Windows Insiders can now turn on Administrator Protection from settings Security feature widens out to more Windows 11 users, including those at home OSes18 Jan 2025 |
How Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history Opinion With added manga and snark. What's not to like? OSes18 Jan 2025 | 2
Copilot invades Microsoft 365 Personal and Family for an extra three bucks a month Many users less than impressed by unexpected arrival of AI assistant in Word AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 55
Apple solves broken news alerts by turning off the AI Summaries will return when Apple Intelligence has 'improved' AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 40
Brit government contractor CloudKubed enters administration Home Office, Department for Work and Pensions supplier in hands of FRP Advisory Public Sector17 Jan 2025 | 7
Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond's own products If you want a picture of the future, imagine your infosec team stamping on software forever AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 48
AWS adds 32-vCPU option and an easier on-ramp to its cloudy desktops Weirdly, this shows the weakness of hosted Windows with an admission about vidchats Virtualization17 Jan 2025 | 6
Just as your LLM once again goes off the rails, Cisco, Nvidia are at the door smiling Some of you have apparently already botched chatbots or allowed ‘shadow AI’ to creep in AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 9
Google reports halving code migration time with AI help Chocolate Factory slurps own dogfood, sheds drudgery in specific areas AI + ML16 Jan 2025 | 13
AI datacenters putting zero emissions promises out of reach Plus: Bit barns' demand for water, land, and power could breed 'growing opposition' from residents On-Prem16 Jan 2025 | 63
Debian 12.9 arrives, quickly followed by MX Linux 23.5 The eighth point-release of Bookworm – yes, you read that right – and the latest MX with new Xfce OSes16 Jan 2025 | 32
Apple's interoperability efforts aren't meeting spirit or letter of EU law, advocacy groups argue Free Software Foundation Europe and others urge European Commission to double down on DMA Software16 Jan 2025 | 18
UK government tech procurement lacks understanding, says watchdog NAO report highlights £3B cost overruns and 29 years of cumulative delays in IT projects Personal Tech16 Jan 2025 | 55
US adds Chinese RISC-V player that TSMC suspected of helping build Huawei GPUs to risky company register Sophgo scores a place on Entity List, Indian nuclear boffins taken off Legal16 Jan 2025 | 4
Parallels brings back the magic that was waiting seven minutes for Windows to boot In a preview of x86_64 VMs running on Apple silicon, so it’s excusable for now Virtualization16 Jan 2025 | 29
Nvidia shovels $500M into Israeli boffinry supercomputer System to feature hundreds of liquid-cooled Blackwell systems HPC16 Jan 2025 | 17
Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition You may not need to go full Juggalo for the sake of privacy AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 46
Windows Patch Tuesday hits snag with Citrix software, workarounds published Microsoft starts 2025 as it hopefully doesn't mean to go on Patches15 Jan 2025 | 8
'Savvy' shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages Babel Fish like ML model emerges after training on 4.5 million hours of multilingual spoken audio AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 28
Megan, AI recruiting agent, is on the job, giving bosses fewer reasons to hire in HR Interview She doesn't feel pity, remorse, or fear, but she'll craft a polite email message as she turns you down AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 75
Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall Third-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds
Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond's own products If you want a picture of the future, imagine your infosec team stamping on software forever
GM parks claims that driver location data was given to insurers, pushing up premiums We'll defo ask for permission next time, automaker tells FTC
Google reports halving code migration time with AI help Chocolate Factory slurps own dogfood, sheds drudgery in specific areas
Raspberry Pi hands out prizes to all in the RP2350 Hacking Challenge Power-induced glitches, lasers, and electromagnetic fields are all tools of the trade
SpaceX resets ‘Days Since Starship Exploded’ counter to zero Updated Test flight seven did better on the ground with a successful booster catch – as aircraft divert from falling debris
Just as your LLM once again goes off the rails, Cisco, Nvidia are at the door smiling Some of you have apparently already botched chatbots or allowed ‘shadow AI’ to creep in
