Bosses weren’t being paranoid: Remote workers more likely to start their own biz
All those return to office mandates make a lot more sense now
CxO12 May 2025 | 2
Thomas is a senior reporter at The Register. His specialty lies in government IT, software development, and the ethical use of artificial intelligence. Thomas has nearly 30 years of experience in technology publishing, including roles ranging from magazine section editor to editor-at-large.
US govt's science foundation purges 37 divisions, equity unit among casualties
DEI another day: Trump priorities bite as $1B in grants vanish, layoffs loom
Science09 May 2025 | 79
Microsoft wants us to believe AI will crack practical fusion power, driving future AI
This BS ends at some point, right?
AI Infrastructure Month09 May 2025 | 46
Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors
'I'm sorry, I can't help with that'
AI + ML08 May 2025 | 42
Sudo-rs make me a sandwich, hold the buffer overflows
Ubuntu 25.10 fitted with Rust-written admin tool by default for memory safety's sake
OSes08 May 2025 | 131
After that 2024 Windows fiasco, CrowdStrike has a plan – job cuts, leaning on AI
CEO: Neural net tech 'flattens our hiring curve, helps us innovate'
CSO07 May 2025 | 14
Top sci-fi convention gets an earful from authors after using AI to screen panelists
Leave it to the Borg? Scribe David D. Levine slams 'use of planet-destroying plagiarism machines'
Bootnotes07 May 2025 | 127
Developer sues Apple to claw back commission payments
Just days after judge held Cupertino in contempt over Epic antitrust injunction
Software06 May 2025 | 6
From Russia with doubt: Go library's Kremlin ties stoke fear
Easyjson library's presence in numerous open source projects alarms security biz
Software06 May 2025 | 10
Signal chat app clone used by Signalgate's Waltz was apparently an insecure mess
Updated No, really? That's a shocking surprise
Security05 May 2025 | 38
Open source AI hiring bots favor men, leave women hanging by the phone
Easy fix: Telling LLMs to cosplay Lenin makes 'em more gender blind
AI + ML02 May 2025 | 67
Liz Warren, Trump admin agree on something: Army should have right to repair
As military memo makes it official policy
Public Sector02 May 2025 | 26
Microsoft to preload Word minutes after boot
Why optimize code when you can just start running sooner?
Software01 May 2025 | 98
AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals
Keep plugging those LLMs into your apps, folks. This neural network told me it'll be fine
AI + ML01 May 2025 | 39
Brewhaha: Turns out machines can't replace people, Starbucks finds
Caffeine addicts evidently not thrilled to see cafes become walk-in vending machines
Personal Tech30 Apr 2025 | 160
Ghost in the shell script: Boffins reckon they can catch bugs before programs run
Go ahead, please do Bash static analysis
CSO30 Apr 2025 | 39
Trump admin freaks out over mere suggestion Amazon was going to show tariff impact on prices
World War Fee Revealing import taxes would be 'hostile and political' to Dear Leader
Personal Tech30 Apr 2025 | 231
TAKE IT DOWN Act? Yes, take the act down before it's too late for online speech
Good intentions, terrible wording – and Trump can't wait to use it because 'nobody gets treated worse than I do'
Personal Tech29 Apr 2025 | 48
Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, economists claim
'When we look at the outcomes, it really has not moved the needle'
AI + ML29 Apr 2025 | 34
Ex-Disney employee gets 3 years in the clink for goofy attacks on mousey menus
Florida man altered allergen info, DoSed former colleagues
Cyber-crime29 Apr 2025 | 15
DARPA to 'radically' rev up mathematics research. Yes, with AI
Now that's a sum of all fears
AI + ML27 Apr 2025 | 42
Trump’s 145% tariffs could KO tabletop game makers, other small biz, lawsuit claims
WORLD WAR FEE One eight-person publisher says it'll be forced to pay $1.5M
Bootnotes26 Apr 2025 | 129
Virgin Atlantic is piloting an OpenAI agent in to help with the 'customer journey'
Interview Hello, operator? Book me to Memphis, Tennessee
AI Software Development Week25 Apr 2025 | 20
New Intel boss is all about ‘deleveraging’ the x86 giant
Updated Thousands face ax, more given RTO orders in quest to suck less
On-Prem24 Apr 2025 | 79
Devs sound alarm after Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks
Cursor, Codium makers lose access as add-on goes exclusive
Devops24 Apr 2025 | 69
IBM dragged down by DOGE contract cancellation roulette
Big Blue downplays impact of Elon-gated cost-cutting
Public Sector23 Apr 2025 | 23
Microsoft 365 Copilot gets a new crew, including Researcher and Analyst bots
You. Will. Love. The. LLM.
