ChatGPT hasn't been around for long and Nvidia already wants to put a leash on it [Thu Apr 27 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 27 April 2023 ***************************************************************** ChatGPT hasn't been around for long and Nvidia already wants to put a leash on it NeMo Guardrails stops everything that made these chatbots so much fun ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Google Cloud slips over in Europe amid water leak, fire Paris-based europe-west9-a zone still MIA * China's Alibaba Cloud cuts prices in bid to lure customers Only in the Middle Kingdom as company reportedly eyes IPO * Google Cloud makes its first profit, 15 years after launching Alphabet finds $1.6 billion of benefits by sweating its servers and networks for longer On-Prem * The Weather Channel settles another case claiming mobile app privacy violations That's two in three years, in case anyone's counting * Hands off, vendors – it's for research! $11B of US CHIPS funds earmarked for NIST fabs Agency hopes program will keep US ahead of curve on semiconductor manufacturing * Don't get in a semiconductor 'doom spiral' – sector will be back with a bang in 2024 Next year's revenue forecast to surpass the halcyon days of 2022 * UK watchdog blocks Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition That's not very Unicorn Kingdom of you * Spain gets EU cash to test next gen network, and US 'scrum for 6G' already under way How much better do mobile networks really have to be by 2030-ish? Security * Microsoft probes complaints of Edge leaking URLs to Bing Remember next time Redmond begs you not to install another browser * DoJ, Treasury accuses 3 men of laundering crypto for North Korea If the DPRK is named, you know it somehow involves Lazarus Group Software * ChatGPT hasn't been around for long and Nvidia already wants to put a leash on it NeMo Guardrails stops everything that made these chatbots so much fun * How prompt injection attacks hijack today's top-end AI – and it's tough to fix In the rush to commercialize LLMs, security got left behind * Oracle's examplar win over SAP for Birmingham City Council is 3 years late It also required £20 million in extra funds – and Larry wants to brag about this? * Microsoft makes Windows Server 2022 licenses a little less cynical Addresses annoyances like 20-core VMs requiring 24 licenses Special Features * Future of warfare is AI, retired US Army general warns Imagine fighting swarms – swarms – of autonomous planes * US National Cyber Director: Fending off cyber threats in space is 'urgent,' needs 'high level attention' More public-private collab around this issue coming soon * You can cross 'Quantum computers to smash crypto' off your list of existential fears for 30 years RSA's Adi Shamir thinks we're safe for a generation, but more gnarly keys are still a good idea * Is your AI hallucinating? Might be time to call in the red team Plus: Bias bounties are the new bug bounties Offbeat * US watchdog grounds SpaceX Starship after that explosion Musk loyalists said launch wasn't a failure. Tell that to folks, wildlife covered in dust, ash, debris * Elizabeth Holmes is not going to prison – for the moment Yes, launch another appeal, that'll do the trick * Amazon, Bing, Wikipedia make EU's list of 'Very Large' platforms Will need to sit at the front of the class where Commish can keep an eye on them * South Korea prosecutes Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin Alleges large scale fraud, embezzling, and maybe even bribery, before crypto collapse ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 315 Montgomery Street, 9th & 10th Floors, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2023 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: