IBM to acquire Hashi for $6.4 billion, hopes it will boost software biz and Red Hat Investors want to know what Big Blue is smoking after growth disappoints Off-Prem25 Apr 2024 | 3
With Run:ai acquisition, Nvidia aims to manage your AI kubes Now Jensen has a control plane to play with his army of NIMs AI + ML24 Apr 2024 |
Apple releases OpenELM, a slightly more accurate LLM It's not the fastest machine learning model, but you can't have everything AI + ML24 Apr 2024 | 5
Now all Windows 11 users are getting adverts to 'make the Start menu great again' And you thought the Bing begging was annoying OSes24 Apr 2024 | 39
Java thriving after 30 years Why OpenJDK is as important as ever in the big picture of IT Sponsored Feature
Euro cloud group blasts Broadcom over VMware licensing maneuvers Updated CISPE says concessions 'solve nothing' Virtualization24 Apr 2024 | 1
Law prof predicts generative AI will die at the hands of watchdogs Video Big tech backlash and animus against the machines will invite stifling red tape AI + ML24 Apr 2024 | 14
Graph databases speaking the same language after ISO gives GQL the nod Standards body adoption could help ease portability between vendors Databases24 Apr 2024 | 4
Japanese and Singaporean devs battle over gamified crowdsourced telco maintenance app You read that right – it's a bit like Pokémon Go, but for telephone poles Software24 Apr 2024 | 1
China's mega-telcos are spending billions on AI servers China Mobile alone wants almost 8,000 machines Systems24 Apr 2024 | 7
Waymo robotaxi drives down wrong side of street after being alarmed by unicyclists Strange tales from San Francisco AI + ML23 Apr 2024 | 51
Miracle-WM tiling window manager for Mir hits 0.2.0 What are Mir and Wayland all about anyway? Software23 Apr 2024 | 10
GM shared our driving data with insurers without consent, lawsuit claims Motorists file class action alleging breach of contract and more after their premiums went up Databases23 Apr 2024 | 17
Microsoft shrinks AI down to pocket size with Phi-3 Mini Language model focused on reasoning fits on a smartphone and runs offline AI + ML23 Apr 2024 | 11
Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs Even tighter requirements, so it's time to put old hardware out to pasture... or find an alternative OS OSes23 Apr 2024 | 235
SAP cloud swells its topline, but profits slide Cloud migration good for margins, CEO says Databases23 Apr 2024 |
Japan to draw up routes for roads dedicated to robot trucks Digital reform conference sees PM repeat calls to get online government services right at last Public Sector23 Apr 2024 | 9
Ex-CEO of 'unicorn' app startup HeadSpin heads to jail after BS'ing investors Lachwani faked it but didn't make it Applications22 Apr 2024 | 7
Huawei wants to take homegrown HarmonyOS phone platform worldwide Chinese tech juggernaut eyes global expansion despite US tech restrictions OSes22 Apr 2024 | 23
Tiny11 Builder trims Windows 11 fat with PowerShell script The Reg accepts no responsibility for borked installations OSes22 Apr 2024 | 8
Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs Even tighter requirements, so it's time to put old hardware out to pasture... or find an alternative OS
Leicester streetlights take ransomware attack personally, shine on 24/7 City council says it lost control after shutting down systems
If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? Exclusive One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all
Voyager 1 regains sanity after engineers patch around problematic memory All from billions of miles away
US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics
Over a million Neighbourhood Watch members exposed through web app bug Unverified users could scoop up data on high-value individuals without any form of verification process
UnitedHealth admits IT security breach could 'cover substantial proportion of people in America' That said, good ol' American healthcare system so elaborately costly, some are forced to avoid altogether
Another Boeing whistleblower comes forward – with receipts What's that? Q1 was better than expected? Pump those shares
GM shared our driving data with insurers without consent, lawsuit claims Motorists file class action alleging breach of contract and more after their premiums went up
Fedora 40 is just around the corner with more spins and flavors than ever KDE edition has the most conspicuous changes, and could become future flagship OSes22 Apr 2024 | 4
