Tech CEO nixes AI lawyer stunt after being threatened with jail time
In brief Plus: Google builds text-to-music model but won't release it, and more
AI + ML30 Jan 2023 | 9
Software
FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure
Opinion Don't throw the open source baby out with the bathwater
OSes30 Jan 2023 | 25
After less than half a year, Intel quietly kills RISC-V dev environment
Did Pathfinder get lost in Intel's sea of red ink? Or is Chipzilla becoming RISC averse?
Software30 Jan 2023 | 14
So you want to replace workers with AI? Watch out for retraining fees, they're a killer
Comment Who said workforce development was just for humans?
AI + ML29 Jan 2023 | 47
Chrome bug bedevils file storage in the cloud
'I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that'
Devops29 Jan 2023 | 3
Microsoft squashes Windows 11, Server 2022 bugs with preview patches
Remote Desktop, domain controllers giving you gyp? Gamble on these fixes
OSes28 Jan 2023 | 4
Experts warn of steep increase in Java costs under changes to Oracle license regime
As per employee model replaces old subscription, user bills could soar
Software27 Jan 2023 | 75
AWS doubles down on innovations that redefine the database management experience
Unveiling Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift and much more
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What is Google doing with its open source teams?
Opinion Nothing good – the recent layoffs hit its best and brightest leaders hard
Software27 Jan 2023 | 45
User was told three times 'Do Not Reboot This PC' – then unplugged it anyway
On-Call Even with instructions staring them in the face, this genius couldn't get it right
Software27 Jan 2023 | 145
Poor Meta. Technical debt and user training made its exabyte-scale data migration tricky
Welcome to the real world, kids. And for the rest of us, a future at which Meta is gulp! – better at large-scale analytics
Databases27 Jan 2023 | 11
Disaster recovery blunder broke New York Stock Exchange this week
The irony, it burns
Devops26 Jan 2023 | 12
Memory safety is the new black, fashionable and fit for any occasion
Calls to avoid C/C++ and embrace Rust grow louder
Software26 Jan 2023 | 55
SAP culls 3,000 jobs from CRM business and its results weren't even that bad
'Targeted restructuring' could have been worse, analyst points out
Software26 Jan 2023 | 4
If your Start menu or apps are freezing up on Windows, Microsoft has a suggestion
No, it's not install Fedora Linux, sadly
OSes26 Jan 2023 | 95
Tesla's Autopilot is losing out to Ford, GM in self-driving tech
Life in the fast lane, surely make you lose your mind
AI + ML25 Jan 2023 | 58
Oracle engineering exec quits after tryst with health division
Reports suggest Don Johnson left after 6 months in charge of strategic unit
Databases25 Jan 2023 | 4
Developers: What if someone said you’d never have to meet with marketing again?
Atlassian thinks it’s made that possible by extending automation from Jira to Confluence
Devops25 Jan 2023 | 8
Software glitch revokes copyright protection for AI-generated comic book
So is AI artwork copyrightable? Not quite as case remains up in the air
AI + ML25 Jan 2023 | 16
Flutter now has less stutter and plays nicer with the web
Version 3.7 shows Google's cross-platform, Dart-based UI framework maturing
Software25 Jan 2023 |
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So you want to replace workers with AI? Watch out for retraining fees, they're a killer
Comment Who said workforce development was just for humans?
Chrome bug bedevils file storage in the cloud
'I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that'
Gee, tanks: Russian hackers DDoS Germany for aiding Ukraine
in brief Also: a week of leaks; Riot Games says 'LoL' to source code ransom demands; and Yandex source also appears online
Shag pile PC earned techies a carpeting from HR
Who, Me? Thankfully a veep with a sense of humor pulled the rug out
After less than half a year, Intel quietly kills RISC-V dev environment
Did Pathfinder get lost in Intel's sea of red ink? Or is Chipzilla becoming RISC averse?
