xAI's command-line tool "Grok Build" silently uploaded entire directories to Google Cloud servers, including SSH keys and password databases. After the backlash, Elon Musk promised to delete all uploaded user data, and xAI open-sourced the full 844,530-line Rust codebase under the Apache 2.0 license.<br /> The article xAI open-sources "Grok-Build" on GitHub after mas [...]
In an utterly shocking, consumer-friendly move, Max won't charge for something previously offered for free. Warner Bros. Discovery said on Wednesday that it's shelving its previously announced plan to charge an extra $10 monthly for sports and news content. Instead, it's cutting the content from the ad-supported tier next month, which sounds reasonable enough. <br /> In 2023, [...]
The Iran war is not making cloud suddenly expensive. It is exposing how cloud economics was always downstream from energy markets, and Europe is structurally exposed. The current conflict in the Middle East is no longer contained to the region. Its effects are beginning to ripple into economies still recovering from the 2022 energy crisis, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]