Tech support fill-in given no budget, no help, no training, and no empathy for his plight On Call Fixed the problem anyway – with no approval for a purchase and no permission to use a device
IBM swoops in to rescue UK Emergency Services Network after Motorola shown the door With a near half-billion-pound price hike bringing contract value to £1.4B
Russia's Star Blizzard phishing crew caught targeting WhatsApp accounts updated FSB cyberspies venture into a new app for espionage, Microsoft says
Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI Energy consumption set to become a key performance indicator by 2027 On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 29
British tribunal claim aims to take a bite out of Apple over App Store fees Collective Proceedings Order seeks £1.5B from iGiant Applications15 Jan 2025 | 10
UK businesses eye AI as the cheaper, non-whining alternative to actual staff Rising costs blamed, although any excuse to do more with less AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 127
Foundation model for tabular data slashes training from hours to seconds Good ol' spreadsheet data could benefit from 'revolutionary' approach to ML inferences Databases15 Jan 2025 | 10
Microsoft fixes under-attack privilege-escalation holes in Hyper-V Patch Tuesday Plus: Excel hell, angst for Adobe fans, and life's too Snort for Cisco Patches15 Jan 2025 | 7
Allstate accused of quietly paying app makers for driver data Insurance giant sued by Texas for using surveillance without consent to jack up premiums, deny coverage Personal Tech14 Jan 2025 | 23
Biden opens federal land to power-hungry AI datacenters Watt's the problem? Not enough energy to win the arms race? The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond14 Jan 2025 | 6
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Price-fixing-as-a-service: The claim against healthcare cost-cruncher MultiPlan Interview Attorney Jennifer Scullion on allegations of algorithmic suppression of competition Software14 Jan 2025 | 13
Oracle open source overlord calls it quits, leaves with big ol' pile of shares 38-year veteran Edward Screven led technology and architecture decisions since Sun merger Databases14 Jan 2025 | 4
Microsoft, PC makers cut prices of Copilot+ gear in Europe, analyst stats confirm Double-digit reduction only served to 'stimulate some interest' AI + ML14 Jan 2025 | 48
Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change 'Let's not do this again please'... days before release date OSes14 Jan 2025 | 43
Snyk appears to deploy 'malicious' packages targeting Cursor for unknown reason Updated Packages removed, vendor said to have apologized to AI code editor as onlookers say it could have been a test Security14 Jan 2025 | 1
Absolute Linux has reached the end – where to next? Analysis Linux distros that don't exist, but we wish did OSes14 Jan 2025 | 52
Europe hopes Trump trumps Biden's plan for US to play AI gatekeeper Export controls would limit shipments of GPUs to large swaths of EU AI + ML14 Jan 2025 | 76
Hulk smash Musk and Zuck! Actor Mark Ruffalo and non-billionaire pals back network tech underpinning Bluesky Updated Free Our Feeds solicits funds to foster AT Protocol that powers decentralized social media Bootnotes14 Jan 2025 | 60
WordPress drama latest: Leader Matt Mullenweg exiles five contributors WordPress.org accounts cancelled, dissidents told to fork off Applications14 Jan 2025 | 27
In AI agent push, Microsoft re-orgs to create 'CoreAI – Platform and Tools' team Nad lad says 30 years of change happening in 3 years ... we're certainly feeling the compression of time AI + ML13 Jan 2025 | 10
CoreWeave drops £1bn in UK datacenters – but don't expect the latest Nvidia magic just yet Rent-a-GPU outfit's latest datacenters are packed to the brim with H200s Systems13 Jan 2025 | 2
Azure, Microsoft 365 MFA outage locks out users across regions It's fixed, mostly, after Europeans had a manic Monday Security13 Jan 2025 | 9
Nvidia snaps back at Biden's 'innovation-killing' AI chip export restrictions 'New rule threatens to squander America's hard-won technological advantage' says GPU supremo Systems13 Jan 2025 | 23
Tesla recalls 239,382 vehicles over rearview camera problems Software snafu can fry computer components for owners of Musk's electric buggies Personal Tech13 Jan 2025 | 78
UK unveils plans to mainline AI into the veins of the nation Government adopts all 50 venture capitalist recommendations but leaves datacenter energy puzzle unsolved AI + ML13 Jan 2025 | 104
UK prepared to throw planning rules out the window for massive datacenters Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project designation could tear down more restrictions On-Prem13 Jan 2025 | 85