China stops recognizing online study, orders kids back to foreign unis
Asia In Brief PLUS: NTT’s haptics advance; Australia cracks down on influencers; Korean Uni websites hit by Chinese protestors; and more
FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure
Opinion Don't throw the open source baby out with the bathwater
Oh, 07734! Internet Archive debuts vintage calculator emulator
MAME adapted to bring your favorite TI and HP graphing machines back to life
Labyrinth of 371 legacy systems hindered hospital's IT meltdown recovery
Guy's and St Thomas' in London spent two months getting back on its feet after heatwave fried datacenter
Japan, Netherlands reportedly join US in China tech export ban
But the first rule of Chip Fight Club must be observed. Meanwhile Beijing may have its own shadow bans
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Microsoft: You're not out of love with cloud, you're just 'optimizing' it for a bit
Q2 results include modest revenue increase, steep consumer and net income decrease
Software25 Jan 2023 | 8
Well that escalated quickly: India demos homebrew mobile OS
BharOS is based on the Linux kernel and is apparently incapable of running malware
OSes25 Jan 2023 | 37
World of Warcraft Classic lead dev resigns to protest 'stack ranking'
Brian Birmingham claims he walked after refusing to give team member a 'low' rating
Software24 Jan 2023 | 58
Scaling up impossible heights
Successfully using serverless SaaS to reap the value of transactional data
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Windows 10 paid downloads end but buyers need not fear ISO-lation
Microsoft pulls the plug as of January 31, alternatives are easy to find
OSes24 Jan 2023 | 78
ChatGPT talks its way through Wharton MBA, medical exams
This perhaps says more about the tests than the artificial intelligence on display
AI + ML24 Jan 2023 | 40
Microsoft can't stop itself blowing billions on OpenAI
Embrace, extend ... extinguish, but whom or what this time?
AI + ML23 Jan 2023 | 9
Universities offered software to sniff out ChatGPT-written essays
Feature Teachers hopefully get their hands on the tool within months
AI + ML23 Jan 2023 | 37
Sorry seems to be tech execs' favorite word as DB player Aiven lays off 1 in 5
Finnish open source biz joins elite in correcting pandemic hiring frenzy
Databases23 Jan 2023 | 3
Rentokil uses AI rat recognition to plot extermination in real time
You know where they eat, where they sleep, where they live... then figure out how to whack them
AI + ML23 Jan 2023 | 24
XenServer, split from Citrix, promises per-socket prices 'unlike certain other hypervisors'
Yeah, we know: Cost alone won't lead to success. But it may be hiring, unlike certain other tech giants
Virtualization23 Jan 2023 | 9
Dear Stupid, I write with news I did not check the content of the [Name] field before sending this letter
Who, Me? This is what happens when database field names are changed without proper documentation
Software23 Jan 2023 | 102
Polish for Windows Spotlight and tabs for Notepad in latest Insiders build
You will soon know more about what your PC lockscreen is showing you
OSes23 Jan 2023 | 20
India's Supreme Court finds Google's appeal against monopoly fines unappealing
Vast and unpleasant – for Google – changes to the Android ecosystem remain a possibility
OSes23 Jan 2023 | 4
Publisher halts AI article assembly line after probe
In brief Plus: Academics debate citing ChatGPT as research co-author; Getty Images sues Stability AI
AI + ML23 Jan 2023 | 12
Microsoft is checking everyone's bags for unsupported Office installs
Please, sir. I don't want a 365 subscription
OSes21 Jan 2023 | 147
Twitter tweaks third-party app rules to ban third-party apps
Setting fire to an ecosystem like it's a spliff on a credulous podcast
Applications21 Jan 2023 | 84
Massive outage grounded US flights because someone accidentally deleted a file
Our lives are in your hands, and you have butterfingers?
Software21 Jan 2023 | 41
Capital One axes over 1,000 tech roles
Tis the extended season for layoffs
Software20 Jan 2023 | 8
Mentally scarred: Kenyan workers taught ChatGPT to recognize offensive text
Spare a thought for the workers who read the worst content scraped from the internet to keep you safe
AI + ML20 Jan 2023 | 16
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Build new revenue streams and enhance customer value with Amazon QuickSight Embedded
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OpenAI's ChatGPT is a morally corrupting influence
No principles or virtues, people accepting everything it says – this bot is perfect for political life
AI + ML20 Jan 2023 | 85
Arca Noae is modernizing OS/2 Warp for 21st century PCs
Retro Tech Week Lewis Rosenthal talks about why some companies still need to run OS/2 today – including on UEFI and GPT hardware
OSes19 Jan 2023 | 43
Six years later, HPE and Oracle quietly shut door on Solaris lawsuit
Bunfight over support for proprietary Unix operating system ends with a confidential whimper
Software19 Jan 2023 | 2
Adobe: Take user data to train generative AI models? We'd never do that
Controversial policy change forces chief product officer to speak out
AI + ML19 Jan 2023 | 13
Indian official reveals 'plan' to build a national mobile OS
Analysis History tells us it will flop. But success might not be the real goal, so much as poking Big Tech
OSes19 Jan 2023 | 31
Publisher breaks news by using bots to write inaccurate stories
Worse still, human editors appear not to have caught the mistakes
AI + ML19 Jan 2023 | 41
Azure Stack HCI gets extra protection with 'long-requested feature'
Kerberos support in WAC and a host of other goodies also added
Software19 Jan 2023 | 1
Gonna run System Restore in Windows 11? Microsoft says some of its apps won't
Want to access Office tools? Don’t try to go back in time
Software19 Jan 2023 | 21
Tesla faked self-driving demo, Autopilot engineer testifies
Elon should stick to throwing rocks at his truck windows
AI + ML18 Jan 2023 | 46
Founder of FreeDOS recounts the story so far, and the future
Retro Tech Week What is dead may never die, and it's all thanks to Jim Hall
OSes18 Jan 2023 | 18
Microsoft axes 10,000, already breaking bad news to staff
Remaining Redmondites told they need to ‘raise the bar’
Software18 Jan 2023 | 103
AI may finally cure us of our data fetish
Column There's still a place in the world for good old-fashioned human intelligence
AI + ML18 Jan 2023 | 26
Will 2023 be the year of dynamite disinfo deepfakes, cooked up by rogue states?
