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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 + ML18 Apr 2025 |

Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI

Using LLMs to pick programs, people, contracts to cut is bad enough – but doing it with Musk's Grok? Yikes

Public Sector18 Apr 2025 | 2

Break free from infrastructure limits: Nutanix and Dell for Agile, scalable IT

Webinar Join us here at 0900 PT, April 30, to find out more

Need a Linux admin? Ask a hair stylist to introduce you to a worried mother

On Call Lad who 'stays in his bedroom on his computer' emerged ready to deliver brilliant tech support

OSes18 Apr 2025 | 44

Freeing developers from GenAI deployment nightmares

How CentML can ensure your tech stack delivers real-world value

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Congress wants to know if Nvidia superchips slipped through Singapore to DeepSeek

As Huang jets to Middle Kingdom after H20 ban forces $5.5B hit

AI + ML17 Apr 2025 | 13

Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure

Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed

PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2025 | 32

MX Linux 23.6 brings Debian freshness, without the systemd funk

Bookworm 12.10-based release is a few steps ahead of upstream

OSes17 Apr 2025 | 30

Bank of England flirts with offline digital dosh

No signal? No problem. But also no solid commitment to Britcoin yet

Software17 Apr 2025 | 40

Microsoft: Why not let our Copilot fly your computer?

Redmond talks up preview of AI agents navigating apps through the UI

AI + ML16 Apr 2025 | 30

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 | 22

Microsoft admits it's not you, Classic Outlook can be a real CPU, power hog sometimes

Bug or migration strategy for New Outlook, we wonder

Applications16 Apr 2025 | 14

First Nvidia, now AMD: Trump trade turmoil threatens $800M in China chip sales

World War Fee Is that MI in MI308 going to be Mission Impossible?

HPC16 Apr 2025 | 6

Microsoft blames 'latent code issue' after Windows 11 upgrades sneak past admin blockades

Intune policies turn out to be mere suggestions

OSes16 Apr 2025 | 49

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

AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed

Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair

Software16 Apr 2025 | 36

In wake of Horizon scandal, forensics prof says digital evidence is a minefield

Outdated and misinformed legal presumptions at the heart of concerns

Legal16 Apr 2025 | 48

Microsoft hits Ctrl-Z after Teams trips over file sharing

Maybe don't push to production without properly testing first?

SaaS16 Apr 2025 | 27

Legacy tech is the gift that keeps billing for UK's tax collector

£5.2B more thrown at the never-ending quest to modernize HMRC

Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 14

TalkTalk Business pulls disappearing act on customer emails

It's not DNS. It can't be DNS? Right?

Networks16 Apr 2025 | 22

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Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure

Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed

White House confirms 245% tariff on some Chinese imports not a typo

World War Fee Just make it 420.69 and be done with it, Mr President

Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers

'It's amazing how fast the change has been'

Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies

Truck-mounted demonstration weapon costs 10p a pop, says MOD

IBM orders US sales to locate near customers or offices

Exclusive 'Return to client' push coincides with RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge

Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users

Microsoft rewards those who patch early with bricks hurled through its operating system

Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America's labor watchdog

Ignored infosec rules, exfiltrated data … then the mysterious login attempts from a Russian IP address began – claim

Tesla fudged odometer to screw me out of warranty, Model Y owner claims

Give Elon an inch and he'll take thousands of miles ... allegedly

Daddy of a mistake by GoDaddy took Zoom offline for about 90 minutes

Manager of the .us namespace managed to block zoom.us

CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun

Comment MITRE, EUVD, GCVE … WTF?

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Apple: Since you care about yOuR pRiVaCy, we'll train our AI on made-up emails

It's LLMs all the way down

AI + ML16 Apr 2025 | 30

Trump derails Chinese H20 GPU sales, forcing Nvidia to eat $5.5B this quarter

World War Fee So much for Jensen's million-dollar dinner at Mar-a-Lago

Systems16 Apr 2025 | 52

Meta to feed Europe's public posts into AI brains again

Who said this opt-out approach is OK with GDPR, was it Llama 4, hmm?

