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
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
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
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 Sponsored
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
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 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
Critical infrastructure gear is full of flaws, but hey, at least it's certified Security researchers find bugs, big and small, in every industrial box probed
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
Turning green with professional-grade PCs Climate change negatively impacts our society, leaving businesses to find new ways to optimize business operations to reduce CO2 emissions
Developers - Make life easier by grabbing more of the data life cycle How MongoDB provides capabilities which help you do more with less
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
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...
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