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The AI everything show continues at AWS: Generate SQL from text, vector search, and more

re:Invent Invisible watermarks on AI-generated images? Sure. But major tools in the stack matter most

Databases30 Nov 2023 |

SAP faces more accusations of breaching on-prem customers' trust

Cloud-only innovation strategy slammed as users opt for on-prem and hosted support for S/4HANA

Databases30 Nov 2023 | 5

AI offers some novel crystal materials that could form future chips, batteries, more

What's more, a robot managed to cook some of them up. So, y'know, it might not be entirely science fiction

AI + ML30 Nov 2023 | 7

OpenAI makes it official: Sam Altman is back as CEO

Microsoft joins the board in non-voting role

AI + ML30 Nov 2023 | 16

Meta: If you're in our house running AI-massaged political ads, you need to 'fess up

Facebook titan vows to protect two billion voters ... but US gets more protection than India, Indonesia, Mexico, EU

AI + ML29 Nov 2023 | 3

IBM's vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS's cloud bandwagon

Users on the mainframe will have to wait for their system to become available in the cloud service, though

Databases29 Nov 2023 | 4

Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org

Firefox 121, freshly in beta test, will default to the protocol too

OSes29 Nov 2023 | 37

Microsoft .NET MAUI devs vent over bugs backlog, response times

New features are great and all, but maybe fix some of the issues too?

Software29 Nov 2023 | 18

Adobe's buy of Figma is 'likely' bad for developers, rules UK regulator

Competition Markets Authority claims merger will reduce innovation for designers and other creative types

Software29 Nov 2023 | 9

AI won't take your job, might shrink your wages, European Central Bank reckons

In the US, however, folks are ready and willing to bin you for a bot

AI + ML29 Nov 2023 | 18

Good luck finding competent Copilot help, warns Microsoft MVP

Almost nobody has used it, or knows it well, so beware of consultants bearing cred

AI + ML29 Nov 2023 | 39

VMware president Sumit Dhawan out – scores gig as CEO of infosec vendor Proofpoint

Amid accounts of wider layoffs and Broadcom doing a 'strategic review' of end-user compute and Carbon Black products

Virtualization29 Nov 2023 |

Now AWS gets a ChatGPT-style Copilot: Amazon Q to be your cloud chat assistant

Re:Invent Anthropic CEO also rocks up on stage for reasons

Devops28 Nov 2023 | 5

AI agents can copy humans to get closer to artificial general intelligence, DeepMind finds

Google’s AI offshoot finds copy-cat robots capable of aping living mentors

AI + ML28 Nov 2023 | 34

Couchbase takes fight to MongoDB with columnar side store upgrade

DBaaS update aimed at customers looking for live analytics on apps

Databases28 Nov 2023 |

Microsoft opens sources ThreadX under MIT license

The 'Azure RTOS' used in millions of Raspberry Pis is now FOSS

OSes28 Nov 2023 | 19

AWS previews AppFabric for productivity – pitched as AI-powered glue between apps

Re:Invent Park user data in Amazon's servers for ML-generated insights and actions – yea or nay for you?

Devops28 Nov 2023 | 1

DevTernity conference collapses amid claims women speakers were faked

Anna? Oh, she was just a demo persona, says organizer

Devops28 Nov 2023 | 20

UK and US lead international efforts to raise AI security standards

17 countries agree to adopt vision for artificial intelligence security as fears mount over pace of development

AI + ML27 Nov 2023 | 14

Tiny11 shrinks Windows 11 23H2 down to pocket size

An option when sun sets on Windows 10, but Microsoft might have a problem

OSes27 Nov 2023 | 52

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AI agents can copy humans to get closer to artificial general intelligence, DeepMind finds

Google’s AI offshoot finds copy-cat robots capable of aping living mentors

Plex gives fans a privacy complex after sharing viewing habits with friends by default

Updated Grandma is watching what?!

UK government rings the death knell for SIM farms

Acts under the guise of protecting the public from fraud, yet history suggests Home Office has other motives

Good luck finding competent Copilot help, warns Microsoft MVP

Almost nobody has used it, or knows it well, so beware of consultants bearing cred

Adobe's buy of Figma is 'likely' bad for developers, rules UK regulator

Competition Markets Authority claims merger will reduce innovation for designers and other creative types

Brit borough council apologizes for telling website users to disable HTTPS

Planning portal back online with a more secure connection

Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org

Firefox 121, freshly in beta test, will default to the protocol too

Japan's space agency suffers cyber attack, points finger at Active Directory

JAXA is having a tough time in cyberspace and outer space, the latter thanks to an electrical glitch

AI threatens to automate away the clergy

Is divine intervention next on the tech to-do list?