AI + ML15 Apr 2025 | 21

Exchange Server 2019 has less than six months of support left in the tank

Pricier successor due in July. Three months is plenty of time to test it, right?

Software15 Apr 2025 | 9

Delta Lake and Iceberg communities collide – in a good way

Table format loved by Apple and Netflix gets boost after Databricks merger

Databases15 Apr 2025 |

ActiveX blocked by default in Microsoft 365 because remote code execution is bad, OK?

Stopping users shooting themselves in the foot with last century's tech

Software15 Apr 2025 | 13

Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online and weirdly alive

You can't keep a good OS down

Software15 Apr 2025 | 28

Windows Recovery Environment update fails successfully, says Microsoft

See no error, hear no error, speak no error

OSes15 Apr 2025 | 47

Nvidia joins made-in-America party, hopes to flog $500B in homegrown AI supers by 2029

Blackwell production already underway in Arizona with server manufacturing coming to Texas within 15 months

AI + ML15 Apr 2025 | 11

Don't delete that mystery empty folder. Windows put it there as a security fix

Copilot vibe coding for OS development? Why not

Patches14 Apr 2025 | 32

Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months

Updated Users, unsurprisingly, are not pleased and feel forgotten amid Redmond's Copilot frenzy

OSes14 Apr 2025 | 68

New SSL/TLS certs to each live no longer than 47 days by 2029

IT admins, get ready to grumble

CSO14 Apr 2025 | 123

Ireland opens probe into Musk’s X over Grok’s AI data slurp

Watchdog wants to know whether EU posts were used without consent under GDPR

AI + ML14 Apr 2025 | 33

Windows 11 stops freaking out over wallpaper customization

Safeguard hold finally lifted as Microsoft realizes animated backgrounds aren't the end of the world

OSes14 Apr 2025 | 12

It's fun making Studio Ghibli-style images with ChatGPT – but intellectual property is no laughing matter

Opinion Miyazaki, copyright protection and the 'insult to life itself' of AI images

AI + ML14 Apr 2025 | 74

Dot com era crash on the cards for AI datacenter spending? It's a 'risk'

Interview Analysts say the bubble won't burst, but it is possible, admits world's largest colo provider

On-Prem14 Apr 2025 | 23

CIO and digi VP to depart UK retail giant Asda as Walmart divorce woes settle

Exclusive Brit retailer says troubled breakup with tech platform of former US owner nearing conclusion

On-Prem14 Apr 2025 | 15

VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor in an utterly obscure way

Home labs and bare bones test rigs matter so Broadcom's back in the game

Virtualization14 Apr 2025 | 42

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

AI is making hyperscalers' sustainability pledges look more and more like a Hail Mary

Comment Carbon capture, SMRs, fusion power - tech titans' climate strategies are packed with moon shots

AI + ML12 Apr 2025 | 18

Global datacenter electricity use to double by 2030, say policy wonks. Yup, it's AI

Analysis No worries, just use neural networks to optimize systems powering neural networks

AI + ML12 Apr 2025 | 18

LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'

AI + ML12 Apr 2025 | 93

Microsoft total recalls Recall totally to Copilot+ PCs

Redmond hopes you’ve forgotten or got over why everyone hated it the first time

OSes11 Apr 2025 | 125

IBM shareholders asked to back greater lobbying transparency

Activist investor finds payments groups lobbying against climate action

Software11 Apr 2025 | 8

The most important experimental distro you've never heard of gets new project lead

Plus a fresh version ... nine years after its last

OSes11 Apr 2025 | 72

Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft. Readers say it's all been downhill since Clippy

Will future techies feel the same way about Copilot?

