500 to expand its scope to account for more diverse workloads? This was one of the questions attendees grappled with at SC23....