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 CSO23 Mar 2023 | 1
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 | 12
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 | 55
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
Privacy fail: Pictures cropped, redacted by Google Pixel phones can be recovered Updated aCropalypse Now, starring any 2018-or-later device Security20 Mar 2023 | 36
Free-Teams-gate: Docker apologizes for shooting itself in the foot Botched data deletion threat roils open source worlds Devops17 Mar 2023 | 21
The npm registry's safe word is Socket Exclusive GitHub's JavaScript failings are someone else's opportunity Devops16 Mar 2023 | 8
Microsoft's Copilot AI to pervade the whole 365 suite Clippy 2.0 to help us 'reconnect with the soul of our work' ... just don't mention that lawsuit AI + ML16 Mar 2023 | 35
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 | 58
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
After nearly two decades of waiting, GNOME 44 brings you... image thumbnails The primary desktop in Ubuntu 23.04 and Fedora 38 is getting there OSes14 Mar 2023 | 46
SAP's in-and-out burger Qualtrics sold to Silver Lake and Canadian pension funds Someone's still got some cash jangling about after the Silicon Valley Bank mess Spotlight on Databases14 Mar 2023 | 4
'Robot lawyer' DoNotPay not fit for purpose, alleges complaint Human lawyers: 'DoNotPay is not actually a robot, a lawyer, nor a law firm' AI + ML13 Mar 2023 | 15
Yes, Samsung 'fakes' its smartphone Moon photos – who cares? Comment Moon is real. Pictures of Moon are real. Phone uses lots of pictures of Moon to make your picture less crap Offbeat13 Mar 2023 | 86
UK govt adds £4B to value of delayed tech procurement Hardware, software, kitchen sink: it's all in there On-Prem13 Mar 2023 | 3
GitHub rolls out mandatory 2FA for loads of devs next week Engineers who contribute to public projects told to enroll Software09 Mar 2023 | 10
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
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
How to get the latest Linux kernel on your Ubuntu box And a choice of ways to get the latest KDE too, if that's your thing OSes06 Mar 2023 | 35
Zoom chops president it hired less than a year ago Vid-chat-biz ditches Greg Tomb as head-rolling continues Off-Prem03 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
My God, it's full of tabs: Vivaldi's coolest new features shine on phones and cars Opera founder's outfit continues to push the browser functionality envelope Software02 Mar 2023 | 40
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
Fedora 38 will still support framebuffer X11 and NIS+ Next version of Red Hat's bleeding-edge distro won't drop all the older tech it had hoped to OSes01 Mar 2023 | 10
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
Patches to make WINE work on Wayland display server protocol are being merged Code update will remove the need for translation layer in Linux distros Software28 Feb 2023 | 15
Zoom: The sound of web chat biz's annual profits nosediving Fiscal 2023 'not without its challenges' as bottom line tumbles 76% Off-Prem28 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
Linux app depot Flathub may offer paid-for software Latest twist in long saga of trying to monetize desktop penguinistas Applications27 Feb 2023 | 25
Who writes Linux and open source software? Opinion Developers and, more to the point, the companies that employ them OSes24 Feb 2023 | 111
By order of Canonical: Official Ubuntu flavors must stop including Flatpak by default You can add Snap's rival cross-distro packaging format back in yourself OSes23 Feb 2023 | 69
Sure, Microsoft, let's put ChatGPT in control of robots Video Doesn't the world have enough problems? AI + ML22 Feb 2023 | 32
What you need to know about the real-time capable edition of Ubuntu 22.04 Don't rush in if you don't need it – there may be more cons than pros OSes20 Feb 2023 | 37
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
The quest to make Linux bulletproof Part 2 What the big players and an outlier are doing, and why OSes16 Feb 2023 | 101
Microsoft's .NET Framework gets one less update reboot Software behemoth makes Windows updates smaller, faster … how about less buggy and more tested? Software16 Feb 2023 | 11
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
Happy Valentine's Day: Here's the final nail in Internet Explorer's coffin Browser finally gone, but its memory, engine, wails of user and dev torment live on until at least 2029 Software14 Feb 2023 | 21
Twilio axes roughly 1 in 5 staff in fresh round of layoffs Already decimated staff in September Software13 Feb 2023 | 3
Creator of Linux virtual assistant blames 'patent troll' for project's death Kickstarter backers left empty-handed Software13 Feb 2023 | 48
'Private cloud server' Jira upgraded for wider teams, dragged into culture wars Atlassian wants it used more widely … but probably not for reporting misinformation to social networks Devops13 Feb 2023 | 8
How this database legal war could be decided by the name given to this license Neo4j v PureThink rumbles on Devops12 Feb 2023 | 4
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
American jailed for smuggling controlled tech to Iran 30 months in prison for providing, um... enterprise mobile banking software dev tool Legal10 Feb 2023 | 12
VMware turns 25 today: Is it a mature professional or headed back to Mom's house? Special feature Beat Microsoft. Set agendas. Became essential. Hiked prices. Now we wait for Broadcom's reign Virtualization10 Feb 2023 | 15
No more free love: Netflix expands account sharing restrictions A 31-day limit on how long you can be away from your home IP address is included too Networks09 Feb 2023 | 99
Transmission FOSS BitTorrent client hits version 4.0 Torrenting is still a thing, it still works, and it's not just for illegal downloads to get around streaming restrictions Applications08 Feb 2023 | 30
Voice.ai denies claim it violated open source software license requirements Maker of voice changing software says it has removed GPLv3 code "to alleviate any doubt" Devops08 Feb 2023 | 11
GitHub claims source code search engine is a game changer When grep isn't good enough, try Blackbird Devops07 Feb 2023 | 51
US warns aging air-traffic control code won't be fixed until 2030 NOTAM chance in hell this stuff is getting sorted soon despite outage Software07 Feb 2023 | 13
Surprise! China's top Android phones collect way more info Best to revisit that plan to bring home a cheap OnePlus, Xiaomi, Oppo, or Realme handset from your holiday Software07 Feb 2023 | 75
US stalkerware developer fined $410,000 and ordered to modify apps so they reveal spying Creepy developer offers evasive apps that track victims, crack their cloud storage, enable harassment and worse Personal Tech07 Feb 2023 | 12
Have we learned anything from SolarWinds supply chain attacks? From frameworks to new federal offices, it's time to get busy Security05 Feb 2023 | 26
It's your human hubris holding back AI acceptance Boffins find Dunning-Kruger effect makes us think we know better AI + ML03 Feb 2023 | 52
System76 teases features coming in homegrown Rust-based desktop COSMIC Meanwhile, Xfce takes its first steps toward Wayland support OSes02 Feb 2023 | 41