Lawsuit accuses Grindr of illegally sharing users' HIV status LGBTQ+ dating app's maker previously denied selling sensitive user data Applications22 Apr 2024 | 5
Ex-Amazon exec claims she was asked to ignore copyright law in race to AI High-flying AI scientist claims unfair dismissal following pregnancy leave AI + ML22 Apr 2024 | 42
Copilot auto-launch bug now takes flight in multiple Windows Insider channels Clippy 2024 is something else OSes22 Apr 2024 | 11
IT consultant-cum-developer in court over hiding COVID-19 loan Syzmon Jastrzebski bagged six figures, money written off as he's left the country Software22 Apr 2024 | 42
Rarest, strangest, form of Windows saved techie from moment of security madness Who, Me? For once, Redmond's finest saved the day - by being rubbish in unexpectedly useful ways Security22 Apr 2024 | 89
Microsoft foresees a new type of AI PC: A Surface designed with help from machines For now, Redmond is dogfooding Azure for product simulations AI + ML22 Apr 2024 | 5
Microsoft teases deepfake AI that's too powerful to release VASA-1 framework can turn a still image and a cloned voice file into a plausible video of a person talking AI + ML20 Apr 2024 | 41
Lightweight LXQt 2.0.0 updates to same toolkit as KDE Plasma 6 4-letter survivor's move to Qt 6 means that, love it or hate it, Wayland is looming OSes20 Apr 2024 | 18
Google squashes AI teams together in push for fresh models You can leave your personal vendettas at home – we have work to do, Pichai warns AI + ML19 Apr 2024 | 11
Qt Ubuntu 24.04 betas show that there's room to innovate Hot on the heels of Ubuntu Noble beta come the betas of the Qt-based remixes, with some interesting differences OSes19 Apr 2024 | 38
UK unions publish AI bill to protect workers from 'risks and harms' of tech TUC questions government's approach so far AI + ML19 Apr 2024 | 3
Oracle scores big win with Fujitsu Japan for its Alloy partner cloud But Big Red's $8 billion investment plan may not be all it seems Channel19 Apr 2024 | 1
Meta lets Llama 3 LLM out to graze, claims it can give Google and Anthropic a kicking Plans multilingual 400 billion parameter version, but starts with more modest fare AI + ML19 Apr 2024 | 8
US Air Force says AI-controlled F-16 fighter jet has been dogfighting with humans Video Robo-plane was made to restrain itself so as not to harm pilot or airframe AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 104
Crooks exploit OpenMetadata holes to mine crypto – and leave a sob story for victims 'I want to buy a car. That's all' Cyber-crime18 Apr 2024 | 6
Stability AI decimates staff just weeks after CEO's exit More like Instability AI, right kids? AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 13
Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students Do not pass go, do not collect $200, says government agency Software18 Apr 2024 | 5
October 2025 will be a support massacre for a bunch of Microsoft products Not just Windows 10. Don't forget about Exchange Server, Skype for Business, and all those Office installations Software18 Apr 2024 | 34
Microsoft claims it didn't mean to inject Copilot into Windows Server 2022 this week AI assistant turns up via Edge update. It was an accident. This time... AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 53
Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color, squishes ancient bug 2.9 gives a taste of what's to come OSes18 Apr 2024 | 34
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AI PCs are here but a killer application for biz users? Nope Resist the pressure to jump on the bandwagon just yet warns, warns Forrester AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 37
Valkey publishes release candidate and attracts new backer Open source Redis alternative gathers momentum Databases18 Apr 2024 | 5
Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app Commissioner Thierry Breton likens click-to-earn version to cigarettes Software18 Apr 2024 | 53
Mars helicopter sends final message, but will keep collecting data One last software update installed safely, reconfigured it as 'stationary testbed' Science18 Apr 2024 | 21
Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash Nobody cared enough to check why audits were out of whack Software18 Apr 2024 | 20
Psst, hey. It's the NSA. You want some AI security advice? You can trust us, we're the good guys AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 2
