Ofcom turns its attention to the hyperscalers
Ofcom has expanded its remit under the Enterprise Act 2002 to investigate the public cloud and internet communications market. As part of this drive, the regulator plans to launch...
Privacy Pledge signatories dream of alternative internet
A group of 12 organisations have come together to lay the groundwork for what they describe as an “alternative internet” to that controlled by large technology corporations, outlining a...
Fearing copyright issues, Getty Images bans AI-generated artwork
Enlarge / A selection of Stable Diffusion images with a strikeout through them.Ars Technica Getty Images has banned the sale of AI generative artwork created using image synthesis models such...
The record-setting DDoSes keep coming, with no end in sight
Enlarge / Drowning in a sea of data. The record-vying distributed denial-of-service attacks keep coming, with two mitigation services reporting they encountered some of the biggest data bombardments ever by...
Contractors call for IR35 review and tax cuts in Chancellor’s mini-Budget
The newly appointed chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng, is due to deliver his first fiscal statement, or mini-Budget, on Friday 23 September. At the time of writing, the...
Artist finds private medical record photos in popular AI training data set
Enlarge / Censored medical images found in the LAION-5B data set used to train AI. The black bars and distortion have been added.Ars Technica Late last week, a California-based AI...
Mobile operators work on holographic calling pilot
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone have teamed up with Matsuko, a technology firm that is developing 3D holograms for remote communication, to conduct mobile hologram video calls. Last...
$35M fine for Morgan Stanley after unencrypted, unwiped hard drives are auctioned
Getty Images Morgan Stanley on Tuesday agreed to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a $35 million penalty for data security lapses that included unencrypted hard drives from decommissioned...
Comcast promises huge boost to cable upload speeds by end of 2023
Enlarge / Comcast's xFi Advanced Gateway.Getty Images | Jeff Fusco Comcast announced today that it has tested "the final technical component necessary to deliver multi-gigabit symmetrical speeds" and said it's...
Nvidia’s powerful H100 GPU will ship in October
Enlarge / A press handout showing the Nvidia H100 Hopper GPU and its applications.Nvidia At today's GTC conference keynote, Nvidia announced that its H100 Tensor Core GPU is in full...