Subpoenaed PyPI says bye-bye to as much IP address data as it can Python package pile prefers protecting programmer privacy Devops27 May 2023 | 4
Microsoft has made Azure Linux generally available. Repeat, Azure Linux Come for the Kubernetes, stay for the containers OSes26 May 2023 | 13
Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail New beta versions of Thunderbird (and Firefox, while we're at it) to help set you up Applications26 May 2023 | 41
AI menaces superbug by identifying potent antibiotic Take that, Acinetobacter baumannii! You may hide on hospital doorknobs but you can't outrun binary brainboxes AI + ML26 May 2023 | 8
Red Hat promises AI trained on 'curated' and 'domain-specific' data Opinion Says it'll keep track of what it hoovers up at post-layoff summit Applications26 May 2023 | 7
Windows XP activation algorithm cracked, keygen now works on Linux The unkillable OS rises from the grave… Again OSes26 May 2023 | 102
Microsoft rains more machine learning on Azure cloud No surprise: Nvidia is in the picture AI + ML25 May 2023 |
PyPI subpoenaed: US govt demands data on developers Python package packhouse ponders privacy position Devops25 May 2023 | 9
Some Windows users say these 32-bit apps have forgotten how to save Microsoft seems to have fixed update glitch for all OS versions but latest W11 OSes25 May 2023 | 5
Microsoft would rather spend money on AI than give workers a raise Opinion At least that's what internal comments from the CMO make it sound like AI + ML25 May 2023 | 15
Before you sprinkle AI on all your analytics, check data quality Gartner asks for some fundamentals in a slew of AI-in-analytics announcements Databases25 May 2023 | 3
Europe’s biggest city council faces £100M bill in Oracle ERP project disaster Doubts over Birmingham’s decision to replace SAP in plan once hailed an exemplar win by Larry Ellison Databases25 May 2023 | 72
Google wants to target you – yes, YOU – with AI-generated ads Next step, AI-generated advertisers with AI-generated products for AI-generated people AI + ML25 May 2023 | 53
Amazon to shutter its Chinese Appstore – the one used by hardly anyone, anywhere Middle Kingdom users told to acquaint themselves with the Windows Subsystem for Android Software25 May 2023 | 7
Get ready for Team America: AI Police Biden Admin expands plan for 'responsible' ML research and seeks to drive international talks on making binary brainboxes behave AI + ML25 May 2023 | 5
OpenAI calls for global watchdog focused on 'existential risk' posed by superintelligence <movie voiceover>In a world united against one threat, one AI starts to fight bac...</movievoiceover>... Hey, who's writing this flick? AI + ML24 May 2023 | 18
Atlassian says 'Don't #@!% the Planet' so it can keep making money Which when you think about it, is a pretty good reason to build a sustainable business Devops24 May 2023 | 8
Your boss tells you to build some generative AI. Dell and Nvidia are already knocking Dell World Who wouldn't want to feed their enterprise into Project Helix for training and inference? Anyone? AI + ML24 May 2023 | 1
ChatGPT can't pass these medical exams – yet Maybe letting AI models loose on patients ain't a great idea, prof tells us AI + ML24 May 2023 | 33
Windows XP activation algorithm cracked, keygen now works on Linux The unkillable OS rises from the grave… Again
Microsoft has made Azure Linux generally available. Repeat, Azure Linux Come for the Kubernetes, stay for the containers
Since when did my SSD need water cooling? Feature As next-gen storage gets hotter, designs are getting wacky
Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail New beta versions of Thunderbird (and Firefox, while we're at it) to help set you up
Subpoenaed PyPI says bye-bye to as much IP address data as it can Python package pile prefers protecting programmer privacy
Alien versus Predator? No, this Android spyware works together Phone-hugging code can record calls, read messages, track geolocation, access camera, other snooping
US govt pushes spyware to other countries? Senator Wyden would like a word Uncle Sam confirms it's saying nothing
Mozilla so sorry for intrusive Firefox VPN popup ad 'We accomplished the exact opposite of what we intended...'
