Lenovo Thinkpad X13s: The stealth Arm-powered laptop A modern RISC computer trying desperately to pretend it's just another PC Personal Tech21 Mar 2023 | 99
Stanford sends 'hallucinating' Alpaca AI model out to pasture over safety, cost Meta-made small language model can produce misinformation, toxic text AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 16
Earth is running out of places for stargazers to do dark deeds in the name of science A 'new deal for the night' needed Science20 Mar 2023 | 23
Russian developers blocked from contributing to FOSS tools Opinion The war in Ukraine is bad and wrong… but does blocking these contributions help Ukraine? OSes21 Mar 2023 | 94
Putin to staffers: Throw out your iPhones, or 'give it to the kids' April Fools should use Russian or Chinese tech instead, Kremlin advises Security21 Mar 2023 | 38
Curl, the URL fetcher that can, marks 25 years of transfers Utility began as a personal project, found its way into billions of devices Software21 Mar 2023 | 10
You just gonna take that AWS? Let Microsoft school your users on cloud security? And Google Cloud is next CSO21 Mar 2023 | 2
Ex-Meta security staffer accuses Greece of spying on her phone Beware of Greeks bearing GIFs Security21 Mar 2023 | 23
Ferrari in a spin as crims steal a car-load of customer data Speeds away from the very suggestion it would ever pay a ransom Cyber-crime21 Mar 2023 | 8
Student satellite demonstrates drag sail to de-orbit old hardware 65 AA batteries and $10 Arduino processor power space debris solution Science21 Mar 2023 | 40
SpaceX tries to de-orbit Amazon's request for a satellite broadband shortcut Stop the presses: Billionaires think sharing is a great idea, until a rival billionaire wants to share Off-Prem22 Mar 2023 | 16
Australian FinTech takes itself offline to deal with cyber incident that caused data leak Latitude blames a 'major vendor' for its woes. Is that a vendor? A cloud? Whoever they are, they're in trouble Cyber-crime21 Mar 2023 | 2
Google suspends top Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo Alleges it’s infected with malware – but not the version in its own digital tat bazaar Security21 Mar 2023 | 4
Nvidia hooks TSMC, ASML, Synopsys on GPU accelerated lithography GTC What's next – AI designing AI chips? Oh wait... that's exactly what's next Systems21 Mar 2023 | 3
Xi, Putin declare intent to rule the world of AI, infosec 'Technological sovereignty is the key to sustainability' states Russian despot Security22 Mar 2023 | 20
Unknown actors deploy malware to steal data in occupied regions of Ukraine If this is Kyiv's work, Russia can Crimea river Security22 Mar 2023 | 18
Edinburgh Uni finds extra £8M for vendors after troubled ERP go-live Staff and suppliers paid late last year, new requirements lead to contract price hike Spotlight on Databases21 Mar 2023 | 6
Are you ready to go all-in, head-first, on a laptop? ASUS's Zenbook Pro 16X asks for that commitment Desktop Tourism 'Creator' machine is lovely, but seems unsuited to life on the periphery Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 29
India's absurd infosec reporting rules get just 15 followers CERT-In was told its six-hour notification requirement was a bad idea – now it knows just how bad Security22 Mar 2023 | 3
Indian state turns off internet for 27 million, for four days, to stymie one man Digital rights org criticizes use of fill-in-the-blank template used to quell separatist protests Legal22 Mar 2023 | 10
NASA's space nuclear power program is a hot mess 13 years of research at $40m/year only produced 2 cancelled projects, says oversight arm Science21 Mar 2023 | 7
BreachForums shuts down ... but the RaidForums cybercrime universe will likely spawn a trilogy Admins decide reviving crime-mart is dangerous, hint at new chapter Cyber-crime22 Mar 2023 | 2
Nvidia's generative AI inferencing card is just two H100s glued together GTC Don’t need a 700W fire-breathing GPU? It also launched an itty-bitty AI chip too Systems21 Mar 2023 | 1
No reliable way to detect AI-generated text, boffins sigh This article was not written by a computer, not that you could tell for sure either way AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 23
Acer pedals into e-cycle market with AI and big data in its basket Still tumbleweed for PC industry right now, but maybe folks will buy computers-on-bikes? Offbeat21 Mar 2023 | 17
Winnie the Pooh slasher flick mysteriously cancelled in Hong Kong Do you Xi what I Xi? Offbeat22 Mar 2023 | 28
Google reminds everyone it too can launch a ChatGPT-like chatbot … waiting list Meanwhile, Bing can now output images, Adobe touts shiny art platform Firefly AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 7
Hospital to test AI 'copilot' for doctors that jots notes on patient care The hope? Reducing piles of admin for clinicians freeing them up for medical work AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 19
IT depts struggle with skills shortages despite Big Tech layoffs You'd think there'd be more techies on the market, but many cuts were in business areas On-Prem22 Mar 2023 | 23
Nvidia CEO promises sustainability salvation in the cult of accelerated computing GTC Not quite as dramatic as AMD's Lisa Su and her visions of nuclear-powered supercomputers Systems21 Mar 2023 |
Baidu's ERNIE chatbot has nothing to say about Xi Jinping Bot also botches some requests, but is about to be baked into cloud services anyway AI + ML21 Mar 2023 | 3
Software-controlled food tech: 3D printed pipe-dream, or fatal stack instability? My goodness that's moist Science21 Mar 2023 | 12
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 Spotlight on Databases21 Mar 2023 | 1
German political parties accused of microtargeting voters on Facebook Country's super strong data rights under magnifying glass after half a dozen complaints filed Security22 Mar 2023 | 13
US details CHIPS Act rules that give China and South Korea some comfort Allows a little expansion of output from existing Middle Kingdom facilities Legal22 Mar 2023 |
GitHub Copilot learns new tricks, adopts this year's model Armed with GPT-4, Microsoft's AI 'pair programmer' can tag pull requests, parrot documentation, talk about code AI + ML22 Mar 2023 | 11
Marvell Technology to open redundancy chute in face of industry slowdown Releasing 4% of workforce Systems22 Mar 2023 | 3
Europe's right-to-repair law asks hardware makers for fixes for up to 10 years Smartphones and tablets would also be added to the EU's list of devices that must be repairable under new rule Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 13
Boffins develop AI model for designing proteins to make synthetic blood plasma And it's not the only hybrid synthetic biomaterial scientists are targeting AI + ML22 Mar 2023 |
Watchdog: Broadcom buy of VMware may be bad for competition Server price hikes, rival hardware makers locked out ... haven't we been warning that for a while? Virtualization22 Mar 2023 | 4
Microsoft freaks out users with Windows 11 warning: 'LSA protection is off' Alerts telling folks their 'device may be vulnerable' triggered by KB5007651 OSes22 Mar 2023 | 4
Space dust that regularly hits Earth could contain proof of alien life JWST? Whatever, I found ET in my dustpan Science22 Mar 2023 | 2
Aerospike targets Java Spring devs with support for the popular framework Database shortcuts built in popular environment in hopes of scoring devs who want an easy life Spotlight on Databases22 Mar 2023 |
If scammers use your AI code to rip off victims, the FTC may want a word A good watchdog does blame the tools, or something like that Personal Tech22 Mar 2023 | 3