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Prisons transcribe private phone calls with inmates using speech-to-text AI

Plus: A drug designed by machine learning algorithms to treat liver disease reaches human clinical trials and more

04 Dec 15:48 | 22

Hot not-Spot-bot spot: The code behind Xiaomi's CyberDog? Ubuntu

Your four-legged open-source friend? CIMON says 'Maybe'

03 Dec 21:18 | 8

Why your external monitor looks awful on Arm-based Macs, the open source fix – and the guy who wrote it

Q&A with the developer of BetterDummy: from macOS secrets to his motivations

03 Dec 19:36 | 31

AWS previews SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, Swift, and Amplify Studio for rapid web apps

Plus: Why company foresees growth of Rust, already widely used internally

NixOS and the changing face of Linux operating systems

As with packaging systems, lightweight efficient approaches look set to lose out

03 Dec 11:25 | 84

Xen and the art of hypervisor upgrades

Version 4.16 adds first look at TPM 2.0 and better big.LITTLE support

Singaporean superapp Grab IPOs – badly – and promises to focus on maps and money

Shares fell over 20 per cent in its first day on NASDAQ

03 Dec 06:14 | 4

Microsoft makes tweaks to Windows 11 Start Menu for Insiders but stops short of mimicking Windows 10

If it's not broke, don't f- ... never mind

02 Dec 20:05 | 64

Santa's sack is bulging with browsers: Vivaldi 5.0 arrives full of festive cheer

Keeping one's privates private

02 Dec 17:00 | 10

SiFive's latest top-end RISC-V CPU core supports proper virtualization in hardware

Hypervisor extension implemented in P650 processor engine that's stalking Arm's Cortex family

02 Dec 14:00 | 10

China to create workers' paradise for ride share drivers

Communist China (belatedly) recognises that drivers are people who need food, sleep, bathrooms, and unions

02 Dec 06:57 | 5

Amazon Appstore melts over Android 12 'Snow Cone'

Running the latest version of Android? Appstore apps no longer work

02 Dec 06:30 | 15

Nutanix, VMware end legal fight over CEO Rajiv Ramaswami

Now they can get back to arguing about computers and clouds

Apple files fresh appeal to stop court order demanding external payment systems in iOS apps

iGiant warned developers it could still charge fees for third-party financial transactions anyway

02 Dec 00:59 | 27

Microsoft: What's that? A patch for make-me-admin vuln? Sorry – can't hear you. Have a new jumper instead

Redmond fiddles with Paint while Windows burns

01 Dec 17:12 | 26

What a cluster fsck: New scheduling code plus Intel's Alder Lake CPU mix equals a slower Linux kernel 5.16

Can we just postpone these changes to next year?

01 Dec 15:27 | 9

Could we use an LLVM-based cross-compiler to build apps for quantum computers? This alliance says yes

Microsoft, Linux Foundation-backed QIR has a chance to make QC source code portable across different systems

01 Dec 12:16 | 11

Brit RPA upstart Blue Prism falls into arms of US tech holdings biz SS&C for £1.24bn

Software automation specialist escaping London Stock Exchange

01 Dec 12:02 | 4

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... a coding puzzle and it's a doozy

2021 Advent of Code prepares for launch

01 Dec 09:15 | 53

Last chance: Get hands-on ML experience in Prof Mark Whitehorn’s introductory web workshop

December 3 is the final day to buy tickets – book now or miss out

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Why your external monitor looks awful on Arm-based Macs, the open source fix – and the guy who wrote it

Q&A with the developer of BetterDummy: from macOS secrets to his motivations

Feds charge two men with claiming ownership of others' songs to steal YouTube royalty payments

Alleged scheme said to have netted $20m since 2017

Netgear router flaws exploitable with authentication ... like the default creds on Netgear's website

Don't just install the patch, change your router passwords too

American diplomats' iPhones reportedly compromised by NSO Group intrusion software

Reuters claims nine State Department employees outside the US had their devices hacked

Utility biz Delta-Montrose Electric Association loses billing capability and two decades of records after cyber attack

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Prisons transcribe private phone calls with inmates using speech-to-text AI

Plus: A drug designed by machine learning algorithms to treat liver disease reaches human clinical trials and more

Hot not-Spot-bot spot: The code behind Xiaomi's CyberDog? Ubuntu

Your four-legged open-source friend? CIMON says 'Maybe'

What will life in orbit look like after the ISS? NASA hands out new space station contracts

The end is coming, and nobody wants a homeless 'naut

Chill out to the sounds of an expert typing on a variety of mechanical keyboards

A truly rare groove

Battlefield 2042: Please don't be the death knell of the franchise, please don't be the death knell of the franchise

