Developer Conference in jeopardy
Fake females fail to impress speakers.
A developer conference is in trouble after speakers started to pull out when organisers added fake female speakers to meet diversity expectations.
Amazon is building its own AI chips
Open relationship with Nvidia
Amazon's cloud-computing unit announced updated versions of its in-house computer chips while forging closer ties with Nvidia.
AI is creating, not destroying jobs
But could cause wages to fall
The rapid adoption of AI could reduce wages, but so far is creating, not destroying, jobs, especially for the young and highly skilled, research published by the European Central Bank showed on Tuesday.
Sports Illustrated accused of using AI journalists
First fake news and now fake journalists
Futurism has accused Sports Illustrated of publishing AI-generated articles under fake author biographies. The magazine has since removed the articles and released a statement blaming the issue on a contractor.
Chinese hackers looted NXP for two years
Only discovered on another company’s systems
A hacking group with ties to the Chinese government has been harvesting data from Dutch chipmaker NXP for nearly two years.
Nvidia is starting to move away from graphics
We told you so
A while back, we warned readers that Nvidia had decided that the graphics card industry was not worth bothering with and was moving to AI chips instead.
Meta's communications manager is on a terrorist list
Andy Stone is a member of a "terrorist and extreme" organisation
Tsar Vladimir Putin has taken time out of his busy schedule of invading other people's countries to put Meta's PR manager on a terrorist list.
Windows fingerprint sensor is easy to hack
Can touch this
Insecurity experts at Blackwing Intelligence have published an extensive document showing how they had managed to work around some popular fingerprint sensors used in Windows PCs.
Broadcom fires more VMware employees
Surplus to requirements
The axeman is wandering the halls of VMware looking for staff to sack after Broadcom officially closed the deal to buy the company last week.
Amazon releases thin client
Desktop-as-a-service based on Fire cube
Amazon Web Services has announced the WorkSpaces Thin Client -- a device dedicated to connecting to its WorkSpaces desktop-as-a-service offering based on Amazon's own "Fire Cube" smart TV box.