Thomas Claburn

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

How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers

Updated Digital lending is only fine when we do it

Personal Tech20 Mar 2023 | 111

John Deere urged to surrender source code under GPL

Farmers need a right to repair

Software17 Mar 2023 | 77

Free-Teams-gate: Docker apologizes for shooting itself in the foot

Botched data deletion threat roils open source worlds

Devops17 Mar 2023 | 21

We read OpenAI's risk study. GPT-4 is not toxic ... if you add enough bleach

Analysis Tough to see how this model can be released in good conscience

AI + ML17 Mar 2023 | 40

The npm registry's safe word is Socket

Exclusive GitHub's JavaScript failings are someone else's opportunity

Devops16 Mar 2023 | 8

Google taps Fastly to make cookie-free adtech FLEDGE fly

Online ad colossus hopes it can still make money when users want privacy

Personal Tech16 Mar 2023 | 29

Amazon: Behold our antennas, which you cannot use just yet

Project Kuiper satellite broadband coming next year, maybe

Networks15 Mar 2023 | 15

OpenAI claims GPT-4 will beat 90% of you in an exam

Weirdly coy about the AI model's size and what went into making it, tho

AI + ML14 Mar 2023 | 59

Requiem for Google Reader, dead for a decade but not forgotten

Special report RSS pioneer Dave Winer sees Mastodon as a positive sign

Networks14 Mar 2023 | 50

Pentagon whistleblower Ellsberg given months to live

Comment The man leaking vital data before it was fashionable

Bootnotes13 Mar 2023 | 16

Check out Codon: A Python compiler if you have a need for C/C++ speed

Caveats apply, your mileage may vary

Devops11 Mar 2023 | 70

Silicon Valley Bank seized by officials after imploding: How this happened and why

2023, just like 2008

Legal10 Mar 2023 | 133

Catholic clergy surveillance org 'outs gay priests'

Religious non-profit allegedly hoovered up location data from dating apps to ID clerics

Security10 Mar 2023 | 100

GitHub rolls out mandatory 2FA for loads of devs next week

Engineers who contribute to public projects told to enroll

Software09 Mar 2023 | 10

Dems, Repubs eye up ban on chat apps they don't like

Clock is ticking for TikTok and other foreign natter-ware

Security09 Mar 2023 | 14

Cop warrant orders Ring to cough up footage from inside this guy's home

Don't say you weren't warned

Personal Tech08 Mar 2023 | 74

Humanoid robot takes a retail job, but not one any store clerk wants to do

You want to take our place? Welcome to the real world, pal

AI + ML08 Mar 2023 | 33

'Thousands' at Meta face layoffs this week

Sorry, you're Zucked

Personal Tech07 Mar 2023 | 26

Now Microsoft injects Copilot AI into Dynamics 365

Bringing Embrace, Extend, Extinguish to a business workforce near you

Spotlight on Databases07 Mar 2023 | 6

'Brittle' Twitter suffers bad case of the Mondays: Links, pics, vids fail

Once again, the status page is oblivious

Personal Tech06 Mar 2023 | 61

Huge lithium discovery could end world shortages ... Oh, wait, it's in Iran

Good thing we've got a great rapport with Tehran, no?

On-Prem04 Mar 2023 | 86

Secret Service, ICE break the law over and over with fake cell tower spying

Investigations 'at risk' from sloppy surveillance uncovered by audit probe

Security04 Mar 2023 | 28

German Digital Affairs Committee hearing heaps scorn on Chat Control

Proposal to break encryption to scan messages for abuse material challenged as illegal and unworkable

Security03 Mar 2023 | 22

Thought you'd opted out of online tracking? Think again

Probe shows that – to absolutely no-one's surprise – big biz isn't playing ball

Personal Tech03 Mar 2023 | 113

OpenAI opens ChatGPT floodgates with dirt-cheap API

'This has to be a loss-leader to lock out competitors'

