The Pentagon is buying software like it’s a tank
Top Brass losing the knowledge wars
While Beijing’s war planners marry AI with arsenals like it’s a national hobby, the Pentagon is still trying to install Windows XP on a Predator drone, according to a new Atlantic Council report.
Probe into dodgy Tesla code started
Expect this to be abandoned when Trump takes over
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has launched a probe into Tesla's software that allows cars to operate autonomously over short distances, after reports of the code crashing.
Apple releases urgent update for buggy software
Two zero-day holes
The fruity cargo cult, Apple has stunned its user fanbase by admitting that the software it touts as more secure than Microsoft has two zero-day security flaws.
Apple finally fixes poor Siri programming
Only taken a decade
Fruity cargo cult Apple might have finally fixed a problem with Siri which it has known about since September 17, 2014.
EU takes a hard line on software liability
While US dithers
According to Lawfare's cybersecurity newsletter, the European Union and the United States are taking different approaches to introducing liability for software products.
IBM shares fall on mixed results
Propped up by Red Hat
Biggish Blue shares dropped more than six per cent yesterday as the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street were worried about the outfit’s mixed earnings report for the third quarter.
GPU-Z gets updated to v2.58.0
Adds initial Core Ultra Meteor Lake and new GPU support
TechPowerUp has released the newest version of its GPU-Z, a comprehensive graphics sub-system information, diagnostic, and monitoring utility. The newest version adds support for Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors, support for a couple of new GPUS, new BIOS versions, and more.
Apple admits camera on expensive iPhones has rubbish software
Will be providing a rubber band and software which does work next week
Fruity cargo-cult Apple is having some serious headaches with the software in its iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max and has admitted that it will have to fix it before the camera will work properly.
Software improvements keep quantum cats at bay
Potentially dead or alive in the water for now
It seems that there is life in conventional computing yet as a better-written algorithm bested Google’s Sycamore quantum computer.
CIA software engineer convicted of information theft
You are not supposed to be stealing stuff from us
A former CIA software engineer faces federal charges accusing him of the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history.
