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Investment advisors pay the price for selling what looked a lot like AI fairy tales

Mon, 18/03/2024 - 5:30pm
SEC bags $400K in settlements

Two investment advisors have reached settlements with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly exaggerating their use of AI, which in both cases were purported to be cornerstones of their offerings.…

Cyber baddies leak 70M+ files online, claim they're from AT&T

Mon, 18/03/2024 - 4:45pm
Telco reckons data is old, isn't from its systems

More than 70 million records, allegedly stolen from AT&T in 2021, were dumped on a cybercrime forum at the weekend.…

HashiCorp reportedly considering sale amid growing challenges

Mon, 18/03/2024 - 4:00pm
Who would want to snap up Terraform?

HashiCorp is the subject of furious industry talk which indicates the company is contemplating a sale amid an increasingly challenging marketplace.…

UK tech titan Mike Lynch's US fraud trial begins today

Mon, 18/03/2024 - 3:15pm
13-year saga continues as jury set to hear claims on both sides of HP's Autonomy acquisition disaster

British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch's criminal trial kick off today in San Francisco in a case alleging accounting fraud charges that carry a maximum 20-year sentence.…

US CHIPS Act set to electrify semiconductor scene with billions

Mon, 18/03/2024 - 2:30pm
National Strategy focuses on four goals for silicon heaven

The US government has dropped details on its National Strategy on Microelectronics Research, outlining top goals and actions for the next five years to boost the semiconductor industry with CHIPS Act investment.…

Sorry, Siri: Apple may be eyeing Google Gemini for future iPhones

Mon, 18/03/2024 - 2:00pm
Famous for keeping everything in-house, Apple may be carving AI-shaped door in its garden wall

Apple is reportedly working on a deal with Google to bring the Chocolate Factory's Gemini AI to iDevices, suggesting its own efforts to develop a suitable generative AI model have stalled.…

Cyberattack gifts esports pros with cheats, forcing Apex Legends to postpone tournament

Mon, 18/03/2024 - 1:15pm
Virtual gunslingers forcibly became cheaters via mystery means

Updated  Esports pros competing in the Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) Pro League tournament were forced to abandon their match today due to a suspected cyberattack.…

Microsoft reseller Bytes says more than 100 undisclosed share trades linked to ex-CEO

Mon, 18/03/2024 - 12:59pm
Surprise resignation of chief exec happened after FCA probe began, claims filing

One of Micrsoft's largest cloud and tech licensing resellers, Bytes Technology Group (BTG), today gave the London Stock Exchange an update on the investigation surrounding the abrupt resignation of its CEO and an ongoing probe by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).…

TrueNAS CORE 13 is the end of the FreeBSD version

Mon, 18/03/2024 - 11:32am
Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE is the future primary focus

Bad news from BSD land – the oldest vendor of BSD systems is changing direction away from FreeBSD and toward Linux.…

Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term

Mon, 18/03/2024 - 10:31am
Exec tells investors to 'temper' expectations as mission to convince customers of price tag continues

Microsoft is asking investors to "temper" expectations for quick financial returns from Copilot amid efforts to convince customers that paying "substantial" sums each month is actually worth it.…

The last mile's at risk in our hostile environment. Let’s go the extra mile to fix it

Mon, 18/03/2024 - 9:30am
The web doesn’t work ‘cos the vandals used a candle

Opinion  Most of us, from time to time, have grievances with our network operators. We complain, we leave bad reviews, we rage-post. But some aren't content with just whinging verbally. They take it up a notch and cut cables, lift street access covers and pour in petrol, they burn down masts.…

Yes, I did just crash that critical app. And you should thank me for having done so

Mon, 18/03/2024 - 8:29am
Quick thinking turned poor judgement into genius proactivity

Who, Me?  Welcome once again, dear reader, to the well-trodden path that is Who, Me? – The Register's weekly column dedicated to the tales and travails of readers who strayed, but found their way back.…

Infosec teams must be allowed to fail, argues Gartner

Mon, 18/03/2024 - 7:29am
But failing to recover from incidents is unforgivable because 'adrenalin does not scale'

Zero tolerance of failure by information security professionals is unrealistic, and makes it harder for cyber security folk to do the essential part of their job: recovering fast from inevitable attacks, according to Gartner analysts Chris Mixter and Dennis Xu.…

Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 with Eye-of-Sauron camera

Mon, 18/03/2024 - 6:31am
Wherever you go, whatever you do, your phone is watching

Qualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3, pitched as a more affordable version of its flagship smartphone platform that keeps key features such as the support for on-device generative AI processing, and an always-sensing camera.…

Filipino police free hundreds of slaves toiling in romance scam operation

Mon, 18/03/2024 - 5:46am
875 workers liberated after falling for promises of lucrative work, nine arrested

Filipino police rescued 875 "workers" – including 504 foreigners – in a raid late last week on a firm that posed as an online gaming company but in reality operated a forced labor camp that housed romance scam operators.…

Uber Australia to pay $178M to settle cabbies' class action

Mon, 18/03/2024 - 4:30am
Nice payday for some, but plenty of Australians still pay extra to help drivers

Uber's Australian wheel has agreed to pay AU$272 million ($178 million) to settle a class action brought by cab drivers who claimed their incomes were impacted by the rideshare giant's scofflaw debut down under.…

ChatGPT side-channel attack has easy fix: Token obfuscation

Mon, 18/03/2024 - 2:31am
Also: Roblox-themed infostealer on the prowl, telco insider pleads guilty to swapping SIMs, and some crit vulns

Infosec in brief  Almost as quickly as a paper came out last week revealing an AI side-channel vulnerability, Cloudflare researchers have figured out how to solve it: just obscure your token size.…

India quickly unwinds requirement for government approval of AIs

Mon, 18/03/2024 - 12:29am
Also: US woos Thailand, Philippines, for tech trade; China's Fukushima rage glows; Alibaba targets South Korea

Asia in brief  India's government has stepped back from its plan to require government approval for AI services before they come online.…

How to run an LLM on your PC, not in the cloud, in less than 10 minutes

Sun, 17/03/2024 - 2:00pm
Cut through the hype, keep your data private, find out what all the fuss is about

Hands On  With all the talk of massive machine-learning training clusters and AI PCs you’d be forgiven for thinking you need some kind of special hardware to play with text-and-code-generating large language models (LLMs) at home.…

In the rush to build AI apps, please, please don't leave security behind

Sun, 17/03/2024 - 11:04am
Supply-chain attacks are definitely possible and could lead to data theft, system hijacking, and more

Feature  While in a rush to understand, build, and ship AI products, developers and data scientists are being urged to be mindful of security and not fall prey to supply-chain attacks.…