Another terrible launch, but DICE is already working on improvements

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Beijing wants to level up China's software industry, with an emphasis on FOSS

Plans to build 'two or three open source communities with international influence' in the next five years

01 Dec 06:57 | 25

Need a new CEO, Salesforce? Have two – Bret Taylor and Marc Benioff to share the job

Restores twin CEO structure that ended in 2020, no indication this has deeper meaning

AsmREPL: Wing your way through x86-64 assembly language

Assemblers unite

30 Nov 18:59 | 15

Face it: Today’s development shortcut is tomorrow’s intractable problem

OutSystems insiders talk technical debt

Microsoft adds Buy Now, Pay Later financing option to Edge – and everyone hates it

There's always Use Another Browser

30 Nov 17:00 | 69

Can Rust save the planet? Why, and why not

The snag: This programming language is safe and efficient, but hard to learn, impacting productivity

30 Nov 11:34 | 134

You loved running JavaScript in your web browser. Now, get ready for Python scripting

All thanks to CPython, WebAssembly, and some clever developers (And yes, there's Pyodide, too)

30 Nov 09:58 | 36

Think that spreadsheet in your company's accounts dept is old? 70 years ago, LEO ran the first business app

Mods to the design of EDSAC were 'considerable' says boffin

30 Nov 09:30 | 82

UK privacy watchdog may fine selfie-hoarding Clearview AI £17m... eventually, perhaps

Regulator's 'assertions are factually and legally incorrect' biz tells El Reg

30 Nov 08:26 | 20

Database sprawl is choking your organization. Here’s how to bypass it

You know where you want to go. Here’s how to get there

All change at JetBrains: Remote development now, new IDE previewed

Security, collaboration, flexible working: Fleet does it all apparently

29 Nov 16:36 | 12

UK and Ireland S/4HANA migrations accelerated during 2021 COVID-19 lockdowns, figures reveal

User group survey shows concerns linger about support skills for upgrade

29 Nov 13:38 | 2

Project Union: Microsoft releases Windows App SDK 1.0, developers try to puzzle it out

Multiple Windows in WinUI 3? Next version. Open source? Maybe one day

29 Nov 10:00 | 20

Looking to get complex machine learning models into production? Serverless might be the answer

Oh-em-gee, it's only another free web lecture from our MCubed team

Warning: China planning to swipe a bunch of data soon, so quantum computers can decrypt it later

Meanwhile, the Middle Kingdom’s military plans an AI offensive – in the labs and on the field of combat

29 Nov 06:31 | 73

How Kubernetes simplifies the operation of fintech apps

From data security to automatic, safe scaling, we've got it covered

Chat among yourselves: New EU law may force the big IM platforms to open up

Send an iMessage to Facebook, and we'll talk

26 Nov 20:36 | 35

The rocky road to better Linux software installation: Containers, containers, containers

Let's be real: Everyone is trying to catch up with Apple

26 Nov 17:25 | 70

Bad news for Tencent: Chinese companies steer employees away from Weixin or WeChat

Middle Kingdom's internet giant: It's a switch to enterprise apps. Try ours?

26 Nov 14:27 | 15

Alpine Linux 3.15 bids a fond farewell to MIPS64 support

LTS Linux kernel – check. Once proud RISC contender? Nope

25 Nov 15:29 | 8

Academics tell Brit MPs to check the software used when considering reproducibility in science and tech research

It's seldom subject to the same rigour as conventional apparatus

25 Nov 12:33 | 89

Robotaxis freed to charge across 60km² of Beijing

Baidu's Apollo tech exits testing phase, so punters must now pay the machine for a ride. Would you?

25 Nov 07:56 | 50

Giant Japanese corporations to launch bank-backed digital currency

Central bank and government to observe effort run by railways, telcos, industrial titans, and private banks

25 Nov 05:58 | 19

Five data centers, 150TB images downloaded weekly, 1m+ cores – Now, that’s a storage challenge

Find out exactly how Workday and Red Hat cracked it

Microsoft restores Remote Assistance to Intune – this time as a premium feature

Customers accuse Redmond of making standard functionality a pricey extra

24 Nov 13:53 | 7

VMware waiting for Tanzu take-off, tops guidance as customers kick tyres

Clouds and hardware types queueing up to talk now Virtzilla is free of Dell

24 Nov 07:53 | 1

India to ban private cryptocurrency, create official version instead

Description of new 'Official Digital Currency Bill' appears to allow general use of blockchain

