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ChatGPT makers allegedly in talks with investors to let employees sell out OpenAI is reportedly in talks with investors to sell them shares held by the company's employees in a transaction that could boost its valuation up to $90 billion....

CIA, FBI and friends using AI to uncover threats? What could possibly go wrong? US spies are reportedly developing their own AI chatbot in a move to top China's prowess....

Search giant's latest subsea cable will feed your YouTube addiction Updated Google is building a new subsea cable, due to come online in 2026, that will connect South Carolina to Portugal with a layover in Bermuda....

In measure of fakery, Musk's social media biz has highest noise-to-signal ratio European Commission veep Vera Jourova said in a speech on Tuesday that Elon Musk's social media service X, formerly known as Twitter, has the highest ratio of disinformation among large social media platforms....

Khan's been waiting for years to file this case - she better hope her aim is good The FTC - and 17 state attorneys general - have come out swinging at Amazon with a lawsuit accusing the ecommerce giant of being a monopolist....

iGiant says Rivos poached talent and SoC designs in '22 A chip startup and several of its employees are being sued by Apple for theft of trade secrets and breach of contract and filed a countersuit....

More precise timing tests find many implementations vulnerable An engineer has identified longstanding undetected flaws in a 25-year-old method for encrypting data using RSA public-key cryptography....

Check out the raw data yourself... if you dare Cloud-based storage and backup provider Backblaze has published the latest report on usage data gathered from its solid state drives (SSDs), asking if they show the same failure pattern as hard drives....

Oh MI word: In the AI race, any accelerator beats none at all Machine learning startup Lamini revealed its large language model (LLM) refining platform was running "exclusively" on The House of Zen's silicon....

Progress Software vulnerability ID'd in enormous burglary at Ontario's BORN Canada's Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN) fears a MOVEit breach allowed cybercriminals to copy 3.4 million people's childcare health records dating back more than a decade....

Smaller footprint and detachable Samsung confirmed today that its latest memory product will use the format of the recent JEDEC-ascribed standard, the Compression Attached Memory Module (CAMM) - making it the first time the memory format is being mass-produced outside of its designer, Dell Technologies....

Despite the OS's success, maintainers are short-staffed and under-appreciated Open Source Summit This year's Kernel Report at the Open Source Summit in Bilbao revealed the long-term support releases of the Linux kernel will soon not be that long at all....

Vows it won't 'proactively' shift folks who only use a landline or have no mobile signal BT has revealed details on its UK-wide rollout schedule as it switches over from analog phone lines to a digital voice service to hit the deadline of retiring the analog service by the end of 2025....

Cold War 2 is heating up As actor Bob Hoskins once said, it's good to talk, and nowhere is that old adage more pertinent than in defusing situations that could lead to all-out war....

And shareholders - presumably not Ellison who still owns 42% - are still not happy about it Some Oracle investors remain unhappy with the way that company executives' compensation is structured, despite concessions made to address the disquiet....

High cost and hard to work with? Yep, that's Apple all over Video The launch of the iPhone 15 may have been underwhelming - there's only so much one can do with the standard smartphone formula - but now iFixit has stuck its screwdrivers in a Pro Max, are there any big surprises inside?...

Trained on its own image library that's clear of copyright complications Getty Images announced its own text-to-image generative AI tool on Monday, insisting it is "commercially safe" as it's been trained exclusively on Getty's own stock photo platform....

Russian have shifted tactics in the first half of 2023, with mixed results The Ukrainian State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection (SSSCIP) has claimed that Russian cyberspies are targeting its servers looking for data about alleged Kremlin-backed war crimes....

Suggests we might not have AI at all if it weren't for Quake Legendary software developer John Carmack, who gave the world the first-person shooter, thinks it's likely an artificial general intelligence (AGI) could be shown to the public around the year 2030....

Digital transformation and startups at center of stimulus package Updated Japan will join the ranks of nations betting on silicon-fuelled growth after prime minister Fumio Kishida yesterday instructed his cabinet to put together an economic stimulus package that includes tax breaks for capital investment and R&D related to semiconductors....

Underwater comms make list of 14 techs at which Beijing hopes to do better China's Academy of Engineering has issued its annual list of technologies it wants to develop, but considers major challenges worthy of prioritization....

Reckons it can deliver Comic Sans faster and keep your shame a secret Cloudflare wants formatted text to flow faster into browsers, so has taken on Google with a webby font-delivery offering....

Amygdala analogues are hogging all the rackspace The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence, particularly by cloud providers, has strained datacenter capacity and led to increased hosting prices, according to a report from property services and investment management company JLL....

This just after Amazon started charging for Alexa's free home security Guard It looks like Amazon has finally started to get serious about generative AI, and if the company's outgoing director of Alexa and Echo devices is right, that means Alexa is about to get way better - as long you're willing to pay for it....

Route 404: Human driver requirement not found California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed a state bill that would have required autonomous trucks on state roads to be chaperoned by a human safety operator....

Yakety Yak - AI talks back Update Following an upgrade, ChatGPT will allow users to upload images, speak to the chatbot, and hear it talk back....

