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Devil is in the as-yet-undisclosed revenue sharing details OpenAI's GPT Store - a one-stop shop for customized chatbot models - is expected to start business next week, after missing its planned debut last month amid boardroom turmoil at the startup....

Uncle Sam: Nothing goes together quite like a well-pressed uniform and weapons of mass destruction Microchip will receive $162 million of US CHIPS and Science Act funding to bolster domestic production of microcontrollers used in both commercial and military applications....

'New' ADAS and infotainment parts powered by older FPGAs and earlier cores. It's good enough for Tesla +Comment Just in time for CES, which has become just as much a car show as an electronics event in recent years, AMD has revealed its newest chips for the automotive market: a processor powered by a nearly five-year-old core architecture, and a 2.5-year-old FPGA with some Arm cores and AI accelerators baked in....

Moving parts on a plane? What is this, Kitty Hawk? The latest experimental DARPA aircraft, which is designed to maneuver without the need for moving parts, is headed to the manufacturing stage and could be flying as soon as next year....

Search giant told yet again that contractors still employees, must be bargained with Updated The US National Labor Relations Board has decided that Google's contractors are still its employees, thus Google is violating US labor laws by refusing to bargain with their chosenunion....

Hallucinated programming flaws vex curl project Generative AI models like Google Bard and GitHub Copilot have a user problem: Those who rely on software assistance may not understand or care about the limitations of these machine learning tools....

Miscreants mock Google-owned security house: 'Change password please' Miscreants took over security giant Mandiant's Twitter account for several hours on Wednesday in an attempt to steal cryptocurrency, then trolled the Google-owned security shop, telling its admins to change the password....

Another Silicon Valley Icarus flies too close to the Sun A former Adobe software engineer was this week sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in an insider trading scheme that earned him millions before the feds caught on....

Users apparently at fault after reusing credentials the company didn't check were already compromised 23andMe users' godawful password practices were supposedly to blame for the biotech company's October data disaster, according to its legal reps....

Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and an OS was 89 Obit Swiss computer scientist Professor Niklaus Wirth died on New Year's Day, roughly six weeks before what would have been his 90th birthday....

Modern life is rubbish. What if your favorite tech giant had stopped trying to reinvent the wheel? A brave hero has given us a glimpse at an alternative universe, where Microsoft evolved the Windows XP design language. And isn't that a better use of time than coming up with the Copilot key?...

Outsider brought in to rule crucial unit will play key part in AI strategy Intel has hired Justin Hotard to head up its Data Center and AI (DCAI) Group, poaching the exec from HPE where he lead its High Performance Computing business....

Rule 1: You do not criticize the boss. Rule 2: You do NOT criticize the boss The US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued a complaint against SpaceX, alleging it dismissed workers for being critical of the company's boss, Elon Musk, among 37 other unfair labor practices....

That's what happens when Uncle Sam tries to curb your chip sector Global semiconductor capacity is tipped to grow in 2024, despite the doom and gloom, with China forecast to lead the way and expand its share of global chip production as it tries to become more self sufficient....

Pushing your buttons: Microsoft's AI assistant is going so well that it's going to have its very own spot Microsoft says a Copilot key will be coming to Windows 11 PCs, oddly exciting fanatics but confounding some others....

No 2FA or special characters to prevent database takeover and BGP hijack Updated A weak password exposed by infostealer malware is being blamed after a massive outage at Orange Spain disrupted around half of its network's traffic....

Meanwhile, finding a public charge point that works and doesn't require a second mortgage remains a challenge All new cars and vans bought in the UK must be zero emission by 2035, according to the latest legal mandate updated this week....

Headline-grabbing takedowns are nice, but long-term solutions require short-term sacrifices Comment In some ways, the ransomware landscape in 2023 remained unchanged from the way it looked in previous years. Vendor reports continue to show a rise in attacks, major organizations are still getting hit, and the inherent issues that enable it as a business model remain unaddressed....

Deal expanded from 4.5M to 19.5M over 7 years as critics point to shortcomings The UK's Environment Agency has awarded Fujitsu - the tech biz embroiled in the high-profile Post Office scandal - a 2 million contract extension to run the flood warning system after apparent delays to finding a replacement supplier....

Also: Remember that balloon over the US last February? It might have used a US internet provider Four Chinese balloons have reportedly floated over the Taiwan Strait, three of them crossing over the island's land mass and near its Ching-Chuan-Kang air base before disappearing, according to the Taiwan's defense ministry....

But not enough sodas Christmas has been and gone. Were you a good techie? Did you get a Raspberry Pi 5? Or were you more like this vulture, who became the proud owner of an Xbox Series X ... fridge?...

One of the ad APIs that will fill the void - Protected Audience - may actually improve privacy From today there will be a great disturbance in Chrome - as if millions of browser cookies suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced....

Draw a picture of a smoking gun in the style of Sarah Andersen A spreadsheet submitted as evidence in a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney allegedly lists thousands of artists whose images the startup's AI picture generator "can successfully mimic or imitate."...

