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 |
Software
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 | 6
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 | 23
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 | 56
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 | 28
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 | 52
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
Getting on board with AI
How partnerships can provide the key to getting up and running with AI faster than the competition
Sponsored Feature
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 | 34
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 | 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
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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
Ransomware feared as IT 'issues' force Octapharma Plasma to close 150+ centers
Updated 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
Cybercriminals threaten to leak all 5 million records from stolen database of high-risk individuals
It’s the second time the World-Check list has fallen into the wrong hands
Your trainee just took down our business and has no idea how or why
On Call Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the debrief meeting
IBM accused of cheating its own executive assistants out of overtime pay
Big Blue bosses retaliate against those seeking overtime, lawsuit claims
Wing Commander III changed how the copy hotkey works in Windows 95
No, boss, I'm not just playing a game. I'm testing compatibility. Honest
Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students
Do not pass go, do not collect $200, says government agency
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...
STORIES
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 | 82
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 | 46
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 | 50
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 | 19
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
Meeting the challenges of embedded Linux
Reap the benefits by being in the know
Webinar
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
Beyond the core
Discover the benefits of embedded Linux systems
Webinar
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
The road to innovation using AI and machine learning
Hear how Amazon Web Services and its partners can help you innovate faster with AI and machine learning
Sponsored Post
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
Biting the hand that feeds IT
