Elon Musk asked a federal judge Friday to move his trial for an upcoming Tesla shareholder lawsuit out of San Francisco, claiming negative local news coverage has made potential jurors biased against him, per AP.
Driving the news: Musk's lawyers argued in a filing that the trial, set to begin Jan. 17, should be relocated to Texas, where Tesla moved to in 2021.
The breakneck development and deployment of facial recognition technology are outstripping efforts to corral alarming pitfalls.
Why it matters: Police, retail stores, airports and sports arenas are rapidly increasing biometric surveillance. But critics say the results are too often blindly trusted, without enough double-checking of matches.
Why it matters: A number of the most ambitious efforts in tech, especially around augmented and virtual reality, face challenges amid a slowing economy and a more difficult fundraising environment.
A Russian cyber espionage group is suspected of repurposing another malware campaign's old infrastructure to spy on a Ukrainian computer network.
Driving the news: Researchers at Google-owned Mandiant recently discovered an espionage campaign where Turla Team, a Russian government-linked cyber espionage group, is suspected of re-registering domain names used nine years ago in a previously unconnected attack to spread a banking trojan malware via infected USB drives.
One of the most prolific ransomware gangs of 2022 is already making headlines in the new year for successfully attacking critical infrastructure around the world.
Driving the news: In the last month, the ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for attacks on hospitals, shipping ports and local government offices.
A security practice that few know how to define will take up a lot of the federal government's and the private sector's attention this year: zero-trust architecture.
The big picture: Federal agencies are racing to meet a September 2024 deadline to transition to it — and companies are looking to the government for guidance on what an esoteric zero-trust framework actually looks like.
Microsoft is firmly in the friend zone with OpenAI, the ChatGPT creator that's taken the tech world by storm. But, deep down, it must want to take things to the next level.
Driving the news: OpenAI soon could be valued at around $29 billion via a secondary stock sale co-led by venture capital firms Founders Fund and Thrive Capital, as first reported by the WSJ and confirmed by Axios.
Electronic Arts will increasingly spend time and resources developing tools that its players can use to create their own content for its video games, co-CTO Marija Radulovic-Nastic tells Axios.
Why it matters: EA is organizing its approach to technology in a way that recognizes that its players, as well as its own in-house developers, are crucial creative forces for its games.
The wave of layoffs in tech that continued to mount this week has felt like a shocking and sharp turnabout for an industry that stood on top of the world just a year ago.
Be smart: Tech was never immune from forces in the broader economy, and Silicon Valley has always followed a boom-bust rhythm. But the most recent boom ran so long, many forgot it would have to end someday.
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