2023

FYI: US actors are still on strike – and yup, it’s about those looming AI clones 08/11/2023 at 05:17 By Katyanna Quach How about you pay us every time our likeness is used by algorithms to make studio execs richer? The union representing actors in the US film, TV, and radio industries has turned down […]

Uncle Sam snooping on Americans? Not without a warrant, lawmakers agree 08/11/2023 at 04:47 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Proposed Section 702 overhaul bill rolls in as expiration date looms The White House is already trying to sink a bipartisan law bill introduced on Tuesday that would rein in the Feds’ powers to snoop on US

Google Bard AI contractors unionize amid anger over ‘retaliatory’ layoffs 08/11/2023 at 04:07 By Brandon Vigliarolo Not actually our problem, says Chocolate Factory, but watchdog decides otherwise – again Google contractors upset that some of their teammates were allegedly unlawfully terminated in retaliation for trying to unionize at the web giant have now joined the

Bing Chat is so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle 08/11/2023 at 03:02 By Tobias Mann Multi-year deal offloads AI inference to Big Red super-cluster Demand for Microsoft’s AI services is apparently so great – or Redmond’s resources so tight – that the software giant plans to offload some of the machine-learning

Quantum computing the next (very) cold war? US lawmakers want to blow billions to outrun China, Russia 08/11/2023 at 02:32 By Tobias Mann House reps hope to jumpstart qubit race with R&D The US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is concerned the United States could fall behind Russia and China if something isn’t

Ventana bumps performance on Veyron RISC-V silicon to surely speed up servers 08/11/2023 at 00:52 By Dan Robinson Bugatti ain’t got nothing on this V2 RISC-V server chip designer Ventana Micro Systems has pushed out its second generation Veyron processor, squeezing in more cores and the ability for customers to add custom accelerator bits to

WeBroke WeWork, WePromise WeFix it: How subleasing giant hopes to survive bankruptcy 08/11/2023 at 00:32 By Thomas Claburn Coworking gambit divided office space – and got conquered WeWork, once valued at $47 billion, filed for bankruptcy on Monday, even as its recently appointed CEO David Tolley reassured tenants the business is “here to stay.”… This

NASA gasping for ideas to extract oxygen from Moon dirt 08/11/2023 at 00:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Wants ‘tens of metric tons of O2 production per year’ on the cheap NASA has opened the brainstorming-bay doors to anyone with ideas on how to extract oxygen from Moon rocks – a key element of the space agency’s

Cruise confirms driverless taxis need regular remote human intervention 07/11/2023 at 23:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Plus: parent GM also pausing driverless van production Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt confirms reports that his company’s now-paused driverless taxis need regular human intervention to help them make sense of the road, yet he is downplaying the severity.… This article

AI gold rush continues as Aleph Alpha scores more than half a billion dollars 07/11/2023 at 22:32 By Richard Speed HPE and Lidl co-owners among consortium funding ‘sovereign’ Generative AI company There’s money to be made in AI, and HPE’s venture capital arm, Hewlett Packard Pathfinder, has joined a consortium investing more than half a

Intel to build restricted facilities to make chips for US military 07/11/2023 at 21:47 By Dan Robinson ‘Secure enclave’ reports point to separate production line with blocked off access Intel looks set to be a key beneficiary of CHIPS Act funding earmarked for specifically supplying the US military.… This article is an excerpt from The

Fraud attacks on financial industry call centers rising 07/11/2023 at 21:16 By A new survey found that fraud attacks on call centers are on the rise, based on growth from 2021 to 2022, with financial industry respondents noting an even more acute increase. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed