Google's Project Ellman: Merging photo and search data to create digital twin chatbot 'This is a brainstorming concept a team is at the early stages of exploring' AI + ML08 Dec 2023 |
Competing Section 702 surveillance bills on collision path for US House floor End-of-year deadline looms on US surveillance Security08 Dec 2023 |
Musk takes SEC 'Twitter sitter' consent decree appeal to US Supreme Court Same old argument about free speech – let's see if it sticks this time Legal08 Dec 2023 | 15
Microsoft to intro dedicated mode for Cloud PCs Latest Insider Build brings new features for Windows 365 Boot OSes08 Dec 2023 | 5
AMD thinks it can solve the power/heat problem with chiplets and code Interview CTO Mark Papermaster lays out the plan for the next two years Systems08 Dec 2023 | 2
What are you feeding your AI? AI is changing the world, but your AI algorithms might need a diet of high-quality data captured at the edge Commissioned
Open source forkers stick an OpenBao in the oven HashiCorp software faces challenge after licensing change Personal Tech08 Dec 2023 |
A tailored approach to GenAI How using Retrieval Augmented Generation can enhance your AI development and deployment Webinar
Uncle Sam plows $42M into nurturing fusion breakthrough Experimerntal milestone needs work before it can be considered a candidate for power generation Science08 Dec 2023 | 9
Datacenters feeling the heat to turn hot air into cool solutions It's tricky to pull off, but new rules may make reuse more common On-Prem08 Dec 2023 | 3
That call center tech scammer could be a human trafficking victim Interpol increasingly concerned as abject abuse of victims scales far beyond Asia origins Security08 Dec 2023 | 9
Messed up metadata could be to blame for Microsoft's Windows printer woes It looks like everything is coming up HP. Do you want some help with that? OSes08 Dec 2023 | 18
A platform for securely scaling operations at the edge How Dell NativeEdge provides the confidence to succeed at the outer limits of your operation Commissioned
Time for a Geeko remix: openSUSE is looking for a new logo LOGOWATCH Days left to decide chameleon's fate ... vote now Bootnotes08 Dec 2023 | 8
Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI now in competition regulator's sights Has recent CEO, board shenanigans given rise to a merger situation? CMA is asking for a friend AI + ML08 Dec 2023 | 8
Systemd 255 is here with improved UKI support This is release 0b11111111 (0xFF) – what could possibly go wrong? OSes08 Dec 2023 | 28
What's the golden age of online services? Well, now doesn't suck Yearning for the pre-web internet can be misplaced... it certainly wasn't user-friendly Networks08 Dec 2023 | 43
Openreach hits halfway mark in quest to hook up 25M premises with fiber broadband 12.5 million teased with speedy internet, only 4 million take the bait Networks08 Dec 2023 | 19
BOFH: Just because we've had record revenues doesn't mean you get a Xmas bonus Episode Are you sure you don't want to rethink that, though, Boss? BOFH08 Dec 2023 | 46
Bank's datacenter died after travelling back in time to 1970 On Call Cover-up saved the culprit after a battery of tests diagnosed the problem On-Prem08 Dec 2023 | 134
Hubble Space Telescope is back in the game after NASA fixes gyro glitch No repair mission required – for now Science08 Dec 2023 | 13
Polish train maker denies claims its software bricked rolling stock maintained by competitor Says it was probably hacked, which isn't good news either Security08 Dec 2023 | 43
US lawmakers want blanket denial for sensitive tech export licenses to China Committee worries licenses are being issued to boost and suit business, not national security Legal08 Dec 2023 | 7
Cisco's cloud network push will tie licensing change to generational product refreshes Bundled support has already come to Catalyst – but don't bother asking how it works Networks08 Dec 2023 | 6
Amazon's game-streamer Twitch to quit South Korea, citing savage network costs The idea that Big Content should pay network operators is in trouble Personal Tech08 Dec 2023 | 25
Five Eyes nations warn Moscow's mates at the Star Blizzard gang have new phishing targets The Russians are coming! Err, they've already infiltrated UK, US inboxes Security08 Dec 2023 | 6
Meta trials Purple Llama project for AI developers to test safety risks in models Security boosted and inappropriate content blocked in large language models AI + ML07 Dec 2023 | 4
Broadcom to divest VMware's end-user computing and Carbon Black units Updated Warns of $1.3 billion charge for cutting Virtzilla's costs, rapid shift to subs and sales of the whole vStack rather than individual pieces Virtualization07 Dec 2023 | 23
Attacks abuse Microsoft DHCP to spoof DNS records and steal secrets Akamai says it reported the flaws to Microsoft. Redmond shrugged Security07 Dec 2023 | 10
Chinese boffins pitch quadcopter for Mars sample return mission In the race for the Red Planet, NASA is falling behind Science07 Dec 2023 | 10
Fairphone 5 scores a perfect 10 from iFixit for repairability Middling performance, but check out the longevity Personal Tech07 Dec 2023 | 42
US and EU infosec authorities pen intel-sharing pact As Cyber Solidarity Act edges closer to full adoption in Europe Cyber-crime07 Dec 2023 | 2
Raspberry Pi OS goes goth First post-Pi 5 update brings dark mode among numerous bug fixes Personal Tech07 Dec 2023 | 15
Google releases fix for missing Drive for desktop files Just install the latest client and follow the instructions, but don't ask questions PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 11
Meta starts rolling out end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger Surfing the cryptographic wave Applications07 Dec 2023 | 5
HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated' Apparently they're being serious Bootnotes07 Dec 2023 | 86
Accelerate time to insight for AI and HPC Why few AI projects can get off the ground unless data flows freely Sponsored Feature
AWS accuses Microsoft of clipping customers' cloud freedoms World's biggest off-prem service slinger submits comments to UK cloud inquiry, mostly has Redmond HQ's rival in its sights PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 8
Yet another UK public sector data blab, this time info of pregnant women, cancer patients NHS Trust admits highly sensitive data left online for nearly three years Public Sector07 Dec 2023 | 10
GitLab admits IT ineptitude in finance reporting is ongoing Code shack has had two years since auditor's 'adverse opinion' to get house in order Devops07 Dec 2023 | 7
Post-Brexit tariffs on EU-UK electric vehicle imports staved off for three years Between a bloc and a hard place Legal07 Dec 2023 | 68
Accelerating software delivery while keeping a close check Why upgrading and streamling your approach can pay long term business dividends Webinar
Microsoft's code name for 64-bit Windows was also a dig at rival Sun Should have called Vista 'Shitterton' and had done with it OSes07 Dec 2023 | 52
Iran launches 'biological capsule' to low Earth orbit Precursor to crewed flight can reportedly carry animals Science07 Dec 2023 | 7
Belgian man charged with smuggling sanctioned military tech to Russia and China Indictments allege plot to shift FPGAs, accelerometers, and spycams Security07 Dec 2023 | 13
Cisco delivers a powerup to its switches for small and medium biz Catalyst 1200 and 1300 keep perpetual licenses, PoE and stackability Networks07 Dec 2023 | 3
Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in 'He can't just make his own rules,' Danish labor leader says of Musk Offbeat07 Dec 2023 | 163
Google teases AlphaCode 2 – a code-generating AI revamped with Gemini Don't worry, your developer jobs are safe … for now AI + ML07 Dec 2023 | 11
Australia building 'top secret' cloud to catch up and link with US, UK intel orgs Plans to share 'vast amounts of data' – very carefully Security07 Dec 2023 | 17
Chromebooks are problematic for profits and planet, says Lenovo exec CANALYS APAC FORUMS Also: India's PC ban didn't take into account needs of ecosystem Personal Tech07 Dec 2023 | 61
Dell APJ chief: Industry won't wait for Nvidia H100 CANALYS APAC FORUM Canalys mostly agrees, but thinks GPU giant still has a way to go Systems07 Dec 2023 |
Dump C++ and in Rust you should trust, Five Eyes agencies urge Memory safety vulnerabilities need to be crushed with better code Public Sector07 Dec 2023 | 138
Stratolaunch takes ready-to-fly hypersonic craft skyward, but still no launch Scheduled summer Mach 5 flight deadline came and went Science06 Dec 2023 | 10
US senator claims Google and Apple reveal push notification data to foreign govs Cupertino promises to reveal its data deliveries, ending silence on the matter Personal Tech06 Dec 2023 | 9
Apple and some Linux distros are open to Bluetooth attack Issue has been around since at least 2012 Security06 Dec 2023 | 14
AMD slaps together a silicon sandwich with MI300-series APUs, GPUs to challenge Nvidia’s AI empire Chips boast 1.3x lead in AI, 1.8x in HPC over Nv's H100 Systems06 Dec 2023 | 7
Google launches Gemini AI systems, claims it's beating OpenAI and others - mostly Gemini accepts text, images, audio, and video and comes in three flavors AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 4
Mere minority of orgs put GenAI in production after year of hype Folks are dipping their toes in without a full commitment AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 14
Elon Musk's xAI wants $1B cash infusion in exchange for equity shares What, spent all your liquid assets on Twitter, Elon? AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 48
Nvidia sees Huawei, Intel in rear mirror as it grapples with China ban Commerce Sec threatens redesigned AI-capable chips will be curtailed 'the very next day' Systems06 Dec 2023 | 6
Google unveils TPU v5p pods to accelerate AI training Need a lot of compute? How does 8,960 TPUs sound? Systems06 Dec 2023 | 2
Here's how fast a spacecraft should fly to successfully detect amino acids erupting from Enceladus Does the Saturnian moon contain the chemical building blocks for alien life? Science06 Dec 2023 | 10
Red Hat greases migration to RHEL for CentOS 7 holdouts Insights tool aims to simplify conversion process, but it'll probably cost you OSes06 Dec 2023 | 19
A year on, CISA realizes debunked vuln actually a dud and removes it from must-patch list Apparently no one thought to check if this D-Link router 'issue' was actually exploitable Security06 Dec 2023 | 6
NASA engineers got their parachute wires crossed for OSIRIS-REx mission 'Inconsistent wiring label definitions' resulted in drogue being cut before it was deployed Science06 Dec 2023 | 24
EU running in circles trying to get AI Act out the door Bloc risks missing out on first-to-legislate status if timetable slips AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 15
Brit bendy chip firm Pragmatic scores funding to boost production Semiconductor bods get cash injection after threatening to quit UK over lack of government support Systems06 Dec 2023 | 12
'Wobbly spacetime' is latest stab at unifying physics Grudge match between quantum mechanics and general relativity attracts new effort to find harmony Science06 Dec 2023 | 81
Veteran editors Notepad++ and Geany hit milestone versions There are still good, modern, graphical text editors that are not Electron-based Applications06 Dec 2023 | 82
Shielding the data that drives AI Why we need the confidence to deploy secure, compliant AI-powered applications and workloads Sponsored Feature
Europe signs off on up to €1.2B in state aid for homegrown cloud project Vendor to speak unto vendor with first results expected in 2027 PaaS + IaaS06 Dec 2023 | 43
And the winner of the horrible Microsoft Paint sweater is ... Competition Sure, we'll send you to the Moon. But a return will cost you Offbeat06 Dec 2023 | 13
Digital memories are disappearing and not even AI or Google can help Column Technology allows us to keep more of our stuff than previously possible – but what use is it if we can't find it? Storage06 Dec 2023 | 71
Getty's image-scraping sueball against Stability AI will go to trial in the UK Computer-generated image maker fails to quash case on its claimed home turf AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 25
Atlassian security advisory reveals four fresh critical flaws – in mail with dead links Bitbucket, Confluence and Jira all in danger, again. Sigh Security06 Dec 2023 | 7
Microsoft issues deadline for end of Windows 10 support – it's pay to play for security Limited options will be available into 2028, for an undisclosed price Security06 Dec 2023 | 69
NTT Data to monitor ten million hotel guests and sell data about their sleep It'll be opt-in at a capsule hotel chain Personal Tech06 Dec 2023 | 14
Cisco intros AI to find firewall flaws, warns this sort of thing can't be free Predicts cyber crims will find binary brainboxes harder to battle Security06 Dec 2023 | 14
India's Moon mission pulled off another trick: an experimental orbital sequel Swift software development effort saw Chandrayaan-3 propulsion module make an unexpected return to Earth Science06 Dec 2023 | 4
Boffins devise 'universal backdoor' for image models to cause AI hallucinations Data poisoning appears open to all AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 22
Fancy Bear goes phishing in US, European high-value networks GRU-linked crew going after our code warns Microsoft - Outlook not good Security06 Dec 2023 | 4
Citrix pulls the plug on its User Group Community To be replaced by virtual community and ‘in-person event experience’ hosted by vendor Off-Prem05 Dec 2023 | 6
Meta killing off Instagram, Messenger cross-platform chatting How could you, Mark? Oh, right - gotta avoid those pesky EU gatekeeper rules Personal Tech05 Dec 2023 | 5
Microsoft fixes Copilot multi-monitor issues in Windows 11 update Alt+Tab support added and more in latest update to OS AI + ML05 Dec 2023 | 5
Half a century ago, NASA's Pioneer 10 visited Jupiter, then just kept going And going and going until the probe squeaked its last in 2003 Science05 Dec 2023 | 10
Buggy app for insulin-delivery device puts diabetes patients at risk of hypoglycemia No fix available yet for over 100,000 Omnipod 5 customers Software05 Dec 2023 | 59
Steve Jobs' $4.01 RadioShack check set to fetch small fortune at auction Talk about inflation – bids are now closing in on $30K Offbeat05 Dec 2023 | 28
YouTuber who crashed plane for sponsorship dollars earns 6 months behind bars There's an idiotic stunt, then there's obstructing a federal investigation Bootnotes05 Dec 2023 | 31
CISA details twin attacks on federal servers via unpatched ColdFusion flaw Tardy IT admins likely to get a chilly reception over the lack of updates Security05 Dec 2023 | 2
Optimizing GenAI for your business How RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) could be the best way forward Webinar
Tech world forms AI Alliance to promote open and responsible AI Everyone from Linux Foundation to NASA and Intel ... but some big names in AI are MIA AI + ML05 Dec 2023 | 1
DSPM deep dive: debunking data security myths To maintain a strong data security posture, you must protect the data where it lives Partner Content
Microsoft confirms Smart App issue renaming everyone's printers to HP Not only turning up uninvited, but telling folks they suddenly have a LaserJet OSes05 Dec 2023 | 55
Microsoft touts Visual Studio Code as a Java juggernaut 2.5 million devs can't be wrong – or can they? Software05 Dec 2023 | 11
DoE watchdog warns of poor maintenance at home of Frontier exascale system Report says new QA plan currently being worked up HPC05 Dec 2023 | 4
UK immigration rules hit science just as it rejoins €100B Horizon program Salary regs could limit the hiring of postdocs from abroad Science05 Dec 2023 | 143
BlackCat ransomware crims threaten to directly extort victim's customers Accounting software firm Tipalti says it’s investigating alleged break-in of its systems Cyber-crime05 Dec 2023 | 4
Dell CTO says enterprises will have GenAI in production next year – what could go wrong? It seems many a sleepless night lie ahead for CIOs AI + ML05 Dec 2023 | 7
Branson's wallet snaps shut for Virgin Galactic Suborbital space tourism outfit to move forward without beardy bailouts Science05 Dec 2023 | 27
It's ba-ack... UK watchdog publishes age verification proposals Won't somebody think of the children? Security05 Dec 2023 | 120
Government and the latest tech don't mix, says UK civil servant of £11B ESN mess Opinion Public sector might want to 'wait a bit' before buying into bleeding edge, Sir Matthew Rycroft muses Networks05 Dec 2023 | 37
Upscaling smaller businesses with optimised ICT How Intel vPro brings enterprise class IT within reach of SMBs Sponsored Feature
Tiny bits of space junk reveal their wherabouts when they collide, boffins hope It's hard to see, but when they rendezvous in orbit sparks ignite Science05 Dec 2023 | 7
Spanish media sues Meta for ignoring GDPR and harvesting data €550 million lawsuit seeks recompense for 'systemic and massive' disregard for privacy laws Personal Tech05 Dec 2023 | 30
UK government denies China/Russia nuke plant hack claim Report suggests Sellafield compromised since 2015, response seems worryingly ignorant of Stuxnet Security05 Dec 2023 | 26
China gamifies censorship and surveillance with national internet law quiz I'm not a regular government, I'm a cool government Legal05 Dec 2023 | 9
Korean peninsula space race sees South and North launch tit for tat spy sats North claims it took photos of stuff. South points to success of homegrown booster Offbeat05 Dec 2023 | 6
Amazon on the hook for predictably revolting use of concealed clothes hook spy cam Judge finds plaintiff's claim – that Amazon knew about illicit usage – credible enough for case to proceed Personal Tech05 Dec 2023 | 100
IBM takes a crack at 'utility scale' quantum processing with Heron processor Big Blue's roadmap prioritizes circuit size over qubit quantity Systems05 Dec 2023 | 5