Applications11 Apr 2025 | 67

Billions pour into AI as emissions rise, returns stay pitiful, say Stanford boffins

Models get bulkier, burnier, bank-breakier

AI + ML11 Apr 2025 | 12

Southern Water uses Capita's AI tool to flush customer complaints

Hang on, wasn't Capita already handling things like billing, etc? Ah, AgentSuite comes to the rescue

AI + ML11 Apr 2025 | 16

VMware opens beta for an upgrade to its midrange vSphere Foundation bundle

A new alternative for those pondering what to do when vSphere 7.x goes end of life in October

Virtualization11 Apr 2025 | 2

Self-driving car maker Musk's DOGE rocks up at self-driving car watchdog, cuts staff

Under-audit political squad also said to be drafting invoices for Uncle Sam

Public Sector11 Apr 2025 | 65

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

Return of Redis creator bears fruit with vector set data type

LLM query caching also lands soon

Databases10 Apr 2025 | 5

OpenAI slams 'sham' takeover bid by wannabe 'AGI dictator' Musk in countersuit

Billionaire 'tried every tool to harm us', says super lab, and it wants judge to end 'harassment'

AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 7

Atlassian makes its Rovo AI free, for now, to reduce 'friction' holding you back from agentic nirvana

Apparently it's time to assume you will work with AI and must 'move from doing the thing to being the architect of the thing'

AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 3

AmigaOS updated in 2025 for some reason

Hyperion ships another patch, which is nice

OSes10 Apr 2025 | 38

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

OK great, UK is building loads of AI datacenters. How are we going to power that?

Practical matters like being 1 of most expensive energy regions in Europe focuses minds at AI Energy Council meeting

Systems10 Apr 2025 | 80

Meta's AI, built on ill-gotten content, can probably build a digital you

Column Llama 4 Scout is just the right size to ingest a lifetime of Facebook and Insta posts

AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 28

Did someone say AI agents, Google asks, bursting in

Cloud Next Customers aren't sure, economy isn't great, tech looks cute, though

AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 5

Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons

Cloud Next Sure, we're doing FP8 versus a supercomputer's FP64. What of it?

AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 2

Nvidia paid $1M for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown

Updated Best after-dinner mint ever

AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 56

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

April's Patch Tuesday leaves unlucky Windows Hello users unable to login

Updated Can't Redmond ask its whizz-bang Copilot AI to fix it?

Patches09 Apr 2025 | 11

UK officials insist 'murder prediction tool' algorithms purely abstract

Even though policing department spent 2 years on 'Minority Report' evoking study predicting which criminals will become killers

Public Sector09 Apr 2025 | 63

FreeDOS 1.4: Still DOS, still FOSS, more modern than ever

The 1990s called – they're impressed

OSes09 Apr 2025 | 36

Microsoft resets 'days since last Windows 11 problem' counter to 0

SenseShield the latest company to fall foul of 24H2

OSes09 Apr 2025 | 31

Microsoft lists seven habits of highly effective Windows 11 users

Strangely no eighth tip to use something else

OSes09 Apr 2025 | 91

Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it

Recently formed AI Preferences Working Group has August deadline to develop ideas on how to tell crawlers to go away, or come for a feast

AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 35

DOGE dilettantes 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale

Feds claim creaky COBOL, user spike is real reason key portal now flaky

Public Sector09 Apr 2025 | 66

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

Bad luck, Windows 10 users. No fix yet for ransomware-exploited bug

Patch Tuesday A novel way to encourage upgrades? Microsoft would never stoop so low

Patches08 Apr 2025 | 14

Meta accused of Llama 4 bait-and-switch to juice AI benchmark rank

Did Facebook giant rizz up LLM to win over human voters? It appears so

AI + ML08 Apr 2025 | 3

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 | 48

Windows Server Update Services live to patch another day

Disconnected device scenarios cause headaches for Microsoft

OSes08 Apr 2025 | 14

'Copilot will remember key details about you' for a 'catered to you' experience

And Vision will 'read' your screen and interact with the content, says Microsoft

AI + ML08 Apr 2025 | 63

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

Microsoft’s AI masterplan: Let OpenAI burn cash, then build on their successes

Analysis Redmond’s not alone: AWS, Alibaba, DeepSeek also rely on others blazing the trail

