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NFL to begin using face scanning tech across all of its stadiums 2024-08-06 at 04:46 By Jessica Lyons Smile for the camera to get in, or buy a beer without lining up The National Football League and all 32 of its teams will use tech from facial recognition software vendor Wicket to verify the identity […]

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI again, claims CEO Sam Altman ‘betrayed’ him 2024-08-06 at 02:31 By Matthew Connatser These two are going through a really, really bad breakup Elon Musk has decided he wants to bring Sam Altman and OpenAI to court after all in a brand-new lawsuit over whether OpenAI is actually open and

Google paying to be default search on phones is totally against the law, judge rules 2024-08-06 at 01:01 By Thomas Claburn Web giant to seek second opinion after bench labels biz ‘a monopolist’ in DoJ win Google’s payments to make its search engine the default for smartphone browsers and elsewhere violate US antitrust law, a

What AI bubble? Groq rakes in $640M to grow inference cloud 2024-08-05 at 23:46 By Tobias Mann In the gold rush, be the one handing out the shovels Even as at least some investors begin to question the return on investment of AI infrastructure and services, venture capitalists appear to be doubling down. On Monday,

Michigan probes Musk-backed PAC site that weirdly failed promise to help people register to vote 2024-08-05 at 23:01 By Thomas Claburn It claimed to have one job and couldn’t do it The Michigan Secretary of State’s office has opened an investigation into America PAC, a political action committee backed by billionaire Elon Musk.… This article

Another law firm piles on Intel for Raptor Lake CPU failures as complaints grow louder 2024-08-05 at 22:31 By Matthew Connatser Meanwhile, a boutique PC builder says Intel didn’t even need to chase high clock speeds Yet another law firm says it’s investigating a potential class action lawsuit against Intel as Raptor Lake CPU owners

Enterprise spend on cloud up sharply as world biz splashes $80B in Q2 2024-08-05 at 21:46 By Dan Robinson Plus: Oracle nudges to top of second tier providers Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services continues to grow, now nearing $80 billion per quarter, with the big three continuing to dominate and Oracle emerging as leader

Stock-trading apps fall under the feet of stampeding panicking investors 2024-08-05 at 21:46 By Iain Thomson They’re doing you a favor, probably best not to look today As stock markets suffered a bit of a wobble today, share-trading apps and sites fell over as investors barreled in to see how badly their portfolios had been

That cyber-heist of 2.9B personal records? There’s a class-action lawsuit looming for that 2024-08-05 at 21:01 By Jessica Lyons Background check biz accused of negligence A lawsuit has accused a Florida data broker of carelessly failing to secure billions of records of people’s private information, which was subsequently stolen from the biz and sold on

Anaconda’s Python-for-Excel escapes Azure Cloud, heads for your PC 2024-08-05 at 20:46 By Thomas Claburn Badger, badger, badger your CIO to let you use this, perhaps Anaconda, the maker and distributor of data science tools, has unleashed a public beta of Anaconda Code that enables Python code to be run locally within Microsoft Excel.… This

99% of Global 2000 organizations are linked to a supply chain breach 2024-08-05 at 20:33 By 99% of Global 2000 organizations have been directly linked to a supply chain breach. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Freighter bound for the ISS suffers engine abort 2024-08-05 at 19:46 By Richard Speed Are the woes of the Calamity Capsule catching? NASA’s latest cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has encountered problems on its way to the orbiting outpost.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Infineon announces layoffs as Q3 results disappoint 2024-08-05 at 18:51 By Dan Robinson Follows 15% job cuts from chip giant Intel, with CEO blaming weak economy Infineon has become another chipmaker to shed a chunk of the workforce to cut costs after reporting shrinking sales.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Sneaky SnakeKeylogger slithers into Windows inboxes to steal sensitive secrets 2024-08-05 at 17:32 By Jessica Lyons Malware logs users’ keystrokes, pilfers credentials, exfiltrates data Criminals are preying on Windows users yet again, this time in an effort to hit them with a keylogger that can also steal credentials and take screenshots.… This article is an

Nvidia reportedly delays Blackwell GPUs until 2025 over packaging issues 2024-08-05 at 16:31 By Dan Robinson Backdrop of multi-billion dollar orders to support AI services, but unlikely to hurt NVDA long term Nvidia is understood to be delaying shipments of its Blackwell GPUs until the first quarter of 2025, and it appears the problems may