And if so, what are we gonna do about it?
AI + ML18 Jan 2023 | 16
Bringing the first native OS for Arm back from the brink
Retro Tech Week Steve Revill of RISC OS Open chats to us about taking the project into the future
OSes17 Jan 2023 | 40
Writing tool from AI21 Labs won't do all the hard work for you
Wordtune Spices is more like an AI-powered Grammarly
AI + ML17 Jan 2023 | 2
Unix is dead. Long live Unix!
Comment Don't expect to see any more big AIX news. What does that leave us with?
OSes17 Jan 2023 | 172
University still living in the Nineties seeks help with move to SAP S/4HANA
Tens of millions up for grabs as institution needs to dump legacy code
Databases17 Jan 2023 | 36
Microsoft to offer ChatGPT-as-a-service from Azure real soon now
Addition of the chatbot everyone's talking about, and to, comes as Azure OpenAI goes GA
AI + ML17 Jan 2023 | 19
Beijing lifts restrictions on rideshare giant DiDi Chuxing
After eighteen month exile, it's allowed to recruit new customers
Software17 Jan 2023 | 1
Quickest way to save with Oracle? Get off Unlimited Licensing Agreements, says pundit
They're not the meal deal they might seem to be, claims audit expert
Databases16 Jan 2023 | 21
Microsoft and community release scripts to help mitigate Defender mess
Techies forced to mop up after update caused ASR rules to detect false positives, wiping icons and apps shortcuts
Software16 Jan 2023 | 42
Midjourney, DeviantArt face lawsuit over AI-made art
Updated Lawyer known for GitHub Copilot case to argue artists' legal struggle
AI + ML16 Jan 2023 | 57
AI lawyer to fight first legal case in court, startup claims
In Brief Plus: How much would you pay for ChatGPT? And British AI drug biz gets snapped up for half a billion
AI + ML16 Jan 2023 | 26
AWS adds Superapp Grab's Asia-centric maps to its cloudy location service
Asia In Brief PLUS ServiceNow makes Japan a discrete region; Alibaba Cloud’s Singapore hub; US snipes at Korean network policy; and more
Software16 Jan 2023 | 1
Third-party Twitter apps stopped dead with no explanation from El Musko
Sorry, when exactly are you going to sod off to Mars, mate?
