April 2024

TSMC evacuates fabs after earthquake hits Taiwan 2024-04-03 at 06:32 By Simon Sharwood Internet outages recorded as Japan issues tsunami warning A significant earthquake has struck Taiwan, shuttering some of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing’s chip fabrication plants.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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Microsoft slammed for lax security that led to Exchange Online attack 2024-04-03 at 05:18 By Simon Sharwood CISA calls for ‘fundamental, security-focused reforms’ to happen ASAP, delaying work on other software A review of the June 2023 attack on Microsoft’s Exchange Online hosted email service – which saw accounts used by senior US officials compromised

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Simulation reveals all Japanese will have the same surname by 2531 2024-04-03 at 05:18 By Laura Dobberstein Konnichiwa, Sato-San A simulation run by a Japanese professor and released on Monday revealed that by the year 2531, everyone in Japan will have the surname Sato.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

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Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its bills for rented cloudy GPUs 2024-04-03 at 03:31 By Tobias Mann Generative AI darling was on track to pay $99M on compute to generate just $11M in revenues The massive GPU clusters needed to train Stability AI’s popular text-to-image generation model Stable Diffusion are apparently

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Feds finally decide to do something about years-old SS7 spy holes in phone networks 2024-04-03 at 02:32 By Jessica Lyons And Diameter, too, for good measure The FCC appears to finally be stepping up efforts to secure decades-old flaws in American telephone networks that are allegedly being used by foreign governments and surveillance outfits to

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X’s Grok AI is great – if you want to know how to hot wire a car, make drugs, or worse 2024-04-03 at 01:31 By Brandon Vigliarolo Elon controversial? No way Grok, the edgy generative AI model developed by Elon Musk’s X, has a bit of a problem: With the application of some quite common

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Amazon to lure startups with $500K in AWS AI credits 2024-04-03 at 00:31 By Matthew Connatser Come on in, drill into Anthropic and Mistral – that’s not the sound of a door slamming shut behind you Amazon will furnish young AI startups partnered with Y Combinator with $500k in credits each on Amazon Bedrock to

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Lawsuit claims Meta hobbled Facebook Watch to help Netflix 2024-04-02 at 23:31 By Thomas Claburn Advertiser antitrust lawsuit says claimed deal with Netflix is anticompetitive Meta allegedly starved its Facebook Watch video service to appease Netflix and sustain its ad monopoly, advertisers suing the biz have claimed.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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No joke: FTC boss goes on the Daily Show and is told Apple tried to block her 2024-04-02 at 22:46 By Iain Thomson The land of the Free Market has lost its way in quest for profits Comment  Generally the head of US government agencies and comedy don’t mix, but on Monday night the Lina

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DARPA AI research aims to craft code that could give devs the boot 2024-04-02 at 22:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo Not everyone agrees that aiming AI at software development is a good idea, but let’s do it anyway A DARPA leader has revealed that around 70 percent of the agency’s programs involve AI in some shape

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