Microsoft and GitHub are still trying to derail Copilot code copyright legal fight And so far, they might succeed: Where's the smoking gun? AI + ML01 Jul 2023 | 42
UK competition watchdog threatens deeper probe of Adobe's $20B Figma deal Vendors have days to answer cost and innovation concerns, may face potential delay to merger... or worse Software30 Jun 2023 |
What it takes to keep an enterprise 'Frankenkernel' alive devconf.cz The skillful handiwork of merging bits from different kernels into one, and keeping it secure at the same time OSes30 Jun 2023 | 12
Experts scoff at UK Lords' suggestion that AI could one day make battlefield decisions Conservative peer admits he can't tell between dogs and cats either AI + ML30 Jun 2023 | 45
Meta's Oversight Board wants a prime minister banned from Facebook and Instagram Overrules decision that Cambodian leader Hun Sen's threats of political violence were newsworthy Software30 Jun 2023 | 10
Databricks puts cards on the table format as Snowflake looks for more players Analysis Enterprises want a single data platform for data lakes and warehouse, but tech's not there yet, say analysts Databases29 Jun 2023 | 2
Linux Mint cuts slice of 'Victoria' as 21.2 beta lands with dash of fresh Cinnamon Desktop Ubuntu, but without the nonsense OSes29 Jun 2023 | 46
Europe's largest city council runs parallel systems to cover Oracle rollout mess Decision to adapt software now subject of an independent management investigation Databases29 Jun 2023 | 43
Google uses India to test ‘deliver to the house near the post office’ feature Ads and search giant also open sources offensive stereotype database, and gives Amazon a poke Software29 Jun 2023 | 15
Oracle certifies its database for Arm architecture on-prem and in cloud Only for Ampere – but with a licencing twist that means Intel and AMD can't relax Databases29 Jun 2023 | 5
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT Where did they get the idea this bot was potentially spitting out personal info? Oh, from The Register AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 22
Microsoft's GitHub under fire for DDoSing crucial open source project website A tale of emergency firewalling, a little bit of victim blaming, and workflow scripts gone berserk Devops28 Jun 2023 | 46
Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge Ripples rebounding and reflecting from Red Hat's rebuff of RHEL rebuilds OSes28 Jun 2023 | 215
EU launches 4 testbeds to put AI tech through its paces before it goes to market The labs will look at AI and robotics for manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, and cities AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 5
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Metaverses are flopping – hard – says Gartner Clunky, costly, literally sickening data silos just aren't better than the real world Software28 Jun 2023 | 119
You may have heard about AI defeating voice authentication. This research kinda proves it Proof-of-concept study shows it's possible to bypass high levels of security, sometimes, sorta AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 15
Microsoft postpones death date for personally licensed Teams Rooms hardware The 'upgrade' is free, yet an amnesty is needed despite months of warning Software28 Jun 2023 | 16
Snowflake's finding NeMo to train custom AI models Snowflake Summit Submerge an Nvidia LLM 20,000 leagues under the data lake Databases27 Jun 2023 |
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JP Morgan accidentally deletes evidence in multi-million record retention screwup Fined $4m for Who-Me-esque mess, for which it blames unnamed archiving vendor's retention settings
Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries work permits They're vetted, almost acculturated, and will be booted from the US if they lose their gig
Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office Survey says most would prefer a gentle request
Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge Ripples rebounding and reflecting from Red Hat's rebuff of RHEL rebuilds
Chinese balloon that US shot down was 'crammed' with American hardware Blasted from the sky in February, device never transmitted photos, videos, or radar data it collected, officials say
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT Where did they get the idea this bot was potentially spitting out personal info? Oh, from The Register
Way out in deep space, astronomers spot precursor of carbon based life James Webb scope finds CH3+ – aka methyl cations – without which you probably wouldn't be reading this
