How artists can poison their pics with deadly Nightshade to deter AI scrapers Models will need to swallow a lot of it, mind you AI + ML20 Jan 2024 | 44
For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything a company needed Retro Tech Week Now its functions are shattered between innumerable vendors Applications19 Jan 2024 | 70
Insurance website's buggy API leaked Office 365 password and a giant email trove Pen-tester accessed more than 650,000 sensitive messages, and still can, at Indian outfit using Toyota SaaS Security18 Jan 2024 | 3
Could immutability be a Leap too far for openSUSE users? Updated Update on Linux distro's next major version heralds big changes ahead OSes17 Jan 2024 | 42
How 'sleeper agent' AI assistants can sabotage your code without you realizing Analysis Today's safety guardrails won't catch these backdoors AI + ML16 Jan 2024 | 32
KDE 6 hits RC-1 while KDE 5 brings fresh spin on OpenBSD New versions and ports of the Plasma desktop ahoy OSes15 Jan 2024 | 34
GitHub Copilot copyright case narrowed but not neutered Microsoft and OpenAI fail to shake off AI infringement allegations AI + ML12 Jan 2024 | 13
The week in weird: Check out the strangest CES tech of 2024 CES Cat flap fever, a streaming service for dogs, and other oddities on display in Vegas this week Personal Tech12 Jan 2024 | 27
Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession Power user excavates evidence of experimental 'Cowriter' feature OSes11 Jan 2024 | 71
Memtest86+, the little RAM tester, flexes FOSS muscles with v7.0 Essential tool for PC troubleshooting, even if you never run anything but Windows Storage11 Jan 2024 | 19
It's a preview party at Microsoft, but do you really want an invite? Developers are not alone in losing track of which platform to back Software11 Jan 2024 | 26
SAP to cough up $220M to drag bribery charges into recycle bin Enterprise software giant claims it has cut ties with bad apples Public Sector10 Jan 2024 | 17
SAP reshuffles leadership as cloud crusade continues New moves follow year where customers complained it broke their trust Databases10 Jan 2024 | 3
Biggest Linux kernel release ever welcomes bcachefs file system, jettisons Itanium Farewell IA64, hello snapshots and Rusty refinements OSes10 Jan 2024 | 55
Europe's monopoly cops suddenly rather curious about Microsoft's $13B for OpenAI Updated Redmond's three Es strike again: Embrace, Extend... EU AI + ML09 Jan 2024 | 7
OpenAI: 'Impossible to train today’s leading AI models without using copyrighted materials' As IEEE study shows super lab's neural nets can emit 'plagiaristic output' AI + ML08 Jan 2024 | 125
UK PM promises faster justice for Post Office Horizon victims Renewed focus follows TV drama Software08 Jan 2024 | 181
NIST: If someone's trying to sell you some secure AI, it's snake oil You really think someone would do that? Go on the internet and tell lies? AI + ML05 Jan 2024 | 20
Microsoft pulls the plug on WordPad, the world's least favorite text editor Throwback word processor ditched from clean installs, soon to be removed on upgrade OSes05 Jan 2024 | 98
Code archaeologist digs up oldest known ancestor of MS-DOS 86-DOS version 0.1-C found and archived – all nine files of it OSes05 Jan 2024 | 45
Late model: OpenAI GPT Store may debut next week Devil is in the as-yet-undisclosed revenue sharing details AI + ML05 Jan 2024 |
RIP: Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth Obit Evangelist of lean software and devisor of 9 programming languages and an OS was 89 Software04 Jan 2024 | 129
Google to start third-party cookie cull for 30 million Chrome users One of the ad APIs that will fill the void – Protected Audience – arguably may offer better privacy anyway Personal Tech04 Jan 2024 | 46
Microsoft kills off Windows app installation from the web, again Unpleasant Christmas package lets malware down the chimney Security04 Jan 2024 | 23
Intel and VCs form Articul8 to push chip giant's AI kit and IP 'Independent' biz unsurprisingly uses in Xeon and Habana, and patent libraries Systems03 Jan 2024 |
Windows boss takes on taskbar turmoil, pledges to 'make Start menu great again' Users aren't the only ones questioning the Windows 11 feature's utility OSes03 Jan 2024 | 131
X reverses course on headlines in article links, kinda Updated Meanwhile: Fidelity downgrades social network's valuation by 71%, so far Personal Tech03 Jan 2024 | 67
Supreme Court supremo ponders AI-powered judges, concludes he's not out of a job yet Justice Roberts thinks ML can help in legal cases, if humans keep their hands on the tiller AI + ML02 Jan 2024 | 6
Mozilla CEO pockets a packet, asks biz to pick up pace the 'Mozilla way' Which is all about privacy and encryption, apparently Applications02 Jan 2024 | 65
War of the workstations: How the lowest bidders shaped today's tech landscape Feature The MIT and New Jersey schools of software design, and how big lies turned into holy truths OSes25 Dec 2023 | 224
Artificial intelligence is a liability Comment Automating people out of business processes will not go well at all, mark our words AI + ML21 Dec 2023 | 97
