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Larry Ellison tiers Amazon a new one: Oracle cloud gets 'always' free offer, plus something about Linux

IBM looks to boost sales the same way it has for 65 years – yes, it's a new mainframe: The z15

Justice served: There is no escape from the long server log of the law

Two years ago, 123-Reg and NamesCo decided to register millions of .uk domains for customers without asking them. They just got the renewal reminders...

Stallman's final interview as FSF president: Last week we quizzed him over Microsoft visit. Now he quits top roles amid Epstein email storm

I got 99 problems but a switch() ain't one: Java SE 13 lands with various tweaks as per Oracle's less-is-more strategy

Wi-Fi woes and broken browser target both young and old in Microsoft patch land

Linux 5.3 kernel bundles new, cuddlier, swear-free Torvalds with AMD Radeon Navi graphics support

How much pass could LastPass pass if LastPass passed last pass? Login-leaking security hole fixed

Just as Ecuador thought it had seen the back of leaks, over 20m citizen records are exposed

Australia didn't blame China for parliament hack in case it upset trade relations – report

You all know why you should encrypt your cloud data – now learn where and how…

Why would anyone need Cloud Foundry when we have Kubernetes? Um, 'cos K8s is really hard!

Do you work at a non-profit? Would you like to be non-servers, too? We've got 20 conf tix up for grabs if you're quick

Freebie tier coming to issue-tracking Jira, but you'll have to cough up to unlock the good stuff

Think you’ve blown your chance to save with serverless? Not so FaaSt...

Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google told: If you could cough up a decade of your internal emails, that'd be great

UK Home Office primes Brexit spam cannon for a million texts reminding folk to check passports

Has outsourcing public-sector IT worked? The Institute for Government seems to think so, kinda

Pushing Verify in Brexit plans more about saving troubled project

Fitbit fitness fans furious following flummoxing flawed firmware float, fleeting feedback, failed fixes

The results are in… and California’s GDPR-ish digital privacy law has survived onslaught by Google and friends

Wall Street analyst slashes HP Inc's share rating amid mounting worries over printer supplies declines

Incoming... Trump! Notebook makers ramp production to avoid next tidal wave of US trade tariffs

Geek's Guide

Magnetic cockroaches, dirty money, wombat poo and posties' balls: It's the Ig Nobels 2019

MIT boffins turn black up to 11 with carbon nanotubes that absorb 99.995% of light

Tut – you wait a lifetime for an interstellar object then two come at once

Astroboffins baffled as black hole at center of Milky Way suddenly a lot hungrier than before

Face-recognizing cop body cams hit another hurdle, genderless voice assistants, and more

700km on a single charge: Mercedes says it's in it for the long run

And the teeny-tiny bottle of AI whisky goes to...

France says 'non merci' to Facebook-backed Libra cryptocurrency

Verity Stob

World's oldest human was a 122-year-old French smoker after all

Au my bog: Bloke, 66, on bail after 'solid-gold' crapper called 'America' stolen from stately home

Wake me up before you Gogo ... so I can jump out: Kenyan MP takes on aeroplane flatulence

Time for another cuppa then? Tea-drinkers have better brains, say boffins with even better brains

Emergent Tech

Artificial Intelligence

Face-recognizing cop body cams hit another hurdle, genderless voice assistants, and more

RoundupOne of these days we'll use machine learning to write these AI news summaries

16 Sep 23:48 |

Emergent Tech

Do you want fr-AI-s with that appy-meal? McDonald's gobbles machine-learning biz for human-free Drive Thrus

AI'm Lovin' It

11 Sep 22:36 | 34

Emergent Tech

The gig (economy) is up: New California law upgrades Lyft, Uber, other app serfs to staff

AnalysisRules may blow up bug bounty upstarts, too

11 Sep 19:28 | 87

Artificial Intelligence

#MeToo chatbot, built by AI academics, could lend a non-judgmental ear to sex harassment and assault victims

Prototype tries to offer help, advice to people uncomfortable discussing abuse with others

11 Sep 07:34 | 25

Emergent Tech

Not so easy to make a quick getaway when it takes 3 hours to juice up your motor, eh Brits?