Microsoft's GitHub under fire for DDoSing crucial open source project website A tale of emergency firewalling, a little bit of victim blaming, and workflow scripts gone berserk
It's 2023 and memory overwrite bugs are not just a thing, they're still number one Cough, cough, use Rust. Plus: Eight more exploited bugs added to CISA's must-patch list
Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them There's gold in them thar mobes. Also copper, silver and cobalt
Databricks snaps up MosaicML to build private, custom machine models Analysis Acquisition means for both parties get a shot at leading the roll-your-own AI market AI + ML27 Jun 2023 | 2
Attorney sues Microsoft for $1.75M, claiming his email has been useless since May Alleges he's still locked out and at risk of losing his licenses over missing comms Applications26 Jun 2023 | 64
US export ban drives prices of Nvidia's latest GPUs sky high in China AI in brief Plus: IBM builds AI commentator for Wimbledon; US regulator dithers on generative AI political ad policy AI + ML26 Jun 2023 | 4
Linux 6.4 debuts after literally unremarkable development push Latest cut of the kernel gets RISC-ier, moves towards Wi-Fi 7, ejects PCMCIA cards OSes26 Jun 2023 | 9
Singapore, Amazon lead push for 'purpose bound' digital money Asia In Brief PLUS: US joins India’s software diplomacy push; Suzuki to make flying cars; Indonesia's broadband bird Software26 Jun 2023 | 13
If AI drives humans to extinction, it'll be our fault +Comment Should you really believe the doomsayers? We're going to go with no AI + ML25 Jun 2023 | 139
FYI: Tor Browser is very much still a thing and getting updates Version 12.5 brings in Finnish language support, traffic node path visualization and more Applications25 Jun 2023 | 20
Microsoft investigating bug in Windows 11 File Explorer that makes the CPU hangry On the other hand, some old settings are set for a comeback OSes23 Jun 2023 | 47
Red Hat strikes a crushing blow against RHEL downstreams Comment From now on, only CentOS Stream's source code is available to all OSes23 Jun 2023 | 167
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Open source licenses need to leave the 1980s and evolve to deal with AI Opinion Time to get with the program... before artificial intelligence does Sysadmin Month23 Jun 2023 | 87
Lawyers who cited fake cases hallucinated by ChatGPT must pay Judge sanctions attorneys for failed reality check AI + ML22 Jun 2023 | 98
Oh, wow. OK. Apple really is making a $3.5K VR ski-mask. Dev tools are now out for it They weren't kidding about this facial, er, spatial computing thing Software22 Jun 2023 | 31
Google has blocked in its in-car software rivals, claims German watchdog Bundling everything together means others don't get a look-in, says competition body Applications22 Jun 2023 | 21
Small custom AI models are cheap to train and can keep data private, says startup Interview We talk to MosaicML, a startup driving down training costs with open source models Sysadmin Month22 Jun 2023 | 12
Forester delivers bare metal remote provisioning to Fedora Devconf.cz Golang project also works with the CentOS Linux replacements OSes22 Jun 2023 |
Amazon Prime too easy to join, too hard to quit, says FTC lawsuit Updated Dark patterns at Amazon worthy of a Homeric epic? Surely not! Applications21 Jun 2023 | 69
We just don't get enough time, contractor tasked with fact-checking Google Bard tells us There's an old saying in business: Time, money, quality – you can have any two AI + ML21 Jun 2023 | 25
OpenAI calls for tough regulation of AI while quietly seeking less of it Oh no, over there, look, the killer robots, OMG here they come – just pay no attention to us shaping the rules AI + ML21 Jun 2023 | 23
Singaporean superapp Grab delivers massive job cuts with after hours email ‘We thought you'd like some terrible news in the comfort of your own home’ was the gist of it Software21 Jun 2023 | 7
Microsoft rethinks death sentence for Windows Mail and Calendar apps Shifting those duties to Outlook set for next year – well, maybe OSes20 Jun 2023 | 47
Latest SUSE Linux Enterprise goes all in with confidential computing But you'll need the right hardware to take advantage Sysadmin Month20 Jun 2023 | 2
Where are we now, Microsoft 362.5? Europe reports outages Redmond says problems stemmed from a datacenter in Germany, though UK spared the worst of it OSes20 Jun 2023 | 16
Palantir's deals with NHS England top £60M – without competition Latest £24.9M 'transition' contract an attempt to bridge gap to contract UK.gov is due to award in September Databases20 Jun 2023 | 8
