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OpenAI makes it official: Sam Altman is back as CEO 30/11/2023 at 09:02 By Simon Sharwood Microsoft joins the board in non-voting role OpenAI has made the return of Sam Altman as its CEO official.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source React to this headline:

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NASA tech reveals he crashed Spirit Mars rover two weeks before vital deadline 30/11/2023 at 07:48 By Simon Sharwood ‘A large pulse of electricity had gone somewhere other than intended, and telemetry stopped coming from the spacecraft’ Astrofuturist and former NASA tech Chris Lewicki has revealed he crashed the Spirit Mars rover, and feared he

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China’s Loongson debuts processor that ‘matches Intel silicon circa 2020’ 30/11/2023 at 06:32 By Simon Sharwood Best not to dismiss it, as Asus looks to be onboard and advances are promised Chinese chip houses Loongson and CXMT have debuted products that demonstrate the Middle Kingdom’s increasingly sophisticated semiconductor scene, and an interest for such efforts

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US lawmakers have Chinese LiDAR on their threat-detection radar 30/11/2023 at 05:33 By Laura Dobberstein Amid fears Beijing could harvest spatial data, letter suggests Huawei-style bans may be needed A US congressional committee has questioned whether Chinese-made Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) devices might have a negative impact on national security, and suggested they may

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Rogue ex-Motorola techie admits cyberattack on former employer, passport fraud 30/11/2023 at 04:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Pro tip: Don’t use your new work email to phish your old firm An ex-Motorola technician in the US has admitted he tried to fraudulently obtain a passport while awaiting trial for a cyberattack on his former employer.…

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Meta yanks VR headset’s strap-on booster battery after charging bricks it 30/11/2023 at 03:33 By Tobias Mann A misbehaving Li-ion on your noggin – what could possibly go wrong? Meta has paused shipments of the wearable battery-slash-head strap accessory for its Quest 3 VR goggles amid reports the device bricks itself when charged.… This article

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Meta: If you’re in our house running AI-massaged political ads, you need to ‘fess up 30/11/2023 at 02:19 By Katyanna Quach Vows to protect two billion voters, but US gets more protection than India, Indonesia, Mexico, EU Meta will require advertisers to disclose whether their political ads on its platforms contain any AI-generated or digitally

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Goldman sacked: Apple ‘wants out’ of credit card collab 30/11/2023 at 01:32 By Brandon Vigliarolo Don’t be too shocked: Financial giant has been fleeing normie banking lately after failing to find footing The future of Apple’s credit card offering has been thrown into limbo, as the iPhone giant apparently wants out of its collaboration with

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Car dealers openly beg Biden to put brakes on electric vehicle drive 30/11/2023 at 01:03 By Brandon Vigliarolo No one’s buying these things. Just, uh, ignore the massive markups Nearly 4,000 US auto dealers have signed an open letter urging the Biden administration to slow its plan to push electric vehicles (EVs) onto the populace

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Uncle Sam probes cyberattack on Pennsylvania water system by suspected Iranian crew 30/11/2023 at 00:32 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle CISA calls for stronger IT defenses as Texas district also hit by ransomware crew CISA is investigating a cyberattack against a Pennsylvania water authority that has been linked to what are suspected to be Iranian miscreants.

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56% of companies educate workers on AI risks 30/11/2023 at 00:02 By According to a Kolide report on AI, there is a significant gap between the percentage of employees allowed to use AI and those who actually use it. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React

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Time to take action: Google’s inactive account purge begins Friday 29/11/2023 at 22:17 By Brandon Vigliarolo You should’ve received an email if you’re affected, but here’s a reminder just in case Consider this your final warning: Google is going to start wiping inactive accounts on Friday, December 1. … This article is an excerpt from The

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Dragonfly delayed – formal confirmation of journey to Saturn’s moon slips into 2024 29/11/2023 at 21:47 By Richard Speed Titan trip postponed while NASA awaits the FY 2025 budget request The future of NASA’s Dragonfly trip to Saturn’s moon Titan is looking uncertain after the agency gave the go-ahead for work to proceed on the

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Over 25% of organizations’ physical security setups are in the cloud 29/11/2023 at 21:46 By According to a recent physical security report, 44% of security leaders have more than 25% of their physical security setups are in the cloud. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React

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IBM’s vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS’s cloud bandwagon 29/11/2023 at 21:02 By Lindsay Clark Users on the mainframe will have to wait for their system to become available in the cloud service, though Cloud giant AWS has announced the inclusion of IBM’s Db2 database — among the first relational databases on the market —

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Okta data breach dilemma dwarfs earlier estimates 29/11/2023 at 20:18 By Connor Jones All customer support users told their info was accessed after analysis oversight Okta has admitted that the number of customers affected by its October customer support system data breach is far greater than previously thought.… This article is an excerpt from The

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Why JSON-LD matters for Web3 29/11/2023 at 20:02 By Cointelegraph By Brian Platz Web3 is confusing because it’s still in its formative stages. Nobody quite knows which inventions will shape it next. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

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That time a JPL engineer almost killed a Mars Rover before it left Earth 29/11/2023 at 19:32 By Richard Speed Forget Martian dust devils, it’s the peril of the blue smoke you have to worry about Engineer and astro-futurist Chris Lewicki wrote an essay this week – that would not be out of place in

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Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org 29/11/2023 at 18:33 By Liam Proven Firefox 121, freshly in beta test, will default to the protocol too Red Hat reckons Wayland is now mature enough to take over as the only display server in the forthcoming RHEL 10.… This article is an excerpt

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Server sales down 31% at HPE as enterprises hack spending 29/11/2023 at 18:02 By Paul Kunert Customers still ‘digesting’ shipments bought in 2022, says exec in mixed fiscal year for hardware biz Hewlett Packard Enterprise has reported a dramatic decline in server revenues as corporate customers cut back on spending amid a more cautious outlook.…

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