Intel's neuromorphic 'owl brain' swoops into Sandia labs Hala Point system crams more than a thousand neurochips into a 6U chassis to tackle real-time AI AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 1
AlmaLinux 9.4 beta prepares to tread where RHEL dares not CIQ also has an alternative approach to compatible kernels with RockyLinux OSes17 Apr 2024 | 6
Official: EU users can swerve App Store and download iOS apps from the web Anticompetitive remedies? We've heard of them Applications17 Apr 2024 | 84
Mega city council's Oracle ERP system still not legally safe, compliant... 2 years after rollout Fusion software misses another deadline, one external auditors for Birmingham City Council described as 'absolutely crucial' Databases17 Apr 2024 | 47
OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories While some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 6
NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades later FOSDEM 2024 Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types OSes17 Apr 2024 | 39
Devaluing content created by AI is lazy and ignores history Column The answer is not to hide from ML, but to be honest about it AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 65
Google will pump more than $100B into AI, says DeepMind boss Not all at once, of course AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 5
Indian PM's 25-year roadmap laid out with help from AI AI is so good at drawing pictures and driving cars, why not let it govern a country? AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 8
RISC-V AI chip upstart Rivos plans to undercut Nvidia, helped by a quarter-billion in VC lucre With Apple lawsuit behind it, focussed on finalizing its designs On-Prem17 Apr 2024 |
YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids EFF lambastes latest 'lazy and deliberately malicious move' Applications16 Apr 2024 | 67
Gentoo Linux tells AI-generated code contributions to fork off A good PR move opines community member OSes16 Apr 2024 | 21
Torvalds intentionally complicates his use of indentation in Linux Kconfig Paramount penguin forces more robust whitespace handling OSes16 Apr 2024 | 90
Microsoft to tackle spam by restricting Exchange Online bulk email Need to send to more than 2,000 external recipients in 24 hours? Time to start looking for an alternative Applications16 Apr 2024 | 13
US Equal Employment agency says Workday AI hiring bias case should continue Judge to hear software vendor's effort to dismiss discrimination case next month Software16 Apr 2024 | 4
AI gold rush continues as Microsoft invests $1.5B in UAE's G42 Can regulators keep up? AI + ML16 Apr 2024 | 3
KPMG bags £8.5M NHS gig as cheerleader for Federated Data Platform rollout Consultancy tasked with helping local services get on board Public Sector16 Apr 2024 | 7
AI cloud startup TensorWave bets AMD can beat Nvidia Starts racking MI300X systems - because you can actually buy them and they beat the H100 on many specs Systems16 Apr 2024 | 5
Broadcom throws VMware customers on perpetual licenses a lifeline Meanwhile, Gartner predicts massive market share loss and European regulators start asking questions Virtualization16 Apr 2024 | 15
OpenAI launches Asian operations in Tokyo to avoid being lost in translation Local customers get early access to Japanese-language GPT-4 AI + ML16 Apr 2024 | 3
Los Alamos Lab powers up Nvidia-laden Venado supercomputer Promises up to ten AI exaFLOPs of grunt – if you turn down the resolution a bit Systems16 Apr 2024 | 4
What's up with AI lately? Let's start with soaring costs, public anger, regulations... 'Obtaining genuine consent for training data collection is especially challenging' industry sages say AI + ML15 Apr 2024 | 12
Senator Warren slams Intuit's 'junk fees' as America's Tax Day rolls around again Says the IRS can do this stuff for free Applications15 Apr 2024 | 67
Japan turns up heat on Apple, Google with threat of hefty fines Antitrust proposals could stretch to 30% of annual revenues for law-breaking app store monopolies Applications15 Apr 2024 | 3
Microsoft lifts years-old compatibility hold for Windows 11 It probably wasn't only sound driver problems that kept users away OSes15 Apr 2024 | 13
North American S/4HANA migrations ramping among SAP users Skills access still an issue for organizations hoping to beat the 2027 ECC support deadline Databases15 Apr 2024 | 1
