“Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says

Enlarge / A screen capture of AJ Smith doing his Eleanor Rigby duet with OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode through the ChatGPT app. (credit: AJ Smith / Getty Images) OpenAI’s new Advanced Voice Mode (AVM) of its ChatGPT AI assistant rolled out to subscribers on Tuesday, and people are already finding novel ways to use it,…

Archive.org, possibly one of the only entities to preserve the entire history of the Internet, was recently compromised in a hack that revealed data of roughly 31 million users. A little after 2 PM California time, social media blew up with screenshots showing what the archive.org homepage displayed. It read: Read full article Comments

Matter, the smart home standard that promises an interoperable future for home automation, even if it’s scattered and a bit buggy right now, is out with a new version, 1.4. It promises more device types, improvements for working across ecosystems, and tools for managing battery backups, solar panels, and heat pumps. “Enhanced Multi-Admin” is the…

Although OpenAI’s revenues are increasing significantly, the generative AI (genAI) pioneer remains dependent on financial injections, according to Reuters.  The maker of ChatGPT generated revenue of $300 million in September alone, sources said — an increase of 1700% compared to the beginning of 2023. And the company expects revenue to jump to $11.6 billion next year. Nevertheless, OpenAI…

Generative AI capabilities — or at least the perceptions surrounding them — are rewriting almost all of IT. But with generative AI ROI proving elusive in IT circles, is AI truly going to impact near-term revenue? With mobile devices, analyst group IDC thinks it very well might. “Premium markets are starting to embrace gen AI smartphones,…

Officials in Ireland have fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees. Meta disclosed the lapse in early 2019. The company said that apps for connecting to various Meta-owned social networks had logged user passwords in plaintext and stored them in…