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VideoLAN to India: If you love FOSS so much, why have you blocked downloads of our tools?

Local activists help pen letter to government requesting - in very stern language - reasons why it's been targeted

Software05 Oct 2022 | 1

Scaling the apex of efficient AI

Webinar Creating high performance, enterprise-sharp AI infrastructure stacks

Don't mind Facebook, just putting its own browser in its Android app

Analysis Totally not for data collection

Software04 Oct 2022 | 26

You thought you bought software – all you bought was a lie

Comment Isn't code something worth paying for? Well, frankly, no

Software04 Oct 2022 | 120

Someone's at last helping AI models understand those with speech disabilities

Welsh, on the other hand, there's no tech that can help with that

AI + ML04 Oct 2022 | 15

NetScaler reclaims identity after Citrix, Tibco merge as ‘Cloud Software Group’

Other business units also made full members of group, perhaps hinting and spin-outs

Software04 Oct 2022 |

Big changes coming in Debian 12: Some parts won't be FOSS

Vote result good news for new users, but might be bad for remixes

OSes03 Oct 2022 | 22

PostgreSQL 15 promises to ease Oracle and SQL Server migrations

MERGE means more code can be copied from earlier installation, because let's be real – that's how it's happening

Databases03 Oct 2022 | 11

Why do organizations rely on the RTOS?

Take part in our survey to find out what everyone thinks.

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Teradata CTO Stephen Brobst drowns data lakehouse concept

Interview Colorful data techie seeks to fend off rivals

Databases03 Oct 2022 | 5

Tesla has a lot of work to do on its Optimus robot

Optimus Sub-Prime? For something meant to revolutionize production lines, reveal wasn't quite there yet

AI + ML03 Oct 2022 | 86

Google Translate dropped in mainland China

Search engine was banned so no surprise no one was using it

Applications03 Oct 2022 | 3

Bank of England puts cloud analytics on todo list after seeing off market collapse

Data more essential than ever, says analytics chief as Liz Truss U-turns on tax, and world+dog remembers Bank's there to manage risk

Databases03 Oct 2022 | 24

Linux kernel 6.0 debuts, Linus Torvalds teases ‘core new things’ coming in version 6.1

Linux boss' launch message is more ‘6.0 is overrated’ than ‘The joy of 6.0’

OSes02 Oct 2022 | 22

Text-to-image models are so last month, text-to-video is here

In brief Plus: Did Bruce Willis sell his image rights to AI biz creating deepfakes? And more

AI + ML01 Oct 2022 | 17

Google delays execution of doomed Chrome extensions

Busineses get a little longer with Manifest v2, everyone else... it depends

Applications30 Sep 2022 | 19

Amazon lets you rent Ubuntu Pro. Yes, it's Linux on the virtual desktop

Insert your Year of Linux joke here, we dare you

Virtualization30 Sep 2022 | 6

Here's OpenStack Platform 17 – aka what Red Hat hopes your network operator will one day use

The project with the thumbs up from CERN ... and China

OSes30 Sep 2022 |

Information is power, data is omnipotent

Real time data can be a win-win for any business when smartly employed

How Citrix dropped the ball on Xen ... according to Citrix

Open Source Summit How to win friends and admit how you lost them earlier?

Virtualization30 Sep 2022 | 16

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FBI: We tracked who was printing secret documents to unmask ex-NSA suspect

Infosec systems designer alleged to have chatted with undercover agent

You thought you bought software – all you bought was a lie

Comment Isn't code something worth paying for? Well, frankly, no

Tetchy trainee turned the lights down low to teach turgid lecturer a lesson

Who, Me? Sure, I’ll sit here all day taking notes because you’re too cheap to print them out

India’s Mars Orbiter Mission loses contact, burns all fuel, deemed ‘non-recoverable’

Mangalyaan orbiter launched for just $74m, lasted a magnificent 16 times longer than expected

Founder of cybersecurity firm Acronis is afraid of his own vacuum cleaner

It is the exponential changes in the course of human history that worry Serg Bell

The open internet repels its most insidious attackers. They’ll return

Opinion It’ll take an army of billions to hold them back. Let’s make one

Big changes coming in Debian 12: Some parts won't be FOSS

Vote result good news for new users, but might be bad for remixes

Remote work wipes $453b off office real estate

Commercial 'apocalypse' now – and worse is yet to come, apparently

FYI: TikTok tracking pixels can be found all over the web – just like Meta, Google

Updated Don't have a TT account? Doesn't matter!

