ChatGPT, how did you get here? It was a long journey through open source AI
Opinion
Without publicly accessible code, there would be no AI chatbot
Errors logged as 'nut loose on the keyboard' were – ahem – not a hardware problem
On Call
Five developers named Bob were not good at their jobs
BOFH: The Board members are looking very ill these days
Episode 6
Be nice if someone would keep a closer eye on them ...
OpenAI CEO 'feels awful' after ChatGPT leaks conversations, payment info
Updated
Delayed mea culpa isn't a good look for a biz with 'open' in the name
China crisis is a TikToking time bomb
Opinion ByteDance with the devil if you dare
Security27 Mar 2023 | 5
Watch for schema design in graph database rollout, business user warns
Hardware configuration also important to get query times down, says global research publisher
Spotlight on Databases27 Mar 2023 | 1
Botched migration resulted in a great deal: One for the price of two
Who Me? Moving premises can have all manner of hidden traps. Here's one to watch for
Networks27 Mar 2023 | 4
Google's claims of super-human AI chip layout back under the microscope
Special report Nature probes published research as it emerges journal paper allegedly used to entice $120m cloud deal
AI + ML27 Mar 2023 | 3
No 'decoupling' here: Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm sing China's praises
First big government expo since COVID sees CEOs galore jet in
Legal27 Mar 2023 | 4
France bans all recreational apps – including TikTok – from government devices
Meanwhile the US contemplates drastic action
Legal27 Mar 2023 | 18
Google says it did not train its AI chatbot Bard on your private emails
AI In Brief ALSO: Web traffic to Microsoft Bing up 15.8 per cent since launch of GPT-4 bot, and more
AI + ML27 Mar 2023 | 11
Chinese web giant Baidu backs RISC-V for the datacenter
Gee, why could that be? Nah, not that. AI contender might just want better SmartNICs
On-Prem27 Mar 2023 | 1
China's best selling smartwatch offers surveillance-as-a-service … for kids
Asia In Brief ALSO: Indian space agency completes OneWeb constellation; Singapore warns on AI weapons; AUKUS tech pact advances
AI + ML26 Mar 2023 | 2
OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT plugins, granting iffy language model access to your apps
Analysis Search aspired to the the command line to the world, but ML models may get there first
AI + ML26 Mar 2023 | 10
Boeing Starliner's 1st crewed trip to the ISS delayed again over battery overheating risk
May fly in the summer, with some presumably pretty nervous pilots
Science26 Mar 2023 | 16
How Arm aims to squeeze device makers for cash rather than pocket pennies for cores
Analysis I am altering the deal, pray I don’t alter it any further
On-Prem25 Mar 2023 | 63
RIP Gordon Moore: Intel co-founder dies, aged 94
'Impossible to imagine the world we live in today ... without his contributions'
On-Prem25 Mar 2023 | 53
Utah outlaws kids' social media addiction, sets digital curfew
Age verification, a private right to sue Big Tech ... thinking of the children or political points?
Personal Tech24 Mar 2023 | 53
Microsoft scrambles to fix Windows 11 'aCropalypse' privacy-battering bug
All your previously Snipping Tool cropped images aren't, basically
OSes24 Mar 2023 | 52
Barred from US tech, Huawei claims to have built its own 14nm chip design suite
Beijing's Made in China drive fueled by Washington's export crackdowns
Software24 Mar 2023 | 20
CISA unleashes Untitled Goose Tool to honk at danger in Microsoft's cloud
Not a headline we expected to write today
CSO24 Mar 2023 | 8
Oracle reportedly making job cuts at health IT arm Cerner
OCI is much more efficient than the acquired Cerner DCs, Ellison told investors
Spotlight on Databases24 Mar 2023 | 4
Matthew Brown Companies confirms it's in funding talks with Virgin Orbit
Back to work on Monday? Branson and co still fighting to get funding
Offbeat24 Mar 2023 | 7
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OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT plugins, granting iffy language model access to your apps
