July 2024

Google slashes maps API prices in India – weeks after a competitor emerged 2024-07-19 at 06:46 By Simon Sharwood Startup Ola slashes prices to zero for a year in apparent response Google has slashed the prices for access to its Maps API in India, the week after a competitor entered the market.… This article is

Microsoft 365 goes down as Azure outage stretches into fifth hour 2024-07-19 at 05:16 By Simon Sharwood Central US region is in trouble Microsoft’s 365 subscription services are down for some users, as the software titan also reports the Central US region of its Azure cloud is experiencing problems.… This article is an excerpt from

OpenAI’s GPT-4o Mini is indeed small – like its lead over rivals in certain tests 2024-07-19 at 04:16 By Matthew Connatser Plus: Meta Euro model drama, Mistral and Nvidia find NeMo, and more AI Roundup  OpenAI has made available GPT-4o Mini, a smaller and cheaper version of its GPT-4o generative large language model (LLM), via

DARPA slaps down credit card for 3D military chiplets – $840M ought to be enough? 2024-07-19 at 02:31 By Matthew Connatser UT-Austin lab gets the job, and five years to do it The Pentagon’s boffinry nerve center DARPA has doled out $840 million to develop next-generation semiconductor microsystems for America’s military.… This article is an

Judge mostly drags SEC’s lawsuit against SolarWinds into the recycling bin 2024-07-19 at 00:16 By Jessica Lyons Russia-invaded software biz ‘grateful for the support we have received’ A judge has mostly thrown out a lawsuit brought by America’s financial watchdog that accused SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer of misleading investors about its computer security

Sam Altman sues builder over $27M flooded, sewage-hit ‘lemon’ of a mega-mansion 2024-07-18 at 23:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Leaking skylights, collapsed roof, garbage-clogged pipes – put one of them fancy LLMs on it, duh Serial entrepreneur and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman has made a bunch of lucrative moves in his time – but his $27

Pi goes to spaaaaace… for a bit longer than planned 2024-07-18 at 20:31 By Richard Speed Ariane 6 might have had some APU problems, but the Pi hardware on YPSat worked well A Raspberry Pi camera is orbiting the Earth, attached to ESA’s YPSat, a week after both were supposed to have burned up upon

Kaspersky challenges US government to prove case over hacking claims 2024-07-18 at 19:31 By Jessica Lyons Proposes ‘comprehensive assessment framework’ to check and verify Kaspersky has hit back after the US government banned its products by proposing independent verification.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Tesla sales, market share dip in EU while other EV makers grow 2024-07-18 at 18:46 By Brandon Vigliarolo Tesla doesn’t just have an US problem: It has one with EU, too Tesla isn’t just floundering in the US – new registrations of Elon Musk’s electric vehicles have dipped in the EU and UK this year,

Nvidia’s next Linux driver to be… just as open 2024-07-18 at 18:01 By Liam Proven Big Green’s software remains tricky, but Fedora and AMD are finding ways to cope Nvidia says its forthcoming release 560 driver will be as open as releases 515 and 555 were – and will support more devices.… This article is