On July 19, Jonathan Cardi and his family watched as the departures board at Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina, turned from green to a sea of red. “Oh my gosh, it was insane,” says Cardi. “Delayed, delayed, delayed, delayed.” Cardi, a law professor at Wake Forest University and a member of the American Law … Read more
Tesla is a car company, no matter what Elon and his army of Long $TSLA hodlers will tell you. Artificial intelligence, or the fancy machine learning models and response generators often referred to as AI, is proving (at least in the short term) to be an expensive boondoggle aimed at replacing workers with computers. If … Read more
But if Mehta pursues the approach, he should make some improvements on the EU’s rules, says Kamyl Bazbaz, senior vice president of public affairs at DuckDuckGo. Users should be prompted with the choice screen periodically, not just once, Bazbaz says. They shouldn’t have to deal with popups from Google urging them to switch the default … Read more
Starting Monday, Zoom users will have the option to open a document tool from within their video calling app and create sharable files based on their meetings—but they’ll also be prompted to use generative AI to help them write and edit them. This new feature, essentially Zoom’s version of docs, is the latest effort to … Read more
Amazon reported a significant increase in quarterly profits for the period of April-June, surpassing analyst expectations. The company earned $13.5 billion, up from $6.7 billion a year earlier. However, Amazon’s revenue forecast for the next quarter fell short of predictions, leading to a decline in its stock price during after-hours trading. Amazon projected sales between … Read more
CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm, recently apologized for an incident that caused about 8.5 million computers worldwide to crash. The company offered a $10 gift card to affected users as a gesture of goodwill. Many people received an email from CrowdStrike acknowledging the inconvenience and providing an Uber Eats voucher. CrowdStrike Apologises in Email A screenshot … Read more
Just before 1:00 am local time on Friday, a system administrator for a West Coast company that handles funeral and mortuary services woke up suddenly and noticed his computer screen was aglow. When he checked his company phone, it was exploding with messages about what his colleagues were calling a network issue. Their entire infrastructure … Read more
Delta Air Lines is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Aviation Consumer Protection on the heels of it canceling hundreds of flights for a fifth straight day after a software update bug from CrowdStrike crashed Microsoft systems around the globe. Airlines Have to Pay Up for Poor Service Transportation Secretary Mayor … Read more
The cybersecurity company behind a global IT outage that grounded flights, knocked banks offline and sparked chaos for retailers and media organisations admits compensation talks are inevitable. An estimated 8.5 million Windows devices were taken offline when a flawed software patch was sent to customers by CrowdStrike on Friday. The Texas-based company’s Australian president Michael … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO: Security experts said CrowdStrike’s routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software, which caused clients’ computer systems to crash globally on Friday, apparently did not undergo adequate quality checks before it was deployed. The latest version of its Falcon Sensor software was meant make CrowdStrike clients’ systems more secure against hacking by updating … Read more