Analysis Search aspired to the the command line to the world, but ML models may get there first
Boeing Starliner's 1st crewed trip to the ISS delayed again over battery overheating risk
May fly in the summer, with some presumably pretty nervous pilots
China's best selling smartwatch offers surveillance-as-a-service … for kids
Asia In Brief ALSO: Indian space agency completes OneWeb constellation; Singapore warns on AI weapons; AUKUS tech pact advances
Google says it did not train its AI chatbot Bard on your private emails
AI In Brief ALSO: Web traffic to Microsoft Bing up 15.8 per cent since launch of GPT-4 bot, and more
France bans all recreational apps – including TikTok – from government devices
Meanwhile the US contemplates drastic action
Chinese web giant Baidu backs RISC-V for the datacenter
Gee, why could that be? Nah, not that. AI contender might just want better SmartNICs
Google's claims of super-human AI chip layout back under the microscope
Special report Nature probes published research as it emerges journal paper allegedly used to entice $120m cloud deal
No 'decoupling' here: Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm sing China's praises
First big government expo since COVID sees CEOs galore jet in
Botched migration resulted in a great deal: One for the price of two
Who Me? Moving premises can have all manner of hidden traps. Here's one to watch for
China crisis is a TikToking time bomb
Opinion ByteDance with the devil if you dare
STORIES
Forget general AI, apparently zebrafish larvae can count
Numerical abilities could be a hardwired, ancient feature of the developing vertebrate brain, study suggests
Science24 Mar 2023 | 20
GitHub publishes RSA SSH host keys by mistake, issues update
Getting connection failures? Don't panic. Get new keys
Security24 Mar 2023 | 31
Accenture puts 19,000 staffers' heads on the chopping block
2.5% of workforce to go as sales and margin growth forecasts dip
Off-Prem24 Mar 2023 | 35
ChatGPT, how did you get here? It was a long journey through open source AI
Opinion Without publicly accessible code, there would be no AI chatbot
Software24 Mar 2023 | 26
SPOTLIGHT ON DATABASES
SAP user group: We want the same features on-prem that you put in the cloud
News Concerns over multi-million investments customers already made in their on-prem ERP systems
Ex-BigQuery exec and Motherduck CEO: For some users, the answer is to think small
Interview Former Google veteran talks to El Reg about trends in big data of the past decade
Ellison's healthcare obsession carries risks for Oracle
Analysis But if he swings it, the company can secure long term growth
The nodes have it in the Great DB debate: Reg readers pick graph
Register Debate Industry upstart preferred... for now
Edinburgh Uni finds extra £8M for vendors after troubled ERP go-live
News Staff and suppliers paid late last year, new requirements lead to contract price hike
Power to the engineering people
Amazon EC2 Hpc6id instances are tailor made for complex FEA workloads
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BOFH: The Board members are looking very ill these days
Episode 6 Be nice if someone would keep a closer eye on them ...
BOFH24 Mar 2023 | 55
Errors logged as 'nut loose on the keyboard' were – ahem – not a hardware problem
On Call Five developers named Bob were not good at their jobs
Software24 Mar 2023 | 169
There's one sure winner in the AI explosion, say analysts: Dutch outfit ASML
It’s the only game in town for extreme ultraviolet lithography, and that makes it every chip shop’s new best friend
AI + ML24 Mar 2023 | 11
French parliament says oui to AI surveillance for 2024 Paris Olympics
Liberté, égalité, reconnaissance faciale for all
Security24 Mar 2023 | 37
Microsoft breaks geolocation, locking users out of Azure and M365
Customers banished to an IP address in Uzbekistan that Redmond’s cloud did not recognize
Off-Prem24 Mar 2023 | 29
Where in the world is Terraform Labs villain Do Kwon? Montenegro, actually
Probably in a jail cell, waiting to be extradited stateside
Legal24 Mar 2023 | 11
Opportunity, challenge, promise?
