ChatGPT study suggests its LLMs are getting dumber at some tasks Behavior of OpenAI models about as consistent as Office 364's uptime
Social media is too much for most of us to handle Column I know, because I let it all flood in. And it was damaging to my mental health
Google toys with internet air-gap for some staff PCs Fewer than 2% of workstations will be cut off in 'experiment'
Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market Opinion It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn't
MOVEit body count closes in on 400 orgs, 20M+ individuals 'One of the most significant hacks of recent years,' we're told Cyber-crime20 Jul 2023 | 1
Uncle Sam would rather Silicon Valley VCs did not invest in Chinese AI Qualcomm's venture arm among the firms under investigation AI + ML20 Jul 2023 | 1
RIP Kevin Mitnick: Former most-wanted hacker dies at 59 Obit Tributes paid to husband, father, son and rogue-turned-consultant Security20 Jul 2023 | 8
Chips still down for TSMC with glimmer of hope this quarter Global economic conditions? Check. Sluggish end market demand? Check. Customer inventory adjustment? Bingo! Systems20 Jul 2023 | 1
MySQL Heatwave dives into object storage data lakes Oracle joins the analytics anywhere bandwagon, promises future access to AWS S3 SaaS20 Jul 2023 |
Ultra Ethernet Consortium wants to optimize networking for AI and HPC Not changing the standard, but tweaking how applications work over top Networks20 Jul 2023 |
Cerebras's Condor Galaxy AI supercomputer takes flight carrying 36 exaFLOPS Nine-site system built for UAE's G42, but there'll be plenty to spare HPC20 Jul 2023 | 1
Under CISA pressure collaboration, Microsoft makes cloud security logs available for free In hindsight, it's probably good practice to give clients access to cloud logs Cyber-crime20 Jul 2023 | 4
Quick: Manually patch this Zimbra bug that's under attack ICYMI Smells like Russian cyber spies (again)
RHEL drama, ChromeOS and more ... Our vultures speak freely about the latest in Linux Register Kettle Do distros even matter in the era of cloud and microservices? OSes20 Jul 2023 | 5
Slackware wasn't the first Linux distro, but it's the oldest still alive and kicking Who needs a graphical desktop manager anyway? OSes20 Jul 2023 | 19
Always on the Horizon, UK must wait for megabucks EU science deal Rishi Sunak fails to secure place in €95.5B program before Parliament packs up for holiday Science20 Jul 2023 | 63
Social media is too much for most of us to handle Column I know, because I let it all flood in. And it was damaging to my mental health Personal Tech20 Jul 2023 | 42
Ukraine busts bot farm spreading Russian infowar propaganda and fraud Plus: Spanish cops arrest Ukrainian scareware dev after ten-year hunt Security20 Jul 2023 | 11
ChatGPT study suggests its LLMs are getting dumber at some tasks Behavior of OpenAI models about as consistent as Office 364's uptime AI + ML20 Jul 2023 | 29
Goodbye Azure AD, Entra the drag on your time and money Opinion Relic of the Ballmer years, we shall not see such marketing nonsense again… oh, hang on
Typo watch: 'Millions of emails' for US military sent to .ml addresses in error Good thing Mali isn't best pals with Russia right no– oh, shoot
Why do cloud titans keep building datacenters in America's hottest city? 100 days over 100F and historic drought don't faze Microsoft or Google
SUSE announces its own RHEL-compatible distro... again The chameleon-rancher chooses a new, Rocky course
Russia's tiny quantum computer is (probably) nothing to worry about 16 qubit system capable of modeling simple molecules, Kremlin says Science20 Jul 2023 | 14