AI + ML07 Apr 2025 | 9

That massive GitHub supply chain attack? It all started with a stolen SpotBugs token

But this mystery isn't over yet, Unit 42 opines

Devops07 Apr 2025 | 7

Trump tariffs thwart TikTok takeover as China digs in heels

World War Fee Video app's future once again caught between trade war and political whiplash

Applications07 Apr 2025 | 24

Legal clock ticking for Microsoft over alleged software license abuses

With weeks to meet terms of settlement agreement, engineers in Redmond still don't have a product to show CISPE

PaaS + IaaS07 Apr 2025 | 10

Mozilla takes pity on Firefox extension developers

Plan to standardize consent dialogs aims to lighten burden on devs, users, reviewers

Applications07 Apr 2025 | 4

Meta debuts its first 'mixture of experts' models from the Llama 4 herd

Says they’re done right as they don’t lean so far left

AI + ML07 Apr 2025 | 38

No joke: Microsoft foolishly published inaccurate price list on April 1st

Exclusive Fixed it the next day but a few lucky folk may have dodged a five percent Copilot price hike

Software07 Apr 2025 | 24

Asian tech players react to US tariffs with delays, doubts, deal-making

Asia In Brief PLUS: Qualcomm acquires Vietnamese AI outfit; China claims US hacked winter games; India's browser challenge winner disputed; and more

Public Sector07 Apr 2025 | 11

Introducing Windows on arm. And by arm, we mean wrist

Pixel Watch 3 boots Microsoft's OS in latest feat of delightful pointlessness

OSes05 Apr 2025 | 27

Ukraine's techies a 'pillar of support' for national economy after Russian invasion

Experts in IT services held up while other sectors fell over the last 5 years, says report

Networks04 Apr 2025 | 16

Windows 11 poised to beat 10, mostly because it has to

Market share increase accelerating, but Microsoft's flagship OS not yet at the 50% mark

OSes04 Apr 2025 | 68

Ubuntu 25.04 beta takes flight – but this Plucky Puffin is still molting

'Pudgy' might be more apt given the download size

OSes04 Apr 2025 | 27

Home Office haunted by 25-year-old asylum system

'Full benefit' of replacement will not be realized until old one is shut down, projects watchdog warns

Databases04 Apr 2025 | 52

Alan Turing Institute: UK can't handle a fight against AI-enabled crims

Law enforcement facing huge gap in 'AI adoption'

AI + ML04 Apr 2025 | 16

Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud

And it can be yours for a rather steep $349

OSes03 Apr 2025 | 126

Mediatek wants to make Chromebooks more like Copilot+ PCs

Arm-based silicon to help Google hardware muscle in on territory of Microsoft's own Arm-based PCs

Systems03 Apr 2025 | 15

Bill Gates unearths Microsoft's ancient code like a proud nerd dad

Founder shares 4K Altair BASIC source ahead of 50th anniversary

Software03 Apr 2025 | 69

Zorin OS 17.3 takes the Brave step of changing its default browser from Firefox

Comment To be fair, it sounds like the team has ironed out the more controversial features

Applications03 Apr 2025 | 41

UK government told to get a grip on £23B tech spend

Former official also points to processes driving up the cost of IT investment

Public Sector03 Apr 2025 | 32

On the issue of AI copyright, Blair Institute favors tech bros over Cool Britannia

Opinion Think tank report backs data mining for machine learning, leaving artists and rights holders behind

AI + ML03 Apr 2025 | 44

OpenStack delivers ‘Epoxy’ release, which it hopes will unglue more VMware customers

The BBC and Blizzard Entertainment have chipped in with contributions

On-Prem03 Apr 2025 | 7

OpenAI wants to bend copyright rules. Study suggests it isn’t waiting for permission

GPT-4o likely trained on O’Reilly books without permission, figures appear to show

AI + ML03 Apr 2025 | 31

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

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