Mozilla decides Trusted Types is a worthy security feature DOM-XSS attacks have become scarce on Google websites since TT debuted Security21 Dec 2023 | 15
Debian preps ground to drop 32-bit x86 as separate edition Bad news for several downstream distros, but good news for NetBSD OSes19 Dec 2023 | 22
Internet's deep-level architects slam US, UK, Europe for pushing device-side scanning Someone needs to think of the children ... and the consequences of breaking encryption and trashing privacy Networks19 Dec 2023 | 59
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in crypto stolen after Ledger code poisoned Former worker phished then NPM repo hijacked Cyber-crime16 Dec 2023 | 56
HashiCorp loses its Hashi, keeps the Corp as co-founder waves goodbye Mitchell Hashimoto departs, apparently unconnected to controversial licensing change Devops15 Dec 2023 | 3
Is it 2000 or 2023? Get ready for AI-anchored news. Again 'Cos Ananova worked out so well Bootnotes15 Dec 2023 | 36
VMware channel partner rates new product bundles and subs-only licenses 'very attractive' As Broadcom division announces it will keep desktop hypervisors, revive 'Flings' Virtualization15 Dec 2023 | 10
The truth about Dropbox opening up your files to AI – and the loss of trust in tech Comment 'Your info won't be harvested for training' is the new 'Your private chatter won't be used for ads' AI + ML15 Dec 2023 | 34
Linux Kernel of the Beast 6.6.6 exorcised by angelic 6.6.7 update The rapture of the black T-shirt brigade was very short indeed OSes14 Dec 2023 | 40
GM's Cruise sheds nine execs in the name of safety and integrity Updated Robotaxi firm's car ran over a woman, then it allegedly misled investigators Legal14 Dec 2023 | 14
Microsoft Forms feature request still not sorted after SEVEN years Request for time input field was added to project backlog – where it remains Software13 Dec 2023 | 41
HCL modernizes Notes by adding 2023's hot new item ... mail merge? Version 14 of venerable Domino groupware suite and its client debuts Software13 Dec 2023 | 16
Sports Illustrated boss fired – but it's totally nothing to do with AI fake news Publisher seeks 'the Uberization of Content' AI + ML12 Dec 2023 | 16
Kernel kerfuffle kiboshes Debian 12.3 release A mis-merged patch causing corruption on ext4 volumes is to blame OSes12 Dec 2023 | 29
Proposed US surveillance regime would enlist more businesses Expanded service provider definition could force cafes and hotels to spy for the feds Security12 Dec 2023 | 10
Boffins fool AI chatbot into revealing harmful content – with 98 percent success rate This one weird trick works every time, most of the time AI + ML11 Dec 2023 | 27
Open source forkers stick an OpenBao in the oven HashiCorp software faces challenge after licensing change Personal Tech08 Dec 2023 | 4
Polish train maker denies claims its software bricked rolling stock maintained by competitor Says it was probably hacked, which isn't good news either Security08 Dec 2023 | 88
Raspberry Pi OS goes goth First post-Pi 5 update brings dark mode among numerous bug fixes Personal Tech07 Dec 2023 | 18
Dump C++ and in Rust you should trust, Five Eyes agencies urge Memory safety vulnerabilities need to be crushed with better code Public Sector07 Dec 2023 | 185
Atlassian security advisory reveals four fresh critical flaws – in mail with dead links Bitbucket, Confluence and Jira all in danger, again. Sigh Security06 Dec 2023 | 7
Microsoft issues deadline for end of Windows 10 support – it's pay to play for security Limited options will be available into 2028, for an undisclosed price Security06 Dec 2023 | 76
Boffins devise 'universal backdoor' for image models to cause AI hallucinations Data poisoning appears open to all AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 24
Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs We're canceling our subscriptions, say librarians citing co-founder's views SaaS01 Dec 2023 | 43
Cinnamon and KDE sync version numbers in desktop sibling rivalry Expect the former in a Linux Mint point release later this year OSes01 Dec 2023 | 9
Small but mighty, 9Front's 'Humanbiologics' is here for the truly curious Programmers developing what is essentially UNIX 2.0 are still busy bunnies OSes01 Dec 2023 | 46
Scribbling limits in free version of Evernote set to test users' patience Deckchairs continue to be rearranged on the jotting platform? Applications30 Nov 2023 | 28
HP printer software turns up uninvited on Windows systems No escape from bloat, even without relevant hardware attached OSes30 Nov 2023 | 59
Roblox investor plays hardball over 'weak' parental controls Shareholder claims company should have 'warned' about issue before stock price plunge Legal30 Nov 2023 | 10
Weak session keys let snoops take a byte out of your Bluetooth traffic BLUFFS spying flaw present in iPhones, ThinkPad, plenty of chipsets Research30 Nov 2023 | 12
Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org Firefox 121, freshly in beta test, will default to the protocol too OSes29 Nov 2023 | 49