AI firms agree to fight deepfake nudes in White House pledge
WEB1 day ago · Fri 13 Sep 2024 // 18:46 UTC. Some of the largest AI firms in America have given the White House a solemn pledge to prevent their AI products from being used to generate non-consensual deepfake pornography and child sexual abuse material. Adobe, Anthropic, Cohere, Microsoft, OpenAI, and open source web data repository Common Crawl each made non ...
The Europa Clipper stretches its wings as launch nears
WEB1 day ago · Richard Speed. Fri 13 Sep 2024 // 16:15 UTC. NASA's Europa Clipper is now less than a month from its October 10 launch, and the US space agency has shown off the spacecraft's giant solar arrays. However, concerns persist over how well the probe's electronics will fare in the harsh Jovian environment. Each …
Win 11 refreshes delayed, say PC makers – and here's why
WEB1 day ago · The slowing economy has also deterred some businesses from making the move, according to Bryan Ma, VP of Devices Research at IDC. He told The Register via email: "Macroeconomic uncertainty has made IT decision makers hesitate, but we nonetheless expect replacement demand to drive 6 percent growth in the commercial PC market next year, up from 1 ...
Boeing union workers reject contract, vote to strike
WEB1 day ago · Strike action, involving approximately 30,000 workers in the Seattle and Portland areas, began at midnight, September 12, after union members voted by 94.6 percent to reject a new contract and by 96 percent in favor of industrial action. The action will hit Boeing's assembly plants in Washington …
Google insists the ad tech business ain't broke • The Register
WEB5 days ago · According to the feds, "Google keeps approximately $36 of every $100 in advertiser spending where the transaction goes through each of Google's ad tech tools." As the trial commenced way, Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google VP of regulatory affairs, insisted that the advertising kraken faces plenty of competition. …
MI6 and CIA using Gen AI to combat tech-driven threats
WEB5 days ago · Mon 9 Sep 2024 // 06:34 UTC. CIA director Bill Burns and UK Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) chief Richard Moore have for the first time penned a joint opinion piece in which the two spookmasters reveal their agencies have adopted generative AI. "We are now using AI, including generative AI, to enable and improve intelligence activities ...
Military GPS modernization way behind schedule, audit finds
WEB4 days ago · Tue 10 Sep 2024 // 18:30 UTC. Despite more than two decades of work, the US military's GPS modernization efforts are still so muddled that uninterrupted operation of a secure network of GPS satellites could be at risk. The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report yesterday filled with phrases like "multiple delays" and ...
The ultimate dual-use tool for cybersecurity • The Register
WEBAug 28, 2024 · AI is the latest and most powerful example of a common technology trope: the dual-use tool. For decades, tools from password crackers to Metasploit have had a light and a dark side. Penetration testers have used them for good, highlighting holes in systems that admins can then patch. But cyber criminals - from script kiddies to nation-state ...
White House publishes roadmap to secure internet routing
WEBSep 3, 2024 · It's used to manage the routes your online traffic takes between the networks, known as autonomous systems or ASes, that together constitute the internet. As noted in the Roadmap to Enhancing Internet Routing Security, published by the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) today, BGP wasn't designed with security in mind.
Broadcom has brought VMware down to earth and that’s welcome
WEBAug 29, 2024 · Nutanix sees annual recurring revenue as its most-prized metric, because it reflects long-term customer commitments, and it rose 22 percent year over year to about $1.2 billion. Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami told The Register the company has benefited from VMware users looking for an alternatives, and won some large customers.
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