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
Software
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
NARROWER TOPICS
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
OK, Google: Are you killing Assistant and replacing it with Gemini?
Yes, we are. And we promise your 'Droid and smart home kit will get a 'new experience'
AI + ML17 Mar 2025 | 59
Dash to Panel maintainer quits after donations drive becomes dash to disaster
Tin rattling earns rebuke from GNOME extension's original developer as well as dozens of everyday users
Software14 Mar 2025 | 70
We did not have Brave clashing with Rupert Murdoch on our 2025 bingo card, but there it is
Indie browser maker asks judge for legal shield against copyright threats over AI summaries
AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 44
Google says it's rolling out fix for stricken Chromecasts
It'll take a few days, give or take your situation
Personal Tech13 Mar 2025 | 20
City council rejects inquiry into £130M Oracle IT disaster
Opposition faults leadership as officers accused of misleading councillors
Databases13 Mar 2025 | 62
AI models hallucinate, and doctors are OK with that
Eggheads call for comprehensive rules to govern machine learning in medical settings
AI + ML13 Mar 2025 | 51
Free95 claims to be a GPL 3 Windows clone, but it's giving vaporware vibes
Don't, don't, DON'T believe the hype
OSes12 Mar 2025 | 57
Microsoft quantum breakthrough claims labeled 'unreliable' and 'essentially fraudulent'
Updated Redmond insists it's got this right and has even more impressive results to share soon
Systems12 Mar 2025 | 65
Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement
Windows App the way ahead as support pulled from May 27
OSes11 Mar 2025 | 80
Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months
It took a whistleblower to expose disastrous ERP go-live
Databases11 Mar 2025 | 61
MINJA sneak attack poisons AI models for other chatbot users
Nothing like an OpenAI-powered agent leaking data or getting confused over what someone else whispered to it
AI + ML11 Mar 2025 | 15
Judge says Meta must defend claim it stripped copyright info from Llama's training fodder
Facebook giant allegedly didn't want neural networks to emit results that would give the game away
AI + ML11 Mar 2025 | 23
Consumer Reports calls out slapdash AI voice-cloning safeguards
Study finds 4 out of 6 providers don't do enough to stop impersonation
AI + ML10 Mar 2025 | 8
Strap in, get ready for more Rust drivers in Linux kernel
Likening memory safety bugs to smallpox may not soothe sensitive C coders
OSes10 Mar 2025 | 70
eBPF. It doesn't stand for anything. But it might mean bank
Meta says it cut CPU usage by 20% through kernel-level profiling. Just FYI
OSes09 Mar 2025 | 23
We call this kernel saunters: How Apple rearranged its XNU core with exclaves
iPhone giant compartmentalizes OS for the sake of security
Research08 Mar 2025 | 17
Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery
Researchers find AI isn't ready to help with moral decision making
AI + ML08 Mar 2025 | 78
Developer sabotaged ex-employer with kill switch activated when he was let go
IsDavisLuEnabledInActiveDirectory? Not any more. IsDavisLuGuilty? Yes. IsDavisLuFacingJail? Also yes
Bootnotes08 Mar 2025 | 79
Essential FOSS tools to make macOS suck less
Friday FOSS fest Moved from Windows or Linux? Smooth some of the rough edges
Software07 Mar 2025 | 43
Microsoft tells abandoned Publisher fans to just use Word and hope for the best
PDFs and Powerpoint also lie in wait as 2026 looms
Applications07 Mar 2025 | 119
Google Chrome Enterprise to get better warning labels that you're using a company profile
Interface and branding changes arrive to more clearly separate users' work and play lives
Software06 Mar 2025 | 4
Worry not. China's on the line saying AGI still a long way off
Instead of Turing Test, subject models to this Survival Game to assess intelligence, scientist tells The Reg
AI + ML05 Mar 2025 | 42
Free Software Foundation rides to defend AGPLv3 against Neo4j license add-ons
FOSS bods file amicus brief in hope of preserving core GNU tenet of freedom forever
Software04 Mar 2025 | 25
Phantom of the Opera: AI agent now lurks within browser, for the lazy
Too shiftless to even click on a few things while online shopping, hm? Just ask this built-in assistant
AI + ML03 Mar 2025 | 12
C++ creator calls for help to defend programming language from 'serious attacks'
Bjarne Stroustrup wants standards body to respond to memory-safety push as Rust monsters lurk at the door
Software02 Mar 2025 | 213
Open Source Initiative defends disallowing board candidate after timezone SNAFU
Here's another thing AI can do: Cause conflict around whether it's compatible with the very idea of open source
Software28 Feb 2025 | 28
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