Microsoft Fabric promises to tear into the enterprise analytics patchwork Meanwhile, users are left to figure out how to cut their cloth Sysadmin Month20 Jun 2023 | 7
SAP admits HANA Cloud makes for multicurrency messes Singapore dollar snafu used to illustrate workaround Software20 Jun 2023 | 13
Whose line is it anyway, GitHub? Innovation, not litigation, should answer Opinion If Jesus was my Copilot, what would he do? AI + ML19 Jun 2023 | 43
Data cleanser did its job, but – oopsie! – also doubled customers' bills Who, Me? As the customers lined up with pitchforks and burning brands, the question in the cleanup meeting was 'Who, me?' Software19 Jun 2023 | 25
No-no cop: Illinois bans drones from using facial recognition or weapons But police are allowed to fly them for 'public safety' missions AI + ML17 Jun 2023 | 29
Not even Dynamics 365 ERP is safe from Microsoft's Copilot splurge The AI tentacles grab supply chain management, projects, and finance AI + ML16 Jun 2023 | 19
Oracle Cerner bleeds jobs as Veterans Affairs project stalls Health acquisition freezes recruitment after $10 billion contract put on hold Databases16 Jun 2023 | 13
AI is going to eat itself: Experiment shows people training bots are using bots We speak to brains behind study into murky world of model teaching AI + ML16 Jun 2023 | 47
False negative stretched routine software installation into four days of frustration On Call You’d think vendors would know when their products are working – not this one Software16 Jun 2023 | 146
Singapore to roll out (literally) more Robocops Stop! Or I'll move very slowly towards you and stream video to HQ AI + ML16 Jun 2023 | 11
Microsoft remembers it was going to bring Windows 11 to HoloLens While Apple has Vision Pro, Redmond's taking vision slow? OSes15 Jun 2023 | 6
Google Lens now can spot problematic skin spots, or not It's not a doctor, it just plays one on the internet AI + ML15 Jun 2023 | 17
Despite declines, DXC Technology boss awarded $20.3m in 2023 Revenues shrank and net profit evaporated but progress made in other areas, says board Software15 Jun 2023 | 8
AI inferencing feels the need - the need for speed IT leaders must pick the right servers, storage and network technologies to fuel their generative AI workloads and large language models Commissioned
Recipient of Europe's largest ever seed round doesn't even have a product Can you guess what it is yet? Here's a clue: It starts with 'A' and ends with 'I' AI + ML15 Jun 2023 | 36
Euro Parliament green lights its AI safety, privacy law Shoddy predictive systems labeling gender, race, emotion would be verboten AI + ML15 Jun 2023 | 15
Open the pod bay doors, GPT, and see if you're smart enough for the real world Column The combination of LLMs and autonomous agents will pour fuel on AI anxiety AI + ML15 Jun 2023 | 49
VMware's Arm hypervisor still creeping forward, slowly If Virtzilla's serious about multicloud, surely this gets real soon? Virtualization15 Jun 2023 | 3
Google's Bard barred while trying to enter Europe We've not had any of the required paperwork yet, Irish watchdog tells El Reg AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 3
AI promises vendors 15 minutes of fame with investors Opinion It's time to distinguish image from reality among tech's exhibitionists, though AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 3
Meta teaches AI image model to stop generating human fingers like a drunk Picasso Less GPU time, better generated images AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 5
UN boss recommends nuclear option for AI regulation Proposes global brainbox-bossing body based on the International Atomic Energy Agency's blueprint AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 18
Out with the old, in with the new – Accenture declares AI is 'mature and delivers value' Plans to bulk brainbox workforce by 40,000, months after ejecting 19,000 accountants and HR types AI + ML14 Jun 2023 | 26
Broadcom squeezed Samsung, now South Korea's squeezing back – hard Updated Regulators won't accept proposed remedy for nasty parts deal – but EU may have accepted VMware deal Virtualization14 Jun 2023 |
US government extends software security deadline because vendors aren't ready This from the Administration that made infosec a priority Software13 Jun 2023 | 4
At last, Microsoft lets Windows 11 share files with Android apps Android and Microsoft sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G! But not too much OSes13 Jun 2023 | 6
FTC pulls emergency brake on Microsoft's marriage to Activision Blizzard Updated Agency concerned the pair are planning to combine before it's able to make a decision whether to allow it Software13 Jun 2023 | 27