Software14 Jan 2023 | 123
Surely you can't be serious: Airbus close to landing fully automated passenger jets
DragonFly designed to land and taxi when the pilot is incapacitated, or just busy
AI + ML13 Jan 2023 | 155
NASA overspent $15m on Oracle software because it was afraid an audit could cost more
Houston, we have a problem: Millions wasted on license penalties
Software13 Jan 2023 | 40
Google polishes Chromium code with a layer of Rust
Mozilla-incubated systems language should make Chrome shine
Software12 Jan 2023 | 7
Version 5 of the Endless OS enters testing
This may show a future direction for Linux desktops
OSes12 Jan 2023 | 70
Microsoft to offer unlimited time off for US staff
Incoming corporate policy may lead to stress and burnout for staff, reduced costs for Redmond
Software12 Jan 2023 | 36
Games Workshop once again battles scariest monster of all: ERP gone wrong
Worldwide expansion reliant on delayed Microsoft Dynamics project as Amazon deal beckons
Databases12 Jan 2023 | 50
Fujitsu has a yen for 'large-scale' acquisitions and billions of yen to fund them
Digital transformation is still a thing and Japanese giant wants to buy anyone that can do it
Software12 Jan 2023 | 7
Cloud Software Group confirms 15 percent headcount cut
CEO of Citrix/TIBCO mashup says company has 'strong foundation' and rolls out the Broadcom playbook of focusing on 'top customers'
Software12 Jan 2023 | 4
IBM shifts remaining US-based AIX dev jobs to India – source
Around 80 positions moved to another continent, Big Blue stays silent
OSes12 Jan 2023 | 34
Scientists tricked into believing fake abstracts written by ChatGPT were real
Study warns tool could be used to create fake research papers for paper mills
AI + ML11 Jan 2023 | 22
Native Americans urge Apache Software Foundation to ditch name
Open source org called out for ignoring own code of conduct
Software11 Jan 2023 | 280
Fedora 38 is finally taking shape
New Budgie and Sway spins, Xfce 4.18, and initial support for Unified Kernel Images
Software11 Jan 2023 | 7
That NHS England patient data platform procurement, FDP, is live. And worth up to £480m
References to Palantir use cases, 'unique tools' litter the tender docs as critics mull legal action
Databases11 Jan 2023 | 20
Meta develops AI targeting system to show housing ads to wider range of users
Part of a settlement with US Department of Justice after ads discrimination case
AI + ML11 Jan 2023 | 7
Haiku beta 4: BeOS rebuild / almost ready for release / A thing of beauty
Open source reimplementation could be even better than the original in its prime
OSes11 Jan 2023 | 120
New software sells new hardware – but a threat to that symbiosis is coming
Comment Complex software packages need ever gruntier specs... and Koomey’s Law awaits
OSes11 Jan 2023 | 33
Asia’s digital divides mean some can’t afford tech upgrade they need to compete
International Monetary Fund report suggests 'diffusion' - a kind of tech trickle-down - might sort things out
Software11 Jan 2023 | 1
Microsoft to move some Teams features to more costly 'Premium' edition
Wants around $10 a month for stuff you get free today, plus plenty more new features
Software11 Jan 2023 | 152
Citrix and Tibco staff report sweeping redundancies
Future is cloudy at the Cloud Software Group
Software11 Jan 2023 | 1
Microsoft may be counting out $10 billion to inject into OpenAI
Could ChatGPT be Google's nemesis?
AI + ML10 Jan 2023 | 15
Belarus legalizes piracy – but citizens will have to pay for it
Meanwhile, the regime is angling to pocket the money owed to rightsholders
Software10 Jan 2023 | 19
China follows through on plan to ban deepfake tech
Synthetic media undermines national security, says internet regulator
AI + ML10 Jan 2023 | 8
BMW updates 90% of EVs sold in the US over power software bug
BMW i4, i7 and iX drivers need a fix
Software09 Jan 2023 | 21
Python Package Index found stuffed with AWS keys and malware
British developer uses homegrown scanning tool to check for risks
Software09 Jan 2023 | 20
This is the end, Windows 7 and 8 friends: Microsoft drops support this week
Time has run out for users of legacy operating systems – will you upgrade or buy a new PC?
OSes09 Jan 2023 | 156
OpenAI is developing software to detect text generated by ChatGPT
In brief Plus: Apple using fake AI voices to help indie publishers release audiobooks
AI + ML09 Jan 2023 | 32
Adobe will use your work to train its AI algorithms unless you opt out
Content analysis system scans data stored on its Creative Cloud services
AI + ML07 Jan 2023 | 27
Microsoft’s Nadella: Tech is in for a rough two years
Slowing demand and economic pressures are a drag, but AI waits at the end of the rainbow
AI + ML06 Jan 2023 | 48
Cybercrooks are telling ChatGPT to create malicious code
Chatbot might let unskilled criminals launch attacks, if the code works
AI + ML06 Jan 2023 | 67
Fancy a quick tour of DragonFly BSD 6.4?
We buzz around new version of the other-other-other FOSS-xNix-that-isn't-Linux
OSes06 Jan 2023 | 39
Mobileye touts bright future while Nvidia, Qualcomm win over automakers
Analysis Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
AI + ML06 Jan 2023 | 1
Mercedes-Benz thinks Nvidia's Omniverse can help with manufacturing
CES German automaker gets deeper into the GPU giant's hardware and software ecosystem
Software06 Jan 2023 | 4
Southwest Airlines sued for failing to give prompt refunds after IT meltdown
Asking us to 'submit a receipt for consideration' just doesn't cut it, claims would-be class action
Software06 Jan 2023 | 15
Microsoft said to be thinking of sinking $10m into self-driving truck startup
Because it's all going so well for Tesla and co
Software06 Jan 2023 | 38
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