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 | 7
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 | 7
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 | 42
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 | 4
Stability AI decimates staff just weeks after CEO's exit More like Instability AI, right kids? AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 8
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 | 4
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 | 26
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 | 46
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 | 32
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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 | 28
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 | 48
Mars helicopter sends final message, but will keep collecting data One last software update installed safely, reconfigured it as 'stationary testbed' Science18 Apr 2024 | 20
Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash Nobody cared enough to check why audits were out of whack Software18 Apr 2024 | 19
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 | 5
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
EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy Platforms should not confront users with 'binary choice' over personal data use
Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app Commissioner Thierry Breton likens click-to-earn version to cigarettes
Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash Nobody cared enough to check why audits were out of whack
Ransomware feared as IT 'issues' force Octapharma Plasma to close 150+ centers Source blames BlackSuit infection – as separately ISP Frontier confirms cyberattack
Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed UK reckoning with prospect of millions of homes with obsolete hardware
Novelty flip phone strips out almost every feature possible to be as boring as possible Only good for calls and texts pretty much, and that's no mistake
Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color, squishes ancient bug 2.9 gives a taste of what's to come
Hugely expanded Section 702 surveillance powers set for US Senate vote Opponents warn almost anyone could be asked to share info with Uncle Sam
Cisco creates architecture to improve security and sell you new switches Hypershield detects bad behavior and automagically reconfigures networks to snuff out threats
Official: EU users can swerve App Store and download iOS apps from the web Anticompetitive remedies? We've heard of them Applications17 Apr 2024 | 80
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 | 45
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 | 37
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 | 43
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 | 66
Gentoo Linux tells AI-generated code contributions to fork off A good PR move opines community member OSes16 Apr 2024 | 18
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 | 12
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 | 3
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 | 4
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 | 66
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 | 12
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 | 110
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 | 29
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 | 60
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 | 35
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 14 dropping IA64 support is final nail in the coffin for Itanium architecture Linux kernel cut it loose, now leading FOSS compiler lands depth-charge on Itanic Applications12 Apr 2024 | 79
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 | 12
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
Next-gen Meta AI chip serves up ads while sipping power Fresh silicon won't curb Zuck's appetite for GPUs just yet On-Prem10 Apr 2024 | 6
It's 2024 and Intel silicon is still haunted by data-spilling Spectre Go, go InSpectre Gadget Research10 Apr 2024 | 23
US House mulls forcing AI makers to reveal use of copyrighted training data Proposed law doesn't include any ban on use of such stuff to build models, mind you AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 16
Healthcare AI won't take jobs – it'll make nursing easier, says process automation founder Interview Something's gotta give in short-staffed, overworked healthcare industry, reckons Thoughtful cofounder and CPO AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 19
SharePoint logs are easily circumvented and Microsoft is dragging its heels Now is the perfect time to review those permissions Applications10 Apr 2024 | 7
Why it’s time to rethink your cloud strategy Organizations must rethink where and how they are placing their workloads as applications and data become more distributed Commissioned
Virtually and actually, LXC 6 and Incus 6 are here – both LTS versions There's a new version of Canonical's LXD too, but its community fork seems to be thriving Virtualization10 Apr 2024 | 7
AI boom is boosting demand even for HDDs, raising prices by up to 20% since Q3 No computer part, even spinning rust, is safe from the hype cycle Storage10 Apr 2024 | 1
Intel CEO suggests AI can help to create a one-person Unicorn Intel Vision And possibly replace entire business units too AI + ML10 Apr 2024 | 38
Chrome Enterprise Premium promises extra security – for a fee Cloud Next Paying for browsers is no longer a memory from the 1990s Security10 Apr 2024 | 33
Microsoft brings World of Warcraft and other Blizzard titles back to China Battle with NetEase ends, peace deal will see games cross the Great Firewall - in both directions Software10 Apr 2024 | 6
Intel over the Moon as Lunar Lake’s NPU performance TOPS Meteor Lake Intel Vision Pat Gelsinger claims 3x performance in next-gen silicon for AI PCs Systems10 Apr 2024 | 3
Google Cloud chief is really psyched about this AI thing Cloud Next We're on a highway to ML PaaS + IaaS09 Apr 2024 | 6
Notepad++ dev slams Google-clogging notepad.plus 'parasite' Updated Imitator seemingly swiftly sunk from search after plea to users for help Applications09 Apr 2024 | 105
Despite two previous court victories, Tesla settles third Autopilot liability case Amount sealed because it would result in 'serious injury,' say company lawyers AI + ML09 Apr 2024 | 47
Grafana Labs updates observability line-up with query-less visualization CTO Tom Wilkie gives an optimistic take on AI without climbing on the bandwagon Applications09 Apr 2024 |
VMS Software prunes OpenVMS hobbyist program Vintage OS editions go the way of the dodo as VSI cranks up exclusivity Applications09 Apr 2024 | 54
Reader poll – what next for AI and HPC El Reg readers have their say on approach to building and deploying AI enabled applications and services Sponsored Survey
Arm flexes silicon muscles to push generative AI at the edge Ethos-U85 microNPU boasts 4x performance boost over previous gen Systems09 Apr 2024 | 1
AI could crash democracy and cause wars, warns Japan's NTT Calls for ecosystem in which AIs keep other AIs in check, and lots more regulation AI + ML09 Apr 2024 | 27
SiFive is back with another 64-bit RISC-V dev board – hopefully Ditching Intel for a system-on-chip out of Beijing On-Prem09 Apr 2024 | 6
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Japan may join UK/US/Australia defense-oriented AI and quantum alliance But not the nuclear subs bit Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 30
Microsoft puts ex-DeepMind boffin in charge of London AI hub Follows £2.5 billion pledge to 'upskill' British workers for the new world order AI + ML08 Apr 2024 | 2
Developers are calling the shots on AI planning, judging by your experience Reader Poll Results And American CIOs keep a closer eye on the purse strings than European equivalents AI + ML08 Apr 2024 |
Shadow of Trump hangs over future EU-US tech collaboration Orange candidate has been known to use protectionist policy against allies AI + ML08 Apr 2024 | 12
Google is wrong to put AI search features behind paywall, says HPC leader Interview 'A huge amount of responsibility to ensure that there is ethical management' AI + ML08 Apr 2024 | 33
A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS Easter egg in test build could have scrambled Microsoft's reputation OSes08 Apr 2024 | 48