Microsoft to use Windows 11 Start menu as a billboard with app ads for Insiders This wasn't what most had in mind when Redmond promised to make the feature 'great again' OSes15 Apr 2024 | 111
After delay due to xz, Ubuntu 24.04 'Noble Numbat' belatedly hits beta Kernel 6.8, GNOME 46, and more apps in Snap packages OSes15 Apr 2024 | 30
MIT breakthrough means there's no material too weird for 3D printing Thanks to sensors and math, machines can 'learn' to adapt to new mediums OSes15 Apr 2024 | 18
Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 15
Hyundai picks Palantir to help it build automated navy ships Reconaissance vessels first, then set a course for armed drones AI + ML15 Apr 2024 | 8
Salesforce apparently poised to slurp data management outfit Informatica Investors get excited about using AI to make AI easier Software15 Apr 2024 |
Why making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy Interview Industrial revolution didn't give us human mimics, so why should AI think like us, this computer scientist wonders AI + ML14 Apr 2024 | 61
How to coax ChatGPT into making better predictions: Get it to tell tales from the future 'Something is stopping it, even though it clearly can do it' AI + ML14 Apr 2024 | 16
AI spam is winning the battle against search engine quality interview 'Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content' AI + ML13 Apr 2024 | 36
75% of enterprise coders will use AI helpers by 2028. We didn't say productively Dev teams must beware inflated expectations of tech leadership, Gartner warns Devops13 Apr 2024 | 45
Intel preps export-friendly lower-power Gaudi 3 AI chips for China Beijing will be thrilled by this nerfed silicon AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 5
Adobe will fork over cash for clips to train text-to-video AI Not touching copyrighted material with a barge pole AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 2
OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations The most secure Unix-like OS to date? OSes12 Apr 2024 | 49
Microsoft gives Hyper-V ceilings a Herculean hike Windows Server 2025 will let you run a VM with 2,048 vCPUs, 240 TB RAM, and 68 network adapters Virtualization12 Apr 2024 | 48
GCC 15 dropping IA64 support is final nail in the coffin for Itanium architecture Updated Linux kernel cut it loose, now leading FOSS compiler lands depth-charge on Itanic Applications12 Apr 2024 | 81
Linux Foundation is leading fight against fauxpen source Opinion Shifts its transmission from vendor neutral into open source gear Applications12 Apr 2024 | 37
British watchdog has 'real concerns' about the staggering love-in between cloud giants and AI upstarts Billions in investment? Yeeeah, right – looks more like ensuring only select few developers thrive AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 4
VMware's end-user compute products probably have a new brand: Omnissa As the rest of Virtizilla's users face a pause in support and education services due to apparent SAP-to-Oracle migration Virtualization12 Apr 2024 | 13
OpenAI CEO wants UAE into his plan for a global AI cabal Asking for emir few billion bucks to pay for lots of fabs, datacenters, and nuclear power plants AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 7
ChatGPT-3.5, Claude 3 kick pixelated butt in Street Fighter III tournament for LLMs But don't expect them to compete with human pros anytime soon AI + ML11 Apr 2024 |
US, Japan announce joint AI research projects funded by Nvidia, Microsoft, others Not that $110M will go very far, mind AI + ML11 Apr 2024 |
Dell shaves months off lead times for GPU-powered AI servers TSMC turns advanced packaging production knob to 11 HPC11 Apr 2024 | 2
PumpkinOS carves out a FOSS PalmOS-compatible runtime environment And rePalm may yet bring real PalmOS to new hardware … even the Raspberry Pi OSes11 Apr 2024 | 13
MPs ask: Why is it so freakin' hard to get AI giants to pay copyright holders? Agreement on consent and compensation has failed to materialize AI + ML11 Apr 2024 | 58
Boffins deem Google DeepMind's material discoveries rather shallow Web titan rejects criticisms, insists AI-found compounds are legit AI + ML11 Apr 2024 | 21
US Air Force secretary so confident in AI-controlled F-16s, he'll fly in one With a pilot as backup of course – VENOM is still emerging tech AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 34