October 2023

Australian video-streamer lets users opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting 31/10/2023 at 08:47 By Simon Sharwood All without reducing the effectiveness of data-driven targeting, dammit Australia’s SBS will allow users of its video streaming services to opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting.… This article is an excerpt from The […]

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Stop what you’re doing and patch this critical Confluence flaw, warns Atlassian 31/10/2023 at 08:18 By Simon Sharwood Risk of ‘significant data loss’ for on-prem customers Atlassian has told customers they “must take immediate action” to address a newly discovered flaw in its Confluence collaboration tool.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Vietnam becomes latest nation to pitch itself as a chip biz hub 31/10/2023 at 07:17 By Laura Dobberstein 50,000-strong alt.China talent pool promised, with Google, Samsung, SpaceX, and Intel interested Vietnam will train 50,000 engineers to work in its semiconductor industry between now and 2030 ,as it seeks to embed itself further into the global

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Apple lifts the sheet on a trio of ‘scary fast’ M3 SoCs built on a 3nm process 31/10/2023 at 05:47 By Tobias Mann MacBook Pro and iMac get the new silicon, and price tags up to a terrifying $7,199 Apple has announced its M3 silicon, claimed they are the first CPUs for desktop computers built

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SolarWinds charged after SEC says biz knew IT was leaky ahead of SUNBURST attack 31/10/2023 at 03:47 By Simon Sharwood Developer and CISO slapped with suit for misleading investors SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer have been charged with fraud by America’s financial watchdog, which alleges the software maker knew its security was in a

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Help, Android 14 ate my Pixel! Bug causes endless reboots, loss of storage access 31/10/2023 at 03:02 By Thomas Claburn Fix on the way but for those trapped in boot loop hell, data recovery isn’t certain Google has confirmed that some people’s Pixel devices have lost access to local storage or become trapped in reboot

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Florida man jailed after draining $1M from victims in crypto SIM swap attacks 31/10/2023 at 02:02 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Not old enough to legally buy a beer, old enough for a 30-month term A 20-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to 30 months behind bars for his role in a SIM-swapping ring that stole

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Alphabet CEO testifies in Google Search trial: We pay billions to keep Apple at bay 31/10/2023 at 01:47 By Thomas Claburn As Uncle Sam releases more internal docs on Chrome strategy, MSN, more Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai testified on Monday at the US government’s Google antitrust trial – and acknowledged that, yes, default settings are

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Yeah, that oughta do the trick, Joe… Biden hopes to tackle AI safety with exec order 31/10/2023 at 01:17 By Katyanna Quach ML players must alert Uncle Sam if they’re training a foundation model, and more US President Joe Biden issued an executive order today putting in place some safeguards that may mitigate societal risks

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Voltage Park to deploy $500M worth of Nvidia H100s to milk that AI hype 31/10/2023 at 00:32 By Tobias Mann At $1.89 an hour per GPU, you too can have ML compute for the low, low price of just $68M a year AI infrastructure provider Voltage Park revealed Sunday it has acquired 24,000 Nvidia H100

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