Between ransomware and month-long engagements, IR teams need a hug – and a nap

Here's what 1,100 incident responders say about their jobs, just in time for NSCAM

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Atlassian smartens up security, licensing admin tools

And bundles its best bits at bargain price in case someone wants you to work their way for a while

Devops29 Sep 2022 | 1

Upcoming Outlook for Windows app opens to more testers

Office Insider? You might want to check refreshed email client

Applications29 Sep 2022 | 6

Cockroach Labs CTO: Google became too comfortable, I wasn't being challenged

Interview Peter Mattis on starting a multibillion-dollar company as serverless database hits GA

Databases29 Sep 2022 | 4

Europe just might make it easier for people to sue for damage caused by AI tech

Imagine the lawyer infomercials – Did a computer hurt you? Call (30) 555 1234...

AI + ML29 Sep 2022 | 17

UK, US slip down World Digital Competitiveness Ranking

Denmark takes top spot, Croatia improves fastest, Hong Kong flops

Software29 Sep 2022 | 12

Tencent has its Meta moment as CEO Pony Ma outlines 'immersive convergence'

Video confs to add multi-sensory interaction and by 2040 maybe even brain/machine interfaces

Software29 Sep 2022 | 5

OpenAI opens doors to DALL-E after the horse has bolted to Midjourney and others

Ironic that an ML lab with so many accelerators is such a slowpoke

AI + ML29 Sep 2022 | 7

Cloudflare's invisible CAPTCHA works by probing browsers with JavaScript

Beta-grade widget respects your privacy, we're promised

Software28 Sep 2022 | 31

Uncle Sam to unmask anonymous writers using AI

Along with revealing authors, IARPA also wants bot to disguise scribes

AI + ML28 Sep 2022 | 50

Late but lustrous, a fresh remix of Ubuntu emerges

UbuntuDDE 22.04 is colorful, and with slightly less Chinese flavor than Ubuntu Kylin

OSes28 Sep 2022 | 10

Russia's Facebook-like VK removed from Apple App Store

Apps still available on Google Play, digital ministry says it's investigating

Applications28 Sep 2022 | 1

Is it time to retire C and C++ for Rust in new programs?

Column Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Azure CTO, thinks so

Software28 Sep 2022 | 200

Save the whales – with, uh, artificial intelligence?

When a Klingon Bird-of-Prey just won't cut it

AI + ML28 Sep 2022 | 10

Ford buys into Middle Kingdom market with China EV subsidiary

As Intel expands its collaboration with Chinese car-maker Geely

AI + ML28 Sep 2022 | 4

China's central bank declares victory over online lenders, Bitcoin speculators

Just in time for the Party Congress, whatever the reality of the situation

Software28 Sep 2022 | 3

SAS puts ML and analytics suite on Azure Marketplace

50-year-old software project provides a button the boss can click

Databases27 Sep 2022 |

Oracle pays $23 million to SEC to settle bribery charges

India, Turkey, UAE subsidiaries set up slush funds to bribe 'foreign officials' says watchdog

Databases27 Sep 2022 | 8

Removing an obsolete AMD fix makes Linux kernel 6 quicker

Performance-killing workaround rediscovered after 20 years

OSes27 Sep 2022 | 80

Grab – Asia's Uber – knows customers and drivers so well it can vet them for loans

Understands income streams, seasonality of sales, how hard drivers work, and safety records

Applications27 Sep 2022 | 4

Is it a bird? Is it Microsoft Office? No, it's Onlyoffice: Version 7.2 released

The other open-source productivity suite gets a version bump

Applications27 Sep 2022 | 66

Microsoft China turns 30, gives nation the gift of jobs and export promotion

Including assistance for the kind of companies the US is keen to contain

Software27 Sep 2022 | 4

City isn't keen on 5,000 erratic, traffic-jam-causing GM robo-cars on its streets

Analysis 'Cruise AV automated driving system is still under development' is putting it politely after vehicles block roads

AI + ML27 Sep 2022 | 64

Oracle extends share options plans, no bumper payday for execs... yet

Not all investors happy that suits get more time to earn significant stock-option awards

Databases26 Sep 2022 | 4

Serious surfer? How to browse like a pro on Firefox

Mozilla may seem like it has forgotten, but this is the most customizable browser going

Software26 Sep 2022 | 96

Oracle verifies Java licensing tools from Flexera and Lime Software

While one vendor says they help prepare for audit, expert warns they don't defend compliance