That time a JPL engineer almost killed a Mars Rover before it left Earth

Forget Martian dust devils, it's the peril of the blue smoke you have to worry about

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DBaaS takes the trouble out of cloud databases

How open-source databases operating in the cloud can deliver performance, flexibility, scalability and cost savings

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Why an SBOM needs the X factor

How an eXtended Software Bill of Materials (XBOM) protects against cyber attacks

Data-destroying defect found after OpenZFS 2.2.0 release

Updated Earlier and later versions may be affected – worth your while reading the advisories

OSes27 Nov 2023 | 30

Microsoft, Databricks double act tries to sew up the data platform market

Analysis But the one-stop shop vision fails to take it far beyond the competition

Databases27 Nov 2023 | 2

Amazon says it's ready to train future AI workforce

AI in Brief Plus: Russia will soon be Putin up with lagging West, fake influencers and more

AI + ML27 Nov 2023 | 5

FFmpeg 6.1 drops a Heaviside dose of codec magic

You may never have heard of it, but you almost certainly use it, possibly many times a day

Software24 Nov 2023 | 48

Do we really need another non-open source available license?

Opinion No, but here comes the Functional Source License to further muddy the open-source licensing waters

OSes24 Nov 2023 | 69

User read the manual, followed instructions, still couldn't make 'Excel' work

On Call When is a spreadsheet not a spreadsheet?

Software24 Nov 2023 | 132

India diplomatically debuts digital public infrastructure repository with international contributions

Russia's Unified Digital Platform could be yours, along with many other less controversial projects

Software23 Nov 2023 |

Revival of Medley/Interlisp: Elegant weapon for a more civilized age sharpened up again

ANTIQUE CODE SHOW Restoration project described in BCS talk is gathering steam

OSes23 Nov 2023 | 87

NTT adapts AI network analysis tool to detect faults in nuclear fusion reactors

Here comes the Sun

AI + ML23 Nov 2023 | 4

Broadcom re-orgs VMware into four divisions – none of which mention end-user compute products

Community programs retained but CEO waves farewell

Virtualization23 Nov 2023 | 26

US watchdog gives itself power to demand documents in AI probes

And offers $25,000 prize to stop voice deepfakes from catching on

AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 2

Author hopes to throw the book at OpenAI, Microsoft with copyright class action

Stop us if you've heard this one before

AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 28

OpenAI's CEO merry-go-round tosses out voice feature for ChatGPT

Unsurprisingly, the app doesn't know what's going on at the company either

AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 11

No more staff budget for UK civil service, but worry not – here's an incubator for AI

Today's story was brought to you by the words politician and silly

AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 61

Palantir bags £330M NHS data bonanza despite privacy fears

Award follows £1 deal during pandemic and £60 million in non-competitive contracts

Databases22 Nov 2023 | 34

Fake views for the win: Text-to-image models learn more efficiently with made-up data

Future neural nets will probably use a mix of AI-generated and real info

AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 1

Sam Altman set to rejoin OpenAI as CEO – seemingly with Microsoft's blessing

New board includes former Salesforce boss and Treasury Secretary

AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 78

China's regulator paused VMware purchase probe before desired close date

Analysis Competitors predict price gouging as employees await news

Virtualization22 Nov 2023 | 1

Baidu joins Tencent in downplaying impact of US chip bans on AI ambitions

Stockpiled silicon, improving efficiency, and looking for alternative suppliers – while maybe taking a dig at Microsoft and OpenAI

AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 1

Ex-OpenAI staff launch new chatbot – yup, it's Anthropic with Claude 2.1

Half as many hallucinations, startup claims, and it admits when it's wrong

AI + ML21 Nov 2023 | 1

OpenAI meltdown: Where does this leave the upstart, Microsoft, and you?

Kettle Tune in, hear or watch our vultures wrap up this fiasco, before it goes out of date

AI + ML21 Nov 2023 | 5

Rocky Linux and Oracle Unbreakable Linux also hit 9.3

Other big names among the RHELatives catch up with Big Purple Hat ... but the future is unclear

OSes21 Nov 2023 | 9

China relents: Broadcom-VMware merger approved at last

Final boss legal level cleared as SAMR says yes ...