24 Nov 06:45 | 4

35,000 Singapore residents applied for quarantine-free travel online at the same time

In unexpected development, website promptly fell over

PHP Foundation formed to fund core developers, vows to pay 'market salaries'

Scripting language's dependency on two contributors sparks worries about its future

23 Nov 16:55 | 14

Rust dust-up as entire moderation team resigns. Why? They won't really say

Welcome to 'The First Rust Governance Crisis'

23 Nov 15:24 | 150

UK data guardian challenges government proposals on automated decision-making

Plans to change UK regulations could mean a 'significant departure' from EU law, watchdog says

23 Nov 13:33 | 34

Patching Windows Server without needing to reboot is a handy feature – but it's only available on Azure

Trampolines and Retpoline: Applying patches at the function level

23 Nov 11:01 | 15

AWS commits to update its own Linux every other year

Starting with a release called Amazon Linux 2022 that just hit preview

23 Nov 05:53 | 7

Microsoft quietly delivers Windows 11 Enterprise VMs for devs

Loaded with all the goodies coders need to run wild with new OS, and packaged for four hypervisors

23 Nov 04:01 | 9

RISE with AWS? Adidas migrates SAP S/4 HANA to the fluffy white stuff, snubs SAP's lift-and-shift programme

Globo sports brand also interested in AWS analytics systems, data lakes and ML tools as part of upgrade

22 Nov 22:14 | 2

Replaced several times but still live and kicking: Windows Forms updated for .NET 6.0

High DPI continues to be a challenge in ancient desktop framework

22 Nov 15:12 | 23

Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should: Install Linux on NTFS – on the same partition as Windows

Never mind the practicality, feel the grief

22 Nov 13:29 | 45

Munich mk2? Germany's Schleswig-Holstein plans to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice

Another German region tries to ditch closed code for open source

22 Nov 12:22 | 128

SAP's Embedded Steampunk little use to those on anything but the most recent system

Effort to bring the ABAP programming language to S/4HANA cloud ERP system attracts criticism

22 Nov 10:15 | 3

India hovers over the Pause button for Big Tech's march onto one hundred million farms

By revisiting farm reform, PM Modi has left the future of the contentious 'AgriStack' uncertain

22 Nov 08:01 | 2

Machine learning can improve your public services. Are you ready to take the red pill?

This briefing takes you through the matrix and steers you past the dark side

VMware recalls full vSphere update over driver dramas

Interoperability issues with Ethernet controller sends vSphere 7 Update 3 back to the drawing board

22 Nov 05:58 | 6

Server errors plague app used by Tesla drivers to unlock their MuskMobiles

CEO blames 'increased verbosity of network traffic'

21 Nov 23:58 | 216

AI surveillance software increasingly used to make sure contract lawyers are doing their jobs at home

Plus: GPT-3 is now generally available and one man goes undercover in Amazon to live under AI

20 Nov 11:01 | 22

Friday FOSS fest: Franz, RamBox, Pidgin and more

And lo, it was foretold, punter shall speak unto punter from a single app

19 Nov 23:11 | 10

Intel audio drivers give Windows 11 the blues and Microsoft Installer borked following security update

Known issues list continues to grow

19 Nov 19:45 | 35

UK Department for Education to schools: Maybe delay signing that 3-year licensing deal for MIS with Education Software Solutions

ESS boss says 'longer agreement terms... increasingly standard' in the sector

19 Nov 15:42 | 24

Putting security into DevOps is tougher than it looks

Cultural issues are the first thing to overcome, says Red Hat

The Rust Foundation gets ready to Rumbul (we're sure new CEO has never, ever heard that joke before)

And while we're here, a quick look at why the language is taking off

19 Nov 11:33 | 66

Netlify acquires OneGraph: One API to rule them all?

Also: Funding for Jamstack startups, and why Twilio adopted the architecture

19 Nov 10:27 | 2

Robo-Shinkansen rolls slowly – for now – across 5km of Japan

Railway wants self-driving bullet trains overseen by staff that aren't trained as drivers

19 Nov 04:54 | 82

Streamlabs shamed into dropping 'OBS' from product name after open-source OBS Project wades into Twitter spat

Logitech-owned streaming software likes to copy others' homework

18 Nov 16:31 | 11

MCubed does web workshops: Join Mark Whitehorn’s one-day introduction to machine learning next month

Tired of reading about AI? Why not give it a go yourself!