Databases26 Sep 2022 | 4

AI won't take coders' jobs. Humans still rule for now

In brief Plus: ML career help, OpenAI releases free speech-recognition model, and more news

AI + ML26 Sep 2022 | 23

Girls Who Code books 'banned' in some US classrooms

Updated Culture wars may have come to gentle tales of tweens enjoying friends, fun, programming

Software26 Sep 2022 | 373

Darth Vader voice actor James Earl Jones allows AI to take over the role

Ukrainian outfit Respeecher's GAN-based neural audio enhancer embraces The Dark Side

AI + ML26 Sep 2022 | 41

Linus Torvalds predicts Linux Kernel 6.0 debut next week, dispels fear of delays

Hails unusually smooth development process despite travel complications

OSes26 Sep 2022 |

A match made in heaven: systemd comes to Windows Subsystem for Linux

Has someone been Poettering about?

OSes24 Sep 2022 | 117

Mozilla drags Microsoft, Google, Apple for obliterating any form of browser choice

If you've got no OS of your own, you've got little chance to compete, Firefox maker sighs

Applications23 Sep 2022 | 134

SiFive RISC-V cores picked for Google AI compute nodes

Cor, that's a shot in the arm for this upstart CPU ISA

AI + ML23 Sep 2022 | 13

Boeing to pay SEC $200m to settle charges it misled investors over 737 MAX safety

Ex-CEO also on the hook for $1m after skipping over known software issues

Software23 Sep 2022 | 42

Businesses can halve 'megavendor' software costs with third-party support

COVID-19, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, growing inflation, and the threat of recession driving adoption

Software23 Sep 2022 |

The secret to Sparrow, DeepMind's latest Q&A chatbot: Human feedback

Thanks for the advice

AI + ML23 Sep 2022 | 20

GNOME hits 43: Welcome To Guadalajara

Love it or loathe it? Plus: KDE 5.26 here soon, and both desktops still working on mobile support

OSes22 Sep 2022 | 35

Harnessing data at the speed of thought

Learn how to benefit from data driven business growth

Bank of England seeks partner to support Oracle Cloud implementation

After venturing into HCM, UK's central bank embarks on finance and procurement journey with Big Red

Applications22 Sep 2022 | 6

Another UK tech company bought out: Schneider Electric grabs rest of Aveva

Analysis French industrial conglomerate pays $10.75b, but already owned lion's share of industrial software specialist

Software22 Sep 2022 | 15

Getty bans AI-generated art due to copyright concerns

You boffins need to figure out who owns what before someone gets sued

AI + ML21 Sep 2022 | 8

Firefox 105 is here, and it's faster and more memory-frugal

If you love having thousands of tabs open, this might be one for you

Software21 Sep 2022 | 48

Now's your chance, AI, to do good. Protect endangered eagles from wind turbines

(But wot about us vultures, sniff)

AI + ML21 Sep 2022 | 89

Microsoft debuts Windows 11 2022 Update – now with features added monthly

OSes21 Sep 2022 | 64

In Rust We Trust: Microsoft Azure CTO shuns C and C++

Updated Mark Russinovich goes hardcore against old languages

Software20 Sep 2022 | 143

Apple to raise App Store prices in 28 countries

No reason given, but inflation and app tracking changes may both factor

Applications20 Sep 2022 | 8

Nvidia sets out timeline for H100 GPUs – now for HGX, next year for DGX

GTC It's called Hopper because most of the chips announced today skipped it

AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 1

Admins run into Group Policy problems after Win10 update

Scratch Patch ... it's Rip Tuesday: Users complain that Microsoft’s KB5017308 breaks desktop shortcuts

OSes20 Sep 2022 | 18

Oracle brews Java 19. Mmmm, kinda tastes like RISC-V

Upstart CPU integration, incremental improvements – just the way cautious corporate customers like it

Software20 Sep 2022 | 1

Microsoft low code branches into lightweight GUI widgets

Building features into Teams, Outlook without JSON coding possible with new Cards play

Applications20 Sep 2022 | 8

SETI seeks amateur astronomers to find hot Jupiter-like exoplanets

Much better use of time than 'hot singles in your area'

AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 2

Excel's comedy of errors needs a new script, not new scripting

Opinion Microsoft reanimates the wrong corpse

Applications20 Sep 2022 | 110

Linux Foundation launches European division

Open Source Summit Plans to drive more open source – and more transparency – into public sector

