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 |
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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
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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
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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
HPE may have bagged $1B order from Elon Musk's X for AI servers
That's Cray cray
HPC14 Jan 2025 | 28
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
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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
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