Korea gives Google and Apple another kick for requiring their own payment systems

All your apps – or a percentage of revenue – are belong to us

18 Nov 06:44 | 7

Indian PM calls on the world to save youth from Bitcoin

Narendra Modi positions India as a place democracies should come to build tech – and diplomatic ties

18 Nov 04:58 | 12

VMware pulls vSphere update that only made things worse

vSphere 7 Update 3b was supposed to fix a high availability glitch, crashing hosts, and more

18 Nov 00:21 | 4

GitHub's State of the Octoverse survey shows devs are still swerving the office

Coding JS in your PJs here to stay

17 Nov 19:45 | 2

Ubuntu desktop team teases 'proof of concept' systemd on Windows Subsystem for Linux

Stop the rock, can't stop the rock, we can't stop the rock

17 Nov 18:59 | 115

Unit4 releases connector mesh as it sinks deeper into Microsoft's 'grizzly bear' hug

Vertical differentiation helps users see the wood from the trees

17 Nov 14:45 | 2

Survey shows XP lingers on while Windows 11 makes a 0.21% ripple in the enterprise

Lansweeper stats make grim reading for Microsoft

17 Nov 14:01 | 44

Blue Prism: We have a rival bidder for our affections, as tech holding biz SS&C bids £1.2bn for RPA specialist

Board still recommending Vista Equity Partners

In the '80s, spaceflight sim Elite was nothing short of magic. The annotated source code shows how it was done

Load new commander (Y/N)?

17 Nov 10:15 | 133

There just aren’t enough doctors. So, can we rely on smarter healthcare technology?

Can’t read your GP’s notes? Don’t worry, the AI can

40 million meeting rooms are yet to get video gadgets

Analyst warns that if upgrades frustrate, users might just give phone conferences a comeback

17 Nov 04:31 | 12

Microsoft slows Windows 10 release cadence to yearly. If they're all as dull as the November Update, this is fine

Intros x64 emulation for Windows on Arm – but only on Windows 11

17 Nov 01:31 | 45

Is your Apple Mac running macOS Monterey leaking memory? It may be due to mouse cursor customization

Sleuthing leads to suspected RAM-gobbling culprit

17 Nov 00:17 | 33

Alma and Rocky Linux release 8.5 builds, Rocky catches up with secure boot

CentOS 8.5 also available ... but with only 6 weeks before end of life

16 Nov 19:20 | 7

Education Software Solutions tells school customers: We are moving to 3-year licensing contracts and so are you

Some punters not happy with former Capita-owned biz, now under control of Montagu Private Equity

16 Nov 11:47 | 29

Sheffield Uni cooks up classic IT disaster in £30m student project: Shifting scope, leadership changes, sunk cost fallacy

And in the end, policy tweaks made most of it unnecessary

16 Nov 09:30 | 96

Splunk CEO jumps ship, share price slumps despite surging growth

Doug Merritt thanked for service, but no explanation offered for change

16 Nov 06:57 | 2

Randox's Certifly app for vaccinated international arrivals has to be side-loaded onto Android phones

Which, alongside its £20-a-pop COVID-19 tests, isn't a great look

15 Nov 10:15 | 31

The rise of the cloud data warehouse

Performance at the right price is key, says AWS

Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.16 rc1 with new performance-enhancing memory tech

Emperor Penguin rates Memory Folios tech – source of that performance bump – as most important new feature in 'not huge' release

15 Nov 00:48 | 7

Microsoft engineer fixes enterprise-level Chromium bug students could exploit to cheat in online tests

Ability to block 'view source' for specific URLs hasn't actually worked for years

12 Nov 22:40 | 58

Microsoft admits Samsung phones under Intune mobile device management are dropping out of compliance

Auto-restart or manual update requires manual interaction to bring a gadget back to the light

12 Nov 18:24 | 8

We're making F# more normal as a language, says its creator

Loved by users, impenetrable to others, but 6.0 update aims to change that

12 Nov 15:01 | 14

Huawei hands its cloud Linux to China's only open source foundation

OpenEuler now an Open Atom Foundation project, China Telecom has released a cut, tech minister loves the idea

12 Nov 02:58 | 4

Apps made with Google's Flutter may fritter away CPU cycles. Here's what the web giant intends to do about it

Chocolate Factory's cross-platform framework seems to struggle to craft efficient desktop software

12 Nov 01:44 | 36

FYI: If the latest Windows 11 really wants to use Edge, it will use Edge no matter what

The days of redirecting microsoft-edge: links to a non-Microsoft browser are over

11 Nov 21:38 | 196

In the spirit of open government, France dumps 9,067 repos online to show off its FOSS credentials

Have a gander at la République's open-source inner workings

11 Nov 19:05 | 4

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