Surprise! GitHub finds 92% of developers love AI tools We're fine being judged by code, now that we're getting an assist AI + ML13 Jun 2023 | 15
Multi-tasking blunder leaves UK tax digitization plans 3 years late, 5 times over budget Public spending watchdog says scale of task was massively underestimated Software13 Jun 2023 | 44
Yeah, Rishi, it's AI that'll make Britain great again DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic promise to give Blighty priority access to their models for safety research AI + ML13 Jun 2023 | 78
Kinder, gentler Oracle says it's changed, and now wants you to succeed Only took 'em 46 years … Software13 Jun 2023 | 47
This AI hype is enough to drive you to drink, lose sleep Don't take our word – these eggheads claim to have proved it AI + ML13 Jun 2023 | 8
Betting on AI leads to more educated juniors, fewer mid-level bosses – study PHBs should fear the PFYs with the ML skills, not the BOFHs AI + ML12 Jun 2023 | 8
Lawyers who cited fake legal cases generated by ChatGPT blame the software AI In Brief Plus: Cohere raises $230m in its latest Series C round, and more AI + ML12 Jun 2023 | 27
Europe to vote on AI laws with potential 7% revenue fines Risk-based approach puts onus on developers and sees bloc diverge from US, UK plans AI + ML12 Jun 2023 | 36
Microsoft’s Azure mishap betrays an industry blind to a big problem Opinion If a tiny typo brings down half of Brazil, perhaps we’re the nuts Software12 Jun 2023 | 80
HCL proves Lotus Notes will never die by showing off beta of lucky Domino 14.0 It’s a major upgrade to venerable groupware suite that might break it a bit Software12 Jun 2023 | 60
Time is running out to finish that slurp of Outlook Moca Microsoft retiring the calendar board view a few short years Software11 Jun 2023 | 11
GitHub accused of varying Copilot output to avoid copyright allegations Copilot code-cloning case clarifies claims AI + ML09 Jun 2023 | 53
CockroachDB hits Azure at last after five-year mission Interview The database had to be architected from ground up, former GIMP dev Spencer Kimball tell us Databases09 Jun 2023 | 2
AI weapons need a safe back door for human control China spends twice as much on AI as everyone else put together: expert witness AI + ML09 Jun 2023 | 40
Will Flatpak and Snap replace desktop Linux native apps? Opinion Actually, the better question is: When will they replace most desktop Linux programs? OSes09 Jun 2023 | 158
Why can't Nvidia boss Jensen Huang escape the Uncanny Valley that makes AI feel icky? Opinion Is he human? Is he an avatar? Does it really even matter? AI + ML09 Jun 2023 | 8
Reddit cuts five percent of workers while API pricing shift sours developers Two third-party Reddit apps have thrown in the towel over increased expenses Software09 Jun 2023 | 18
Microsoft injects ChatGPT into 'secure' US government Azure cloud What could possibly go wrong? AI + ML08 Jun 2023 | 11
File Explorer gets facelift in latest Windows 11 build Nips and tucks aim to give decades-old app a more modern vibe OSes08 Jun 2023 | 101
Man sues OpenAI claiming ChatGPT 'hallucination' said he embezzled money Probably the first defamation suit involving an AI, but will it stick? AI + ML08 Jun 2023 | 72
Browser extension developers targeted with schemes and scams They're being asked to sell, or modify, their code – and trust in your favourite add-ons could be a casualty Software08 Jun 2023 | 3
One small Leap for OpenSUSE as 15.5 arrives ahead of business sibling Will be followed soon after by SLE 15 SP 5 as org continues prep for ALP OSes08 Jun 2023 | 4
Scientists claim >99 percent identification rate of ChatGPT content Boffins and machines write very differently – and it's easy to tell AI + ML08 Jun 2023 | 39
Sysadmin and IT ops jobs to slump, says IDC Brush up on your coding – more tech jobs are going to be hybrids that mix ops and software, or require AI skills Software08 Jun 2023 | 51
US Senators take Meta to task for releasing LLaMA AI model after token safety checks Suggest that Zuck has yet again unleashed stuff without a thought for the downsides AI + ML07 Jun 2023 | 14
About ducking time: Apple fixes up autocorrect in iOS 17 WWDC And makes developer-grade OS betas available to all ducking loyalists OSes07 Jun 2023 | 15
Waymo robo-car slays dog in San Francisco Deadly accident said to be unavoidable AI + ML07 Jun 2023 | 72
Atlassian pipes software flaw reports into Jira, so the boss can see them too This could be a useful way to show what you’re up against, or give the clueless a stick to beat you with Devops07 Jun 2023 | 4