AI + ML02 Mar 2023 | 19

Waymo robo taxis rack up a million miles without killing anyone

It works! Now let's cut staff by 8%

AI + ML02 Mar 2023 | 13

Europe trims Apple App Store probe after deciding in-app payments not a problem

Cupertino not entirely off the hook – yet

Personal Tech01 Mar 2023 | 8

Hey, AI hucksters. Dial down the hype. Lots of love, the FTC

Analysis Exaggerated claims? About unproven technology? Ask your chat bot if it knows what fraud means

AI + ML28 Feb 2023 | 5

Google Chrome fights the power drain (again)

Battery usage optimization comes to Apple MacBooks

Software28 Feb 2023 | 6

OpenAI CEO heralds AGI no one in their right mind wants

Comment Elites won't accept anything that takes away power, we're not dazzled by fake predictable intelligence

AI + ML27 Feb 2023 | 75

Signal says it'll shut down in UK if Online Safety Bill approved

Plan to scan encrypted content to protect children could drive businesses away

Personal Tech25 Feb 2023 | 236

Google destroyed evidence for antitrust battle, Feds complain

rm -rf'ing staff chat logs can't go unpunished, says Uncle Sam

CSO24 Feb 2023 | 32

European Commission bans TikTok from staff gadgets

Cyber Europe cyber worried about cyber threats, doesn't cyber use the other C word (China)

CSO24 Feb 2023 | 23

Now IBM Watson Health, sorry, Merative decimates staff

And jobs shift offshore, says source

Personal Tech23 Feb 2023 | 14

Microsoft begs you not to ditch Edge on Google's own Chrome download page

Monopoly giant can't stand it when anyone else has a monopoly

Applications23 Feb 2023 | 181

Supreme Court not interested in hearing about NSA's super-snoop schemes

Warrantless data harvesting, you say? Feds have their secret reasons and we're OK with that

Personal Tech22 Feb 2023 | 27

Sure, Microsoft, let's put ChatGPT in control of robots

Video Doesn't the world have enough problems?

AI + ML22 Feb 2023 | 32

Can YouTube be held liable for pushing terror vids? Asking for a Supreme Court...

Will Section 230 immunity just be revoked? We can answer that

Legal22 Feb 2023 | 59

If you're struggling to secure email forwarding, it's not you, it's ... the protocols

Analysis Eggheads prove they can mimic messages and bag bug bounty bucks

Security19 Feb 2023 | 32

Virtual reality telemetry means you can virtually kiss goodbye to privacy

Exclusive Boffins find they can identify VR players just from head and hand movements

Personal Tech18 Feb 2023 | 34

What Brit watchdog redacted: Google gives Apple cut of Chrome iOS search revenue

Exclusive Those billions just may have dissuaded iPhone giant from building rival search, beefing up Safari

Applications17 Feb 2023 | 40

Google's big security cert log overhaul broke Android apps. Now it's hit undo

Devs missed warnings plus tons of code relies again on lone open source maintainer

Security16 Feb 2023 | 13

Uncle Sam backs right-to-repair battle against Big Ag's John Deere

Doh, a Deere, I fear no Deere

Personal Tech16 Feb 2023 | 37

DigitalOcean waves goodbye to 11 percent of staff

Exclusive The layoffs will continue until morale improves

PaaS + IaaS15 Feb 2023 | 19

Core-JS chief complains open source is broken, no one will pay for it

Being in Russia and going to jail might have something to do with it, tho

Devops15 Feb 2023 | 62

Apple splats zero-day bug, other gremlins in macOS, iOS

WebKit flaw 'may have been exploited' – just like Tim Cook 'may have' made a million bucks this week

Patches15 Feb 2023 | 7

Google lets a few Android devices into its Privacy Sandbox

Chocolate Factory's ad tech renovation is moving ahead, like it or not

Security14 Feb 2023 | 9

Twilio axes roughly 1 in 5 staff in fresh round of layoffs

Already decimated staff in September

Software13 Feb 2023 | 3

How this database legal war could be decided by the name given to this license

Neo4j v PureThink rumbles on

Devops12 Feb 2023 | 4

Amazon convinces FCC it can avoid space junk chaos

We wanted robot butlers and flying Deloreans ... and got internet-from-orbit instead