LIGO cranks up the sensitivity to sniff out gravitational waves The instrument that proved Einstein right is back
AI menaces superbug by identifying potent antibiotic Take that, Acinetobacter baumannii! You may hide on hospital doorknobs but you can't outrun binary brainboxes
Microsoft finally gets around to supporting rar, gz and tar files in Windows No more downloading decompressors and dodging malware and payment demands, maybe Software24 May 2023 | 76
Microsoft enables booting physical PCs directly into cloud PCs Running an OS from local storage is soooo last year Virtualization24 May 2023 | 77
Microsoft wants you to think inside the Dev Box from July If you like the idea of building software on Windows in the cloud, this may be for you Devops23 May 2023 | 8
SAP's cloud drive hits speed bumps with American users ERP giant losing points on execution and flexibility Databases23 May 2023 | 3
Python Package Index had one person on-call to hold back weekend malware rush We speak to infra director after project temporarily freezes new user accounts Devops22 May 2023 | 21
G7 nations admit they're nowhere on AI regulation Now they want to catch up, prevent crooks, protect IP ... real soon now … after more talking AI + ML22 May 2023 | 8
VMware again extends formal deadline for Broadcom deal Meanwhile, rivals circle and the hybrid cloud management market morphs Virtualization22 May 2023 | 1
One of the world's most prominent blockchain apps looks like being binned The Australian Securities Exchange became a poster child for seriously serious distributed ledgers, but now wants to walk away Software22 May 2023 | 49
Sci-fi author 'writes' 97 AI-generated tales in nine months In brief Plus: Official ChatGPT iPhone app debuts; Debt collectors using chatbots to chase debtors AI + ML22 May 2023 | 66
Microsoft to let Internet Explorer 11 haunt Windows some more Icon and UI purge plan premuted after organizations object Applications19 May 2023 | 19
Red Hat releases RHEL 9.2 to customers, with buffet of rebuilds for the rest of us Oracle, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and EuroLinux all put out same version OSes19 May 2023 | 5
Apple becomes the latest company to ban ChatGPT for internal use Didn't stop OpenAI rolling out iOS ChatGPT app, just made things a bit awkward AI + ML19 May 2023 | 15
First ever 64-bit version of Windows rediscovered … and a C compiler for it too Nearly quarter of a century after it wasn't released, Windows 2000 for DEC Alpha found on a discarded disk OSes19 May 2023 | 91
What's your Mean Time To Innocence – the time needed to prove that mess is not your problem ServiceNow reckons it can shrink it with integrated cloudy observability Software19 May 2023 | 25
You want AI regulation? Do it right with a dedicated agency, US senators suggest Federal Digital Platform Commission proposed as specialists to sort out the stuff other agencies can't grok AI + ML19 May 2023 | 11
AI is great at one thing: Driving next waves of layoffs Register Kettle ChatGPT, how many thousands of people should I replace today? AI + ML18 May 2023 | 39
Consistent operating costs for databases How Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized puts predictability into I/O pricing Sponsored Feature
How Microsoft hopes to tame large language models with Guidance Tricked-out template language offers alternative to verbose, plaintive prompts AI + ML18 May 2023 | 7
Baidu boss says good luck talking AI to Beijing if you don't understand censorship Unlike AI's output, the web giant's profits are not hallucinatory AI + ML18 May 2023 | 5
Professor freezes student grades after ChatGPT claimed AI wrote their papers Future robots don't need to be killers, they can just turn us against ourselves AI + ML17 May 2023 | 106
SAP gets cloudy with a chance of AI in bid to woo on-prem brigade HR chatbots and more as maintenance deadline looms AI + ML17 May 2023 | 2
VA, Oracle's Cerner agree on renegotiated health records contract Long, costly wars not the only thing US government good at getting stuck in Databases17 May 2023 | 3
Asahi Linux developer warns the one true way is Wayland Got an Apple Silicon Mac? Want to run Linux? Then you'll need a Wayland-based desktop OSes17 May 2023 | 99
Top AI execs tell US Senate: Please, please pour that regulation down on us Devs should need a license to build powerful models, OpenAI CEO adds AI + ML17 May 2023 | 19