Life lesson: Don't delete millions of accounts on the same day you go to the dentist Who, Me? Or ignore documentation that warns you are about to do something dangerous Databases13 Jan 2025 | 58
Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform Exclusive Faced with huge license cost increase, provider and customers were both happy to make migration a mission Virtualization13 Jan 2025 | 37
Linus Torvalds offers to build guitar effects pedal for kernel developer ‘I'm a software person with a soldering iron’, he warns alongside release of Linux 6.13-rc7 Personal Tech13 Jan 2025 | 62
Microsoft tests 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific to see how much you enjoy AI Won’t say if other nations will be hit, but will ‘listen, learn, and improve’ as buyers react – so far with anger SaaS13 Jan 2025 | 125
That subdued CES has us wondering what 2025 will look like, tech-wise Kettle El Reg vultures circle the Consumer Electronics Show Personal Tech12 Jan 2025 | 16
Google and Linux Foundation form Chromium love club Right as Uncle Sam pushes for Chrome sell-off, eh? Applications10 Jan 2025 | 13
New Outlook marches onto Windows 10 for what little time it has left Users of doomed operating system to receive unloved app via an update OSes10 Jan 2025 | 67
Free-software warriors celebrate landmark case that enforced GNU LGPL On the Fritz: German router maker AVM lets device rights case end after coughing up source code Software10 Jan 2025 | 41
Mail-out madness as insurer offers refunds to customers in error Hastings has a mystery to solve – how did all those customers get offered refunds? Databases10 Jan 2025 | 45
Hands-on jobs to grow fastest, because AI can't touch them World Economic Forum finds huge demand for brainbox skills, news for how it changes your role AI + ML10 Jan 2025 | 60
Court docs allege Meta trained its AI models on contentious trove of maybe-pirated content Did Zuck’s definition of ‘free expression’ just get even broader? Legal10 Jan 2025 | 26
Biden said to weigh global limits on AI exports in 11th-hour trade war blitz updated China faces outright ban while others vie for Uncle Sam's favor Public Sector09 Jan 2025 | 8
Microsoft preps for a year of enterprise-impacting M365 retirements Hey administrators – buckle up. 2025 is going to be a wild ride OSes09 Jan 2025 | 8
Haiku Beta 5 / In tests it's (Fire)foxier / It pleases us well Simply the best FOSS desktop OS there is, outside of the Windows and Unix families Applications09 Jan 2025 | 67
Trump China tariffs to 'overshadow' the 'progress' of AI PCs Already inflated costs of NPU-based boxes set to jump on import tax AI + ML09 Jan 2025 | 25
£3.8B later, old tech supplier flames still burning for HMRC Deal supposed to end in 2017 continues to haunt tax collector procurement Software09 Jan 2025 | 10
To save the energy grid from AI, use open source AI, says open source body Linux Foundation Energy argues rapidly decentralizing electricity sector can't succeed with silos AI + ML09 Jan 2025 | 5
Microsoft invites Chinese software vendors to sell on its marketplace and through its partners Good luck getting buyers and resellers excited about that Channel09 Jan 2025 | 7
Securing AI workloads in multi-tenant K8s clusters Discover how F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes offloads critical AI tasks to BlueField-3 DPUs Partner Content
We did warn you – 2025 may be the year AI bots take over Meta's 'verse Opinion Can't grow any more? Let's just invent engagement! Personal Tech08 Jan 2025 | 51
Amazon splashes $11B on AI datacenters in Georgia Peach State already home to more than 50 bit barns On-Prem08 Jan 2025 | 2
AI hype led to an enterprise datacenter spending binge in 2024 that won't last GPUs and generative AI systems so hot right now... yet 'long-term trend remains,' says analyst On-Prem08 Jan 2025 | 7
Google snags ex-Microsoft exec to helm cloud in the UK Maureen Costello hopes to 'empower' businesses with AI PaaS + IaaS08 Jan 2025 | 6
Just when you thought terminal emulators couldn't get any better, Ghostty ships HashiCorp co-founder's side project reaches 1.0 – er, 1.0.1 Applications08 Jan 2025 | 90
Honda upgrades robot brain into OS for future electric cars Remember humanoid bot ‘Asimo’, which could kick balls and pour beer? It survives as EV software AI + ML08 Jan 2025 | 9
US watchdog sticks probe into 2.6M Teslas over so-called Smart Summon crash reports If it's spelled like an A.S.S, acts like an ass, maybe it's just... Software08 Jan 2025 | 34
Uncle Sam now targets six landlord giants in war on alleged algorithmic rent fixing One of ya is gonna sing like a canary, prosecutors say AI + ML08 Jan 2025 | 24
John Deere boasts driverless fleet - who needs operators, anyway? CES Lots of new ways to cut labor costs, no mention of repairability AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 41