Science10 Feb 2023 | 36

Google's Go may add telemetry that's on by default

Some devs object because they don't trust Mountain View

Software10 Feb 2023 | 65

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OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT plugins, granting iffy language model access to your apps

Utah outlaws kids' social media addiction, sets digital curfew

French parliament says oui to AI surveillance for 2024 Paris Olympics

Critical infrastructure gear is full of flaws, but hey, at least it's certified

Amazon to shutter Digital Photography Review

Journalist hurt by exploding USB bomb drive

GitHub Copilot learns new tricks, adopts this year's model

No reliable way to detect AI-generated text, boffins sigh

Curl, the URL fetcher that can, marks 25 years of transfers

How the Internet Archive faces potential destruction at the hands of Big Four publishers

John Deere urged to surrender source code under GPL

Free-Teams-gate: Docker apologizes for shooting itself in the foot

We read OpenAI's risk study. GPT-4 is not toxic ... if you add enough bleach

The npm registry's safe word is Socket

Google taps Fastly to make cookie-free adtech FLEDGE fly

Amazon: Behold our antennas, which you cannot use just yet

OpenAI claims GPT-4 will beat 90% of you in an exam

Requiem for Google Reader, dead for a decade but not forgotten

Pentagon whistleblower Ellsberg given months to live

Check out Codon: A Python compiler if you have a need for C/C++ speed

Silicon Valley Bank seized by officials after imploding: How this happened and why

Catholic clergy surveillance org 'outs gay priests'

GitHub rolls out mandatory 2FA for loads of devs next week

Dems, Repubs eye up ban on chat apps they don't like

Cop warrant orders Ring to cough up footage from inside this guy's home

Humanoid robot takes a retail job, but not one any store clerk wants to do

'Thousands' at Meta face layoffs this week

Now Microsoft injects Copilot AI into Dynamics 365

'Brittle' Twitter suffers bad case of the Mondays: Links, pics, vids fail

Huge lithium discovery could end world shortages ... Oh, wait, it's in Iran

Secret Service, ICE break the law over and over with fake cell tower spying

German Digital Affairs Committee hearing heaps scorn on Chat Control

Thought you'd opted out of online tracking? Think again

OpenAI opens ChatGPT floodgates with dirt-cheap API

Waymo robo taxis rack up a million miles without killing anyone

Europe trims Apple App Store probe after deciding in-app payments not a problem

Hey, AI hucksters. Dial down the hype. Lots of love, the FTC

Google Chrome fights the power drain (again)

OpenAI CEO heralds AGI no one in their right mind wants

Signal says it'll shut down in UK if Online Safety Bill approved

Google destroyed evidence for antitrust battle, Feds complain

European Commission bans TikTok from staff gadgets

Now IBM Watson Health, sorry, Merative decimates staff

Microsoft begs you not to ditch Edge on Google's own Chrome download page

Supreme Court not interested in hearing about NSA's super-snoop schemes

Sure, Microsoft, let's put ChatGPT in control of robots

Can YouTube be held liable for pushing terror vids? Asking for a Supreme Court...

If you're struggling to secure email forwarding, it's not you, it's ... the protocols

Virtual reality telemetry means you can virtually kiss goodbye to privacy

What Brit watchdog redacted: Google gives Apple cut of Chrome iOS search revenue

Google's big security cert log overhaul broke Android apps. Now it's hit undo

Uncle Sam backs right-to-repair battle against Big Ag's John Deere

DigitalOcean waves goodbye to 11 percent of staff

Core-JS chief complains open source is broken, no one will pay for it

Apple splats zero-day bug, other gremlins in macOS, iOS

Google lets a few Android devices into its Privacy Sandbox

Twilio axes roughly 1 in 5 staff in fresh round of layoffs

How this database legal war could be decided by the name given to this license

Amazon convinces FCC it can avoid space junk chaos

Google's Go may add telemetry that's on by default

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