Tesla batteries went from fully charged to fully disabled after botched patch, lawsuit claims Electric automaker has twice settled similar suits before they made it to trial Software16 May 2023 | 100
Qlik's got Talend as visualization vendors merge Private equity investor Thoma Bravo's portfolio swells Databases16 May 2023 | 2
Large language models' surprise emergent behavior written off as 'a mirage' Analysis Forget those huge hyped-up systems, that smaller one might be right for you. And here's why AI + ML16 May 2023 | 27
Who loves programming robots? Who wishes it was easier? Here comes Flowstate Google X-born upstart pushes graphical approach to industrial control Software16 May 2023 | 11
MariaDB CEO: People who want things free also want to have very nice vacations Former MySQL fork launches attack on hyperscaler database services with support for multiple front ends Databases16 May 2023 | 44
Alpine Linux 3.18 fixes DNS over TCP issue, now ready for all the internet's problems Small but mighty update will help its many users – even the unwitting ones OSes16 May 2023 | 5
National newspaper duped into running GPT-4-written rage-click opinion piece When Irish AIs are smiling AI + ML16 May 2023 | 43
China cracks down on AI-generated news anchors Aims to 'clear' the network of unauthorized misinformation. Stuff from official sources can't be wrong! AI + ML16 May 2023 | 5
Larry Ellison cleared of forcing Oracle to overpay for NetSuite Billionaire and his financial stake in the deal aren't to blame, says a Delaware judge Software15 May 2023 | 3
Microsoft will upgrade Windows 10 21H2 users whether they like it or not Also, Windows 12 might be on the way, so buckle up OSes15 May 2023 | 118
EU and Canada on waiting list for Google's AI chatbot Bard In brief Also: What deepfake video makers charge; and Anthropic's Claude LLM can now process 100K tokens AI + ML15 May 2023 | 8
The perils of unsupported open-source in the enterprise Savvy IT managers can ramp up expert support provision for open-source software installations Sponsored Post
An unexpectedly fresh blast from the past, Freespire 9.5 has landed Remember Linspire, formerly known as LindowsOS? It's now Freespire and thriving OSes15 May 2023 | 33
Will LLMs take your job? Only if you let them Opinion If you wear black T-shirts, are you even a white-collar worker? AI + ML15 May 2023 | 42
GitHub code search redesign can't find many fans Poll Missing capabilities, bugs, unloved interface decisions dog engine revision – and what do you think? Devops13 May 2023 | 17
Exhibit 3,021: Millions wasted on US govt IT due to poor oversight, audit finds $24M was paid out incorrectly - and that's just from a close look at 5 out of 48 orders under ENCORE III Software12 May 2023 | 10
Most of UK agriculture dept's customer interactions are paper based Only 20% of biz apps directly supported, with 30% requiring 'hypercare' at farming org Applications12 May 2023 | 31
Privacy Framework draft isn't 'future-proof', say MEPs Take 3: the data must flow. Hold on, warns Euro Parliament, not so fast Databases12 May 2023 | 8
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch flown to US for HPE fraud trial Loses year-long battle against extradition Software12 May 2023 | 70
AI to detect heart attacks tested in the land of the deep-fried Mars bar Scotland's emergency rooms don't always have the resources to make good diagnoses under pressure AI + ML12 May 2023 | 24
EU's Cyber Resilience Act contains a poison pill for open source developers Opinion The road to hell is paved with good intentions OSes12 May 2023 | 80
Tough Euro crackdown on AI use passes key vote It's a familiar story: Legislation versus rapidly evolving technology AI + ML12 May 2023 | 6
GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI fail to wriggle out of Copilot copyright lawsuit Judge won't toss out two key charges, software source slurping case still on Software12 May 2023 | 18
VA's Cerner EHR platform fails to deliver medications to veterans Messy system is forcing VA pharmacies to work overtime to deal with poor IT, committee told Databases11 May 2023 | 4
If you don't brush and floss, you're gonna get an abscess – same with MySQL updates Database hygiene matters, says Percona expert Databases11 May 2023 | 4
With AI hype driving up server GPU prices, will cloud costs rise next? We reckon so Register Kettle And what next for cooling, datacenter placement, and more – tune in and find out direct from our vultures AI + ML11 May 2023 | 1
