Ghost in the shell script: Boffins reckon they can catch bugs before programs run
Go ahead, please do Bash static analysis
CSO30 Apr 2025 | 26
Software
Meta bets you want a sprinkle of social in your chatbot
Sharing is caring when your entire business is built on it
AI + ML29 Apr 2025 | 2
Duolingo jumps aboard the 'AI-first' train, will phase out contractors
Luis von Ahn says small quality hits are a price worth paying to ride the wave
AI + ML29 Apr 2025 | 31
The State of Open Source in 2025? Honestly, it's a mess but you knew that already
The good news: everyone's using it. The bad news: have you seen how they're using it?
Software29 Apr 2025 | 17
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 | 31
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
NARROWER TOPICS
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 | 115
El Reg's essential guide to deploying LLMs in production
Hands On Running GenAI models is easy. Scaling them to thousands of users, not so much
AI Software Development Week22 Apr 2025 | 10
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
ICE enlists Palantir to develop all-seeing 'ImmigrationOS' eye to speed up deportations
Only Peter Thiel-backed biz can pull off $30M IT deal, apparently
Public Sector21 Apr 2025 | 69
Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234
Video AI-spoofed Mark joins fellow billionaires as the voice of the street – here's how it was probably done
Bootnotes19 Apr 2025 | 88
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
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
Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users
Microsoft rewards those who patch early with bricks hurled through its operating system
OSes16 Apr 2025 | 25
Figma bucks market trends, plunges into IPO waters after Adobe's failed buyout
Timing not ideal with Wall Street fearing recession
Applications16 Apr 2025 | 6
Pidgin is back, so let's talk about why a local chat client matters
Multi-protocol chat client is approaching version 3
Software13 Apr 2025 | 41
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
M365 Family users wake up to notice 'Your subscription expired'
Final update License to freak out? El Reg reader recommends reverting to pen, paper, pub
SaaS10 Apr 2025 | 87
Founder of facial-rec controversy biz Clearview AI booted from board
From wanting to weed out far-Left, anti-Trump migrants to amassing a huge database of internet photos
AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 6
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
Boeing 787 radio software safety fix didn't work, says Qatar
'Loss of safe separation between aircraft, collision, or runway incursion' is not what we want to hear
Applications08 Apr 2025 | 49
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
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
Data doesn't lie, but Microsoft's new Power BI prices might make you cry
Hike is no joke and users are not laughing
Software02 Apr 2025 | 18
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
Asda's tech separation from Walmart nears £1B as delays mount
Lenders told of £175 million project top-up for 2025, four years after buyout
On-Prem01 Apr 2025 | 16
GCHQ intern took top secret spy tool home, now faces prison
Not exactly Snowden levels of skill
Security01 Apr 2025 | 87
Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it
Blame the 23andMe implosion, rise in far-right govt
Science01 Apr 2025 | 21
Malware in Lisp? Now you're just being cruel
Miscreants warming to Delphi, Haskell, and the like to evade detection
Research29 Mar 2025 | 56
Mobile ad world drama: AppLovin not lovin' short seller assault claiming fraud
A peek behind the curtain in one corner of online advertising
Personal Tech28 Mar 2025 | 9
Windows Server 2025 locking up after February patch, no word of when a fix will land
Similar issue in Windows 11 resolved as of Wednesday
OSes28 Mar 2025 | 10
Feds drop bomb on Multiplan in legal war over healthcare 'price-fixing' algorithms
DoJ suggests it sure looks like collusion when several big players use the same cost-saving software
Software28 Mar 2025 | 22
IBM US cuts may run deeper than feared ‒ and the jobs are heading to India
Big Blue 'might as well move its headquarters' to Bengaluru since it 'no longer prioritizes' America
On-Prem27 Mar 2025 | 86
From MP3 to Web3 to now 3D, Napster gets a new owner
Beating a dead horse to a 4-4 beat
Bootnotes27 Mar 2025 | 25
Aardvark beats groundhogs and supercomputers in weather forecasting
PC-size ML prediction model predicted to be as good as a super at fraction of the cost
Science26 Mar 2025 | 31
Interest in SAP cloud migration triples in its biz heartland
User group chairman warns, however, that ERP giant's pace is not feasible for every org
Databases25 Mar 2025 |
Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees
Redmond veteran proposes Zero Sugar and Caffeine Free variants
Applications25 Mar 2025 | 112
You know that generative AI browser assistant extension is probably beaming everything to the cloud, right?
Just an FYI, like
Applications25 Mar 2025 | 18
OTF, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt and more, sues to save its funding from Trump cuts
Updated Kari, are you OK, are you OK, Kari?
Networks25 Mar 2025 | 109
AI agents swarm Microsoft Security Copilot
Looking to sort through large volumes of security info? Redmond has your backend
Security24 Mar 2025 | 13
GNOME 48 lands with performance boosts, new fonts, better accessibility
Tweaks mean smoother operation even on low-end kit
OSes24 Mar 2025 | 44
Trump orders all government IT contracts consolidated under GSA
White House touts massive savings, agencies brace for shake-up
Public Sector21 Mar 2025 | 72
Apple hallucinated Siri's future AI features, lawsuit claims
Broken commitment to deliver hyped Intelligence upgrade branded false advertising
AI + ML21 Mar 2025 | 45
Photoshop FOSS alternative GIMP wakes up from 7-year coma with version 3.0
Meanwhile, open source video codec Ogg Theora stirs in its crypt
Software20 Mar 2025 | 300
Too many software supply chain defense bibles? Boffins distill advice
How to avoid another SolarWinds, Log4j, and XZ Utils situation
Security20 Mar 2025 | 10
SystemRescue 12 lands with added bcachefs support
You might need that – the file system has some hard-to-squish bugs
OSes20 Mar 2025 | 7
Brit supermarket finds breaking up is hard to do as Walmart-Asda divorce stretches into fourth year
'Three-year' tech support deal still running
PaaS + IaaS19 Mar 2025 | 18
Show top LLMs some code and they'll merrily add in the bugs they saw in training
One more time, with feeling ... Garbage in, garbage out
AI + ML19 Mar 2025 | 33
Do AI robo-authors qualify for copyright? It's still no, says appeals court
Updated Computer scientist Stephen Thaler again told his 'Creativity Machine' can't earn a ©
AI + ML18 Mar 2025 | 30
Vivaldi 7.2 browser wants to topple tech's feudal lords
Tall order for tiny market share techies but 'this is the moment to decide what kind of internet we want,' says CEO
Applications18 Mar 2025 | 21
Oracle JDK 24 appears in rare alignment of version and feature count
The 24 JDK Enhancement Proposals in Java 24 represent a stochastic sign
Applications18 Mar 2025 | 8
AI crawlers haven't learned to play nice with websites
SourceHut says it's getting DDoSed by LLM bots
AI + ML18 Mar 2025 | 21
Don't want Copilot app on your Windows 11 machine? Install this official update
Microsoft says disappearance of Clippy 2.0 is an error it will shortly fix
AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 36
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