AI Software Development Week23 Apr 2025 | 5
As ChatGPT scores B- in engineering, professors scramble to update courses
Now that AI is invading classrooms and homework assignment, students need to learn reasoning more than ever
AI Software Development Week23 Apr 2025 | 120
Elon Musk makes another cut – to his time at DOGE
Going to spend more time with his Sieg Heils, maybe
Public Sector22 Apr 2025 | 110
RIP, Google Privacy Sandbox
Chrome will keep third-party cookies, a win for web giant's ad rivals
Applications22 Apr 2025 | 24
Today's LLMs craft exploits from patches at lightning speed
Erlang? Er, man, no problem. ChatGPT, Claude to go from flaw disclosure to actual attack code in hours
AI Software Development Week21 Apr 2025 | 19
Microsoft Copilot shows up even when it's not wanted
Just us or is AI increasingly appearing like an unwanted party guest?
AI Software Development Week18 Apr 2025 | 63
Cursor AI's own support bot hallucinated its usage policy
Making up subscription limits as it goes? Super encouraging from a code assistant. Anyways, back to
int main(enter the void)...
AI Software Development Week18 Apr 2025 | 24
IBM orders US sales to locate near customers or offices
Exclusive 'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge
On-Prem18 Apr 2025 | 34
Google wins 1-1: Judge rules ad giant broke some antitrust law
After battle with Uncle Sam over online competition, web giant vows to appeal the bit it lost, celebrates the half it won
Personal Tech17 Apr 2025 | 4
California sues President Tariff
World War Fee Ah yes, the courts, that'll totally work
Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 51
Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer?
Redmond talks up preview of AI agents navigating apps through the UI
AI Software Development Week16 Apr 2025 | 33
Apple: Since you care about yOuR pRiVaCy, we'll train our AI on made-up emails
It's LLMs all the way down
AI + ML16 Apr 2025 | 33
Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again
Who said this opt-out approach is OK with GDPR, was it Llama 4, hmm?
AI + ML15 Apr 2025 | 22
Avnet accuses Arm chip slinger Ampere of screwing it over on server deal
Sales backstop deal? More like ... Sales? Back, stop! Deal!
Systems14 Apr 2025 | 2
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
AI Software Development Week12 Apr 2025 | 98
Pentagon celebrates snipping 0.58% from defense budget in IT, DEI cuts
$5.1B cancellations pitched as efficiency move, though costly Trump birthday parade mulled
Public Sector11 Apr 2025 | 47
Apps-from-prompts Firebase Studio is a great example – of why AI can't replace devs
Cloud Next Big G reckons this agentic IDE speeds up or simplifies coding. Developers who've used it aren't so sure
AI + ML11 Apr 2025 | 18
Amazon Nova Sonic AI doesn't just hear you, it takes tonal cues too
The foundation model supports real-time bi-directional speech
AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 7
Apple settles unfair labor charges brought by fired engineering manager
Whistleblower Ashley Gjøvik hails iWatershed iMoment for iStaff iRights
CxO10 Apr 2025 | 3
Pharmacist accused of using webcams to spy on women in intimate moments at work, home
Lawsuit claims sick cyber-voyeurism went undetected for years, using hundreds of PCs, due to lax infosec
Cyber-crime09 Apr 2025 | 23
AI entrepreneur sent avatar to argue in court – and the judge shut it down fast
Interview We hear from court-scolded Jerome Dewald, who insists lawyer-bots have a future
AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 29
Procter & Gamble study finds AI could help make Pringles tastier, spice up Old Spice, sharpen Gillette
Go on, then, knock yourself out, pal
AI + ML08 Apr 2025 | 43
Trump tariffs to make prices great – a gain
World War Fee As costs for US shoppers set to rise, markets slump, orange is new red, we speak to economic experts
Public Sector07 Apr 2025 | 78
Chrome to patch decades-old flaw that let sites peek at your history
After 23 years, the privacy plumber has finally arrived to clean up this mess
Patches07 Apr 2025 | 7
Mozilla takes pity on Firefox extension developers
Plan to standardize consent dialogs aims to lighten burden on devs, users, reviewers
Applications07 Apr 2025 | 4
For flux sake: CISA, annexable allies warn of hot DNS threat
Shape shifting technique described as menace to national security
CSO03 Apr 2025 | 5
Wikipedia's overlords bemoan AI bot bandwidth burden
Crawlers snarfing long-tail content for training and whatnot cost us a fortune
AI + ML03 Apr 2025 | 26
Raw Deel: Corporate spy admits role in espionage at HR software biz Rippling
Double-oh-sh...
CSO02 Apr 2025 | 10
Speech now streaming from brains in real-time
Boosted human-computer interface promises better communication for patients who lost ability to speak
Science02 Apr 2025 | 22
Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rival
Thunderbirds are Pro: Open-source email client to get message hosting, appointment scheduling, more
Software02 Apr 2025 | 69
Writing for humans? Perhaps in future we'll write specifically for AI – and be paid for it
Interview 'There needs to be a better economic as well as copyright framework', Thomson Reuters CPO tells us
AI + ML01 Apr 2025 | 21
Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it
Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt
Science01 Apr 2025 | 21
Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence scrubbed
1990s incident response in 2025
PaaS + IaaS31 Mar 2025 | 8
Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruel
Miscreants warming to Delphi, Haskell, and the like to evade detection
Research29 Mar 2025 | 56
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