Samsung makes big promises about GDDR7 RAM Too bad GPU slingers keep shrinking the memory bus Storage20 Jul 2023 | 3
Days before its earnings call, Infosys announces $2B in new business Results were anticipated to be dim, so where does this put outsourcer now? AI + ML20 Jul 2023 | 6
Google toys with internet air-gap for some staff PCs Fewer than 2% of workstations will be cut off in 'experiment' Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 53
Energy efficiency, staffing keep datacenter operators awake at night Outages are declining, but when one does hit, it's expensive Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 5
Tech support scammers go analog, ask victims to mail bundles of cash The approach is the same, but never mind the crypto or gift cards Security19 Jul 2023 | 27
Computer scientist calls for new layers in the tech stack to make generative AI accurate Temasek's head of ML is optimistic about 'overhyped' technology AI + ML19 Jul 2023 | 9
Rocket Lab wants to dry off and reuse Electron booster recovered from the ocean Appears to have given up the idea of catching the component midair with a helicopter Science19 Jul 2023 | 12
Social media’s reaction to generative AI proves just how valuable data is Every organization is data-driven and using AI, which makes protecting your most valuable asset even more important Commissioned
UK greenlights Broadcom's $61B VMware takeover Only obstacle left is the FTC, which is still licking its wounds from other recent antitrust defeats Virtualization19 Jul 2023 | 2
Antitrust clouds continue to gather over Microsoft's European business Regional trade group applies to partake in Germany's probe of Redmond's cloud software policies Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 1
Opportunity NUCs for Asus to continue Intel's mini PC line Though chip giant is only referring to deal as a 'proposed agreement' for now Personal Tech19 Jul 2023 | 13
Mint 21.2 is desktop Linux without the faff Nifty new features mostly go to Cinnamon users, though OSes19 Jul 2023 | 47
AI maybe on everyone's lips, but it's not what's driving IT spending Software expected to top $1 trillion next year, according to analysts Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 11
With limited space for tourist attractions, Singapore bets on augmented reality Will people really hop on a plane to gaze at their phone? Personal Tech19 Jul 2023 | 14
Meet the guy trying to drag HM Treasury's data strategy into the 21st century Interview John Kelly is building approach around Microsoft, but there's room for flexibility Databases19 Jul 2023 | 13
Norway bans Meta's behavioral advertising with threats of wrist-slap fines Won't someone think of Zuck's pocket change? Legal19 Jul 2023 | 17
Meta trots out Llama 2 AI models, invites devs to hop on As Microsoft warns it'll charge $30 per user per month for Copilot for Business AI + ML19 Jul 2023 | 6
US adds Euro spyware makers to export naughty list Predator dev joins Pegasus slinger Security18 Jul 2023 | 27
Curbing the cost of cloud analytics and data warehousing On the hunt for price performance gains that Amazon can pass on to its customers Sponsored Feature
Google toys with internet air-gap for some staff PCs Fewer than 2% of workstations will be cut off in 'experiment'
Meta trots out Llama 2 AI models, invites devs to hop on As Microsoft warns it'll charge $30 per user per month for Copilot for Business
ChatGPT study suggests its LLMs are getting dumber at some tasks Behavior of OpenAI models about as consistent as Office 364's uptime
Slackware wasn't the first Linux distro, but it's the oldest still alive and kicking Who needs a graphical desktop manager anyway?
