So much for CAPTCHA then – bots can complete them quicker than humans [Wed Aug 16 2023]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 16 August 2023 ***************************************************************** So much for CAPTCHA then – bots can complete them quicker than humans We, for one, welcome our distorted-letter-recognizing overlords ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * Tesla is looking for people to build '1st of its kind Data Centers' Meanwhile, in China, electric auto outfit emphasizes local bit barn for storage On-Prem * Watchdog vows crackdown on 'harmful' world of surveillance-by-data-broker Promise of action excites some, others wish America had Cali-style Delete Act for personal info * Nikola recalls electric truck fleet over battery fires You can still drive 'em, but park outside for ... OTA updates, says EV maker * AVX10: The benefits of AVX-512 without all the baggage Turns out bigger isn't always better * US shovels cash into supercomputers hoping to stoke fusion future $112M for 12 projects announced on heels of LLNL's second successful fusion ignition * 80% of execs regret calling employees back to the office Or so says a worrying survey * Gelsinger: Intel should get more CHIPS Act funding than rivals And cool it on the export bans, pleads CEO – we want to sell fish, not fishing rods, to China * Foxconn to spend billions bulking its Indian operations – just for starters Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand on mega-manufacturer's list of not-China expansion targets Security * Clorox cleans up IT security breach that soaked its biz ops Plus: Medical records for 4M people within reach of Clop gang after IBM MOVEit deployment hit * You're not seeing double – yet another UK copshop is confessing to a data leak Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies admit to accidentally including raw crime data in FoI responses * Tech CEO admits role in tricking Qualcomm into $150M takeover Abreezio? Maybe not, but it was a plea deal * Florida Man and associates indicted for conspiracy to steal data, software Voting machines and their info allegedly accessed without authorization by keen golfer's gofers * Chinese media teases imminent exposé of seismic US spying scheme Again labels America a hacker empire over alleged backdoors found in earthquake monitoring kit Software * Not call: Open source gurus urge you to dump Zoom In footsteps of GiveUpGitHub, campaign follows AI ToS fiasco * Microsoft may store your conversations with Bing if you're not an enterprise user New AI Services policies also prohibit any reverse engineering and data collection of its products * Nutanix reckons you can stuff AI into a box – a box it manages, that is You need resources in lots of places, which is the hybrid cloud taming trick the company exists to perform * Red Hat's Mexican standoff: Job cuts? Yes, but we still need someone to boot Linux Time for some fresh GRUB * AIs can produce 'dangerous' content about eating disorders when prompted Digital safety org worries OpenAI and pals aren't doing enough Offbeat * Charging your iPhone literally costs Apple millions as Batterygate saga slams shut Estimated payments of $65 can now be distributed to those who filed a claim in 2018 lawsuit * So much for CAPTCHA then – bots can complete them quicker than humans We, for one, welcome our distorted-letter-recognizing overlords * Can you raise $100M+ from AI investors with no product? SEC says yes In unrelated news, agency wants to teach folks how to spot a pyramid scheme * Saturn's mega-storms challenge planetary formation models Storms on Saturn last for hundreds of years, leaving long-lasting impacts and raising lots of scientific questions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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: