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7 February 2023

School laptop auction devolves into extortion allegation Also: Atlassian says Jira has a 9.4 severity bug and the TSA issues milquetoast no-fly list security advisory

ON-PREM Power grid worries force Amazon to run Oregon datacenters using fuel cells And not the green hydrogen kind 5 Comments Microsoft is changing how it handles device diagnostic data to keep EU sweet Data sovereignty – the Windows maker has heard of it 4 Comments Dell planning job cuts as PC demand jumps off a cliff Memo tells staff freeze on hiring and travel expenses are no longer enough 6 Comments Eager young tearaway almost ruined Christmas with printer paper In the age of tractor-fed printers and perforated paper, telling a junior to tear it up was close to negligence 64 Comments Wikimedia Foundation confirms, and bemoans, Pakistan ban Dear government, this thing is written by volunteers. Take it up with them. Also: shouldn't you know this already ? 30 Comments

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SECURITY Embarrassment as US cyber ambassador's Twitter account is hacked 'Perils of the job' we're told 2 Comments Here's a list of proxy IPs to help block KillNet's DDoS bots Put pro-Putin bots on the do not call list 2 Comments Trust, not tech, is holding back a safer internet Excuse me, citizen, did you packet this data yourself? 36 Comments School laptop auction devolves into extortion allegation Also: Atlassian says Jira has a 9.4 severity bug and the TSA issues milquetoast no-fly list security advisory 37 Comments Ransomware scum launch wave of attacks on critical, but old, VMWare ESXi vuln You’ve had almost two years to patch and some of the software is EOL, now attackers déployer un rançongiciel 14 Comments

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SOFTWARE Twitch bans AI-generated Seinfeld show for making transphobic jokes 'The text we generated was a mistake, we are super embarrassed' Google unleashes fightback against ChatGPT, a Bard by any other name Competition for AI-powered search between Microsoft and Google heats up 5 Comments It is possible to extract copies of images used to train generative AI models Tools like DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney have memories after all 3 Comments Cat saves 'good bots' from Twitter API purge Account posting pics of pet returning home convinces Musk to chill about access rules 29 Comments UK health minister confirms data platform worth £480m will replicate Palantir dashboards Suppliers competing for lucrative prize will rely on 'interoperability' of existing work from US spy-tech firm 17 Comments Fujitsu re-org sparks alphabet soup splatter: GSBG splits into GTSBG and GBSBG Turns out the single brand ‘Uvance’ plan needs two groups to pull it off 3 Comments Google to present AI-powered search features next week in live event Plus: Cruise and Waymo's driverless cars have caused 92 reported incidents in San Francisco; China's Baidu reportedly set to launch ChatGPT rival 10 Comments

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OFFBEAT Could 2023 be the year SpaceX's Starship finally reaches orbit? Meanwhile, no one is thinking of the horrible emissions coming out of all these rockets, say scientists 15 Comments Private company set up to oversee UK's prototype fusion reactor STEP won't be complete until 2040, but here's a 'delivery body' in the meantime 22 Comments Field trip! European Space Agency sends astronauts abroad to learn about rocks Astronauts need better autonomy as ground control gets further away 9 Comments

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