AI can improve on code it writes, but you have to know how to ask LLMs do more for developers who already know what they're doing Software07 Jan 2025 | 34
Apple shrugs off BBC complaint with promise to 'further clarify' AI content It's down to users to do the fact-checking themselves AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 47
Windows 11 24H2 can run – sort of – in 184MB Do you really need a new PC for Microsoft's latest and greatest? OSes07 Jan 2025 | 36
Can AWS really fix AI hallucination? We talk to head of Automated Reasoning Byron Cook Interview Engineer who works on ways to prove that code is mathematically correct finds his field is suddenly much less obscure AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 84
The latest language in the GNU Compiler Collection: Algol-68 That is not dead which can eternal lie… including the grandparent of C, apparently Software07 Jan 2025 | 63
Demand for AI servers sees Foxconn fly and suppliers come along for the ride Record quarterly revenue at contract manufacturing giant suggests strong demand for hardware of all sorts Systems07 Jan 2025 |
Nvidia shrinks Grace-Blackwell Superchip to power $3K mini PC CES Tuned for running chunky models on the desktop with 128GB of RAM, custom Ubuntu AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 9
3Blue1Brown copyright takedown blunder by AI biz blamed on human error Worker copy-pasted wrong YouTube URL, says ChainPatrol AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 56
Even at $200/mo, Altman admits ChatGPT Pro struggles to turn a profit comment But don't worry, he's 'figured out' AGI AI + ML06 Jan 2025 | 30
Microsoft declares 2025 'the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh' CES Slumping market share, unwanted features ... no, it's the consumers who are wrong! Software06 Jan 2025 | 174
Tired of begging, Microsoft now trying to trick users into thinking Bing is Google If you can't beat 'em, just imitate their branding, hide yours and hope they don't notice Personal Tech06 Jan 2025 | 79
AI spending spree continues as Microsoft commits $80B for 2025 With those whopping returns who could argue with the premis... oh wait On-Prem06 Jan 2025 | 30
Google's 10-year Chromebook lifeline leaves old laptops headed for silicon cemetery Longer support for newer models won't save prior versions from scrapheap Personal Tech06 Jan 2025 | 70
Looming energy crunch makes future uncertain for datacenters But investors still betting big on bit barns thanks to AI and cloud demand On-Prem06 Jan 2025 | 12
Microsoft's spat with ValueLicensing limps toward 2026 showdown Legal tussle over resale of on-prem perpetual licenses kicked off four years ago Software06 Jan 2025 | 3
Brackets go there? Oops. That’s not where I used them and now things are broken Who, Me? Weird syntax AND/OR a junior techie can be very bad for business Devops06 Jan 2025 | 81
Broadcom filing mentions major VMware Cloud Foundation releases in March and July Will they make price rises palatable? Or bring more of what new Netflix lawsuit calls Broadcom's ‘Buy. Chop up. Raise prices' business plan? Virtualization06 Jan 2025 | 5
How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern software Opinion Even Microsoft's lead architect misunderstood the failure OSes05 Jan 2025 | 184
Twigstats software sheds light on mysteries of Europe's old-school migrators New tool for genetic analysis promises greater insights from the extraction of ancient DNA Science05 Jan 2025 | 12
Honey co-founder's Pie Adblock called out for copying GPL'd uBlock Origin files And, magically, a repo appears on GitHub with attribution Personal Tech04 Jan 2025 | 32
With datacenter power crisis looming, US government looks to Constellation Not just AWS, Microsoft et al that are betting on nuclear energy, 13 federal agencies get in on act too On-Prem03 Jan 2025 | 10
US logic in question, but perhaps American memory can still prevail Comment With Intel's foundry future in doubt, Micron takes center stage in US Chips Act push Storage03 Jan 2025 | 10
How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC Feature A somewhat savvy hardware move may have hurt street cred of an important language Software03 Jan 2025 | 283
Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust Mini-C is a subset of C that can be automatically turned to Rust without much fuss Software03 Jan 2025 | 117
Accenture wins £35M more UK tax work without competition despite promise to 'disaggregate' System which went live in 2009 cannot be supported by another supplier, tax collector says Applications03 Jan 2025 | 8
Stumbling ERP project racks up sales losses greater than budget South African retailer struggles with SAP implementation, says it is making improvements Databases03 Jan 2025 | 6
Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking Personal Tech03 Jan 2025 | 69