News feed unavailable at this time.News feed unavailable at this time.News feed unavailable at this time.News feed unavailable at this time.Court cancels FTC click-to-cancel rule on a technicality
Welcome back to the age of dark patterns
The US was supposed to celebrate the enforcement date for an FTC rule requiring companies to offer simple, clear, one-click subscription cancellations next Monday, but a panel of appeals court judges has decided otherwise.…
| US sanctions alleged North Korean IT sweatshop leader
Turns out outsourcing coders to bankroll Kim’s nukes doesn’t jibe with Uncle Sam
The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on 38-year-old Song Kum Hyok, a North Korean accused of attempting to hack the Treasury Department and posing as an IT worker to collect revenue and secret data for Pyongyang.…
| AMD warns of new Meltdown, Spectre-like bugs affecting CPUs
Low-severity bugs but infosec pros claim they are a 'critical' overall threat – patch accordingly
AMD is warning users of a newly discovered form of side-channel attack affecting a broad range of its chips that could lead to information disclosure.…
| Shiny object syndrome spells doom for many AI projects, warns EPA CIO
Chasing the hype without a clear use case? You may crash and burn
US Environmental Protection Agency CIO Carter Farmer has a blunt message for AI hype-chasers: Shiny-object syndrome too often drives teams to leap into AI without defining a clear use case or vetting their data, leaving them to wonder why it doesn't work.…
| Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers
Using proof of work to block the web-crawlers of 'AI' companies
Anubis is a sort of CAPTCHA test, but flipped: instead of checking visitors are human, it aims to make web crawling prohibitively expensive for companies trying to feed their hungry LLM bots.…
| Europe's exascale dreams inch closer as SiPearl finally tapes out Rhea1 chip
Design sent to TSMC as startup wraps €130M funding round and targets 2026 silicon
Euro chip designer SiPearl has finally taped out its Rhea1 processor destined for Jupiter, the first European exascale supercomputer, just as its Series A financing round ends with an injection of cash from a new investor.…
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