US warns Iranian terrorist crew broke into 'multiple' US water facilities There's a war on and critical infrastructure operators are still using default passwords Security04 Dec 2023 | 17
AstraZeneca bets $247M AI can create a cancer-fighting antibody Startup Absci will turn to its generative AI algorithms to design synthetic protein AI + ML04 Dec 2023 | 28
Researcher claims Harvard nixed social media research after getting Zuck bucks University says ties to Meta execs and a $500 million donation played no role Personal Tech04 Dec 2023 | 10
Intel scores a reprieve in $2.18B VLSI patent case after court orders retrial Updated The never-ending IP story goes on Systems04 Dec 2023 | 4
California commission says Cruise withheld data about parking atop of a pedestrian Stalled self-driving car biz up to its axles in problems Personal Tech04 Dec 2023 | 43
Hershey phishes! Crooks snarf chocolate lovers' creds Stealing Kit Kat maker's data?! Give me a break Security04 Dec 2023 | 48
Remember when the Hubble Space Telescope was more punchline than science powerhouse? 30 years ago astronauts embarked on ambitious mission to fix Hubble ... and NASA's reputation Science04 Dec 2023 | 10
17% of Spotify employees face the music in latest cost-cutting shuffle This despite hitting profit high note – and right on time for Christmas Personal Tech04 Dec 2023 | 33
Two new versions of OpenZFS fix long-hidden corruption bug Version 2.2.2 and also 2.1.14, showing that this wasn't a new issue in the latest release Security04 Dec 2023 | 4
Now is a good time to buy memory because prices rise next year, Gartner predicts To blame? The usual suspect – AI's appetite for chips Systems04 Dec 2023 | 7
Tech renders iconic rockers Kiss genuinely immortal Final farewell show unveils the band's digital form Offbeat04 Dec 2023 | 49
Exposed Hugging Face API tokens offered full access to Meta's Llama 2 Updated With more than 1,500 tokens exposed, research highlights importance of securing supply chains in AI and ML Research04 Dec 2023 | 6
Amazon hitches a ride with SpaceX for Project Kuiper launches Working rockets are needed, and only a direct rival can provide for now Science04 Dec 2023 | 9
AWS exec: 'Our understanding of open source has started to change' Interview Apache Foundation president David Nalley on Amazon Linux 2023, Free software, and more PaaS + IaaS04 Dec 2023 | 22
You can't deepfake diversity, and that's a good thing Opinion Fresh thinking and new approaches can only come from varied cohorts of people Devops04 Dec 2023 | 26
Steam client drops support on macOS, but adds it on Linux Signs of the times: Linux's compatibility improves, while x86-32 recedes from Apple OSes04 Dec 2023 | 26
HP exec says quiet part out loud when it comes to locking in print customers Funny how marketing messages change depending on the audience Personal Tech04 Dec 2023 | 146
40 years of Turbo Pascal, the coding dinosaur that revolutionized IDEs The legacy can still be felt today Software04 Dec 2023 | 104
World's largest nuclear fusion reactor comes online in Japan JT-60SA produces largest volume of plasma ever made by humans, paves way for ITER Science04 Dec 2023 | 125
Sysadmin's favorite collection of infallible utilities failed … foully who, me? Unnecessary 'maintenance' turned into a fragging foul-up Storage04 Dec 2023 | 55
EU lawmakers finalize cyber security rules that panicked open source devs Infosec in brief PLUS: Montana TikTok ban ruled unconstitutional; Dollar Tree employee data stolen; critical vulnerabilities Security04 Dec 2023 | 17
New Relic's cyber-something revealed as attack on staging systems, some users Ongoing investigation found evidence of stolen employee creds and social engineering Cyber-crime04 Dec 2023 | 1
Linus Torvalds flags holiday-mode changes to next kernel merge window Penguin emperor ponders whether kernel contributors will code across the festive season, or humbug it OSes04 Dec 2023 |
Creating a single AI-generated image needs as much power as charging your smartphone AI in brief PLUS: Microsoft to invest £2.5B in UK datacenters to power AI, and more AI + ML04 Dec 2023 | 15
China's first undersea datacenter sinks – as planned Asia In Brief PLUS: India's landmark digital law delayed; Singaporean banks de-digitize some accounts; AUKUS to unleash AI Off-Prem03 Dec 2023 | 2
'Return to Office' declared dead Remote work is here to stay despite in-person mandates, this economist says On-Prem03 Dec 2023 | 220