Software20 Sep 2022 | 9

Creatives up in arms over claim that AI is killing human art

In brief Plus: Cruise expanding self-driving robotaxi operations, and more

AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 25

Document Foundation starts charging €8.99 for 'free' LibreOffice

Only in the Mac App Store, as part of FOSS-for-biz strategy software org admits may not quickly deliver results

Applications20 Sep 2022 | 96

Google says some AI call center agents took the morning off

Updated Replace unreliable people with tireless cloudy software, they said …

AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 8

Getting from A to B with modernization

Join us for best practice advice on migrating OpenShift applications and workloads to AWS

Linux luminaries discuss efforts to bring Rust to the kernel

Open Source Summit After 31 years, a second programming language will be allowed in

OSes16 Sep 2022 | 64

Researchers build ML models to forecast food shortages

Secondary data in weather, macro-economics to help governments and orgs figure out where to focus their aid

AI + ML16 Sep 2022 | 3

Google previews streaming connector for BigQuery

All your data on one platform, opines the Chocolate Factory

Databases16 Sep 2022 | 2

The next deep magic Linux program to change the world? Io_uring

Column Even Torvalds pronounces it 'fairly sane'

Software16 Sep 2022 | 52

Upstart claims its chips beat Nvidia's A100 on AI oomph

That's nice, but what about Nv's H100?

AI + ML15 Sep 2022 | 2

Food security group, Linux Foundation working on crop data standard

'Sharing of agricultural data can help develop solutions to some of the food system's most pressing challenges'

Software15 Sep 2022 | 9

Microsoft rolls out stealthy updates for 365 Apps

Good thing Redmond has a brilliant track record with patches

Applications15 Sep 2022 | 49

SAP user group questions value for money amid plans to increase support fees

Unbundling of products, cloud shift, support for older ERP products make customers query inflation-based rise

Applications15 Sep 2022 | 3

NHS data platform procurement delayed for a second time

Questions remain over Palantir's influence after consultancy role for former NHS England director revealed

Databases15 Sep 2022 | 29

SWIFT to trial blockchain – but not for its core payment service

Hopes to streamline market data movements, but as 11,000 institutions use SWIFT this is a bit of a moment

Software15 Sep 2022 | 24

Chinese court OKs trading crypto, if it's considered a virtual asset

This may not be in the spirit of Beijing's many bans on blockheads

Software15 Sep 2022 |

Twilio more than decimates staff, CEO says it grew too fast

As Patreon ditches nearly a fifth of its workforce

Software14 Sep 2022 | 17

Fedora 37 beta: Hints of what's to come in Red Hat's free flagship

Text Editor replaces GEdit for starters, though it's still very early days

OSes14 Sep 2022 | 18

Linux kernel's eBPF feature put to unexpected new uses

Linux Plumbers Conference The internal traffic-filtering tool can be used for much more than firewalls

Software14 Sep 2022 | 19

To preserve Earth's treasures, digital silence is golden

Column There are beautiful, undisturbed places in the world. You do not have to catch 'em all

Software14 Sep 2022 | 56

Ex-Googler Eric Schmidt's think tank warns China could win global tech race

USA told to sort itself out in 5G, AI, and microelectronics by 2025 – or things could get mighty grim

AI + ML14 Sep 2022 | 39

VMware teases replacement for so-insecure-it-was-retired P2V migration tool

vCenter Converter will make a comeback

Virtualization14 Sep 2022 | 10

US throws millions at AI to diagnose diseases by the sound of your voice

Speech can be impacted by cancer, Parkinson's, depression, and more

AI + ML13 Sep 2022 | 7

Automating Excel tasks to come to Windows and Mac

Not just for the web anymore: Microsoft Office Scripts coming for the macro-managers among us

Applications13 Sep 2022 | 42

SEC charges VMware with hiding slowing sales from investors

Virtualization giant pays $8m to settle claims it pushed revenue into later quarter... without admitting liability

Virtualization13 Sep 2022 | 9

When DevOps and cyber security collide

How can the IT industry stop the CVE rot and get software bug numbers down?

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Beijing signals Digital Yuan will integrate with existing payment schemes

It needs to, because the likes of Alipay are already ubiquitous – and already used overseas

Software13 Sep 2022 | 3

PyTorch gets lit under The Linux Foundation

Independent management aims to ensure openness and transparency

Software12 Sep 2022 | 1

SAP to increase support fees in January to offset inflation costs

Maintenance and software installation prices heading north for range of agreements

Applications12 Sep 2022 | 3

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