Meet the guy trying to drag HM Treasury's data strategy into the 21st century Interview John Kelly is building approach around Microsoft, but there's room for flexibility
Opportunity NUCs for Asus to continue Intel's mini PC line Though chip giant is only referring to deal as a 'proposed agreement' for now
Social media is too much for most of us to handle Column I know, because I let it all flood in. And it was damaging to my mental health
Under CISA pressure collaboration, Microsoft makes cloud security logs available for free In hindsight, it's probably good practice to give clients access to cloud logs
Tesla board members to return $735M in compensation settlement Look who is learning to share: Deal includes no admission of fault, naturally Personal Tech18 Jul 2023 | 38
Make chips, not trade wars, says Semiconductor Industry Association Industry body warns against political rhetoric or US subsidy efforts will be diminished Systems18 Jul 2023 | 1
AWS and Azure own lion's share of $120B cloud infrastructure market China's Alibaba comes in third followed by Google and Huawei PaaS + IaaS18 Jul 2023 | 2
If you're going to train AI on our books, at least pay us, authors tell Big Tech AI in brief Also: OpenAI enters deals with the Associated Press and Shutterstock to license content, and more AI + ML18 Jul 2023 | 19
Auroras – the solar system's universal light show (except Neptune... sorry, Neptune) Data from 2021 Mercury flyby shows same mechanisms cause phenomena throughout our star system
Unidentified object on Australian beach may be part of Indian rocket launcher Probably not aliens, maybe
Recycling giant TOMRA pulls systems offline following 'extensive cyberattack' Says baddies launched attack at weekend, isolates parts of tech infrastructure to contain spread
Healthcare moves forward in the cloud How global healthcare and life sciences organizations can derive benefits working with AWS Partners on cloud projects
Where performance matters for the digital worker Specifying PCs to meet the exact needs of individual workers is key to boosting productivity, explains Intel
Looking for agility AND stability? You're going to need observability too How to establish the true state of your systems in a distributed world
Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market Opinion It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn't
Microsoft 'fesses to code blunder in Azure Container Apps Misconfiguration led to hours of pain for engineers as bootstrap service caught in a loop
Samsung 'closing the gap' with TSMC on 3nm, 4nm The race to 2nm is getting crowded as Intel, Japan's Rapidus enter the fray Systems18 Jul 2023 | 2
Microsoft promises to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation for next decade. Sony believes it Redmond one step closer to $69B Activision Blizzard merger Personal Tech17 Jul 2023 | 34
Euro monopoly cops to probe Microsoft for slipping Teams into Office Three years after Slack flagged up 'illegal' bundling of chat app SaaS17 Jul 2023 | 40
Apple seeks patent for devices with roll-up displays – iRoll? There's never been a fruit winder like this before Personal Tech17 Jul 2023 | 17
Beijing wants to make the Great Firewall of China even greater Also more fiery, with vague but firm orders to create a 'security barrier' Security17 Jul 2023 | 6
Chips ahoy! US and China locked in self-destructive battle of trade restrictions Why are you hitting yourselves? semiconductor CEOs ask Systems17 Jul 2023 | 13
Google tightens Play Store dev rules while becoming more blockchain tolerant Trust and safety push promises ability to delete app-associated accounts Devops17 Jul 2023 | 5
Where time to data services is money Discover how Nutanix’s re-definition of cloud native storage management is win-win Webinar
First of Tesla's 'bulletproof' Cybertrucks clunks off production line Wait, so it wasn't an elaborate joke? Offbeat17 Jul 2023 | 143
AlmaLinux project climbs down from being a one-to-one RHEL clone Comment A worrying concession means that the shape of the marketplace is changing OSes17 Jul 2023 | 41
Uncle Sam to put Aurora supercomputer to work on catalyst conundrums Meanwhile, ORNL's Summit simulates bacteria battling cicada wings HPC17 Jul 2023 | 5
Twitter ad revenue has halved since Elon Musk took over While Zuckerberg's Threads reels in users at record rates Personal Tech17 Jul 2023 | 90
Microsoft's Surface Pro 9 requires a tedious balancing act Desktop Tourism There's probably someone out there who likes a wobbly laptop that cuts their flesh
1 in 4 Brits are playing with generative AI, and some take its word as gospel Employees are kicking back and letting chatbots do the work
Network died, hard, during company Christmas party, leaving lone techie to fix it Who, me? Yippee-ki-yay, other sockets!
Boris Johnson pleads ignorance, which just might work Infosec in brief Also: More high-profile MOVEit victims; CVSS 4.0 coming soon; and a long list of critical vulnerabilities Security17 Jul 2023 | 79
India Big four outsourcers all have people problems APAC in brief Also: China taikonaut moon plans; Singapore's Temasek to stay clear of crypto; India ponders ban on for-profit .IN sales; and more. Systems17 Jul 2023 | 7
Microsoft's security roadmap: Protect secrets in Azure DevOps You can’t steal what you can’t access ... we hope Sysadmin Month16 Jul 2023 | 2
INTERSECT '23: Network Security Summit unveils cutting-edge strategies to safeguard digital assets Palo Alto Networks addresses the mounting challenges posed by sophisticated cyberthreats Sponsored Post