Cloud provider blamed for loss of 20% of exchange's capital Mixin Network confirmd on Monday that it has "temporarily suspended" all deposit and withdrawal services after hackers broke into a database and stole about $200 million in funds from the Hong-Kong based cryptocurrency firm....

Finally, we've arrived in the future The US Patent and Trademark Office is soliciting ideas for a radical transformation of its tech stack: the replacement of its on-premise fax systems with a cloud-based alternative....

Big Brother wants to watch your big data The US government is considering measures to keep tabs on those who may be using lots of cloud resources to train advanced AI models....

Review board: Mega project is way over budget, needs cash, and senators want it axed NASA is delaying some of the components of its ultra ambitious Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission after receiving a problem-filled report from an Independent Review Board....

Data quality, system complexity and SAP's future rely on cloud adoption, CEO relays to German-speaking user group Facing users angered by SAP's decision to introduce its "newest" innovations only in the cloud, the German software giant's CEO promised not to leave any customers behind in his mission to move them off-prem....

One way to get preferential access to OpenAI rival's tech Amazon is strengthening ties with OpenAI rival Anthropic via an investment of up to $4 billion in the company, as AWS becomes the primary cloud provider and the home for Anthropic's foundation models....

New fabs won't achieve much without specialized staff to fill them Intel and community colleges in Ohio are introducing a one-year "stackable, shareable and transferrable" semiconductor certificate program to address the skills crunch looming on the horizon....

Gets blanked again Automobile manufacturers are pleading with the EU to delay a 10 percent tariff on electric vehicle exports into Britain....

Big Red's 'big announcement' strives to bring LLM technique to the business data arena Oracle's efforts to bring natural language vector search capabilities to the relational data in business systems is being met with approval among analysts, with one placing it as an early leader in the field....

Plus: Microsoft GitHub release Copilot Chat to all developers on VS Code, and more AI in brief OpenAI will release the latest version of its text-to-image tool DALLE in October....

Envisions a 'comprehensive small modular reactor and microreactor integration roadmap' Microsoft is hiring a "Principal Program Manager Nuclear Technology" to oversee its efforts to power datacenters with nuclear reactors....

Projects take so long that tech is out of date before it enters service, industry says The UK's procurement processes are not fit to bring AI into the nation's military capabilities, lawmakers heard at a parliamentary hearing....

46Gbps to our sofas. At last, freedom from the nightmare of a mere 9.6 Magicians, management, and marketing depend on misdirection. A deception that doesn't quite qualify as a lie, it implies something they want you to believe while drawing attention away from questions that would destroy that perception. It's worth learning how to spot these as they highlight exactly the questions you should be asking....

Techie tried to dunk on a co-worker, and found himself absolutely soaking wet who, me? Welcome once again, valued reader, to Who, Me? - The Register's comfy Monday nook wherein we share stories of times readers weren't quite so clever as they imagined....

Molto Bennu NASA's first asteroid sample return mission delivered on Sunday, when the OSIRIS-REx capsule touched down in the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City....

The blind think this is not a visionary decision Google will discontinue the Basic HTML version of its Gmail service in January 2024....

As VMware emits a significant update to the vSphere suite that wrangles the accelerators Dell has decided that users of its older servers deserve the chance to run data processing units (DPUs, aka SmartNICs) - cards that combine networking hardware with enough compute and storage to run chores like encryption and free up CPU cores for more productive uses....

PLUS: Trojan hidden in PoC; cyber insurance surge; pig butchering's new cuts; and the week's critical vulns Infosec in brief T-Mobile US has had another bad week on the infosec front - this time stemming from a system glitch that exposed customer account data, followed by allegations of another breach the carrier denied....

PLUS: Micron breaks ground in India; Hong Kong goes for green fintech; Taiwan to launch first sub; and more ASIA IN BRIEF Fujitsu last week announced it will move out of its Tokyo headquarters and consolidate its other offices in the capital....

We guess it's OK it did Systems Approach With the annual SIGCOMM conference taking place this month, we observed that congestion control still gets an hour in the program, 35 years after the first paper on TCP congestion control was published. So it seems like a good time to appreciate just how much the success of the internet has depended on its approach to managing congestion....

Can you blame it? Europe's Digital Markets Act, which goes into effect next year, will require that companies designated as gatekeepers provide users of most popular operating systems with browser choice screens that ask them to select a default browser....

The eyes don't have it, but you're all ears Analyst firm IDC has forecast strong growth for virtual reality headwear, but even stronger growth for more modest wearables, with the latter to vastly outsell the former for years to come....

Meanwhile, GlobalFoundries scores $3B DoD contract to fab chips for military, aerospace The Biden Administration on Friday said it had finalized guardrails to ensure payouts from the $50 billion CHIPS Act don't flow into the hands of the Chinese or into any other country or company of concern....

By the time they graduate, employers will be making them use LLMs anyway Some universities are opting out of using Turnitin-made software designed to detect whether text in essays and assignments submitted by students was written by AI....