Microsoft puts the freeze on employee salaries, CEO pay still as hot as ever Despite billions of dollars in profit, Satya Nadella points to those pesky 'macroeconomic uncertainties' Software11 May 2023 | 36
Ubuntu 23.04 welcomes three more flavors, but hamburger menus leave a bad taste Official Cinnamon, Edubuntu reborn, and an updated Kylin OSes11 May 2023 | 48
Open source AI makes modern PCs relevant, and subscriptions seem shabby Column Why sign up for ChatGPT when LLaMA and a multicore beast can do as well? AI + ML11 May 2023 | 36
Google IO: A deeper dive into the developer day's details WebGPU, Chrome extensions, Android, Dart, Flutter, and more Applications11 May 2023 | 7
Microsoft can't stop injecting Copilot AI into every corner of its app empire Teams gets a bot, OneNote gets a bot, PowerPoint gets a bot, Outlook gets a bot, everybody* gets a bot! AI + ML10 May 2023 | 70
MariaDB's Xpand offers PostgreSQL compatibility without the forking drama Play designed to swat CockroachDB and tempt users over from hyperscaler DBaaS systems Databases10 May 2023 | 3
Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech Building a wall... of code Devops10 May 2023 | 166
IBM launches Watsonx to help enterprises streamline workers out the door Let's face it, Big Blue has plenty of experience in that area AI + ML09 May 2023 | 8
Show us the sauce code... Wendy's and Google to test drive-thru order-taking bot What's worse for humanity: The slow, cruel eradication of labor, or those square patties? AI + ML09 May 2023 | 25
When you try to hire a freelancer to write SQL and all you get is incorrect AI garbage hCaptcha researchers find that online labor platforms need work AI + ML09 May 2023 | 39
Study: AI can predict pancreatic cancer three years ahead of human doctors We chat to one of the Harvard Medical School researchers involved AI + ML09 May 2023 | 8
The first real robot war is coming: Machine versus lawyer Opinion Go, Team Robot AI + ML09 May 2023 | 47
GitHub dumps frustrating code search engine for Rust-powered Blackbird Here's hoping for fewer head-desk moments for devs Devops09 May 2023 | 6
Latest pitch for AI: DeepMind-trained soccer robots Video If the goal was to make us feel sorry for these clumsy droids, mission accomplished AI + ML09 May 2023 | 5
India bans open source messaging apps for security reasons. FOSS community says good luck One banned tool is already working on Android-to-Android meshes that survive internet outages Software09 May 2023 | 36
White House pledges $140 million for seven new AI research centers In brief Plus: Hollywood writers go on strike to fight against AI stealing their jobs, and more AI + ML08 May 2023 | 9
Owner of 'magic spreadsheet' tried to stay in the Lotus position until forced to Excel who, me? Sometimes legacy systems must be preserved to safeguard a vital function. This was not one of those times Software08 May 2023 | 122
Russia tops national leagues in open source downloads Putin FOSS to work when Microsoft et al abandoned pariah state OSes05 May 2023 | 28
Modular finds its Mojo, a Python superset with C-level speed LLVM champ Chris Lattner is at the helm, so consider us intrigued Devops05 May 2023 | 44
Slack adding generative AI to interact with colleagues, so you don't have to Slack GPT and Einstein GPT for Salesforce users currently under development AI + ML05 May 2023 | 17
Zoho creates browser with 'Open Season Mode' for when you don't care about privacy Indian software giant thinks you’ll ignore that in favor of the many tracker-killers Software05 May 2023 | 17
How to tell an AI bot wrote that scammy-looking tax email: No spelling mistakes Don't let the robots take your money! That's the IRS's job AI + ML04 May 2023 | 16
American, British monopoly watchdogs probe AI to make sure we don't get screwed Review will also look at barriers to entry where hyperscalers hold all the cards AI + ML04 May 2023 | 4
Fed up with Python setup and packaging? Try a shot of Rye For those envious of Rust and Cargo Devops04 May 2023 | 46
OpenText CEO: Micro Focus buy is an enterprise portfolio play Interview Climbing the software stack, new owner sees IBM and ServiceNow as rivals Software04 May 2023 |
Python still has the strongest grip on developers And a reminder that experience points matter a lot Devops04 May 2023 | 57
Biden proposes 30% tax on cryptominers' power bills Digi-dollars are toxic in many ways and the administration wants the sector to clean up its act Software04 May 2023 | 71