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Paul McCartney, Elton John and other creatives demand AI comes clean on scraping
More than 400 of the UK's leading media and arts professionals have written to the prime minister to back an amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill, which promises to offer the nation's creative industries transparency over copyrighted works ingested by AI models.…
LegoGPT is here to make your blocky dreams come true
At last, an AI model we can really get behind: LegoGPT takes a text prompt and spits out a physically stable design.…
Britain's cyber agents and industry clash over how to tackle shoddy software
CYBERUK Intervention is required to ensure the security market holds vendors to account for shipping insecure wares – imposing costs on those whose failures lead to cyberattacks and having to draft in cleanup crews. The security market must properly incentivize security vendors to do security better.…
Unending ransomware attacks are a symptom, not the sickness
Opinion It's been a devastating few weeks for UK retail giants. Marks and Spencer, the Co-Op, and now uber-posh Harrods have had massive disruptions due to ransomware attacks taking systems down for prolonged periods.…
So your [expletive] test failed. So [obscene participle] what?
Who, Me? Sometimes, a favor done for friends years ago can come back to bite you in a very corporate way. Welcome to another cautionary tale from the files of Who, Me?…
US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired
The head of the US Copyright Office has reportedly been fired, the day after agency concluded that builders of AI models use of copyrighted material went beyond existing doctrines of fair use.…
DOGE worker's old creds found exposed in infostealer malware dumps
Infosec in brief Good cybersecurity habits don't appear to qualify anyone to work at DOGE, as one Musk minion seemingly fell victim to infostealer malware.…
TikTok's Chinese app - Douyin - in trouble after spat over the price of jade
Asia In Brief Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, has struck trouble at home after a user falsely claimed a retailer sold inferior jade products at enormous and unjustified markups.…
You think ransomware is bad now? Wait until it infects CPUs
RSAC If Rapid7's Christiaan Beek decided to change careers and become a ransomware criminal, he knows exactly how he'd innovate: CPU ransomware.…
Feds disrupt proxy-for-hire botnet, indict four alleged net miscreants
Earlier this week, the FBI urged folks to bin aging routers vulnerable to hijacking, citing ongoing attacks linked to TheMoon malware. In a related move, the US Department of Justice unsealed indictments against four foreign nationals accused of running a long-running proxy-for-hire network that exploited outdated routers to funnel criminal traffic.…
UK Ministry of Defence is spending less with US biz, and more with Europeans
The UK's Ministry of Defence (MOD) is gradually shifting its spending from the US to Europe, according to research from Tussell.…
Yolk's on you – eggs break less when they land sideways
It might sound like common sense – and it's echoed by science communicators and even ChatGPT – but it's wrong. New research shows eggs are less likely to crack when they land on their side than on their end.…
Nip chip smugglers by building trackers into GPUs, US Senator suggests
Despite stiff export controls on the legitimate sale of AI accelerators to China, stemming the flow of gray market GPUs streaming into the Middle Kingdom remains a point of concern for American lawmakers.…
US govt's science foundation purges 37 divisions, equity unit among casualties
The US government's National Science Foundation (NSF) is reportedly axing more than three dozen divisions, including its equity-in-STEM unit, while prepping staff layoffs and yanking over a billion dollars in recently awarded grants. The purge has already sparked legal action and congressional scrutiny.…
US Transpo Sec wants air traffic control rebuild in 3 years, asks Congress for blank check
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has unveiled an ambitious plan to yank American air traffic control systems out of the 1960s - and he wants Congress to fund the whole project up front so it doesn't get derailed by political wind shifts.…
A new Lazarus arises – for the fourth time – for Pascal programming fans
Lazarus 4 is the latest version of the all-FOSS but Delphi-compatible IDE for the FreePascal compiler.…
VC behemoth Insight Partners fears top-secret financial info swiped by cyber-miscreants
Insight Partners, a mega venture capital firm with more than $90 billion in funds under management, fears network intruders got their hands on internal sensitive data about employees, portfolio companies, investors, and more.…
VIPER rover banished to storage as moonshot plan sputters
NASA has quietly scrapped a plea for third parties to take its VIPER rover to the lunar surface.…
Tech titans: Wanna secure US AI leadership? Stop giving the world excuses to buy Chinese
Execs from several top US tech companies, including Microsoft, AMD, and OpenAI, slammed the Biden administration's export rules for AI chips and said that winning the AI race against China hinges on making it easier, not harder, to use American technology.…
Users advised to review Oracle Java use as Big Red's year end approaches
Experts are warning of an increase in Oracle Java audits - as the tech giant nears its year end - following a switch to a per-employee license model that could see costs grow by up to five times.…