The impact of AI on enterprise IT
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GTC 2023
Nvidia CEO promises sustainability salvation in the cult of accelerated computing
Analysis Not quite as dramatic as AMD's Lisa Su and her visions of nuclear-powered supercomputers
Nvidia's generative AI inferencing card is just two H100s glued together
News Don’t need a 700W fire-breathing GPU? It also launched an itty-bitty AI chip too
Nvidia’s four workhorses of the AI inference revolution
In-depth GPU giant is sort of doing what we expected. But not quite
Nvidia bends the clouds to its own financial will
In-depth It knows how to milk AWS, GCP and Azure
Nvidia hooks TSMC, ASML, Synopsys on GPU accelerated lithography
News What's next – AI designing AI chips? Oh wait... that's exactly what's next
Cisco, Huawei, Ericsson on the hook for Philippine telco's $880M overspend
Next time you blow a project budget, console yourself that you weren’t this bad
Networks24 Mar 2023 | 3
Toshiba board supports – without recommending – $15 billion takeover bid
It's probably going to happen, but final approval depends on 'circumstances'
Legal24 Mar 2023 | 5
Uncle Sam reveals it sent cyber-soldiers to Albania to hunt for Iranian threats
'Hunt forward' teams of this sort aid with defense and learn how attackers like Tehran operate
Security24 Mar 2023 | 6
Terran 1, world's first (mostly) 3D printed rocket, lifts off ... and fails to reach orbit
Mission named 'Good Luck Have Fun' needed more of both
Science23 Mar 2023 | 11
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Feeding the smartphone frenzy? It’s a matter of time and space
Micron’s novel 1-beta node can connect your smartphone and the enterprise
Red Hat veteran will head up SUSE from May as Di Donato steps down
In the meantime, the CFO is also interim CEO
D-Wave hello to another quantum pioneer warned over possible delisting
Share price slides below $1 for 30 days straight, but company vows it will comply with NYSE regs again
Tails 5.11: Secure-surfing 'amnesiac' live distro arrives
A highly opinionated little live USB/DVD/VM image for the paranoid
Turing Award goes to Robert Metcalfe, co-inventor of the Ethernet
A cool $1 million to a man who is not afraid to eat his own words, nor roll out his own cable
Networks23 Mar 2023 | 39
Microsoft admits Azure Resource Manager failed after code change
Just lucky Western Europe was asleep when it happened
PaaS + IaaS23 Mar 2023 | 20
First-known interstellar Solar System visitor 'Oumuamua a comet in disguise – research
Strange appearance and behavior perplexed astronomers, led some folks to believe it was alien spaceship
Science23 Mar 2023 | 39
Croquet for Unity: Live, network-transparent 3D gaming... but it's so much more
Updated This is that rare announcement that's far more significant than it sounds
Software23 Mar 2023 | 14
Attackers hit Bitcoin ATMs to steal $1.5 million in crypto cash
Terminal maker General Bytes shutters its cloud business after second breach in seven months
Security23 Mar 2023 | 30
Bogus ChatGPT extension steals Facebook cookies
All aboard the chatbot hype train! Next stop: Fraud
Cyber-crime23 Mar 2023 | 9
B-List celebs including Lindsay Lohan fined after crypto shill probe
Didn't disclose payments as mastermind pumped up value of tokens with fake trades
Cyber-crime23 Mar 2023 | 39
Secure mail
Protection from business email compromise
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SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY
Snap CISO: I rate software supply chain risk 9.9 out of 10
Interview 'Understanding your inventory is absolutely No. 1' he tells The Reg
SBOM is a 'massive galaxy of mess' for supply chain security
Interview Talos team warns on third-party threats, but will it work? Betteridge's Law may apply
Feeling VEXed by software supply chain security? You’re not alone
Interview Chainguard CEO explains how to secure code given crims know to poison it at the source
Warning on SolarWinds-like supply-chain attacks: 'They're just getting bigger'
Interview Industry hasn't 'improved much at all' Mandiant's Eric Scales tells us
SBOMs should be a security staple in the software supply chain
Backgrounder Know the ingredients before mixing the code. Oh and pay open source maintainers for goodness' sake...
Japanese outfit's private Moon mission enters Lunar orbit
Now all it has to do is land
India gives itself a mission to lead the 'Global South' into 6G era
Builds its own seat at the standards development table
South Korea fines McDonald's for data leak from raw SMB share
British American Tobacco, Samsung, also burgered up their infosec
We've got plenty of AI now but who asked for it? El Reg's vultures chime in
Register Kettle We each grab a mic and take apart the Bard stewards responsible for this hype
AI + ML23 Mar 2023 | 40
Amazon to shutter Digital Photography Review
Respected hands-on outlet tossed under the layoff bus
Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 46
Cisco kindly reveals proof of concept attacks for flaws in rival Netgear's kit
Maybe this is deserved given the problem's in a hidden telnet service
Research22 Mar 2023 | 24
Reaping the rewards of the future
The benefits of modernizing your PC estate
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