Unpleasant Christmas package lets malware down the chimney Microsoft has disabled a protocol that allowed the installation of Windows apps after finding that miscreants were abusing the mechanism to install malware....

Happy New Year, now go replace that human resources cartridge 2024 isn't starting off that well for Xerox: first it said it suffered an IT security breach, and now it's laying off 15 percent of staff....

Pay up, or just decline to submit One of America's biggest private freight shippers, Estes Express Lines, has told more than 20,000 customers that criminals stole their personal information....

'Independent' biz unsurprisingly uses in Xeon and Habana, and patent libraries In the latest bid to push its AI portfolio, Intel has teamed up with investment firm DigitalBridge to form a software spin-off specializing in the deployment of machine learning and large language models (LLMs)....

The real beef concerns our future to create and be rewarded for it Kettle A slew of copyright lawsuits were filed against the makers of text and image-generating AI systems last year. Now in 2024 and beyond, we're going to see how those play out, and what ramifications and settlements they bring....

And you thought your in-laws were bad Updated The next time someone accuses you of being a bad son-in-law, you can counter with the case of retired Akamai chairman and CEO George Conrades, who just sued his daughter's ex-husband in an attempt to recover millions in unpaid business loans....

Drew Barbier and Brad Burgess join after restructure at former employer Chip designer MIPS has picked up two former execs from SiFive in a bid to boost its RISC-V development efforts....

It's like a cell tower... in spaaaaace SpaceX has put the first six Direct to Cell-capable Starlink satellites into orbit following a successful Jan 3, 2023 launch....

Already more than 37 years old, the relational system continues to gain popularity Open source PostgreSQL was today named database management system of the year by popular ranking site DB-Engines....

Tick-tock, developers: End of the road comes on April 9, 2024 Microsoft is warning developers that only months remain before extended support for Visual Studio 2013 is pulled on April 9....

IT service company's latest move to clear its maturing debts French IT services provider Atos has entered talks with Airbus to sell its tech security division in an effort to ease its financial burdens....

The source? Repurposed parts from electric vehicles Honda and Mitsubishi are to test the feasibility of powering a datacenter with fuel cells taken from electric vehicles, using hydrogen produced as a byproduct of an industrial process....

Users aren't the only ones questioning the Windows 11 feature's utility Windows boss Mikhail Parakhin has admitted that the Start menu needs a bit of work....

Company's removal from ransomware gang's leak blog could mean negotiations underway Xerox has officially confirmed that a cyber baddie broke into the systems of its US subsidiary - a week after INC Ransom claimed to have exfiltrated data from the copier and print giant....

Sacha Labourey on the HashiCorp license, Jenkins X experiments, and when LLMs will come for your job Interview "It's the experiment that went too far," says CloudBees' Sacha Labourey of HashiCorp's licensing change....

Interpretation, debate, and judges set to decide how the rubber hits the road Analysis As 2023 drew to a close, the year of AI hype was ending as it began. According to figures from Pitchbook, Big Tech spent twice as much on deals with Generative AI startups than venture capital groups during the year....

Industry lull good for tech, but human toll is grim reading The 7.6 preliminary magnitude earthquake that hit Japan on New Year's Day is forcing Ishikawa Prefecture chip and electronics companies to temporarily shut their doors, with affected companies including Toshiba, GlobalWafers, Murata and others....

The most successful compile-it-yourself Linux distro now has compiled, packaged executables Gentoo now offers 20-plus gigabytes of pre-compiled binaries, from desktops to office suites, to speed up installations and updates....

Details sub-CPU allotments, performant Iceberg tables after Microsoft, Databricks bring market noise Feature Last year was a big one for data analytics and ML in the cloud. Two of the biggest players, Microsoft and Databricks, both overhauled their platforms, with the former also managing to launch products....

With the average demand hitting $1.5 million, something's gotta change Emsisoft has called for a complete ban on ransom payments following another record-breaking year of digital extortion....

Meanwhile, ISRO chief sets sights on next crewed mission India kicked off the new year with the launch of an X-ray polarimetry space observatory to research cosmic radiation....

Meanwhile: Fidelity downgrades social network's valuation by 71%, so far Links to articles and pages on the web made sense again on X, for a short while at least, as headlines and titles returned to preview cards shown in tweets in the digital land formerly known as Twitter....

Arizona and Texas are ahead in terms of regulating autonomous vehicles Driverless cars are not subject to traffic citations in California even if they violate driving laws under the state's current rules....

Justice Roberts thinks ML can help in legal cases, if humans keep their hands on the tiller US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts believes that artificial intelligence will play an increasingly important role in the legal process, but he expects "human judges will be around for a while."...

Now every miscreant is jumping on Big G's OAuth account security hole Security researchers say info-stealing malware can still access victims' compromised Google accounts even after passwords have been changed....

Updates for the 1% of holdouts halt Valve rang in the New Year by dropping Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 support on its Steam gaming platform, giving your gaming grandparets yet another reason to upgrade....

No, you aren't special - we're probably all visual learners Scientists say they have discovered the neural coding system our brains use to transform images into memories, suggesting we're all visual thinkers deep down....