UpdatedNot to worry, UK.gov has put a few pennies into faster 'leccy car chargers

10 Sep 15:37 | 213

Emergent Tech

Psst. Wanna brush up your supervillain creds? Get a load of this mini submarine

Now you too can re-enact the diving scenes from Das Boot

10 Sep 15:00 | 59

Emergent Tech

Mainstream auto makers stuff in more self-driving tech: 8% of new Euro cars have Level 2 smarts

And prices are falling

09 Sep 17:03 | 67

Artificial Intelligence

If only something could intelligently analyze our mountains of paperwork. Hey, let's ask our new friend, machine learning

SponsoredCompliance, sharing, collaboration, process optimizing... there's so much AI can do in modern enterprises

09 Sep 06:00 |

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook pushing for facials and fighting deepfakes while US Army learning AI ethics

RoundupAlso cunning crimes use machine learning to steal cash

09 Sep 05:03 | 4

Artificial Intelligence

Apple programs Siri to not bother its pretty little head with questions about feminism

Cyber-assistant taught to duck sensitive topics

07 Sep 13:03 | 77

Artificial Intelligence

Be still, our drinking hearts: Help Reg name whisky beast conjured by Swedish distillers and AI blendbot

Win a wee sample of Mackmyra's Azure-addled stuff

06 Sep 11:00 | 137

Artificial Intelligence

'I radically update my course module almost every year to keep up with the rate of change'

InterviewFacebook London AI chief and uni prof Sebastian Riedel talks to us ahead of MCubed conference keynote

06 Sep 08:31 | 5

Emergent Tech

The time a Commodore CDTV disc proved its worth as something other than a coaster

On CallWhat's that coming over the hill? Is it a CD? Is it a CD?

06 Sep 07:06 | 200

Artificial Intelligence

Oops, wait, yeah, we did hand over photos for King's Cross facial-recog CCTV, cops admit

Mayor apologizes, joins privacy watchdogs in probing use of technology in bustling corner of UK capital

06 Sep 00:24 | 48

Internet of Things

Stalking cheap Chinese GPS child trackers is as easy as 123... 456 – because that's the default password on 600k+ of these gizmos

It's 2019 and, like, duh, insecurity comes as standard

05 Sep 22:45 | 32

Emergent Tech

China remains in pole position for electric vehicle uptake despite cuts to subsidies

7% of new cars run on batteries compared to 3% in Europe

05 Sep 14:25 | 21

Artificial Intelligence

Q. If machine learning is so smart, how come AI models are such racist, sexist homophobes? A. Humans really suck

UpdatedOur prejudices rub off on our computer pals, sadly

05 Sep 07:02 | 74

Emergent Tech

Suspected crypto-coin crook collared after emailing apology note to the cops rather than victim – shock claim

Phone nicked at airport, $15k in fun bux drained from wallet

04 Sep 20:00 | 21

Larry Ellison tiers Amazon a new one: Oracle cloud gets 'always' free offer, plus something about Linux

IBM looks to boost sales the same way it has for 65 years – yes, it's a new mainframe: The z15

Justice served: There is no escape from the long server log of the law

Two years ago, 123-Reg and NamesCo decided to register millions of .uk domains for customers without asking them. They just got the renewal reminders...

Stallman's final interview as FSF president: Last week we quizzed him over Microsoft visit. Now he quits top roles amid Epstein email storm

I got 99 problems but a switch() ain't one: Java SE 13 lands with various tweaks as per Oracle's less-is-more strategy

Wi-Fi woes and broken browser target both young and old in Microsoft patch land

Linux 5.3 kernel bundles new, cuddlier, swear-free Torvalds with AMD Radeon Navi graphics support

How much pass could LastPass pass if LastPass passed last pass? Login-leaking security hole fixed

Just as Ecuador thought it had seen the back of leaks, over 20m citizen records are exposed

Australia didn't blame China for parliament hack in case it upset trade relations – report

You all know why you should encrypt your cloud data – now learn where and how…

Why would anyone need Cloud Foundry when we have Kubernetes? Um, 'cos K8s is really hard!

Do you work at a non-profit? Would you like to be non-servers, too? We've got 20 conf tix up for grabs if you're quick

Freebie tier coming to issue-tracking Jira, but you'll have to cough up to unlock the good stuff

Think you’ve blown your chance to save with serverless? Not so FaaSt...

Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google told: If you could cough up a decade of your internal emails, that'd be great

UK Home Office primes Brexit spam cannon for a million texts reminding folk to check passports

Has outsourcing public-sector IT worked? The Institute for Government seems to think so, kinda

Pushing Verify in Brexit plans more about saving troubled project

Fitbit fitness fans furious following flummoxing flawed firmware float, fleeting feedback, failed fixes

The results are in… and California’s GDPR-ish digital privacy law has survived onslaught by Google and friends

Wall Street analyst slashes HP Inc's share rating amid mounting worries over printer supplies declines

Incoming... Trump! Notebook makers ramp production to avoid next tidal wave of US trade tariffs

Magnetic cockroaches, dirty money, wombat poo and posties' balls: It's the Ig Nobels 2019

MIT boffins turn black up to 11 with carbon nanotubes that absorb 99.995% of light

Tut – you wait a lifetime for an interstellar object then two come at once

Astroboffins baffled as black hole at center of Milky Way suddenly a lot hungrier than before

Face-recognizing cop body cams hit another hurdle, genderless voice assistants, and more

700km on a single charge: Mercedes says it's in it for the long run

And the teeny-tiny bottle of AI whisky goes to...

France says 'non merci' to Facebook-backed Libra cryptocurrency

World's oldest human was a 122-year-old French smoker after all

Au my bog: Bloke, 66, on bail after 'solid-gold' crapper called 'America' stolen from stately home

Wake me up before you Gogo ... so I can jump out: Kenyan MP takes on aeroplane flatulence

Time for another cuppa then? Tea-drinkers have better brains, say boffins with even better brains

Emergent Tech

Face-recognizing cop body cams hit another hurdle, genderless voice assistants, and more

700km on a single charge: Mercedes says it's in it for the long run

And the teeny-tiny bottle of AI whisky goes to...

France says 'non merci' to Facebook-backed Libra cryptocurrency

Do you want fr-AI-s with that appy-meal? McDonald's gobbles machine-learning biz for human-free Drive Thrus

The gig (economy) is up: New California law upgrades Lyft, Uber, other app serfs to staff

#MeToo chatbot, built by AI academics, could lend a non-judgmental ear to sex harassment and assault victims

Not so easy to make a quick getaway when it takes 3 hours to juice up your motor, eh Brits?

Psst. Wanna brush up your supervillain creds? Get a load of this mini submarine

Mainstream auto makers stuff in more self-driving tech: 8% of new Euro cars have Level 2 smarts

If only something could intelligently analyze our mountains of paperwork. Hey, let's ask our new friend, machine learning

Facebook pushing for facials and fighting deepfakes while US Army learning AI ethics

Apple programs Siri to not bother its pretty little head with questions about feminism

Be still, our drinking hearts: Help Reg name whisky beast conjured by Swedish distillers and AI blendbot

'I radically update my course module almost every year to keep up with the rate of change'

The time a Commodore CDTV disc proved its worth as something other than a coaster

Oops, wait, yeah, we did hand over photos for King's Cross facial-recog CCTV, cops admit

Stalking cheap Chinese GPS child trackers is as easy as 123... 456 – because that's the default password on 600k+ of these gizmos

China remains in pole position for electric vehicle uptake despite cuts to subsidies

Q. If machine learning is so smart, how come AI models are such racist, sexist homophobes? A. Humans really suck

Suspected crypto-coin crook collared after emailing apology note to the cops rather than victim – shock claim

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Justice served: There is no escape from the long server log of the law

Wake me up before you Gogo ... so I can jump out: Kenyan MP takes on aeroplane flatulence

You all know why you should encrypt your cloud data – now learn where and how…

UK Home Office primes Brexit spam cannon for a million texts reminding folk to check passports

Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google told: If you could cough up a decade of your internal emails, that'd be great

Has outsourcing public-sector IT worked? The Institute for Government seems to think so, kinda

Au my bog: Bloke, 66, on bail after 'solid-gold' crapper called 'America' stolen from stately home

World's oldest human was a 122-year-old French smoker after all

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Tesla Autopilot crash driver may have been eating a bagel at the time, was lucky not to get schmeared on road

YouTube's radicalizing Alt-right trolls and Facebook's recruiting new language boffins

The top three attributes for getting injured on e-scooters? Having no helmet, being drunk or drugged, oddly enough

Lab grown stem cells emit brain waves like newborns – and boffins build robot worm to slither through heads

Apple says sorry for Siri slurping voice commands of unsuspecting users

Army Watchkeeper drone flopped into tree because crew were gazing backwards

A carbon-nanotube RISC-V CPU blinks into life. Boffins hold their breath awaiting first sign of life... 'Hello world!'

Bloke who claimed he invented Bitcoin must hand over $5bn of e-dosh in court case. He can't. He's waiting for a time traveler to arrive

The Tell-Tale Heart! Boffins build an AI that can tell your sex using just your heartbeat