Virtualization21 Nov 2023 | 3

Three quarters of software engineers face retaliation for whistleblowing

Staff afraid to raise alarm when they see negligence, discrimination and more

Software21 Nov 2023 | 16

Microsoft unleashes Copilot preview on Windows 10 insiders

Teething issues show up as operating system gets a taste of the future

OSes21 Nov 2023 | 9

Will anybody save Linux on Itanium? Absolutely not

Analysis It's doomed to sink... but the how and why is interesting

OSes21 Nov 2023 | 81

CompSci teachers panic as Replit pulls the plug on educational IDE

It 'was losing a ton of money for the business,' CEO complains

Devops21 Nov 2023 | 36

OpenAI meltdown: How could Microsoft have let this happen after betting so many billions?

Comment A quick summary of the past three days of chaos. And Redmond has questions to answer

AI + ML21 Nov 2023 | 100

With all eyes on OpenAI, Meta drags its Responsible AI team to the recycle bin

Ethics staff shifted to generative ML and infrastructure units

AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 10

OpenAI staff threaten to leave if ousted CEO Altman is not reinstated

OpenAI is nothing without its people, say staffers who signed letter

AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 18

License to thrill BSL refuseniks? Sentry introduces Functional Source License

Yet another attempt to create better balance for devs and users

Software20 Nov 2023 | 5

Microsoft dials back Bing after users manage to recreate Disney logo in fake AI-generated images

AI In Brief Plus: Amazon lays off hundreds of employees working on Alexa, and more

AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 36

Europe says Adobe's $20B buy of Figma will kill competition

Updated Software duo must respond with remedies – plus: closing deal in '23 likely a Figma of their imagination

Software20 Nov 2023 | 9

Fired OpenAI boss Sam Altman may join Microsoft

Updated Worst season of Succession ever

AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 21

Ubuntu Budgie switches its approach to Wayland

Exclusive Elementary OS going full speed ahead, but Parachutist Parakeet considers a new, post-Enlightenment glide path

OSes20 Nov 2023 | 50

Linux Deepin's big brother claims it's hit three million installs

The other big Chinese distro, after Kylin, seems to be thriving

OSes20 Nov 2023 | 5

CEO of self-driving cab outfit Cruise parks his career

Updated After string of self-driving crashes, Kyle Vogt plans to 'spend time with my family and explore some new ideas'

AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 22

Xen Project improves the art of virtual machine maintenance with annual hypervisor release

Version 4.18 brings first ports to RISC-V and PowerPC, support for next-gen datacenter CPUs

Virtualization20 Nov 2023 |

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's ejection sparks theories as odd as some ChatGPT output

Updated Interim CEO appointed as rumours swirl about comebacks, doing a startup, or even hardware with Jony Ive

AI + ML19 Nov 2023 | 29

Control Altman delete: OpenAI fires CEO, chairman quits

Final update Chief gets upgraded to customer – LLMs may be coming for your job but the board came for his

AI + ML17 Nov 2023 | 73

IBM pauses advertising on X after ads show up next to antisemitic content

Updated Twitter, meanwhile, tells us its brand safety controls are just as strong – or stronger – than other platforms

Applications17 Nov 2023 | 170

Copilot coming to Windows 10 to help navigate the OS's twilight years

Microsoft has listened, but only to people who like its AI assistant

OSes17 Nov 2023 | 50

Windows users can soon ditch Bing, Edge, other bundleware – but only in the EU

On the other hand, Europeans have to wait for Copilot

OSes17 Nov 2023 | 86

Wish you could sing like Charli XCX or possess any musical talent? YouTube AI might make that happen

Fake it (with a neural network) until you make it

AI + ML17 Nov 2023 | 22

FCC probes rise of AI robocall armies

'Hello, our records indicate that you had an accident with a massively overhyped technology that wasn't your fault...'

AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 6

Microsoft takes aim at on-desk, non-cloudy developers with Windows AI Studio

Ignite Yes, it's true, not everyone uses Azure – shock

AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 11

Canonical intros Microcloud: Simple, free, on-prem Linux clustering

As Ubuntu approaches its 20th anniversary, some more of its pieces may be Snapping together

OSes16 Nov 2023 | 30

Cerebras CEO puts Nvidia on blast for 'arming' China with top-tier GPUs

SC23 Calls biz rival 'un-American' for weaving around chip export ban

AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 5

Use AI to accelerate adoption of central bank digital currencies, says IMF head

No turning back for cash replacement tokens, especially if they make credit more accessible

Software16 Nov 2023 | 15

AI copyright row deepens: Stability VP quits in protest over 'fair use' excuse

Refuses to sing from the corporate songbook on the legal grounds for training neural nets on people's work

AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 24

Microsoft touts mirroring over moving in data warehouse gambit

Ignite Fabric update cuts against the grain, and may have more to do with Databricks partnerships

Databases15 Nov 2023 |

You get a Copilot, and you get a Copilot – Microsoft now the Copilot company

Ignite Bing Chat is now known as – you can guess. Plus more AI bits and pieces coming to Teams, Office, etc

AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 43

OpenAI pauses ChatGPT Plus sign-ups as it 'hits capacity'

If only there was an investor with a scalable cloud to hand...

AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 2

RHEL and Alma Linux 9.3 arrive – one is free, one merely free of charge

The Hat adds tool to facilitate migration from various free RHEL-a-like distros

OSes15 Nov 2023 | 20

To pay or not to pay for AI's creative 'borrowing' – that is the question

One that Microsoft and Meta dodged during House of Lords committee

AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 54

Rivian bricks infotainment systems in 'fat finger' fiasco

Updated Ruh-roh, where did the aircon go?

Software15 Nov 2023 | 24

Google DeepMind's GraphCast AI weather predictor looks fascinating on paper but ...

... Even its creators say it ain't 'a replacement for traditional forecasting methods'

AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 14

Software is listening for the options you want it to offer, and it's about time

Comment Talking back to devices will end the confusion caused by long menus of functions nobody uses

AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 23

UnitedHealthcare's broken AI denied seniors' medical claims, lawsuit alleges

Post-acute care algorithm allegedly comes up short 90% of the time

AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 37

YouTubers kindly asked to mark their deepfake vids as Fake Fakey McFake Fakes

Fess up before Google's robo-cops possibly finger your synthetic drivel

AI + ML14 Nov 2023 | 18

AI chemist creates catalysts to make oxygen using Martian meteorites

Robotic process hunts down local extraterrestrial materials to aid supply of on-site fuel and oxygen

AI + ML14 Nov 2023 | 6

SUSE CTO talks about OpenELA and keeping customer trust

Interview Head in the sand about the end of CentOS? Have a few more years of support... for a fee

OSes14 Nov 2023 | 8

VMware revealed Symantec SASE integration plan before Broadcom finished buying it

Still no word on when the deal will happen, or what’s holding it up

Virtualization14 Nov 2023 | 1

Strike over? US actors may return to work with top-tier 'progressive AI protections'

Producers will need OK from performers, will pay them to create digi-personas

AI + ML13 Nov 2023 | 3

Ubuntu for Arm64 laptops (plus RISC kit)

Ubuntu Summit Did you know there's an Asahi flavored Ubuntu? And Debian, too

OSes13 Nov 2023 | 3

Generative AI: It’s not just for the big guys

Smaller organizations can enjoy the fruits of generative AI by combining small language models with retrieval augmented generation

Google Photos' AI Magic Editor won't change pictures of IDs, receipts, faces, or bodies

AI in brief Plus: Amazon is reportedly training a two-trillion-parameter LLM, and more

AI + ML13 Nov 2023 | 13

Kubernetes' Tim Hockin on a decade of dominance and the future of AI in open source

Interview Going back to a time before autocomplete

Software13 Nov 2023 | 3

Microsoft hits Alt+F4 on internal ChatGPT access over security jitters, irony ensues

Apparently the move was in error

AI + ML10 Nov 2023 | 14

UK signals legal changes to self-driving vehicle liabilities

But with technical and insurance industry question unanswered, a few potholes may lie ahead

AI + ML10 Nov 2023 | 93

Canonical shows how to use Snaps without the Snap Store

Ubuntu Summit Despite what you may have heard, it's not as proprietary as the trolls think

OSes10 Nov 2023 | 70

Child psychiatrist jailed after making pornographic AI deep-fakes of kids

Perp said to have secretly recorded patients – and digitally undressed them using web neural networks

AI + ML10 Nov 2023 | 54

DDoS-like attack brought down OpenAI this week, not just its purported popularity

Plus: Lab launches dataset sharing initiative for its own benefit

AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 2

Don't worry about those new export rules, China – Nvidia's already got more sanctions-compliant GPUs for ya

Chips limbo-dance right under Biden's performance limits

AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 10

The GDPR's new ally

How C2RO and Lenovo deploy edge-cloud AI and computer vision to analyze video footage and stay GDPR compliant

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Fedora 39 waves goodbye to modularity, but has enough spins to make your head spin

20th anniversary version of Linux distro brings lots of new goodies

OSes09 Nov 2023 | 20

Intel's Arun Gupta on open source pragmatism and fanatics

Interview VP of the Open Ecosystem at chip biz talks trust in the era of AI

Software09 Nov 2023 | 3

A secure future-proofed app infrastructure

Telemetry, automation address top multi-cloud networking woes and more

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